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Oh my God! I was so relieved to learn that a potentially serious international crisis has narrowly been averted. No, the Middle East peace talks weren’t about to blow up. And, no, Iran wasn’t about to launch it’s nuclear arsenal upon the world. And yes, Betty White’s still hangin’ on to life so she can appear in every second television commercial/sit-com and movie. No, no I’m talking about something much more serious. Yep, you guessed it. Seems there was a horse chestnut shortage, about which I’m sure you heard. Oh, yeah. It almost wiped out the annual World Conker Championships.  ”The World Wha?” I hear you say. The World Conker Championships. You know all about them being held October 10th at New Lodge Fields, near Oundle, Northamptonshire in Britain, right? A couple of conkers Now I was surprised to learn that this was an international event. It’s something I played as a pre-pubescent teenager. The gist of it was to find a good hard chestnut, drill a hole through it with a ...

Poor David Beckham.  Going after the man for his autograph I can understand, but this? Remember that Armani underwear campaign where David and his "package" were on display for all to see in magazine centre-folds and giant billboards? There was some talk at the time that the goods were enhanced...you know that there was some air-brushing done. Well, it seems a female Italian television personality took it upon herself to find out. Accompanied by a camera crew, she donned a pair of yellow rubber gloves and zeroed in on her target(s). Beckham, who was in the midst of a TV interview was, to say the least, "caught" by surprise. And the upshot of the exercise?  Beckham's wife has called her honey well-endowed, nick-naming him Golden Balls. But the woman with the yellow gloves was heard to say as she was being dragged away, "I touched it but it's small.  David you have conned us all." Beckham, who hasn't won a soccer cup recentl...