IT MUST BE TRUE…

I read it in the tabloids

A man who posted a message online asking strangers to buy his friend a birthday drink got rather more than he bargained for. Nick Matthewman was celebrating his 20th in a pub in Sheffield when his friend Rory decided to ask people on Twitter to use the Wetherspoons app to “send him a bev”. Within hours, the post was retweeted almost 8,000 times; soon waiters were coming over to their table bringing not only bottles of beer, but also eight glasses of milk, a pint of John Smith’s, a bottle of Prosecco and various random items from the food menu including a pot of barbecue sauce, a pot of crispy onions and a plate of peas.

An Australian who stopped his car to investigate an unusual squealing sound looked inside the wheel well – and saw a koala staring back at him. The six-year-old female had crawled into the wheel arch when the 4x4 was parked, in a rural area outside Adelaide, and had been clinging to the axle for ten miles. The koala was clearly in shock, but made a swift recovery and was returned to the wild a few days later. The Saudi government was this week scrambling to withdraw a new school history textbook that shows the late King Faisal sitting next to Yoda, the Star Wars Jedi Master, as the monarch signs the UN Charter in 1945. Education officials said they had no idea how the picture came to be included. It was originally created by an artist who doctored a series of photos to show Star Wars characters taking part in key events in world history.