Tim Worstall

Eh? Grandpappy was a Nobel winner?

Newton-John’s mother was the eldest child of Max Born, a German Nobel prize-winning physicist

WTF?

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Slightly bizarre:

There was also an odd postscript, that few people know of. Willie Rushton brought the ashes back to England in an Air France hold-all. "What have you got in that bag, Mr Rushton?" he was asked at Customs. "Tony Hancock," came the truthful reply.

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Ashley Alexandra Dupre is of course the name of the prostitute at the centre of the Eliot Spitzer sex scandal.
This post is here as a test.
Governor’s prostitute was a ‘homeless runaway’
Ninemsn - Sydney,New South Wales,Australia
She now goes by Ashley Alexandra Dupré, although it is unclear if this is her legal name. Now 22, she […]

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OK:

After insisting for decades that she saw “no reason” ever to marry, Julie Christie has finally wed her long-term partner Duncan Campbell.

But there’s two journalists called Duncan Campbell aren’t there? One on the staff at The Grauniad and the other who sometimes writes for the G on security and terrorism issues….isn’t there?
 
 

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As the weekly news cycle comes to an end and darkness descends on a gloomy Friday, there are two great news stories doing the rounds, neither of which the great British media can report. One involves a famous broadcaster and his love child by another journalist and is covered by an injunction. The other is covered […]

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Intelligent women seem captivated by her, characterising her as a tart with a heart. "Down to earth" is regularly attached to descriptions of her. Since when did being slightly working class become a virtue in itself?

Torygraph reverting to form I think, don’t you? Who is the ghastly little working class chav calling herself Jordan?

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I know, I know, I shouldn’t believe everything I read on a celebrity gossip site. But this:

Paul’s daughter has exacted her revenge on her wicked stepmother by reportedly designing a one-leg necklace.
Fierce!
The silver, single-limbed pendant was unveiled to a select group of fashion industry players in Paris last month as part of McCartney’s debut jewellery […]

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Allegedly an idea for a campaign button from the possible new PR advisor to Heather Mills McCartney.

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Ahem:
 

Says Mr Davies of the alleged video featuring an apparent bout of gay oral sex: “It is a con trick that exploded in their faces.”

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Comment at a site I won’t name on a subject I won’t name.

12 lines on the throne.

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Found out who it allegedly is.
The internet does indeed deliver.
No, go look for yourselves.

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This Royal Gay Scandal has certainly taken an interesting step forward:

A royal aide boasts about his fling with an MP in a tape at the centre of the sex-and-drugs blackmail plot concerning a member of the Royal Family, a lawyer claimed yesterday.
The assistant to a minor relative of the Queen also claims that the true […]

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Yup, Alicia Silverstone gets naked in this video. Woot Woot!*
Dizzy has the details.
* Anyone want to clue me in on who Alicia Silverstone actually is?

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