Phun Stuff and Everything You Dislike: August 2012

Mittwoch, 29. August 2012

VOL 1142 - Aug. 29, 2012 - Strange History of Going Over Niagara Falls - How Many Have Made It?

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Strange "Advice' Quotes:

Drugs have nothing to do with the creation of music. In fact, drugs are dumb and self-indulgent. Kind of like sucking your thumb. - Courtney Love

Honesty is the best policy, but insanity is a better defense. - Steve Landesberg

Housework can't kill you, but why take a chance? - Phyllis Diller

If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing slowly . . . very slowly. - Gypsy Rose Lee

If it has tires or testicles, you're going to have trouble with it. - Linda Furney

It is useless to hold a person to anything he says while he's in love, drunk, or running for office. - Shirley MacLaine

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Today's Featured Humor : -) - Going Over Niagara Falls - How Many Have Made It?

Over Niagara Falls - How many have made it?

To date eleven people have made it, two of them women; five have died :

* Bobby Leach, steel barrel, 1911. The first man to go over the falls, he survived, only to die 15 years later after slipping on an orange peel in Christchurch, New Zealand.

* Charles Stephens, oak barrel, 1920. Stephens also brought an anvil for ballast, but he strapped it to his feet. When the barrel hit the water at the base of the falls, the anvil kept going, breaking through the bottom lid and taking most of Stephens with it (his right arm was found still strapped in).

* Jean Lussier, 760-pound rubber ball reinforced with steel bands, 1928. Survived.

* George Stathakis, 2,000-pound barrel, 1930. The barrel was trapped behind and beneath the falls for more than 14 hours; Stathakis suffocated.

* William "Red" Hill Jr., 13 heavy-duty inner tubes lashed together with canvas webbing and fishnet, 1951. Died.

* Roger Woodward, 1960. Not technically one of the 15, because he used no barrel and didn't mean to go. Roger was seven years old at the time, and he's still the only person known to have gone over the falls unprotected and live. (He'd been in a small boat that developed engine problems and capsized upriver.) Observers speculated that he'd survived because his life jacket and light weight brought him back to the surface quickly after the initial plunge.

* Nathan Boya, 1,000-pound steel-frame sphere covered in rubber and sheet metal, 1961. Survived.

* Karel Soucek, metal and plastic barrel, 1984. Survived. Killed the following year attempting a 180-foot barrel drop into a water tank in front of 45,000 at the Houston Astrodome.

* Steve Trotter, two plastic pickle barrels surrounded by inner tubes and covered with a tarp, 1985. Survived; repeated in 1995 with Lori Martin. First coed team.

* Dave Munday, aluminum and plastic barrel, 1985. Survived; repeated in 1993 in a converted diving bell. First person to go over twice.

* Peter DeBernardi and Geoffrey Petkovich, ten-foot steel barrel, 1989. Survived. First team.
* Jessie Sharp, kayak, 1990. Presumed dead, body not found.

* Robert Overacker, jet ski, 1995. Died. Rocket-assisted parachute deployed at brink of falls as planned, but wasn't tethered to his back.

* March 12, 2009 - Unnamed man jumped into the river and went over the falls and survived. He was pulled out despite resisting.

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Sonntag, 26. August 2012

VOL 1141 - Aug. 26, 2012 - Strange and Scary Psychological Test

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Strange Comedian Quotes:

"Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die."
Mel Brooks

"First you forget names, then you forget faces. Next you forget to pull your zipper up and finally, you forget to pull it down." George Burns

"Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city." George Burns

"Human beings are the only creatures on earth that allow their children to come back home." Bill Cosby

"Watching a baby being born is a little like watching a wet St. Bernard coming in through the cat door." Jeff Foxworthy

"You moon the wrong person at an office party and suddenly you're not 'professional' any more." Jeff Foxworthy

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Today's Featured Humor : -) - - Scary Psychological Test

Read this question, come up with an answer, and then scroll down to the bottom for the result. This is not a trick question. It is as it reads. No one I know has gotten it right - including me.

A woman, while at the funeral of her own mother, met this guy whom she did not know. She thought this guy was amazing, She believed him to be her dream and she fell in love with him right there but did not ask for his number and no matter how hard she tried shecould not find him.

A few days later she killed her sister.

