The complete painting kit?

From the ever-entertaining Intranet ads.

Artist Easel

Daler Rowney town and country artist easel. Never used £30 Picture available

Don't swear in front of the VC

A research study at "a Norwich university" claims that swearing in the workplace reduces stress. (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/norfolk/7047536.stm

However it also says that "In most scenarios, in particular in the presence of customers or senior staff, profanity must be seriously discouraged or banned."

Sellafield cleans up its act

OU ups the pressure on car-sharing?

Lock up your rabbits

This is the first confirmed case of Lapinary Green Tongue

IgNobly done!

Where to begin with this year's crop of IgNobel awards? The extraction of vanilla essence from cow dung? The proof that rats cannot distinguish between Dutch and Japanese when spoken backwards?

Choose for yourself at
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7026150.stm

My favourite is the use of viagra to cure jetlag in hamsters.

You must be bananas to queue here!

The natives at my local petrol station are perplexed

It's a cosmic jungle out there

The Intranet announces that:



"Professor Jocelyn Bell Burnell from the University of Bath will be held on Tuesday 9 October on 'Pulsars and extreme physics' in the Robert Hooke seminar room at 7.30pm."


Apparently she has asked for several other offences to be taken into account. These are believed to involve her exposing other heavenly bodies.

Sign of signs!

Beware of crabs!

Nothing gets past the eagle-eyed Northants police!