Bronwyn Bishop, the woman who once dreamt of being Australia’s first female prime minister denied she was furious at being knocked back for a place in Howard’s new ministry. Instead, her office released a brief statement saying she was leaving for America to advise the FBI on the recent anthrax attacks. Continue Reading »

A secret admirer sent a romantic, perfume-scented parcel to a man in Nevada but, instead of inciting passion, the package set off alarm bells all over the local county. It contained two pages of sexually explicit text and some black thong panties. The man, concerned about the threat of anthrax contamination, called the local law enforcers. Continue Reading »

A Romanian cooking teacher carefully poured two level tablespoons of self-raising flour into an envelope, sprinkled a pinch of salt on the outside and posted it to her father-in-law. Opting for an extra filip of fun, she signed her name as Osama Bin Laden. Continue Reading »

The rock band, Anthrax, may change its name if large numbers of people start to die in biological terror attacks. Perhaps.

The group members say they plan to keep the name, despite concerns that it has become “inappropriate” in the present climate. But frontman John Bush says there are certain circumstances in which a name change would be required. Continue Reading »

Police panicked in Slovakia after receiving thousands of calls from terrified householders reporting mysterious squashy packages in their letterboxes.

70,000 packages were posted out by Proctor and Gamble as part of a glorious promotion for their new line of Maxi-Pad tampons. Emergency workers and police officers checked all of the 70,000 envelopes and finally declared the sanitary towels safe…. (who are they kidding - 70,000 envelopes?) Continue Reading »