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00:00 21 Aug 2001
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Sweet talk
A mint-maker has apparently come up with an idea to enable the beleaguered Millennium Dome to make a mint. It has been reported that the doomed Greenwich attraction may soon be turned into a giant Smint, visible from passing aircraft, if plans to turn it into a vast advertising hoarding are given the go-ahead.
Those who have had their Snickers in a Twix since it was closed at the beginning of the year, Mars be thinking this is the best suggestion put forward for ages.
Something is Bounty go wrong though, and the government must ensure it doesn't count its Creme Eggs before they hatch. It's certainly Crunchie time.
Sick as a parrot
Never let it be said that journos are a cynical, hard-hearted bunch - well, not all the time.
Witness CJ editor Rob Willock's contribution when he took part in Willmott Dixon's five-a-side football tournament for Men's Cancer Awareness Month recently, which managed to raise a dazzling £18,200 in sponsorship money. For Rob also succeeded in snapping his Achilles' tendon. "It was all in a worthy cause," grimaced the hero as he hobbled round the CJ offices on his crutches - before snarling at a reporter to get him another coffee.
Tunnel vision
To celebrate the completion of a new £200m sewerage scheme in Hull, Yorkshire Water project manager Steve Tindall is expected to be driving a Mini Cooper through a sewer more than 18m under the streets of Hull.
Is this a canny way of avoiding traffic jams in the city? No, Tindall is marking the occasion by recreating the cult film The Italian Job. Neither does the similarity between the film and construction end there.
Although the film was made 32 years ago, one of Michael Caine's lines is almost prophetic when it comes to attitudes in today's construction industry: "It's a very difficult job and the only way to get through is if we all work together as a team - and that means you do everything I say." Remember where that got Michael Caine's gang? Dangling over the edge of a precipice.
A mint-maker has apparently come up with an idea to enable the beleaguered Millennium Dome to make a mint. It has been reported that the doomed Greenwich attraction may soon be turned into a giant Smint, visible from passing aircraft, if plans to turn it into a vast advertising hoarding are given the go-ahead.
Those who have had their Snickers in a Twix since it was closed at the beginning of the year, Mars be thinking this is the best suggestion put forward for ages.
Something is Bounty go wrong though, and the government must ensure it doesn't count its Creme Eggs before they hatch. It's certainly Crunchie time.
Sick as a parrot
Never let it be said that journos are a cynical, hard-hearted bunch - well, not all the time.
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Witness CJ editor Rob Willock's contribution when he took part in Willmott Dixon's five-a-side football tournament for Men's Cancer Awareness Month recently, which managed to raise a dazzling £18,200 in sponsorship money. For Rob also succeeded in snapping his Achilles' tendon. "It was all in a worthy cause," grimaced the hero as he hobbled round the CJ offices on his crutches - before snarling at a reporter to get him another coffee.
Tunnel vision
To celebrate the completion of a new £200m sewerage scheme in Hull, Yorkshire Water project manager Steve Tindall is expected to be driving a Mini Cooper through a sewer more than 18m under the streets of Hull.
Is this a canny way of avoiding traffic jams in the city? No, Tindall is marking the occasion by recreating the cult film The Italian Job. Neither does the similarity between the film and construction end there.
Although the film was made 32 years ago, one of Michael Caine's lines is almost prophetic when it comes to attitudes in today's construction industry: "It's a very difficult job and the only way to get through is if we all work together as a team - and that means you do everything I say." Remember where that got Michael Caine's gang? Dangling over the edge of a precipice.
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