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Dutch and UK news oddities from both sides of our cod-less pond

DEC ISSUE 2012

CADS EPO T

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Its CADSJokathon on

Friday

And MikeHayes is going

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Oddly Enough Anglo Dutch News Yorkshire Otter family floodedout of home

East Yorkshire -- Flooding in East Yorkshire has forced an otterfamily to run for higher ground.We believe that the mother and cubs have had to evacuatetheir nearby holt after it

became f looded during theheavy rain.

Breda Redhead Day: an annual day (actually, a weekend) tomark all things ginger, paid for by the local government inBreda, a city in the south east of the Netherlands. We like tocall it the Ginger Festival. Redhead Day founder Bart Rouwen-horst has a painting hobby. So one day he put out an ad for red-heads to do paintings of. Soon, red people were coming out of the woodwork. Why Rouwenhorst took this as a sign to have anannual redhead event is beyond us. He should have taken it

was a warning dont give the red people a reason to leave theconfines of their houses!

DORDRECHT, Netherlands(AP) Just as the first stormsof winter roll in, Dutchman JohanHuibershas finished his 20-yearquest to build a full-scale, function-

ing model of Noah's Ark an under-taking of, well, biblical proportions.

London A London bar has been raided by police for allegedly serving cocktails flavoured with illegal whale skin.The Metropolitan policetargeted the Nightjar bar in Hoxton, East London, where a drinkcalled the Moby Dick was listed in an online menu.It was described ascontaining Laphroaig whisky, Drambuie, ale and bitters, along with a "whale skin infusion".

'Whale Skin' Cocktail: London Bar Raided

Redhead Day: Netherlands Ginger Festival

Dutchman launcheslife-sized replica of Noah's Ark

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Oddly Enough Global NewsCash-strapped Swaziland urged tohike witch-doctor tax

(Reuters) - A Swazi Member of Parliament has urged the govern-ment to hike taxes on traditionalhealers and soothsayers to helpsolve a funding crisis in Africa'slast absolute monarchy.

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Elephants bottom A herd of elephants is being used to pro-duce some of the world's most expensive coffee. The exotic new

brew, trumpeted as earthy in flavour and smooth on the pala te,is made from beans eaten by a herd of 20 Thai elephants andplucked a day later from their dung.

CHINA A Chinese newspaper has been seemingly fooled by a spoof article proclaiming Kim Jong-Un the 'sexiest man alive'.The People's Daily newspaper ran a 55-page spread hailing theaccolade given to the North Korean leader. However, the awardhad been 'given' to Kim Jong-Un by satirical news website TheOnion under the headline "North Korea's top leader named TheOnion's Sexiest Man Alive for 2012."

Australia -- Police in Australia have warned drivers not to use Apple's map software af ter a number of people ended up lost inthe wilderness in scorching temperatures. Motorists trying tofind the south-eastern town of Mildura became lost after follow-ing the map system. One man was stranded for 24 hours intemperatures of up to 46C, and at least three more have had to berescued, police said.

Apple Maps 'Life-Threatening' To Drivers

SYRACUSE, N.Y. An upstate New York zoo got a surprise visit fromthe stork. A woman gave birth on a wildlife path at the Rosamond Gif-ford Zoo in Syracuse on Friday, delivering her baby girl with the helpof zookeepers not far from the bear exhibit. Zoo educator Liz Schmidtsays that she rushed over from the reindeer pen to find the 21-year-

old woman pushing out the baby.

Born wild! Woman gives birth to baby girl at NY zoo with zookeepers' help

Elephant Dung Used To Make Black Ivory Coffee

Kim Jong-Un 'sexiest man alive' article fools China

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The Mike Hayes Jokathon Art ExhibitionMike Hayes. Who? Artist and funny man extraordinaire. He has won somany Jokathon trophies that theCADS committee have handed him alifetime ban.

They also gave him the old trophy tokeep. Forever. Boohoo!

As a token of his revenge, he hascreated a new trophy. Oooooh!

Can I move now?

No Jokathon lunchtime would becomplete without a Mike Hayes artexhibition....

So he knocked up some pretty descent paintings, which he will exhibit before lunch.

Unlike his face, the prices are very unscary.

www.mike-hayes.com www.mik

esgallery.info+31 (0)20 644 54 86+31 (0)653 20 60 50

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WATERS At the November lunch we had no speaker. Althoughthis was a result of sudden family illness for the

husband of our speaker, it also gave us the welcomeopportunity to chat amongst ourselves, and demon-strate a quick response to the request the previousmonth for some lunches without speakers!

Last weekend was the BritSoc Ball, a glittering affairheld at the Olof Chapel inside the Barbizon Palace. TheCADS table consisted of 10 members, and we had an ex-cellent evening of champagne and pretty much unlim-ited wine from 1830 onwards, courtesy of the spon-sors, plus the oppor-tunity to dance until3am and participatein several rafflesand blind auctions.Carol and I departedexhausted at 1.30am, together withLouise Hunter, aftermany dances. Pleaseextend your best

wishes for a speedy recovery to Louise she pulled a tendonduring one of thedances and is now sporting a ratherfetching and painful

bandaged knee!!!

MIKE

The infamous JokathonThis Friday the 14th is the infamous Jokathon. Mike Hayes is donat-ing the new trophy, and is also exhibiting some of his most recent

work perfect for last minute Christmas presents. The chef Jeroenis putting on a special Christmas meal of game and a typical Englishpudding

Prepare your jokes, practice your timing, and expect an uninhibitedand very funny couple of hours

Did you hear about the blonde who walked into a bar? Ouch!

Or the seal that walked into a club? (Groan)

See you there!!!