It’s a simple enough prospect when you have a second-hand silver Ford Galaxy Ghia automatic you want to offload, so where better to get rid of it than on eBay? Well Ebay was a great idea until the emails started! Here’s the plan - set up auction, post nice pictures, include full details and wait for the bids to roll in.

Or rather, wait for the emails to roll in. Hundreds of ‘em, as every muppet and wag in the land jumps on the “bait the vendor” bandwagon.

Reading this on Ebay kept me in stitches !!!
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Any reader who has ever tried to pick up a woman in Chicago may already be aware of the techniques which are absolutely guaranteed to result in abject failure - or worse.

For those of you yet to make a pitch to Illinois’ fairer sex, these no-nos include: sliming all over your intended victim; blatantly grabbing her breasts; throwing your hot sweaty oversized weight around near her; and shaking your big fat ass in her face.

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That’s Bizarre: A furious husband took revenge on his cheating ex by selling racy images of her on eBay. The man offered bidders 200 saucy snaps of 24-year-old Linsey at £4.99 each.
He even wrote on the internet auction site: “She was playing away with my so-called best friend and now it is payback time.”A day later, all the shots had been sold.A spokesman for eBay said: “We saw no reason to take the listing off.”

We don’t have an idiot section so we will place this story under humour.

Two teenagers were charged with setting fires in suburban Washington after they bragged about the blazes on MySpace.com, authorities said.

The 17-year-old schoolmates were involved in 17 fires in Montgomery County, fire officials said Friday. The teens face 22 charges, including two counts each of first-degree arson and four counts of second-degree arson.

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Google had pie on its face after staffers accidentally deleted the company’s main official blog  and a user unaffiliated with Google temporarily took possession of the Web address.
This is just the latest in a recent string of embarrassing mistakes made by Google employees while handling company data.

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Sydney, Australia - New Zealand is not for sale, despite somebody in neighbouring Australia trying to offload the nation of four million to the highest online bidder.

With a starting offer of just one cent, brisk bidding for the prime chunk of South Pacific real estate quickly boosted the price to AUS$3 000 Australian dollars  before eBay pulled the plug on the auction this week.

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“Politics is not something that happens elsewhere, it happens together with those you turn to,” Nilsson said. “If I talk about animal rights, it’s because I have devoted my own time to get the animals out of the cages. If I talk about homelessness, it’s because I myself have been freezing in a squatted house with the homeless of Stockholm. If I say that immigration policies is scandalous it’s because I’ve had my own door kicked in by the immigration police.

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Two black Labradors have become the world’s first dogs to be trained to search for counterfeit DVDs, a trade organisation have said. The dogs, Lucky and Flo, have been trained to detect discs to help combat DVD piracy, the Federation Against Copyright Theft (Fact) said.

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Researchers and industry types in the emerging self-pollution field of teledildonics are pushing their vision of a future where people hook all manner of sex toys up to their computers.A recent meeting heard that Sinulate Entertainment, which markets such devices for the romantically challenged, has already sold thousands of online mutual onanism kits, Reuters reports. President Steve Rhodes said: “The Iraq war…was kind of a boom for our company,” presumably in the form of lonely squaddies.

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A CELL of ultra-Orthodox Jewish hackers has declared war on porn sites and is breaking into them and replacing pictures with those of a famous rabbi.According to the Yedioth Aharonot newspaper, the ’sex commandos’ see images of sex as an abomination.

Generally any pictures of naked women will be replaced by the bearded Rabbi Menahem Mendel Schneerson, the late leader of the popular Jewish Lubavitch movement.

Below each image is the works “we, the Da-Net group, have hacked into this site and erased all its abomination.”

Then there is a tirade against porn which it say is a violation which has caused many deaths, troubles and calamities.”

Girlfriends beware: if you’re going to taunt your boyfriend with not measuring up in the website department, do not under any circumstances offer to engage in sexual liaison with him and another woman if he does, after all, rise to the occassion.

And who, you might ask, would be so foolish to agree to form the beast with three backs if, for instance, her boyf managed to create a website from nothing and achieve a climactic two million hits? Allison, that’s who - the other half of the man behind helpwinmybet.com. Read on:

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