THE SUNDAY RAG

Okay, let's have a look-see.

Front page headline has Loti Tuquiri's 'exclusive' interview regarding an incident outside a nightclub that left a cabbie fighting for his life in hospital. That increasingly familiar 'king hit' resulting in the man falling and cracking his head has been deemed responsible.
Tuquiri claims to have been in his room and frankly I'm not that interested in the story - especially from this rag, but it illustrates again (it's been happening frequently) what happens when one brings league players into the 'game they play in heaven'. These players, along with their talent, bring their constitution, which when fuelled by our old friend, the drink, is not just illustrated, but demonstrated (usually resulting in some poor sap being clocked or worse -as in this case).

Enough on that, next:

Page 3 has a picture (two actually - before and after shots) of Angelina Jolie, that fantasy of most men, looking voluptuous in 2004 and veritably emaciated now. She claims it's because of the death of her mother to ovarian cancer. Whatever the reason, she looks ill. Tch, rich people, it's just sooo hard, eh?

Politics next few pages as the federal election approaches. I tried to speak of this before but still haven't been able to locate sufficient interest (I'm sure I had some around here somewhere!)

Hmmm...not really that much in here today. Macdonalds are getting a serve again, and there accompanies a picture of this enormous burger with...let's see... 1, 2,...8, that's right, 8 beef patties in it. The chap's head is virtually hidden, hoho. Y'know, we have a mouth, and we have a burger; there are parameters to follow here. Unlike snakes, our jaws don't unhinge and there is a limit to size. We're not in a 'wimpy' cartoon here.
Maccas (to use the Ozzie vernacular) has plenty of money and influence - I've no doubt they'll manage to sidestep this accusation. Free burgers for a year, sir? That'll do nicely!

Oh dear. In the middle pages is a report on Madeline - remember her? The 4 year old girl snatched from her room in Portugal?
Her parents, Gerry and Kate, have been being quizzed after sniffer dogs, it's claimed, found traces of blood on the walls of the room from which she was taken. Conversely, I heard a radio report that claimed the blood was discovered by British detectives brought in to help - with the aid of the special lighting equipment that highlights such traces. Don't suppose it matters who found it really.
It hasn't been reported as yet to whom the blood belongs. That's important I would think. I'll be waiting for that.
But things appeaar to be the same - no leads to speak of and no closer to finding the girl. Breaking news just now have the Portugese police making the claim that Madeline probably is dead. I hope not, we all of us really can't give up hope - not until a body is found.

Afghanistan's written about in a small piece in the 'world' section. As an indication of where things are going regarding this (that being ONgoing with no end in sight) it doesn't rate as anywhere near front page material anymore. I've said all there is really so I'll not repeat myself other than to sigh resignedly as I once again have my theories confirmed.

Something a bit lighter tucked away at the bottom of the page. Cho Yu-long, a Taiwanese plumber, has been jailed for 3 months for stealing 10,000 pieces of womens' lingerie. Hoho
When police arrived to answer a complaint from a neighbour about the noise from a party, they found - "a mountain of womens' lingerie of different sizes".
Turns out Mr Yu-long had been stealing the garments from self service launderettes for the past five years. (How does that work? Did he peruse from a distance for the perfect item or was it more of a 'smash and grab' sort of thing? What if he got some old granny's undies? Did he put them back?)

That's about it. The sum total of my interest in this Sunday's weekly rag. Boyo, those 'journalists' need to get out more!