Tim Worstall

WATER is set to cost more during the summer following the introduction of a controversial seasonal tariff, it emerged yesterday.
I find myself a little confused here.
Something costs more at times of higher demand….clearly and obviously sensible.
However, there’s another little thought at the back of my brain. Levelling out the cycle….we’ve got lots of water in [...]

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The 35-year-old woman, held for an unspecified “violent crime”, fled on Saturday night through a tunnel she had dug with a spoon, Wim de Bruin, a prosecution spokesman, told AFP.

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Four card players were astonished to pick up identical straight run hands in a bizarre fluke calculated as a 61 billion-to-one chance.
So what are the odds of that happening then?
Actually, about one in two or thereabouts.
It’s one of these little things I like about probabilities. Sure, the likelihood of any individual being hit by lightning [...]

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Still going strong I see:
Avatar banned by Chinese sensors because plot ‘could cause civil unrest’
Wonder if that headline made it into the print version?
But Chinese sensors are reportedly
Same mistake in the body of the piece as well….someone using a spell checker here?
As to the larger issue this is of course delicious. To American audiences the [...]

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The floor of a Weight Watchers clinic in Sweden collapsed beneath a group of 20 members of the weight loss programme who were gathered for a meeting.
Cue the usual jokes….was this the before or after meeting etc.
We might be able to work out the answer to this though:
The cause of the floor’s collapse remains under [...]

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No, not about one of those boxes down in hte basement, nor a sheepish admission that this celibacy thing is all a joke. Still:
“It has a great deal of enchanting, stunning technology, but few genuine or human emotions,” wrote L’Osservatore Romano.
“Its significance is in its visual impact rather than in the story, and in its [...]

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Stallone stars in upcoming action film The Expendables, which boasts some of the acting world’s biggest tough guys, including Arnold Schwarzenegger, Bruce Willis, Dolph Lundgren, Mickey Rourke and British actor Jason Statham.
The 63-year-old said a fight scene with wrestling star Stone Cold Steve Austin became so [...]

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EA has announced that they’re going to go ahead and release the new Tiger Woods game.
Pretty obvious really, they’ve already spent a fortune on developing it.
But it did make me think. What should the next Tiger Woods computer game include?
Elements of Grand Theft Auto perhaps? You’ve got to track down and seduce one of his [...]

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Meanwhile gap-toothed television viewers across America’s Deep South have expressed relief that Woods has finally started acting like a proper black man.
Alabama grits farmer Roy Hobbs said: “I was gittin’ real confused and fearful for a times back there. What with his impeccable manners and white man’s speakin’ voice, I was thinkin’ maybes ma TV [...]

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No, really, she is:
Helena Bonham Carter, the actress, has disclosed that she does not watch her finished films.
As nobody else does either, that makes her normal, doesn’t it?

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I still live in Seattle, but I’ve been down here so much lately that I noticed I’ve been getting out of cars with no panties, which is weird for me. But that’s what happens when you’re in L.A., I guess.
Sean Kinney, Alice in Chains drummer.

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