Question: What is her motive in killing her sister?

Give this some thought before you answer.

(Scroll Down)

Answer:

She was hoping that the guy would appear at the funeral again.

If you answered this correctly, you think like a psychopath. This was a test by a famous American Psychologist used to test if one has the same mentality as a killer.

Many arrested serial killers took part in the test and answered the question correctly. If you didn't answer the question correctly - good for you.

If you got the answer correct, please let me know so I can take you off of my email list unless that will tick you off, then I'll just be extra nice to you from now on.

Submitted by John P.

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Freitag, 24. August 2012

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Mittwoch, 22. August 2012

VOL 1140 - Aug. 22, 2012 -The Worlds Strangest Last Wills

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Strange "Education" Quotes

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"Dublin University contains the dream of Ireland - rich and thick." (Samuel Beckett)

"Cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education." (Mark Twain)

"Don't let schooling interfere with your education." (Mark Twain)

"I won't say ours was a tough school, but we had our own coroner. We used to write essays like 'What I'm going to be if I grow up.'" (Lenny Bruce)

"In our school you were searched for guns and knifes on the way in and if you didn't have any, they gave you some." (Emo Philips)

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Today's Featured Humor : -) - The Worlds Strangest Last Wills

The Worlds Strangest Last Wills

Leona Helmsley
Notorious New York hotelier Leona Helmsley, nicknamed "the Queen of Mean" for her outrageous behavior, died in August 2007 of congestive heart failure at the age of 87. In her will, Helmsley left a $12 million trust fund to Trouble, her Maltese dog, $10 million each to two of her four grandchildren, and nothing to the other two. Later, a judge reduced the sum left to Trouble to $2 million, after the dog's caretaker, who earns $60,000 a year, testified that it would be enough to support the pup's lavish lifestyle for the rest of its life.

T.M. Zink
Iowa attorney T.M. Zink, who died in 1930, had such a strong disdain for women that he wished to use his savings to establish a library that would allow no works by female authors or artists, and would prohibit female patrons. In his will, Zink stipulated that his $35,000 be placed in a trust for 75 years, and the accumulated sum be used to build the Zink Womanless Library, where every entrance would bear a sign with the words "No Women Allowed." Zink's daughter, who was left $5 in the same will, challenged it successfully, and the female-free learning zone was never built.

Jack Benny
Before celebrated comedian Jack Benny died of pancreatic cancer in October 1974, he arranged one final romantic gesture for his wife of 47 years, Mary Livingstone (pictured with Benny.) Benny left a sum of money to a local florist for one long-stemmed red rose to be delivered to Livingstone every day for the rest of her life. Livingstone, who had performed with Benny throughout most of his career, outlived her husband by nine years.

Harry Houdini
When magician and escape artist Harry Houdini died in 1926 as a result of a ruptured appendix, he left the rabbits he used to pull out of his hat to the children of his close friends. An outspoken skeptic of mysticism, Houdini included in his will a message to his wife, instructing her to conduct a seance every Halloween so that he could, if possible, contact her from the other side. To prevent clever frauds from attempting to impersonate him to his beloved at these seances, Houdini provided her with a set of ten randomly selected words which he would use to identify himself. After ten years, she discontinued the seances; Houdini never appeared.

Frederic Baur
Before his death in May 2008, Frederic Baur, the man who came up with the distinctive Pringles can, told his children that he wished to be buried in his invention. At first Baur's children were slightly skeptical of his wish, but when Baur passed away, they honored his request by purchasing a can of Pringles Original at a local pharmacy for part of his cremated remains, which were duly interred.

Audrey Jean Knauer
In Louisville, Ky., a devoted fan of Charles Bronson (pictured), wrote a will a year before her 1997 death at the age of 55, leaving her $300,000 estate to the Death Wish actor. The will, handwritten on a list of emergency phone numbers, also stipulated that absolutely nothing be left to her mother Helen. Knauer's sister contested the will, stating that a will Knauer had written 20 years prior, in which she left everything to relatives, was more authentic. Despite the lawsuit, the money went to the action hero, whose spokesperson told the New York Post that he would donate it to charity.

Countess Carlotta Liebenstein
When German Countess Carlotta Liebenstein died in 1991, she left her precious canine companion Gunther III about $80 million, allowing him and a puppy he later fathered, naturally named Gunther IV, to reside in their own mansion.

