Archive for the ‘Other’ category

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Did James Cameron build a real-life Avatar?

January 21, 2010

COULD AN AVATAR HAVE INFILTRATED GORDON BROWN’S CABINET?
Okay, so this isn’t proper Zebu. However, for various reasons too tedious to recount here, we haven’t be able to update the blog for a couple of days. This is something we made earlier and thought you might enjoy, Zebu or not. As ever, the trick to seeing [...]

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Ming the Preposterous

January 7, 2010

ARCHAEOLOGISTS CLAIM TO FIND SWISS WATCH IN TOMB UNTOUCHED FOR 400 YEARS
Picture the scene. A Ming Dynasty tomb in Guangxi in southern China, undisturbed since between 1368 and 1644. A pair of archaeologists are working in utterly virgin territory, alone other than for a pair of documentary-makers.
The People’s Daily reported what happened next. According to [...]

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Zebu review of the year – part 1

January 2, 2010

A ROUND-UP OF THE MOST GLARING, RIDICULOUS AND EGREGIOUS LIES, DECEPTION AND BULLSHIT OF 2009
Zebu OrganisationsCouncil are high on many people’s hate lists. They’re happy to take our money but rather less happy to provide us with the corresponding services. Thanet Council deserve special mention for their “recycling” services after a Margate resident videoed dustmen [...]

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Christmas Carols – the Health & Safety angle

December 12, 2009

The Rocking Song
Little Jesus, sweetly sleep, do not stir;We will lend a coat of fur,We will rock you, rock you, rock you,We will rock you, rock you, rock you:

Fur is no longer appropriate wear for small infants, both due to risk of allergy to animal fur, and for ethical reasons. Therefore faux fur, a safety-approved [...]

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Singing mouse recalled – because it seems to be singing “Paedophile”

December 8, 2009

A singing toy mouse with a Santa hat being sold as a cheap stocking filler in markets and small shops has been recalled after parents complained that when you squeeze its stomach, the Chinese-voiced rendition of “Jingle Bells, jingle bells” sounds rather too much like “Paedophile, paedophile”.
Sceptical? Listen for yourself by clicking on the picture [...]

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Peruvian vampire killings are Utter Zebu

December 4, 2009

Last month the world was shocked to hear of the arrest in Peru of four men who had murdered up to 60 people. General Felix Murga, who let the investigation into organised crime in Peru, said that the victims’ body fat had been sold off to European cosmetic companies to be used in miracle anti-ageing [...]

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Bringing down the curtain

November 27, 2009

A couple of weeks back, we mentioned how The Daily Telegraph’s review of the stage version of The Shawshank Redemption had been misquoted outside Wyndham’s Theatre to make it seem that reviewer Charles Spencer had liked the show.
In fact, his words “superbly gripping, genuinely uplifting prison drama” referred not to the stage version but the [...]

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A politician talks Zebu – this time it’s Sarkozy

November 11, 2009

You’d think the one thing a politician would be good at is lying. Yet it isn’t always so. Perhaps none is so guilty of reinventing the past as US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Our book has several examples of Utter Zebu spouted by her, not just the famous incident of her “misspeaking” about landing [...]

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The greatest web page ever?

November 6, 2009

This has absolutely nothing to do with Zebu. But this is such an extraordinarily inventive and enjoyable web page, we felt we had to share it with you. Just click the link, sit back, and enjoy. HEMA – online winkelen

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Safe seat? Safe to fleece the taxpayer.

October 22, 2009

“Those in safe seats were three times as likely to be identified as having abused their expenses.” – Nick Clegg

So said Nick Clegg, writing in The Daily Telegraph. He was using research from Lib Dem blogger Mark Thompson, who had compiled a spreadsheet comparing the size of MPs majorities with how they figured in the [...]

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Zebra-cadabra

October 14, 2009

Not all Zebu stories make our blood boil. The “Happy Land Zoo” in Gaza is short of animals and it’s too expensive to smuggle any more through the tunnels, which is how they originally got their lion and two ostriches.
So they improvised and turned two donkeys into zebra lookalikes by painting them with black stripes. [...]