"A 21-year-old German tourist who wanted to visit his girlfriend in Sydney landed near Sidney, Montana, after mistyping his destination on a flight booking Web site. 'I did wonder but I didn't want to say anything...'"

Source: CNN

"When the stork delivering gifted babies to the families of this country flies overhead, it doesn't carry instructions to land only on pitched roofs in the leafy suburbs"

Source: BBC News

"if we'd known you could take out 25% of the salt and make cornflakes taste better, we would have done it earlier"

Source: MediaGuardian

"The figures very clearly show that kids who are breaching Asbos are breaching everything else as well. It is not the failure of the Asbo; it is the failure of getting the offending behaviour of that young person under control"

Source: Erm.. yes... BBC News

"I still have every confidence that Windows Vista is our most secure platform to date"

Source: (My emphasis ) CNET News

"What are you doing reading this - haven't you got anything better to do, on this of all days? Do you, as the great poet said, know it's Christmastime at all?"

Source: BBC News

"Merry Christmas!"

Source: Me

"The policy came as quite a shock to 18-year-old Hannah Thomas of Weymouth, Dorset. The till operative refused to sell her a box of crackers because she looked 'too young'"

Source: The Register

"We're trying to figure out what changes we can make, short of putting up signs saying, 'Don't put your baby through the X-ray machine'"

Source: Los Angeles Times

"Stephen Tame, 29, was transformed from a devout Christian into a sexually aggressive user of pornography after falling from a gantry in a cycle warehouse in 2002, the High Court ruled"

Source: Times Online

"We're not winning, we're not losing"

Source: George W Bush, Times Online

"A 15-year-old girl has given birth at St Joseph's Catholic College in Bradford... the Year 11 pupil is not thought to have known she was pregnant"

Source: Point made? BBC News

"Ashleigh Fennelly shot out of her mother at such speed that her father failed to catch her, and instead she skidded across the floor and bounced back on her umbilical cord"

Source: Metro

"It might sound funny to others, but suddenly thinking you are French is terrifying"

Source: Stolen from HIGNFY, This Is London

"a computer game in which players must kill or convert non-Christians is causing controversy in the US... Jeffrey Frichner insists the game is actually pacifist because players lose 'spirit points' every time they gun down nonbelievers instead of converting them"

Source: Orange

"bright children are more likely to reject meat and opt to become vegetarians"

Source: A quote exclusively for Alex there! The Independent

"We used to quip that 'password' is the most common password. Now it's 'password1'. Who said users haven't learned anything about security?"

Source: Wired

"I see no evidence to suggest they could be harmful, but it takes an enormous amount of evidence to prove anything. I don't understand the medical side very well but I do understand the technical side - that of frequency and power. That's why I decided against installing a wireless network."

Source: BBC News

"'It is possible for something to be right at a given time even in the absence of evidence that later becomes available'... John Denham MP then asked Mr Reid: 'Have you been talking to Donald Rumsfeld?'"

Source: 24dash

"Unknowingly, he is on the way to becoming what is jokingly described as a 'Tofi' - Thin on the Outside, Fat on the Inside"

Source: This is me! The Observer

"A York man fed up with local students has made a Dalek he can sit inside in a bid to frighten away teenage ne'er-do-wells"

Source: The Register

"I have this theory about marriage licences. They should almost be like driver's licenses, after four years they expire and you have to renew them. It's also a bit romantic because after four years you go, 'You know what, I still love you. Let's get married'"

Source: I like this idea! Jenny McCarthy, Life Style Extra

"I haven't done drugs for a while now. Too busy. I'd like to say work and sex have replaced drugs. But there's not been enough time off work for sex. This must change."

Source: Lily Allen, Digital Spy

"Harrods yesterday confirmed that as a result of 'inappropriate behaviour' Santa has got the sack"

Source: Guardian Unlimited

"Charles Sibindana... then added his own details to the note and submitted it and took seven days off work, seemingly unaware that only women consult gynaecologists. His employers became suspicious and investigated the matter"

Source: BBC News

"I would go to Britan because Britan was populare back in 1616"

Source: Many more amusing seventh graders at The Old New Thing

"See, I know some people think I disrespect women... I don't, I love women. The soundtrack I have done is going to change people's perceptions. Every woman in the world is going to love me!"

Source: Snoop Dogg, Digital Spy

"One Tory backbencher said pay should 'nudge six figures' while a senior Labour backbencher said: 'There is no difference between the parties on this'"

Source: Times Online

"Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes' new British love nest is currently empty - because it stinks of the neighbor's sewage"

Source: Monsters and Critics

"James Murdoch... yesterday accused the BBC of 'megalomania'"

Source: Hmm a little odd coming from a Murdoch? The Independent

"Christmas shoppers in Germany are horrified. Across the country, models of Santa Claus in shop windows appear to be giving the Nazi salute"

Source: Ta Lucy, Spiegel

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