Dispensary Corner 26 Oct 10
October 26, 2010
A GROUP of birds in the NZ
capital of Wellington may be
turning into nicotine addicts.
Staff at one of the city’s primary
health organisations this week
iscovered a nest lined with
cigarette butts when their office
was relocating.
According to spokesperson Judy
Hutton - who ironically runs a
stop smoking program - there
have been significantly more
cigarette butts on the city’s streets
since the introduction of a ban on
smoking in bars and other indoors
premises.
“It appears that the birds have
even torn off the outside of the
filters to use its softness to better
effect,” said a wildlife control
officer, who added that the butts
might have bad effect, particularly
on the young chicks.
“These baby birds are born
without any feathers, and its
effect must be something like
having its entire hairless body
covered in nicotine patches”.
FORMER US president Bill
Clinton reportedly lost top secret
nuclear launch codes due to a
prolonged “senior moment” of
memory lapse during his
presidency, according to a new
book released this week.
Lieutenant Colonel Robert
Patterson, who served under
Clinton as a key military advisor,
claims that a special card, known
as “the biscuit” containing the
codes disappeared during 2000.
“He thought he just placed
them upstairs,” he wrote.
“We called upstairs, we started
a search around the White House
for the codes, and he finally
confessed that he had in fact
misplaced them.
“He couldn’t recall when he
had last seen them,” he added.
Apparently the codes must be
input into a control console by the
President when he’s launching a
nuclear attack.
Commentary on the new book
also raises earlier rumours that
former president Jimmy Carter left
the card in a suit which was sent
to the dry cleaners.
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