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Thinking outside the bouquet: how to use a tulip as a fire extinguisher [VIDEO]
Don’t want to have one of those boring, cylindrical extinguishers in your kitchen in case of a fat fire? Well, someone extremely creative had a genius idea. Disguise it as an artificial tulip fridge magnet. Creative, ingenious, and well, very kitsch. Dare I say it? This might be the perfect Mother’s Day gift.
Bro humour… for a good cause
Some years ago, the Anthill office was all-a-chuckles when a seagull offered a beached whale a ‘chup’ (the whale was ‘beached as’). More recently, Brett, Germaine and the lads from Flight of the Concords had us rhyming like hip-hop-opotamuses. It was, therefore, with great pleasure that the Anthill ‘massive’ alerted us to this clip ‘en masse’. (If you’re not already reading this with a New Zeland accent, we’re not doing our job right, bro.)
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