News Misunderestimated: *Pictures Behind the Story

Utu

[Disgraced Gilmore sends ‘utu’ texts]

Scumbag Aaron

[Defiant MP refuses to resign]

Prime Minister’s predictions of Wellington proven astonishingly accurate in 3978. (HT @ShakingStick)

[Prime minister side-steps ‘dying’ comment]

[Gates wants geeks to build a better condom]

Bill Gates is looking to fund the development of a new generation of condom.  The Microsoft-related puns are endless…

“Start up in Safe Mode” 

“Log off” , “Restart”, “Switch User” or “Sleep”?

Plug and play?

PaperClip – “I see you’re trying to….”

“Sharing permissions”?

Solitaire installed?

McAfee preinstalled or do I need my own antivirus?

Will there be a blue screen of death?

Will downloading a security patch still fix bugs?

CTRL-ALT-DEL isn’t going to fix anything

Lets hope there’s no recycle bin.

<insert any joke about hardware errors>

“You must restart to complete the installation process”

“System Recovery”?

“Network Discovery”?

“Disk cleanup”

Remove spyware?

Add gadgets?

“…has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience. If you were in the middle of something, the information you were working on might be lost.

Please tell Microsoft about this problem”

and finally…

“The application is not responding.  The program may respond again if you wait.

Do you want to end this process?”

A spokesperson for Apple says the running temperature of the new iPad takes home heating “to another whole new level” - and have rebranded the device, “iREplace”.

[Complaints over hotter-running iPad]

“Well, this has worked before!” thought the Queen… as the ball invitations went out to all the maidens of the land.

[Prince Harry looking for love]

Mattel suspect calls for a bald Barbie doll may be coming from girls who did not have brothers.

[Bald Barbie for cancer kids urged]

Rather than the elusive “God Particle”, it turned out the over-excited scientists actually discovered a sign from the big guy himself.

[Excited scientists find ‘signs’ of elusive God particle]

As news of another boxing match with Michael Laws filters through the community, a long queue of would-be opponents including elderly ladies and small children, forms outside the Whanganui YMCA.

[Laws-Mair rematch on cards]

Labour’s caucus gathers to consider the election results.

[Labour’s caucus gathers for Goff decision]