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Pyaar ke dushman

A bitch, by which a mean a female labrador and not a nasty woman, became pregnant with help from a mongrel, and gave birth to ten puppies in West Bengal. While the couple has not been outed from polite society or bludgeoned to near-death in the manner of Bollywood potboilers, the bitch's guardian has received disciplanry action and his salary has been cut!

That's right. The labrador happens to be a guard dog, and her maternity leave, grudgingly given, is being blamed at her linient guardianship. This is what the boss has to say: "It is a very sensitive issue in our department...The Labrador could not carry out her duties properly during her pregnancy and at time of delivery she was on leave."

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Chocolate boy

In an episode that may give kinky people, house of wax sequellers and WWF publicists ideas, a man fell in a vat of chocolate and got stuck in for two hours. "It was in my hair, in my ears, my mouth, everywhere," he moaned, adding that ""I felt like I weighed 900 pounds. I couldn't move."

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Another reason to love reality TV

Ten Cats will be competing in a show on Animal Planet starting June 16. Housed in a store-window in Manhattan, in a setting that has also been described as a "Disney world for cats", they will do their usual nothings to vie for titles such as the most prolific sleeper, loudest purr etc.


The programme has been sponsored by pet-food maker Meow Mix, and will also be available on www.MeowMixHouse.com.

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Not just blind, Love's also silly

Caught some of the off-beatest marriages on TV couple of days ago. And I wondered, WHY?

Why were a couple choosing to flail ungracefully in the air while taking their vows? Wasn't the woman, strapped up to her shoulders and towering high, wondering what the audience below her was comtemplating?

And what was another pair thinking when they marched down a mall elevator for an aisle?

And the worst case - for which I couldn't even cook up an excuse in my head - was the marriage on a treadmill: the groom running and huffing and puffing... and sweating in his boxers and a vest, while his bride-to-be walked as daintily as is possible with sneakers in a wedding dress on a treadmill next to his. Adding to the ridiculous fanfare were scores of their friends egging them on - on treadmills themselves.

Is being unique so important that people don't mind even if it's being uniquely idiotic?