With Popeye it was spinach while Samson relied on his long hair. Now Lady Thatcher’s secret ingredient for power has been revealed – 28 eggs a week.
The Iron Lady went on a crash diet ahead of her 1979 election win packed with protein, according to thousands of newly released personal papers.
The programme promised to help the future Prime Minister shed 20lb in two weeks but included a caveat allowing whisky – but only with meat.
A yellowing note outlining the strict regime was found tucked inside her 1979 black leather Economist pocket diary.
The Margaret Thatcher Foundation (MTF) has released thousands of papers covering the period between May and December 1979 to Cambridge University.
It was thought she had wanted to get “in trim” for the historic campaign, the first of her three election wins.
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Lady Thatcher’s Eggs-traordinary Secret Diet
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Motivational Speaker asks passerby to kill him.I
So called Motivational Speakers need counseling.They choose their vocation because of the monetary rewards with out even knowing how to run their own life and worse still people believe them. The victim should have paid a visit to a psychiatrist.
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It was too crazy to be true — a motivational speaker from Long Island, bent on suicide, drives to East Harlem, announces, “I want to do a Kevorkian,” and is stabbed to death in his car by a helpful passer-by.But in a stunning turnaround, prosecutors now think the admitted stabber’s wacky explanation for the July 16 death of tragic Jeffrey Locker may actually be what happened.
The account is substantiated by Locker’s huge debts and recent life-insurance purchases and computer searches for funeral arrangements, Manhattan prosecutors said in a dramatic filing made public yesterday.
Marcus Santos, Steven hirschBIZARRE: Prosecutors say Kenneth Minor (left, in court yesterday) killed Jeffrey Locker (below) at Locker’s request shortly after the victim bought condoms at a Harlem deli (top).
Marcus Santos, Steven hirsch
BIZARRE: Prosecutors say Kenneth Minor (left, in court yesterday) killed Jeffrey Locker (below) at Locker’s request shortly after the victim bought condoms at a Harlem deli (top).“It makes sense now,” said one law-enforcement source, speaking on condition he not be named.
“[Locker] was deeply in debt. The guy had bought like $18 million worth of life insurance. He was researching Jewish funerals and cemeteries.”
Still, ex-con and admitted stabber Kenneth Minor remains on the hook, facing at least a charge of manslaughter if not outright murder.
“Regardless of whether it’s true or not,” notes the source, “You don’t get to kill someone just because they want you to.”
The shocking development was revealed yesterday when Minor, 36, was brought in cuffs to court on a routine appearance.
He remains, for now, accused of brutally stabbing and robbing Locker as the Valley Stream, LI., dad of three sat in his 2007 Dodge sedan at First and Paladino avenues on a Wednesday night, shortly after stopping at a deli to buy condoms. Minor insists Locker gave him his ATM card in payment for the suicide assistance.
Yesterday, his lawyer, Daniel Gotlin, told Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Carol Berkman that he wants the top charge — first-degree murder, carrying a maximum of life without parole — dropped. He also asked that a second grand jury be impaneled to vote a lesser charge of manslaughter, which carries a maximum of up to 15 years.
The revelations shook loose some previously sealed court documents — including the gripping police notes from Minor’s confession.
“I tried to choke him with the wire, but it was old and kept breaking,” Minor told cops. “He told me to use the knife. He said to hold it against the steering wheel with the blade facing him. I did that, and he leaned forward into the knife three to four times while I held it . . . He then told me to move the knife over to the other side where his heart is.
“I moved the knife over and he leaned forward into it a couple of more times. At that point, he was alive and breathing heavily. I got out of the car and threw the knife.”
Locker had no luck with money — telling Minor that he’d lost $400,000 in a “Ponzi scheme” and had even been swindled by the first “Kevorkian” he tried to hire.
“He told me that he had no cash on him because he paid a guy on the West Side to kill him, but the guy beat him.”
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Priest checks fingerprints for mass attendance
Obsessive Religious Syndrome!
WARSAW (Reuters) – A Polish priest has installed an electronic reader in his church for schoolchildren to leave their fingerprints in order to monitor their attendance at mass, the Gazeta Wyborcza daily said on Friday.The pupils will mark their fingerprints every time they go to church over three years and if they attend 200 masses they will be freed from the obligation of having to pass an exam prior to their confirmation, the paper said.
The pupils in the southern town of Gryfow Slaski told the daily they liked the idea and also the priest, Grzegorz Sowa, who invented it.
“This is comfortable. We don’t have to stand in a line to get the priest’s signature (confirming our presence at the mass) in our confirmation notebooks,” said one pupil, who gave her name as Karolina.
Poland is perhaps the most devoutly Roman Catholic country in Europe today and churches are regularly packed on Sundays.
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Billboard porn film stops traffic
MOSCOW (Reuters) – An enormous television screen showing a pornographic film caused a midnight traffic jam in central Moscow Thursday as stunned motorists slammed on the brakes to gawk at the writhing naked bodies.
The owner of the advertising screen, which sits atop a main road about two km (1.2 miles) south of the Kremlin, told the state-run RIA news agency that hackers had broken into the screen’s computer system and turned on the porn.
“They were either acting out of hooliganism or were from a rival company,” Viktor Laptev, commercial director of advertising firm Panno.ru, told RIA.
A short clip showing cars slowing to a halt to look at the screen sprung up on youtube.com and internet sites Friday across Russia, a country which banned nudity on television before the Soviet Union fell in 1991.
Authorities said they are investigating, RIA added
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Rumours of death of Scotland’s Loch Ness monster dismissed
RUMOURS Scotland’s fabled Loch Ness monster is dead have been dismissed by Nessie fans.
Suspicions that the monster, said to have lurked in the deep waters of Loch Ness in the Scottish Highlands, was extinct were raised as credible sightings last year waned to just one.
Gary Campbell, president of the Official Loch Ness Monster Fan Club, told the UK’s Daily Telegraph newspaper that the single sighting, made just off the Clansman Hotel by Loch Ness, Scotland on June 6, 2009, was judged by him to have been a credible report.
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