Watermelons block motorway

Sunday, March 21st, 2010 at 12:43 pm

I saw this headline – “Watermelons block motorway” and my first thought was a bunch of Green Party MPs and activists were protesting about some motorway.

It seems it was more literal:

Two tons of watermelons blocked Auckland’s southern motorway after a truck rolled south of the Newmarket viaduct this morning.

I wonder how many watermelons that is?

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Jeanette’s replacement

Tuesday, October 21st, 2008 at 9:09 pm

Jeanette Fitzsimons is going to stand down as female co-leader during the next term of Parliament. That will be one less MP from the enviornmental wing, and she is likely to be replaced by an MP from the communist social justice wing of Norman, Bradford and Locke.

With that in mind a reader has sent me this photo of the likely next co-leader.

Now that’s a watermelon all right!

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