The Late Lighter Side
Better late then never, here are a few stories from the lighter side of things.
Firstly John Graham is the biggest liar in the world, and that is the truth!
Graham, Or Johnny Liar as he is better known, won the annual competition of tall tales, at the Bridge Inn in Santon Bridge, in Britain’s Lake District.
The 69-year-old claimed he stumbled across the U-boat as it prepared a raid on the nearby town of Whitehaven. As well as this he claimed to have he caught a cod that was 2.7m long. His stretching of the truth has seen him win the title five times before.
The event attracts people from across the globe and pays homage to a local pub owner called Will Ritson, who regularly told wild stories in the 19th century.
Competitors have five minutes to tell the biggest fib without the aid of props. Politicians and lawyers are barred from entering as they are judged to be too skilled at telling lies.
Moving on to Australia and it seems that political correctness has gone mad.
Santa Clauses in Sydney have been told not to use Father Christmas’s traditional ‘ho, ho, ho’ greeting because it may be offensive to women.They have instead been instructed to say ‘ha, ha, ha’.
The Daily Telegraph newspaper revealed that a recruitment firm warned a-would-be Santa to not to use ‘ho, ho, ho’ because it could frighten children and was too close to ‘ho’, a US slang term for prostitute.
And finally on a romantic note, we have further proof that love can blossom no matter how old you are.
Stanislovas Grigas and his bride Brone Mikutiene were married on Saturday in a ceremony in Kaunas, Lithuania’s second city. Nothing unusual about that you might say, but it is when you find that the bride is 76-year-old and the Bride groom is 102 that it makes it unique.
As far as I know, until now Lithuania has never seen a bridegroom of such a solid age.
Kestutis Ignatavicius, the master of ceremonies at Kaunas City Hall
The couple have reportedly known each other since 1972, when Mr Grigas was still married to his first wife. Ms Mikutiene helped him around the house after his wife died in 1992 and his two sons passed away in 1995 and 2006.
According to Ms Mikutiene, it was her husband’s idea to get married, “The main decisions in the family are taken by him, and I usually agree with him.”
Monday, November 19th, 2007 and is filed under Thoughts & Questions, Views on News.
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