You couldn't make it up dept. no.42: is this the dumbest reason to go to jail ever?

On the beach of Trappeto, near Palermo, Sicily, a man of 45 was arrested for having sex in public, not caring that the beach was full of children. His partner was a blow-up doll.

A Flint?

Although the fight scene between Dobby and Kreacher (ch.19 HBP) is very funny indeed, can anyone tell me what two house-elves are doing fist fighting when they (Dobby, at least) have magical powers strong enough to lay Lucius Malfoy flat on his back?

You couldn't make it up dept. no.43: World's greatest player on... you'll never believe it...

As a rule, this series features funny, improbable and sometimes stupid things. This is different. To begin with, I regard the Beatles' While My Guitar Gently Weeps as musically the greatest piece of pop music ever written. The lyrics are nothing short of stupid - hippiedom at its worst - but they hardly matter: melody, harmony, counterpoint - there is hardly one classical composer who would not have killed for music as stunning as this.

On the other hand, I have been known to make ukulele jokes. Who hasn't? But there is a man in the US state of Hawaii, by name Jake Shimabukuro, who can give not just a creditable, but a simply stunning account of this masterpiece on the ukulele. And if you don't believe me, here's the link. http://youtube.com/watch?v=-J30S6hkiyU&search=ukelele

Well, in front of such musicianship I just fall silent and salute. Jake Shimabukuro is said to be the greatest ukulele player of all time, and I can well believe it. But one still has to wonder - if you are good enough to do that on the ukulele, why play the ukulele at all? Ah, well, lie back and enjoy.