Oh lord.

Quoted: A LOTTERY scratchcard has been withdrawn from sale by Camelot - because players couldn't understand it.

The Cool Cash game - launched on Monday - was taken out of shops yesterday after some players failed to grasp whether or not they had won.

To qualify for a prize, users had to scratch away a window to reveal a temperature lower than the figure displayed on each card. As the game had a winter theme, the temperature was usually below freezing. ...

The 23-year-old, who said she had left school without a maths GCSE, said: "On one of my cards it said I had to find temperatures lower than -8. The numbers I uncovered were -6 and -7 so I thought I had won, and so did the woman in the shop. But when she scanned the card the machine said I hadn't.

"I phoned Camelot and they fobbed me off with some story that -6 is higher - not lower - than -8 but I'm not having it. ..."

Journalists that trusted Babelfish to translate their questions to a foreign politician? Bad idea.

Quoted: When the Dutch foreign minister invited a group of Israeli journalists to visit the Netherlands, he expected that there might be questions about European involvement in the Middle East or his country's commitment to economic sanctions against Iran.

What he wasn't expecting were questions about his mother.

awesome! cardboard tube fighting! i love that they said that the participants were computer programmers and elementary school kids.

Quoted: Before beginning San Francisco's inaugural Cardboard Tube Fighting Championship on Sunday afternoon, the event's organizer, Robert Easley, instructed all participants to sign a waiver form. ...

Haha! My esteemed husband never fails to point out this same point.

Quoted: The folks at Maxim magazine have revealed their list of the world’s unsexiest women, which includes ladies of the big screen, small screen and the concert stage.

The list, featured in the latest edition of Maxim, dubs “Sex and the City” star Sarah Jessica Parker as the No. 1 Unsexiest Woman Alive, claiming Parker was the “least sexy woman in a group of very unsexy women.”

Gotta love the Ig Nobels!

Quoted: Good news for your Viagra-using hamster: On his next trip to Europe, he'll bounce back from jet lag faster than his unmedicated friends.

Dressing up a Roomba? Interesting ...

Quoted: People give them nicknames, worry when they signal for help and sometimes even treat them like trusted pets.

Haha - Comedy Central as an example for news reporting. What is this world coming to?

Quoted: Craig Newmark might not be the most obvious choice for a speaker at a conference of newspaper publishers, considering that his Web site Craigslist is often seen as a rival to newspapers by siphoning away lucrative classified advertising.

Funny ... I guess I'm not offended by it at all. What I AM offended by is doggie mascara.

Quoted: "Bitch" is the most prominent word on the sign, and it can be seen clearly from North 45th Street and Wallingford Avenue North -- a ...

I LOVE this picture! It just makes me smile. Especially the tough looking mask paired with those little pink ears.

Quoted: The costume made its first appearance before the debut of Hasbro's new 'Spider Spud' version of the iconic toy at the American International Toy Fair ...