Colonel Sanders sighted at KFC

February 17, 2012 at 7:25 pm | Posted in Uncategorized | Leave a comment

WHAT would you do if you found yourself sitting opposite Colonel Sanders in KFC? If you’re Aussie Kelso J. Castillo, you take a photo of him and post it on Facebook. The snap features a diner with an uncanny resemblance to the KFC king and has racked-up almost 100,000 “Likes” on the social network

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Wedding ring eaten by calf three years ago is re-discovered… inside cow’s stomach at butcher’s shop: “A wedding ring that was sucked off a man’s finger by a calf three years ago has been recovered from the animal’s stomach at a local butcher’s shop. Dairy farmer Will Jelbart told the butcher to keep an eye out for the ring after the calf – by now a cow that had ended up in the local abattoir – was about to be cut up into steaks. To the amazement of Mr Jelbart, he and butcher Duane Thomas found the ring as they were sifting through dozens of cuts of meat. The astonishing story of the calf and the swallowed ring emerged today when Mr Jelbart, who had been managing a tourist dairy farm in the Victorian town of Lang Lang in 2009, appealed for the ring’s owner to come forward. ‘A visitor told me at the time that a calf had sucked the ring from his finger and of course there was nothing we could do about it at the time,’ he said. Mr Jelbart remembered the missing ring and went to the butcher’s shop when Yogie’s carcass was being cut up. Mr Thomas said that although the ring had been in Yogie’s stomach since 2009, it appeared to be as good as new.”

Eye scanners — another British bungle: “Costly eye scanners that were meant to slash queues at airport passport control are being quietly scrapped, it emerged yesterday. Labour ministers brought in iris recognition checks at an estimated cost of £9million, claiming they were capable of processing travellers in as little as 12 seconds. But after 385,000 passengers submitted their details, the scanners have been ditched at Birmingham and Manchester airports, and they are expected to vanish from Heathrow and Gatwick after the Olympics. Critics said it was another expensive Government software failure, saying the system had ended up taking longer than traditional manual checks. Some irate travellers even ended up getting trapped inside the scanning booths when they malfunctioned.”

Mars bars to slim down: “Fans of bumper chocolate bars beware – confectionery giant Mars Inc. has announced plans to cap the calorie content of its chocolate. The maker of Snickers and Twix candy bars will stop selling chocolate products with more than 250 calories in them by the end of next year on a worldwide basis, a spokeswoman said. The McClean, Virginia-based company, which also makes M&Ms and Skittles candies and Juicy Fruit chewing gum, said the goal is part of an ongoing effort to improve the nutritional value of its products and to sell them in a responsible way. It will not include ‘duo packs’ or larger family bars, which will be allowed a higher calorie allowance because they are designed to be shared, a spokesperson said. Mars has also said it will reduce sodium levels in all its products 25 percent by 2015. The company has a record of reducing the size of its bars without a drop in the price in what some have criticised as a ‘back door’ price rise.”

Was Charlie Chaplin a Frog? “When his comic genius became an international phenomenon, it was a source of great pride back home in England. But it seems Charlie Chaplin may not have been English at all – but a Frenchman with the alias Israel Thornstein. The startling claims are made in MI5 papers released for the first time today. Classified files reveal how the Security Service was baffled to find there were no records of Chaplin’s supposed birth in South London. But, after scouring the files at Somerset House in London for his birth certificate, MI5 concluded: ‘It would seem that Chaplin was either not born in this country or that his name at birth was other than those mentioned.’ Scotland Yard’s Special Branch added to the intrigue by passing on a tip from a source who claimed the actor was born near Fontainebleau, just south of Paris. Last year, a letter emerged offering a different clue to his birthplace. Written to Chaplin in the 1970s, and kept in a drawer by the actor, it claims he was born on the ‘Black Patch’ near Birmingham in a gipsy caravan.

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Princess of Denmark gets ogled: “What to do when you catch the husband of a visiting head-of-state checking out your assets? That’s what happened to Princess Mary of Denmark when she busted the husband of the Finnish president – ironically called the First Gentleman – staring down her dress at a state dinner. While she may have been tempted to land a left hook Princess Mary kept a smile fixed on her face as she adjusted the neckline of her dress and cast a modest hand over her chest. The video of the dinner shows Pentti Arajarvi – the husband of president Tarja Halonen – looking at the princess’s cleavage during the dinner hosted by the Queen of Denmark on Wednesday. He might even have got away with it had he not hurriedly looked away as Pricess Mary turned in his direction.”

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