Charles Vance Millar
Known throughout his life as a prankster, Canadian lawyer Charles Vance Millar had no family to which to leave his assets. So before his 1926 death, Millar, who enjoyed devising social experiments that targeted peoples' greed, drafted a truly unusual will. In it, he granted three men who hated each other joint ownership of his Jamaica vacation home. In the ninth clause of his will, Millar dictated that ten years after his death the value of his estate, $750,000, be granted to the Canadian woman who had had the most babies in the interim. The resulting "contest" resulted in a tie, and four women, who each bore nine children, shared the wealth. Thus, the estate of the childless, joke-loving attorney was passed on to support the upbringing of 36 children whom he had never met.

"Steady" Ed Headrick
Known as "the father of Disc Golf," Frisbee innovator Ed Headrick created a flying disc that could be thrown with more accuracy and control and founded several associations such as the International Frisbee Association and the Professional Disc Golf Association. Having devoted his life to the development of professional and recreational flying discs, Headrick wished to be cremated and for his ashes to be molded into discs. Several of these discs were made - some were given to family members, while others were sold with proceeds going towards the establishment of a nonprofit "Steady" Ed Memorial Disc Golf Museum.

George Bernard Shaw
Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw, the only winner of both a Nobel Prize and an Oscar, left a large part of his wealth to be used towards funding the creation of a new alphabet. While the sum was reduced to a mere £8600, Shaw's wish for a phonetic alphabet that would avoid the confusions of English spelling was carried out, and an edition of his famous play Androcles and the Lion was published using the 55-letter Shavian Alphabet.

Gene Roddenberry
The creator of Star Trek, Eugene Wesley "Gene" Roddenberry was one of the first people to have a space burial. After his 1991 death from heart failure, Roddenberry was cremated, and some of his cremains were brought on a mission aboard the Space Shuttle Columbia. In 1997, more of Roddenberry's ashes, as well as the ashes of others who desired a space burial, were launched into orbit via a Pegasus XL rocket. The service was provided by Celestis, a company which specializes in space burials. In 2012, another portion of Roddenberry's ashes is planned to depart into deep space, together with the ashes of his late wife Majel Barrett (pictured with Roddenberry).

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Vol 1139 - Aug 19, 2012 - Strange - OLD IS WHEN ........

Freitag, 17. August 2012

[b3ta] "Julian Assange's fave Dylan song? Knock knocking on Ecuador"

This Week:
* CHEEKY NICE - Kentish Town game show
* HAMBURGER - Autotuned
* FLUORIDE - Enemy or menace?

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B3ta email 542 - 17 Aug 2012

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: WHAT B3TA PEOPLE HAVE BEEN MAKING THIS WEEK
Other than making nice, fruity smells

>> Cheeky Flippin' Nice game show <<
"We stood outside the Job Centre on Kentish
Town high street, paid a couple of random
people a tenner and took them into our
basement," confesses superdonal. "One of the
rounds involves them stroking Mr Susan's Willy.
I don't think we paid them enough." Nice to see
some local, Kentish Town sponsorship involved.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IuYIvHJXvNw&feature=plcp

>> Cat + controller <<
"Here," begins Sheep! (aka Max X), "Is a film
about a clever cat that's had enough of his
human." A terrifying vision of a world turned
TOPSY-TURVY.
http://www.b3ta.com/links/Cat_Controller

>> Rambling on about the economy <<
"I've tweeted Robert Peston about this," pines
somegreybloke, "but he hasn't replied." What
has gone wrong with the economy, explained in
terms an idiot could understand. And would use.
Also, nice video thumbnail painting by
Jamie Gibson.
http://www.b3ta.com/links/Rambling_on_about_the_economy

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: QUESTION OF THE WEEK
Home Science

Last week we asked for your home-made science
experiments, especially those involving bangs
and fire. Some of these you can even do without
killing yourself:
http://b3ta.com/questions/homescience/

