"[Prince Charles and Camilla] also ran up the most expensive royal train journey – more than £37,000 – when they travelled from Gloucestershire to engagements in Wales"

Source: Yorkshire Today

"They are baptised in the religion of liberalism for six hours a day, twelve days a week"

Source: Ann Coulter, Youtube \ BBC's Newsnight

"Imagine a computer that could pick the right emotional moment... to try to sell you something"

Source: Oh super. Selling me something. People's Daily Online

"I'm a filter-cum-champion for [12-16s]"

Source: Sorry, low-brow there... MediaGuardian

"'We would not encourage anybody to try to find the discarded chocolate"

Source: Cadbury's on their dumped chocolate, Daily Mail

"People such as academics, teachers, scientists and many other professionals are often strikingly immature"

Source: Discovery Channel

"It's a number"

Source: White House Press Secretary Tony Snow on the news that 2,500 troops have now died in Iraq, Think Progress

"Coach Luis Suarez inspires his players before a game by telling them: 'It's time to kill your cow'"

Source: All Headline News

"I can promise that no-one I know of has come back from a stag party with photos of historical buildings"

Source: David from London, BBC News

"An inch makes a huge difference to me, because I'm a pretty small guy"

Source: James Blunt, ITV

"Overly hygienic environment can lead to allergies and autoimmune diseases"

Source: Not a classic quote, or news, but everyone should know this! CBC News

"This is a bit like a Labour party meeting in the 80s when we voted to abolish everything and we thought we had done it and then we went down the pub"

Source: The Guardian

"It's a good thing to make a transition to a generation of technical leadership that sees things from a higher quantum level of intertwingledness"

Source: eWeek Blog

"Gravity (like other scientifist [sic] 'theories' is very on shaky grounds. It doesnt have the evidnece [sic] to back it up"

Source: Christian Forums (thanks to Nathan Wong)

"I would also like to understand women"

Source: Stephen Hawking, clearly just articulating the impossible now, Northwest Florida Daily News

"We'll always be friends and Paul will still help me with long words"

Source: Channel 4

"Mills McCartney was pictured in the Sun posing in a series of topless shots... which the paper called 'obscene and pornographic'"

Source: Irony alert? MediaGuardian

"'It may look like a hosepipe but it's not,' insisted a spokesman for Number 10"

Source: BBC News

"I have been told that listening to US radio stations online can damage your modem/router and weaken connection"

Source: A troubled Digital Spy poster, Digital Spy

"This issue [stopping gay marriage] is five times as important as the war on terror and the war in Iraq combined"

Source: Jack Burkman, MSNBC (with thanks to Daylight Atheism)

"I imagine that in the Sixties people would have been sitting on the grass, talking to each other, someone playing a guitar. Everyone loved each other"

Source: What bollocks. BBC News

"Most young people have the same main interests: they want to do music, sports, football and athletics"

Source: [Cough] No they do not, 'Lethal Bizzle', The Guardian

"It took a fair bit of persuasion... to let us call him Damien"

Source: Horror film fan on his new 06/06/06 baby, Orange

"Not over-subsidised flower arranging, except of course where flower arranging is necessary for a vocational purpose"

Source: Alan Johnson, BBC News

"A bedroom is a room used primarily for sleep, rest or sexual activities. It may or may not contain a bed."

Source: Wikipedia

"I didn't want to hurt the dog, I just wanted to get it off the girl. So I stabbed it in the head."

Source: The Register

"Environment Secretary David Miliband said Mr Prescott was "a big man""

Source: BBC News

"Emails objecting to a house extension failed to reach a council planning department because their computer system blocked the word erection"

Source: The Guardian

"More than half of all children questioned also said they had found adult websites online while they were 'looking for something else'"

Source: Vnunet

"My reason for leaving the Big Brother house is the thought of fame"

Source: George from Big Brother, BBC News

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