鈥淭he vapour produces an instant 鈥榟igh鈥� with no hangover the next day.鈥�
Inventor Dominic Simler describing his Alcohol Without Liquid (AWOL) device that delivers a hit of alcohol vapour and oxygen (Ananova, 24 November)
鈥淚 am going to cut into the left side of your brain using a power drill and an ice pick.鈥�
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Charles Booher, allegedly in an email to an internet marketing company.
Booher was arrested for threatening employees of the company that he says spammed his computer with web ads promising to enlarge his penis (San Jose Mercury News, 22 November)
鈥淣ow we can go back to looking forward to opening our inboxes because we鈥檒l have notes from our friends rather than herbal supplements and mortgage offers.鈥�
Congress representative Heather Wilson on the first federal US legislation to outlaw spam (The New York Times, 24 November)
鈥淲hat we鈥檇 like to do is develop MDMA into a prescription medicine.鈥�
Rick Doblin, head of the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies, on plans to run a clinical trial on ecstasy as a therapy for post-traumatic stress disorder (The Guardian, London, 24 November)
鈥淭hings were good before I took some of Ayers Rock home, but since then my wife has had a stroke and things have worked out terribly for my children.鈥�
An anonymous letter, containing a small chunk of red rock, sent to staff at Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park.
Thousands of so-called sorry rocks have been returned in recent years (The Australian, 24 November)