The Fifty Shades of Grey effect comes in many forms.
Including people doing rather silly things they shouldn’t do.
In Friday’s Courier we report on the (really genuine) warning to people not to get caught out while “experimenting”.
The warning is something of a sombre one and includes some rather fruity case studies.
Among them are people with rings in places rings shouldn’t be, people with vacuum cleaners in places where vacuum cleaners shouldn’t be and yes one fellow who thought his ardour would be dampened by placing his manhood in a toaster.
Yikes.
We find out more.
Meanwhile, shang-a-lang.
A glorious song.
In fact, shang-a-lang is so good it should be our national anthem.
Who says?
Why, the fellow who write shang-a-lang of course.
He says it would send a shiver up the spine of the All Blacks at Murrayfield.
And it isn’t a dirge (in his opinion).
Read more on this rather remarkable story in Friday’s footloose and fancy-free Courier.
In other news, we have more about a bid to contact aliens.
Boffins are desperate to get in touch with extraterrestrials but have decided the best way to do so would be by immersing them in popular culture.
“Do they want to hear what the structure of the hydrogen atom is? No, they know that. They want to know about our rock ‘n’ roll.”
So said one boffin. And I simply can’t disagree.
But I know someone who can. Yes, none other Stephen Hawking thinks it’s a mistake, saying we could be “inviting disaster”.
Still, what does he know?
Surely aliens would like nothing more than pop music possibly even starting with shang-a-lang…
* For more on these tales, and plenty others beside, pick up Friday’s Courier. Alternatively if you are feeling particularly fruity (and there isn’t a toaster handy), why not try our digital edition?