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PC HITS T-REX
Well it had to happen. Cuddly big T-Rex is increasingly not the predator we thought it was. First of all, it was recently announced it could have evolved into the chicken. Now it has been declared a slow coach.
Researchers have checked just how fast T-Rex could have run, and whilst it could just have equaled the fastest man, it would soon be well out of breath. Its legs are simply too fragile, and its body too large to allow it to be a sprinter.
Hence, much of its food would evade it. It obviously won’t be long before it is confirmed what some think. It was nothing but a cheap scrounger. However, we must remember man’s capability for placing on the past the standards of the present.
Is it a case of political correctness gone mad? Well, maybe. After all, the new super-predator turns out to be Compsognathus – the fastest thing on two legs ever … and the size of a chicken.
© Anthony North, August 2007
QUANGOS – DEATH OF DEMOCRACY
The Economic Research Council has been looking at Quangos – quasi-governmental organizations – in the UK. In the previous year they claim they have spent £167.1 billion. Further, many have expanded by over 100% …
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PAY TO THROW
The naivety of the British public seems to know no bounds. Two thirds, it seems, would be prepared to pay to throw their rubbish away rather than continue to pay ridiculously high council tax …
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NO WITHDRAWAL FROM IRAQ
Okay, it’s official. There will be no US withdrawal from Iraq. Aware of the repercussions following withdrawal from Vietnam, Bush has decreed the same will not happen again …
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