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Lindsay Lohan has spat back at reports that she's anorexic. The Freaky Friday star claims that her recent weight loss is just all part of growing up. The 18-year-old actress revealed that in fact she hasn't been on a drastic diet, but instead her body is just changing shape naturally: "Even the doctor (I saw) today, he was like, 'Are you anorexic? Are you making yourself throw up? Are drugs involved?'

"And I was like, 'Are you saying this because you've read it in magazines? Because I don't!' People lose weight when they grow up; they lose their baby fat," Teen Hollywood reports her as saying.

"When I was doing Herbie I was working a lot and pushing myself, and then I got sick because I wasn't taking care of myself I was eating junk food and not working out and not being healthy. So now I work out and take care of myself."

She insisted that her appetite was in fact much more healthy than many of her contemporaries.
Last year Lindsay had to defend her boobs against claims that she'd had implants - she denied the claims, saying that her body was just growing up.

Hmmm.... Losing weight and getting bigger breasts? Surely, those are genes to be envious of. Heh. Its even led to a group of her fans creating feedlindsay.com.

Nicole Rithchie's gotten in on the act as well. Who'se Next aiye?

Smart Ass Answer #5:

A flight attendant was stationed at the departure gate to check tickets. As a man approached, she extended her hand for the ticket, instead he opened his trench coat and flashed her. Without missing a beat, she said, "Sir, I need to see your ticket not your stub."

The cop got out of his car and the kid who was stopped for speedingrolled down his window. "I've been waiting for you all day," the cop said. The kid replied, "Yeah, well I got here as fast as I could." When the cop finally stopped laughing, he sent the kid on his way without a ticket.

A truck driver was driving along on the freeway. A sign comes up that reads, "Low Bridge Ahead." Before he knows it, the bridge is right ahead of him and he gets stuck under the bridge. Cars are backed up for miles. Finally, a police car comes up. The cop gets out of his car and walks up to the truck driver, puts his hands on his hips and says, "Got stuck, huh?" The truck driver says, "No, I was delivering this bridge and ran out of gas."

A college teacher reminds her class of tomorrow's final exam."Now class, I won't tolerate any excuses for you not being here tomorrow. I might consider a nuclear attack or a serious personal injury or illness, or a death in your immediate family, but that's it, no other excuses whatsoever!"A smart ass guy in the back of the room raised his hand and asked,"What would you say if tomorrow I said I was suffering from complete and utter sexual exhaustion?" The entire class is reduced to laughter and snickering. When silence is finally restored, the teacher smiles knowingly at the student, shakes her head and sweetly says "Well, I guess you'd have to write the exam with your other hand.

In 1995 Microsoft released the font, Comic Sans, originally designed for comic book style talk bubbles containing informational help text. Since that time the typeface has been used in countless contexts from restaurant signage to college exams to medical information. These widespread abuses of printed type threaten to erode the very foundations upon which centuries of typographic history are built.

While we recognize the font may be appropriate in very few instances, our position is that the only effective means of ending this epidemic of abuse is to completely ban Comic Sans.

Lets face it, even back home in singapore, throughout every powerpoint presentation that i've sat through in my days at Ngee Ann Poly, the use of Comic Sans is widespread. Clearly, Comic Sans as a voice conveys silliness, childish naivete, irreverence, and is far too casual for such a purpose. It is analogous to showing up for a black tie event in a clown costume.

Join me on the anti comic sans bandwagon. Check out bancomicsans for a detailed analysis of the epidemic's extent.

"Bollywood, India's movie industry, churns out over 800 flicks a year. But with all those numbers it's hard for them to keep up with the creative work. So a lot of movies turn out to be 'inspired by' movies from all over, especially Hollywood. And at the rate they are going with good and hit movies, very soon we'll be seeing a copy of "Plan 9 from Outer Space".
Therefore to keep ourselves, and you people of course, up-to-date with this ever increasing theme, script, scene and music stealing - or borrowing - trend in Bollywood, we have created BollyCat.com. Help us catalog Bollywood's acts of shame!"

If the term Bollywood brings movies like "Monsoon Wedding" to your mind, then you don't really know what Bollywood is. A Bollywood movie is not complete without a love story, some drama, dance, and atleast 5 songs. Doesn't matter if it's categorized as an action movie or a comedy, it has to have those elements to succeed in the Indian market. Now imagine Hollywood hits from every genre (action, suspense, comedy, drama and even sci-fi) being remade with an Indian twist every year and thrown at you at a pace 4 times as that of Hollywood itself. That's Bollywood. And those are BollyCats.

Huge by Indian standards, Bollywood is still in infancy internationally. An average Bollywood movie costs around $2 million to make and the industry's entire worldwide earnings are roughly $100 million dollars (outside of India, of course).

