It is the month of August, on the shores of the Black Sea. It is raining, and the little town looks totally deserted. 
These are tough times, everybody is in debt, and everybody lives on credit.
Suddenly, a rich tourist comes to town.
He enters the only hotel, lays a 100 Euro note on the reception counter, and [...]

This is (apparently) a real reply from the Inland Revenue. Whether it is or not, it’s still entertaining and if everyone was like this at HMRC you could sit and chat for hours!
Dear Mr x,
 
I am writing to you to express our thanks for your more than prompt reply to our latest communication, and also to answer [...]

A man from Manchester (New Hampshire) has been charged more than the worlds combined GDP for a packet of cigarettes.
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/5/20090716/tod-man-charged-23-quadrillion-for-pack-870a197.html
It got me thinking, why don’t we all put our combined available credit card balances into one big fund, get the debt insured by AIG and use it to bail out the worlds faltering economies?

Went out for a meal with some friends for my brother’s birthday last night to Kuti’s in Southampton.
It’s quite a nice Indian restaurant with a good reputation in quite a nice area of the city.
There was champagne, poppadoms and a varied selection of exotic dishes. All in all, a pretty good evening.
Then came the cake…
This [...]

Following an evening in the company of hedonist Sir Elton John, Sir Michael Caine has compiled an album of his favourite chill-out tracks on a new album entitled ‘Cained.’
http://uk.news.launch.yahoo.com/dyna/article.html?a=/31072007/397/sir-michael-chills-0.html&e=l_news_dm
You can just picture the scene, Sir Michael and Sir Elton having just enjoyed a gourmet feast with some fine wine or perhaps champagne are sitting around [...]

This is genius…
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/itn/20070717/ten-homer-homage-ruffles-pagans-ea4616c.html

The creed of the Inland Revenue is simple: “If we can bring one little smile to one little face today, then somebody’s slipped up somewhere.”
– David Frost

Just caught a glimpse of an advert for one of the popular UK girlie mags and one of the headlines read something like “Victoria Beckham’s LA Dream Shattered/In Ruins”.
Firstly, with all their wealth, how could those dreams possibly be ruined? I stayed in LA for 10 days and had a good look around and unless [...]

A recent junk email offered the possibility of earning up to $10,000 (approx £5,000) per month without affecting existing employment.
Call me a cynic but I thought money laundering and smuggling…?
As follows:-
Greetings.
Would you be interested in a home job that allows you to earn up to $10,000 per month? No start up fees, no “envelope stuffing” [...]

Is it me or is it hard to believe that someone has only just come up with the idea to make paint pots with screw top lids?
OK so sample pots have them but for as long as I can remember paint pots/tins have always had a tight fitting ‘lever-off’ lid.
They can be extremely annoying!
How many [...]