* UNKNOWN DEVICE - "Went to the city highway
dept, looking for coloured glass, as they were
taking down the old incandescent traffic lights
and replacing them with LED arrays. The guy in
charge pointed out the scrap heap and told me
to help myself. In the heap I also found a
strange thing, shaped approximately like a
bell, mounted on a bracket. I asked what it was
but he shrugged, "Maybe one of those detectors
to control the lights? You know, the kind that
beeps and looks for an echo?" Sounded fun to
me, so I took it along with the lenses. Closer
inspection back in the workshed showed that it
required standard household current to run via
two wires sticking out the side. So I did what
any idiot would: I attached a power cord to it
and plugged it in. No microwaves emerged.
Nothing dangerous happened. But inside my
12'x12' workshed I did now have a fully-working
air raid siren. It took me a half hour to stop
shaking and to hear properly again." (The
Resident Loon)

* POO CUISINE - "Some friends and I decided to
microwave a piece of human excrement. Though it
was but for a fleeting few seconds, the results
were clear: 1) a marginal increase in the
excrement's temperature, 2) a diabolical smell
that remained for several months. It didn't
smell of excrement so much as a diseased soul."
(Gertcha_cowson)

* CUSTARD - "It's possible build a flamethrower
from some custard powder, a weed-sprayer, a car
battery and some wire. Blow a nice cloud of
custard powder into the air over a hot wire
and, if the consistency of the cloud is right,
it produces an impressive fireball six or eight
feet across. Top tip: not all the powder burns.
Some of it settles on the ground. If, as you
are playing with your flamethrower, you walk
around, this is not a problem. If you stop
moving and do three or four burns in one place,
a decent-sized layer of fuel will build up
directly in front of you. The slight breeze
generated by the fireball will disturb this
layer and you will experience the joys of a
secondary dust cloud explosion. These can be
surprisingly violent and damage trousers inside
and out." (SonofRojBlake)

This week's question also brought TheAlmightyBeev
out of hiding to tell us about his awesome
home experiments website:
http://www.thenakedscientists.com/kitchenscience

>> This Week - FOOT IN MOUTH - PART TWO <<
Why put one foot in your mouth when you can put
two? We need more of your embarrassing outbursts.
Confess all here:
http://b3ta.com/questions/footinmouthtwo/

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: NATIONAL COMPUTER MUSEUM CHARIDEE AUCTION
Old computers fuck yeah

Anne Rogers writes, "I've been a b3tan lurker
for 9 years and have never asked for anything
before. Please could you include this in the
newsletter? Pretty pretty please? We're holding
a charity auction event in aid of the National
Museum of Computing, at Bletchley Park, in
September, and we're looking for lots of lots!
Based at the birthplace of computing, it's well
worth supporting and well worth a visit.

"We'll have 75-100 techies in attendance,
coming from all over the UK. The auction funds
will support TNMOC in rebuild projects and
adding to their collection of functional
historic computers - the largest in Europe -
which lets visitors get close to the likes of
BBC Micros and Sinclairs, right back to
Colossus, the world's first programmable
computer. Interested parties could contact me
on Twitter."
http://twitter.com/annerogers

Or check out the wonderfully geeky museum here:
http://www.tnmoc.org

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: SITES IN BRIEF
Stuff we like that wasn't made by our mates

* FUCK YOUR NOGUCHI COFFEE TABLE - Blog in
which the blogger merely tells the pictures of
household items in lifestyle magazines to fuck
off. We could probably write a similar one
pointing out bits of shitty show off web design
that irritate us.
http://fuckyournoguchicoffeetable.tumblr.com/

* PANORAMA FROM CURIOSITY LANDER - finally a
good use for that VR technology, other than
being in a cyber hot tub with the sexy gender
of your choice. So what's Mars like? Stony.
http://www.360pano.eu/show/?id=731

* DISTURBING HENTAI-STYLE ART - funny but also
potentially exhibit A in a murder trial.
http://imgur.com/a/XuRtU

* SECRET ROOMS - oh to be a child and live in a
house where your parents have built you secret
rooms.
http://bit.ly/QIN49y

* WOBBLY PENIS-THING - shake it like a Polaroid
picture. (Although the kids probably don't
get that lyric these days... Shake it like a
Wiimote? Shake it like you're having a wank? Or,
in the words of Robert Smith, shake it like
milk?)
http://www.staggeringbeauty.com

* CALCULATE YOUR HEART-RATE VIA AN IPHONE -
works by measuring light reflection off your
face; apparently your whole face pulses with
your heart. Extraordinary stuff. Not that we've
tried to see if it works - it costs $5 and we
don't give a bally fuck what speed our heart is
doing.
http://bit.ly/QIN5ua