Accordingly, the industry is always under huge stress from within to churn out that "different kind of" movie which would then hopefully win audiences and become a "super-hit". So the directors, screen writers, music composers and even cinematographers do the only thing that they believe would prove successful... a remake of a Hollywood idea.

According to insiders, there are screen-writers who specialize in writing copycat scripts. They watch the latest theater releases on bootleg DVDs and are ready with their own Indianized version in no time.

They call it "inspiration", we call it plain old "stealing the idea". Since no royalties are paid to the original content creators 99.99% of the times, it's not legal either. But since Bollywood is so minuscule on the International scene in terms of earnings, Hollywood simply ignores it. And so the Indian writers and directors are given a freehand to keep doing what they've been doing for decades...

And that's why BollyCat has been created. We hope that the existence of this website would reduce the number of plagiarism cases in Bollywood. But until the day they stop plagiarizing everything, we'll be here, cataloging their acts of shame.

Check out Bollycats

The commentator's reaction is just classic. Heh. Just realized on what i've been missing out on. Im off to catch a cricket game or 2.

I'm not saying all guys know the offside rule inside out especially with Fifa, the worlds governing body always changing it to the game's benefit.

Let me first explain the need for the offside rule.

The offside rule exists to stop goal hanging, where a player(Number 9) stands next to the opposing teams goalkeeper in the hope that someone (Number 11) can get the ball to him (probably using a long ball), so he can get it past the goal keeper. Which would make for a very boring game. (like netball..) Heh. I just had to do that.

Lets now take a look at the rulebook before i illustrate the rules.

Offside Position
It is not an offence in itself to be in an offside position.
A player is in an offside position if: he is nearer to his opponents’ goal line than both the ball and the second last opponent.
A player is not in an offside position if he is in his own half of the field of play or he is level with the second last opponent or he is level with the last two opponents.

Offside - The Offence
A player in an offside position is only penalised if, at the moment the ball touches or is played by one of his team, he is, in the opinion of the referee, involved in active play by: interfering with play or interfering with an opponent or gaining an advantage by being in that position.

OFFSIDE

This is offside because the red number 10 is in front of all of the defenders, leaving only the goalkeeper back which isn't enough players to play him onside. This position may have been forced by the defenders moving forward in what is called the offside trap.

ONSIDE

Here we can see that the blue number 3 defender has failed to move up the field with rest of his defence and played the red number 9 onside. This is a classic example of where the offside trap fails

2 OPPONENTS RULE

The red number 9 isn't beyond the blue 4 defender but is offside because the goal keeper isn't back. This is one of those rare occasions where goal keeper is out of the goal (e.g. last minute of F.A. Cup final on a corner kick) and can't get back in time but if the attacking team play the ball as they normally would it would be offside because the offside rule requires two defenders to be in front the attacker and the goal keeper usually counts as a defender.

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The Offside Rule for Females

Picture this:
You're out shoe shopping and you notice that there's a pair of shoes that would go really well with that dress you've just bought. The trouble is, another chick has spotted the same pair of shoes too and she's between you and the cashier. To make matters worse, your friend's got your purse and she's busy at the back trying on another pair of shoes. The rules of shopping dictate that you can't barge past your opponent, grab the shoes and wait at the front of the queue until your friend throws you some money - that would earn you a retail red card. What you have to do is get your friend to throw you the purse first, then you can barge Past the other girl, grab the shoes and clinch the deal.

Hmm...if that doesnt do it for you chicks, just face it, football's just way too intellectual for you lot.

2 Victories on the trot. And the Devils go marching on. Albeit, unconvincing once again. Least, we've got our scoring touch back. It should have very well ended, 3-0 but for 2 costly defensive lapses. 90 seconds on the clock at Craven Cottage, it looked as tho it was going to be yet another tricky saturday afternoon. Rio Ferdinand, the worlds most expensive defender at 30 million pounds, sure left a lot to be desired for he was guilty for both blunders.

"It was end-to-end action and Fulham played a great part, they were a real handful. But, even so, some of our football was scintillating in the first half, really terrific" said Fergie during his post match interview.

Forget the goal scorers, the star of the show was clearly our Korean import, Park Ji Sung, who had his best game yet for united having played a huge part in all 3 goals. He won the penalty which Ruud converted with ease after a pulsating burst into the Fulham penalty box before being thwarted off the ball by a reckless Fulham challenge. He set up the second goal with a through ball for Rooney which left him in acres of space only for him to pick his spot which left Crossley with no chance whatsoever. The 3rd final goal was testament to how much of a team player he was as he left Ruud with an open goal before him when most players who have been tempted to go for glory on their own.