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End Of The World 2012

The Wowster on why the English treat a bit of snow like the end of the world 2012. Here we go again. The south of England gets some crap, freezing weather and it's the end of the world 2012. Even a flake of snow has been known to stop the entire English rail network. I don't want to be accused of gloating but ...

A Sexist Word?

The Wowster on whether the word babe is a sexist word Today's question is babe a sexist word? Does it matter? And if so, so what? That's the attitude of most people in Brighton to a bus driver rapped for calling a ...

Shit Happens

The Wowster looks at what happens when shit happens Well it just had to happen, didn't it. Probably they were having a quiet day at American Express, nothing better to do, why not send out a mailer on cut-porice cruise chaps? And that ...

Is There Life On Venus?

The Wowster asks the question...is there life on Venus? A Russian scientist has set the cat among the pigeons, or rather a scorpion among anyone living on Venus. Leonid Ksanfomalti of the Space Research Insitute has re-examined the pictures taken by the ...

Call Me Frank

The Wowster looks at the early career of Call-Me-Frank Voltaire. Who'd have believed it, the Great French man of letters Voltaire, was just a pushy, Call-Me-Frank sort of guy. New letters have been uncovered that show Francois Voltaire knew how to turn ...

Titanic City Not Fit For Purpose

Annie Flint on a titanic city not fit for purpose “You can't imagine these floating cities sinking” they said on the morning news programmes But they are not floating cities. Neither are they cities nor are they fit to float. In a city, ...