The six-year-old mascot for a British army battalion has been demoted in disgrace for acting the goat during a parade in full view of dignitaries.
Billy Goat has been a mascot of the First Battalion, the Royal Welsh regiment, since he was six months old and had the official rank of lance-corporal before his frisky antics during a parade marking Queen Elizabeth’s official birthday earlier this month.
The army said he had been demoted to fusilier (private) as a result of his behavior.
“The goat major had a hard time keeping him in line, he was bouncing around all over the place,†military spokesman Captain Crispian Coates told Reuters Saturday. “This is his first overseas tour. He has certainly not made a good start for himself.â€
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When Katey Sagal visited The Late Late Show the other day, she told Craig that the show is coming back to Comedy Central in 2008 for at least 13 episodes (I was watching that appearance, too. Must have slept through that part). Don Kaplan of the New York Post confirmed this; his sources told him that all the primary voice actors signed new deals this week. Also according to the article, FOX may have the option to air the new episodes, but probably won't. The new episodes will also come out on DVD after they air.
There were rumours of this last year, but it's good to see they finally confirmed it!
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Andrew Hawkins – the descendent of one of the first British slave traders, Sir John Hawkins – kneeled in chains in front of 25,000 Africans in Gambia and asked for forgivness.
Next year marks the 200th anniversary of the abolition of slavery in the UK. Mr Hawkins and organisers of his trip to Africa say not enough has been done to apologise for the wrong of slavery.
So should we say sorry for enslaving africans? They seem to have pretty much paid us back for what we did by increasing the amount of crime in the US and creating rap.
Apologize? Back to work!
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Perfect for the paranoid conspiracy theorist, this great invention shields whatever you're looking at from prying eyes. There's also a mobile phone version available.
“…you can venture into public spaces confident that if the need to compose a private text message were to arise the object could be pulled over the face to create an isolated environment.”
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Let the Good Lord heal your wicked wounds with these Jesus bandages from Archie McPhee. One box contains 15 bandages that were blessed by the Pope during a special "Bless This Mess" ceremony at the Vatican. Also in the box is a free toy!
They also do nodding Jesus dashboard figures, so they must be serious.
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I had my last ever A-Level exam today, which officially means no more school/sixth form or crazy rules. I need grades BBC to get into Sheffield University to study German and Russian.
This is possibly the most addictive tune you'll ever hear, I… want to… dance. 
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Researches in Japan have made a CGI simulation of what would happen if an asteroid hit the Earth… it would be destroyed. They obviously forgot to factor in Bruce Wiliis. 
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This is the hard drive developed by IBM for their RAMAC computer in 1956. It has an amazing 5MB capacity, and consists of 50 1200RPM platters. In the last 50 years, hard drive capacity has increased exponentially to 150,000 times as much, while size has decreased to about the tenth of that first hard drive. If things keep progressing at the rate they have over the last 10 years, in another 10 years we'll have 2.5″ 75TB drives. That's enough to hold over a century of continuous music as higher than CD quality.
“Information is stored, magnetically, on fifty disks which rotate at 1200 rpm. These disks are mounted so as to rotate about a vertical axis, with a spacing of three tenths of an inch between disks. This spacing permits two magnetic heads to be positioned to any one of the 100 concentric tracks which are available on each side of each disk. Each track contains 500 alphanumeric characters. Total storage capacity: 5,000,000 characters. The two recording heads are mounted in a pair of arms which are moved, by a feed-back control system, in a radial direction to straddle a selected disk. This new system promises memory storage possibilities never before accomplished.”
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The Ukelele Orchestra of Great Britain are obviously short of decent singers…
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