What’s Mr Clausup to here, we wonder?Let’s see whatyou
cameup with:- ThomasTurnbull:“Well, you don’t thinkI spendall winter
in Laplanddo you?” - ThomasTurnbull:“It a lot less workwhenI do the wish
lists onlineand deliverthroughAmazon.” - Sawboman:“Thankyou, reindeer, I’m off the M25at last!”
- EdP:“Thejoy of beingSantain New Zealand’s NorthIsland,
whilehis northern hemisphere brotherworkshis butt off!” - BullStuff:“Great! Amazonhave 6x GT reindeerand a
luxurynew sledgein stock!” - doctoryorkie:“Thisis how I spendthe other364 days of
the year.” - doctoryorkie:“A Santaat NASAcelebrateshis coveted
palindrome award.” - The Duke:“Santaenjoyinghis redundancy, now that
Amazonhas won Christmas.” - Mad Malc is back:“Thoseelves,switchingmy underarm
deodorantfor hair sprayand puttingsuperglue on the
bottomof my laptop,not so mucha reindeerpartymore
like a stag do. This snowfeels warm?” - Mad Malcis back:“Santaloveswatchinghis sleigh
leavethoseNorthAmericanFighterjets standingon the
Noradwebsite.”
Thanksfor all your entries,and congratulationsto our
winner, doctoryorkie,who suggested,“A Santaat NASA
celebrateshis covetedpalindrome award.”
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roving that the
Americansdon’t
havea monopolyon
slightlyoutlandish
stories,a Cambridgemanset
aboutbuildinghis own16-bit,
45ft computer. In his lounge.
For £20,000.Nicelydone,Sir.
Warner Bros didn’t havethe
best of monthswhenit was
forced to announcea recall
on the latestin theBatman
Arkhamfranchise.Arkham
Knightwas besetwithproblems
for PC gamers,and this was an
issuethat just wasn’t goingto
go awayquicklyand quietly. In
the end,Warner Bros choseto
offer full refundsfor anyone
whohas purchasedthe game,
as the studioadmittedthat
someof the problemswould
simplyneverbe resolved.
Disneygainedheadlines
beyondStarWarsfor banning
selfiesticksfrom its globalthemeparks,whichbegged
the question:“Can’t we just
ban selfiesticks,full stop
please?”Microsoftalso had
tongueswaggingwhenit
announcedthat its XboxOne
consolewouldbe backwards
compatiblewitha bunchof the
olderXbox360 titles,saying
‘Yah-Boo’to Sony’s PlayStation
Nowservice.
To finishJune,why not
recall the schoolin Michigan
that has useda Commodore
Amigasystemto control the air
conditioningand heatingfor 19
publicschoolsin the area since
the 1980s?There’s life in the
old dog yet.June
by 2020
May
I
s there any betterway of
dealingwith cheatsthan
publiclyshamingthem
withinthe gameitself?The
gamersofGuildWars 2clearly
didn’t thinkso. Thus,whena
hackergoingby the character
nameJT DarkSidewas stripped
nakedand forced to jumpfrom a
parapetto his death.The unique
sentencewas handeddownby
gamersthemselves.
In America,a bankrobber
postedvideosof his efforts online
and was subsequentlyarrestedfor
his crimes.The evidencewas right
there, after all. Also in the States,
a sales executivefiled a lawsuit
againsther companyfor firing
her over claimsshe uninstalledan
iPhoneapp that she was told to
installto monitorher movements.
Odd,that one.Finallyfrom across the pond,
one BarackObamajoined
Twitter in May, tweeting“Hello,
Twitter!It’s Barack.Really!Six
yearsin, they’re finallygiving
me my ownaccount.”We’ve
read worsefirst efforts.
Back in the UK, we’re sure
we speakfor horrifiedparents
everywhere whenretellingthe
storyof 11-year-old Nick Wrinch,
who spent£3,000on buying
credits via GooglePlay over a
two-monthperiod.Luckilyfor all
involved,Googlerefundedthe
familybut still...Yikes! A better
way to spend£3,000wouldsurely
have beento put it towards the
£24,000neededto buy aStar
Wars BattlePodarcade game,
madefor your homefrom Bandai
NamcoEntertainment.Just look at
it. Beautiful.