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Monday, July 05, 2010

OLL LEWIS: Yesterday's News Today

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On this day in 1973 Charles Hawtrey aborted his first solo attempt to reach the summit of Mount Everest on a pogo stick. The expedition had been going well until he was faced with a ledge higher than 32cm in height, which was the maximum legal permitted height of a pogo stick jump in Nepal at the time. Hawtrey successfully received a permit from the Chinese government to attempt an assent from the Chinese side, partially due to Terry Nation’s Loch Ness Monster epic ‘What a Whopper’ (in which Hawtrey had a small part) being Chairman Mao’s favourite film. Indeed, Mao became so obsessed with the film he would regularly force high ranking members of the communist government to perform the film in it’s entirety for his own personal amusement. It is rumoured that the reason Hawtrey was so interested in reaching the summit of Everest because according to mountaineering folklore Mallory placed a brass bedstead upon the summit as proof that he had reached there and that Hillary and Norgay had hidden this under the snow. It is further speculated that Hawtrey required this bedstead as it was one of the legendary bedsteads of Kalgripon, which Hawtrey would later use to triangulate the position of the lost city of Atlantis in order to get there before his arch rival Arthur Askey.
And now, the news:

Chick gets slippers made to straighten his feet
"Gouty" cockatoo at centre of Austrian court case
Deep sea dog: Russian teaches dachshund to scuba
Thai temple offers Buddhist funerals for pets
'Never slaughter a chicken in front of a monkey'

The nature of monkey was irrepressible!

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