Shop Long Distance » mental-floss http://www.shoplongdistance.com The Phone cards home Fri, 10 Feb 2012 13:28:50 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.3 Nothing To Do With Arbroath: Saudi lingerie shop boycott call http://www.shoplongdistance.com/2010/02/14/nothing-to-do-with-arbroath-saudi-lingerie-shop-boycott-call/ http://www.shoplongdistance.com/2010/02/14/nothing-to-do-with-arbroath-saudi-lingerie-shop-boycott-call/#comments Sun, 14 Feb 2010 05:04:00 +0000 jedwan http://www.shoplongdistance.com/2010/02/14/nothing-to-do-with-arbroath-saudi-lingerie-shop-boycott-call/ Saudi lingerie shop boycott call. Campaigners in Saudi Arabia have urged women there to begin a two-week boycott of lingerie shops with male staff.

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]]> http://www.shoplongdistance.com/2010/02/14/nothing-to-do-with-arbroath-saudi-lingerie-shop-boycott-call/feed/ 0 Nothing To Do With Arbroath: Pet shop owner's narrow escape after … http://www.shoplongdistance.com/2010/01/28/nothing-to-do-with-arbroath-pet-shop-owners-narrow-escape-after/ http://www.shoplongdistance.com/2010/01/28/nothing-to-do-with-arbroath-pet-shop-owners-narrow-escape-after/#comments Wed, 27 Jan 2010 22:03:00 +0000 jedwan http://www.shoplongdistance.com/2010/01/28/nothing-to-do-with-arbroath-pet-shop-owners-narrow-escape-after/ A pet shop owner had a narrow escape when he was bitten by a piranha fish as he tried to sell it.

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]]> http://www.shoplongdistance.com/2010/01/28/nothing-to-do-with-arbroath-pet-shop-owners-narrow-escape-after/feed/ 0 Nothing To Do With Arbroath: Shop sleepover for snow customers http://www.shoplongdistance.com/2009/12/23/nothing-to-do-with-arbroath-shop-sleepover-for-snow-customers/ http://www.shoplongdistance.com/2009/12/23/nothing-to-do-with-arbroath-shop-sleepover-for-snow-customers/#comments Tue, 22 Dec 2009 22:20:00 +0000 jedwan http://www.shoplongdistance.com/2009/12/23/nothing-to-do-with-arbroath-shop-sleepover-for-snow-customers/ Shop sleepover for snow customers. More than 100 customers, staff and children spent the night in a John Lewis department store after they were stranded by snow. The 54 staff, about 30 adult customers and 20 children were provided with …

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]]> http://www.shoplongdistance.com/2009/12/23/nothing-to-do-with-arbroath-shop-sleepover-for-snow-customers/feed/ 0 Nothing To Do With Arbroath: Magistrate who used term 'Paki shop … http://www.shoplongdistance.com/2009/12/22/nothing-to-do-with-arbroath-magistrate-who-used-term-paki-shop/ http://www.shoplongdistance.com/2009/12/22/nothing-to-do-with-arbroath-magistrate-who-used-term-paki-shop/#comments Mon, 21 Dec 2009 21:57:00 +0000 jedwan http://www.shoplongdistance.com/2009/12/22/nothing-to-do-with-arbroath-magistrate-who-used-term-paki-shop/ A magistrate who used the term ”Paki shop ” in court will not be sacked. Carol Robson has instead been given a reprimand and ordered to take ”diversity training”, the Office for Judicial Complaints said.

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]]> http://www.shoplongdistance.com/2009/12/22/nothing-to-do-with-arbroath-magistrate-who-used-term-paki-shop/feed/ 0 Nothing To Do With Arbroath: Body parts sold to Russian kebab shop http://www.shoplongdistance.com/2009/11/15/nothing-to-do-with-arbroath-body-parts-sold-to-russian-kebab-shop/ http://www.shoplongdistance.com/2009/11/15/nothing-to-do-with-arbroath-body-parts-sold-to-russian-kebab-shop/#comments Sat, 14 Nov 2009 23:24:01 +0000 jedwan http://www.shoplongdistance.com/2009/11/15/nothing-to-do-with-arbroath-body-parts-sold-to-russian-kebab-shop/ Police in Russia have arrested three homeless men suspected of killing a man, eating part of the body and selling other parts to a kebab shop . The men were held in the city of Perm, some 1400km (870 miles) east of Moscow, …