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: VIDEO SCHMIDEO
Like Seiko TV Watch that doesn't tell the time

* CARLY RAE JEPSEN CHAT ROULETTE VERSION -
haven't seen an chatroulette skit for a while.
Made us load it up - people didn't like our
face and pressed next a lot, so we wobbled a toy
Dalek around and shouted, "EXTERMINATE PUNY
HUMANS!" Much more popular.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YCiY1y3uJ3o

* MAN ENJOYS HAMBURGER, GETS AUTOTUNED -
considering junk food is as about as healthy as
smack, you could see this as an update on Velvet
Underground's 'Heroin' and ponder how far as a
culture we have sunk. We wish we loved anything
in life as much as this guy loves crappy,
greasy fast food.
http://bit.ly/QIR5uO

* GHOST TITS MOVIE - fake trailer for a
Hollywood movie about big breasts gone missing.
Is this your nightmare? Certainly makes a
change from a hungry vagina with teeth.
http://www.b3ta.com/links/more_on_tits

* GEORGE FORMBY 'IN DA CLUB' - comedian
impersonates Formby covering 50 Cent.
Although Formby himself sang, "With my
little stick of Blackpool Rock, along the
promenade I stroll. It may be sticky but I
never complain, it's nice to have a nibble at
it now and again," so it's all sort of in
character really.
http://www.b3ta.com/links/George_Formby_In_Da_Club

* LOLYMPIC FAIL COMPILATION - we took great
delight in not watching the Olympics, the
opening ceremony (the NHS is saved by dancing
nurses apparently), the bits in-between (£11b
that could have been spent on education,
housing and health spunked on what exactly?)
and the end (a knackered, old pop star asks you
to buy an iTunes single; yay.) But, clearly, we
couldn't avoid hearing the media talk about it.
Remember it this way: a bunch of clips for a
Harry Hill clip show:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/olympics/19230791

* LONDON UNDERGROUND SIMULATOR - Apparently an
Alan-Partridge sound-alike narrating a London
Underground "game". It's pretty tame stuff,
but go to around 12:20 for a bit of "action"
http://www.b3ta.com/links/london_underground_simulator

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: FUNNY NAME CORNER
Meet the Hitlers

Peter and Chris Hitler work in real estate.
Hopefully they'll be able to get you a property
with a nice lebensraum.
http://ires-llc.net/biographies.html

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: FRIDAY GAME
Pretend to be a Unicorn game

Couldn't get anywhere in this, but making the
unicorn stumble and fall over made us giggle
rather a lot. And maybe that's the point.
http://www.foddy.net/CLOP.html

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: CUTE
3 Bear cubs rescued from dumpster

One upon a time there were three bears who got
stuck in a bin. Mummy Bear was very worried,
but some nice hairless apes helped out, then
uploaded a video to YouTube and congratulated
themselves on being very caring, whilst other
hairless apes systematically raped and
destroyed our precious Mother Earth. Shame on
you. SHAME ON YOU!
http://youtu.be/14pYl9bBwsI

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: B3TA IMAGE CHALLENGE
Results from the Zebra Challenge

Last week we wanted you to create magic via the
medium of zebra.

Your favourites included:

* STUD: mischievous nag unloads horse-goo on
sleeping pal (Fresh Water Mole)
http://www.b3ta.com/board/10824132

* RIPLEY: in space, no-one can hear you whinny
(1.618...)
http://www.b3ta.com/board/10824297

* SISTER: violent spin on classic playground
joke (Fresh Water Mole)
http://www.b3ta.com/board/10824277

All these images, and the highest as voted by
you can be found here:
http://www.b3ta.com/challenge/zebras/

>> New challenge: British Comics <<
This week's challenge is to celebrate
yesteryear's great British comic books and
characters. Your choice is rich and varied,
from the Beano and Dandy via Tiger & Scorcher
through Rupert The Bear and Commando. Challenge
suggested by prodigy69.
http://www.b3ta.com/challenge/british-comics/

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: DENTAL CARE CORNER
Advice on teeth care from our readers

Follow this as your own risk:

* YAY FOR FOR FLUORIDE - Averydryfino writes,
"Re brown stains on teeth: fluorosis can only
occur when teeth are being formed, not after
they have erupted. In Britain, it's very rare
to see fluorosis bad enough to result in brown
stains, as we do not have fluoridated water.
Fluoride is naturally-occurring (found in real
ale and tea!) and helps prevent cavities. By
all means, use a fluoride-free toothpaste, as
it keeps dentists like me in a job."

