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As agreed with the baby's mother, who prefers to have her identity kept confidential, my son will be under my exclusive guardianship.


Bet he thought that wording up all by himself!
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A judge in Sydney has ordered the Australian band Men at Work to hand over a portion of the royalties from their 1980s hit Down Under, after previously ruling its distinctive flute riff was copied from a children's campfire song.

 

But the penalty he imposed of 5% of the song's royalties was far less than the 60% sought by publishing company Larrikin Music, which holds the copyright for the song Kookaburra Sits in the Old Gum Tree.

 

Kookaburra was written more than 70 years ago by Australian teacher Marion Sinclair for a Guides competition, and the song about the native Australian bird has been a favourite around campfires from New Zealand to Canada.

 

Sinclair died in 1988, but Larrikin filed a copyright lawsuit last year. In February, federal court judge Peter Jacobson ruled Men at Work had copied their song's signature flute melody from Kookaburra.

 

Today, Jacobson ordered Men at Work's recording company, EMI Songs Australia, and Down Under songwriters Colin Hay and Ron Strykert, to pay 5% of royalties earned from the song since 2002 and from its future earnings. A statute of limitations restricted Larrikin from seeking royalties earned before 2002.

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According to one new poll, 26 percent of Americans do not know who the United States won independence from.

 

The Library of Congress has determined that Thomas Jefferson changed the word "subjects" to "citizens" in an early version of the Declaration of Independence.

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Mullets Are Officially Illegal in Iran

In a move of government oppression we can sort of get behind, Iran's culture ministry has banned a number of men's haircuts including the mullet and other "decadent Western cuts." What else is deemed illegally unstylish?

Pony tails and elaborate spikes are also deemed immodest, so aging rockers and the cast of Jersey Shore should probably stay out of Tehran for awhile. There is actually a guide to which styles are now acceptable for male citizens. The catalog will be unveiled later this month at the Modesty and Veil Festival, which we wish was something we made up for comedy but is, in fact, a real actual event. Acceptable 'dos seem short and boring, however Elvis-style pompadours, retro '80s bangs, and short spikes are on the list. A new addition to the code is the goatee, which was once frowned upon but is now OK, a change probably due to the country's love of '90s movies starring Ben Affleck (that we made up). In recent years, several Iranian barbershops have been shut down for offering "Western" styles like the mullet. We wish we could get a similar law on the books.
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Singer George Michael has been arrested in Hampstead, London, on suspicion of being unfit to drive.

The 47-year-old was arrested on Sunday after police were called with reports that a car had crashed into a building on Hampstead High Street.


A morning just wouldn't be the same without news of George crashing his car stoned would it.
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