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IN THE NEWS
Take a stroll with us through the little sideroads of haulage, the diversions and detours, the quirky, the quixotic and the downright strange...
Our lemale readers will know that men have a strange affection for sports cars, but it now seems that there's a genuine medical reason. It appears that Ford and Mercedes-Benz are behind research which involves hooking male brains up to a magnetic resonance imaging scanner before showing the subjects pictures of various objects of desire. The result? Not only did pictures of sports cars create more brain activity than saloon cars, but they apparently excited the same areas of the brain stimulated by sex, chocolate and cocaine, Funnily enough the same tests on CM 's roadtest team provoked no activity until pictures of Gardner 180 engines and Weston's scrumpy were introduced. Moving swiftly on, it's every mans other favourite combination of topics: pies and football. In fact, better than that balti pies and football. Pictured here is a new Daf belonging to Shire Foods of Warwick; the wonderful people who bring succour to millions of footbali fans each weekend by delivering pies, pasties and sausage rolls, the holy trinity of half-time snacks, to 40 grounds around the country.
It doesn't make mention of which teams it delivers to but we're assuming it's not Leeds United (subsisting on their current diet of bread, water and the occasional bowl of gruel) or Manchester United, where, as we all know, it's all prawn sandwiches and sparkling Shiraz these days...
Here at On the Margin we'd be the first to admit that we can be a bit shaky with our photography sometimes. That said at least we don't inflict our efforts on other people, unlike certain folk out there. Accompanying one recent press release was this grainy, pixilated picture that looks as though it's either been taken with a smear of Vaseline (possibly bacon fat) over the lens in order to achieve that artistic `smudged' effect, or had perhaps just been taken through a special filter which makes it look like it was taken on a camera recently submerged in beer. Regardless, the question remains: why on earth send us this piece of nonsense? I think we should be told...