* YAY FOR NOT USING TOOTHPASTE - sandettie lva
writes, "Further to the dental hygiene section
of the newsletter (well the brown teeth thing,
but I have another revelation), two different
dentists have told me, and friends have been
told similar by their dentists, that toothpaste
is a con and is unnecessary. Brushing with just
water is adequate to keep your teeth clean.
Although toothpaste does contain a mild
abrasive in the form of bicarbonate of soda,
replacing the brush often enough that the
bristles don't go soft will more than suffice.
Apart from that, toothpaste contains a foaming
agent which only serves to make you think it
cleans your teeth, fluoride which is also
unnecessary as there is adequate fluoride in
your tap water, and a minty substance which only
serves you make your mouth feel cold when you
inhale much like any other mints you may eat,
and people associate that with freshness,
purely down to marketing. Furthermore I have
found that merely brushing with tap water has
the effect that I no longer suffer with morning
breath anymore. Your breath shouldn't smell
anyway unless you smoke, have consumed strong
tasting foods, not cleaned your teeth or have a
throat infection. I recommend you give it a try
for a week and then report back."

Personally, we suspect the best favour you could
do your teeth is pulling them out with pliers
so you can give softer blow jobs.

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: WHAT HAPPENED NEXT?
Follow-ups on previous stories.

* THE DECONSTRUCTING WORLD - "Cheeky/shameless
self-plug approaching," warns Jimtastic. "I
wrote a book. And I published it. And now I'm
giving all the profits to charity! Kindly
check out The Deconstructing World (by R A
Farmer - aka me) at lulu.com or amazon.co.uk -
written by the sort of brain that loves b3ta,
for the sort of brain that loves b3ta. Only
with less kittens and shit."
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/1471055361/b3ta-21

* 'TO YOUR HEALTH' EXHIBITION - "Hello you!"
greet b3ta stalwarts Hero of Switzerland. "So
we're having a little get together and we'd
love for you to pop by and have a beer with us,
maybe a cider? ...and of course, have a look at
some lovely work by some lovely people."
http://www.heroofswitzerland.com/

* B3TA FANTASY FOOTBALL - mike woz ere writes,
"The season is almost upon us and that means
that it's the time to make a fantasy football
team and convince yourself it's excellent and
then stop playing the game in 2 weeks time."
We're going to resist saying anything negative
about football, because we're all grown up now.
http://fantasy.premierleague.com/

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: STAR IN NEXT WEEK'S ISSUE

Make something cool and tell us about it. If
you are in it then people will see your stuff.

Things we'd really like to see include

* CAKES FOR A LOW-CARB DIET - that means no
flour or sugar and they should be made from
solid meat.

* ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS FOR EYEGLASSES,
FEATURING SALT-n-PEPA - "Let's talk about specs
baby"

* NEW FLAVOURS OF CELEBRITY-ENDORSED CRISPS -
smokey bacon could be Salt'n'Peppa Pig.

Send contributions via the mail form.
http://www.b3ta.com/mailus/

BTW: If you've sent something in that hasn't
been featured then don't be put off - we look
at everything you send us.

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THANKS:
This issue was written by Rob Manuel with David
Stevenson. Stuff sent in by @GigerPunk,
‏@jvmills, @itsdanprice, gronkpan, The Scrunt,
Ken Putin, claptonista, wideeye,
Captain_lambkin, Fray Brentos, largoembargo,
weaver, @mattround. Image challenge by Fraser
Lewry. Mike Trinder is QOTW bloke. Subjlols via
Wet-chinned bag shanker. Top tip via
Theophilous Thunderwulf.

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Knock knock.
Who's there?
Yah.
Yah who?
FFS, it's not 1997 anymore, the cool kids are
using Bing.

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TOP TIP:
Gentlemen! Do a good deed: give teenage girls a
much-needed confidence boost by pretending to
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