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]]> http://www.shoplongdistance.com/2009/11/15/nothing-to-do-with-arbroath-body-parts-sold-to-russian-kebab-shop/feed/ 0 Nothing To Do With Arbroath: Falling fox lands in shop window http://www.shoplongdistance.com/2009/11/10/nothing-to-do-with-arbroath-falling-fox-lands-in-shop-window/ http://www.shoplongdistance.com/2009/11/10/nothing-to-do-with-arbroath-falling-fox-lands-in-shop-window/#comments Mon, 09 Nov 2009 22:12:01 +0000 jedwan http://www.shoplongdistance.com/2009/11/10/nothing-to-do-with-arbroath-falling-fox-lands-in-shop-window/ You might have heard of the phrase ‘raining cats and dogs’, but for a shop in Weston it was raining foxes. The falling creature crash landed into a pile of handbags in Dolphin Leather Goods in Weston-super-Mare, Somerset, on Monday.

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]]> http://www.shoplongdistance.com/2009/11/10/nothing-to-do-with-arbroath-falling-fox-lands-in-shop-window/feed/ 0 Nothing To Do With Arbroath: Corner shop worker told to stop … http://www.shoplongdistance.com/2009/10/22/nothing-to-do-with-arbroath-corner-shop-worker-told-to-stop/ http://www.shoplongdistance.com/2009/10/22/nothing-to-do-with-arbroath-corner-shop-worker-told-to-stop/#comments Wed, 21 Oct 2009 21:11:01 +0000 jedwan http://www.shoplongdistance.com/2009/10/22/nothing-to-do-with-arbroath-corner-shop-worker-told-to-stop/ Music police have told a grandmother to stop singing behind the counter of the corner shop where she works – or pay for a licence. Sandra Burt began serenading customers at the A & T Food Store in Clackmannan, near Stirling, …

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]]> http://www.shoplongdistance.com/2009/10/22/nothing-to-do-with-arbroath-corner-shop-worker-told-to-stop/feed/ 0 Nothing To Do With Arbroath: Cowboy herds stray bulls from shop http://www.shoplongdistance.com/2009/09/15/nothing-to-do-with-arbroath-cowboy-herds-stray-bulls-from-shop/ http://www.shoplongdistance.com/2009/09/15/nothing-to-do-with-arbroath-cowboy-herds-stray-bulls-from-shop/#comments Mon, 14 Sep 2009 22:10:00 +0000 jedwan http://www.shoplongdistance.com/2009/09/15/nothing-to-do-with-arbroath-cowboy-herds-stray-bulls-from-shop/ Cowboy herds stray bulls from shop . Shoppers who called into a food store for a snack fled the aisles after cattle from a fair parade ran amok inside.

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]]> http://www.shoplongdistance.com/2009/09/15/nothing-to-do-with-arbroath-cowboy-herds-stray-bulls-from-shop/feed/ 0 Nothing To Do With Arbroath: Shop owner told to remove dummy … http://www.shoplongdistance.com/2009/07/09/nothing-to-do-with-arbroath-shop-owner-told-to-remove-dummy/ http://www.shoplongdistance.com/2009/07/09/nothing-to-do-with-arbroath-shop-owner-told-to-remove-dummy/#comments Thu, 09 Jul 2009 00:03:00 +0000 jedwan http://www.shoplongdistance.com/2009/07/09/nothing-to-do-with-arbroath-shop-owner-told-to-remove-dummy/ A shop owner is being forced to remove a mannequin dressed as a soldier from the front of his Bolton store — because of recent armed robberies in the area. Hamid Shahabi says the life-size figure is there to represent brave troops …

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]]> http://www.shoplongdistance.com/2009/07/09/nothing-to-do-with-arbroath-shop-owner-told-to-remove-dummy/feed/ 0 Nothing To Do With Arbroath: Women thrown out of shop for speaking … http://www.shoplongdistance.com/2009/06/28/nothing-to-do-with-arbroath-women-thrown-out-of-shop-for-speaking/ http://www.shoplongdistance.com/2009/06/28/nothing-to-do-with-arbroath-women-thrown-out-of-shop-for-speaking/#comments Sun, 28 Jun 2009 00:49:00 +0000 jedwan http://www.shoplongdistance.com/2009/06/28/nothing-to-do-with-arbroath-women-thrown-out-of-shop-for-speaking/ Ms Pratley, who runs Grange Gifts, said she had not banned the women from the shop but admitted asking them to leave.

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