It's a nice sunny day... you are out walking in the park... You see an attractive woman sunbathing with her top off...

One of the newer examples includes: Fonzie: A middle grade doctor who is unflappable. (From the Happy Days character, but with a more recent reference to the final scene in Pulp Fiction in the cafe when Jules (Samuel L. Jackson) tells Yolanda to be cool "We’re gonna be like three little Fonzies here.")

USA: Police arrived at a domestic incident in Dunbar, near Charleston, West Virginia, to find a man sitting near his front door - a woman was trying to slap him.

The story we saw, reportedly from the Southland Times, claims that a woman asked a younger relative "What's that smell?"

England: A social club in Devon have written to one of their members (who we will not name*) after it was claimed that he repeatedly upset other members with his flatulence problem...

England: It's a story straight off the set of Desperate Housewives... A woman, who we won't name, reportedly broke into Stanford Hill open prison in Kent, England, Sunday morning.

The numbers of naked sleepwalkers has increased 7 fold in the last year at Travelodge, according to reports we have seen on the internet.

Given the choice, after you have stolen from a local store, would you rather go to jail for 30 or 60 days, or parade outside the store with a sign saying 'I stole from a local store" for two hours?

A booking mix up has been blamed for a stripper entering a High School classroom and doing a strip, down to her undies, for a schoolboy while his class mates and teacher looked on...

Sioux Gateway Airport's identifier is SUX (presumably the person or committee who gave it to them in the first place didn't like them very much).

We have just seen a report on www.news.com.au that the only clothing store in Inglewood, New Zealand, has run out of knickers.

There's been a punch-up in an Italian convent after the three nuns there fell out, according to reports we have just seen on the BBC web site.

According to reports, New York state resident Joy Horton, 73, bent over to pick up a spoon the other day.

There once was a little girl called Margret who got a pencil stuck in her head. (This is not a funny funny real news story, this is a funny peculiar news story.)

The results of the annual Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest have been announced and they're not pleasant! The contest invites writers to submit the worst possible first line of what we assume is an imaginary novel.

United States, Houston: You have, a couple of years ago, lived through the trauma of a guy shooting you in the head.

British tabloid The Sun is reporting that Eric Estrada only got his motorcycle license recently when he was preparing to take part in a reality television show.

Imagine it... You get a free scratch card from your local garage, the top prize is $1000.

A boy from Norfolk, England, received a parcel from an Ebayer with $88,000 in it after he paid $190 (£95) for a Playstation 2.

It has to be one of the biggest movie publicity stunts ever attempted...

A 72 year-old golfer has apparently got an unconventional hole-in-one.

We are always wary of putting up the really really funny stories from Eastern Europe because, quite frankly, we don't believe a lot of them. Not to say we actually believe this one, but it really made us laugh out loud...

According to a report we have seen on Ananova, the police in south of England seaside favorite Brighton are to increase their number of patrols when there is a full moon over the coming summer months.

Apparently, according to the web site, a judge in Montana gave his summing up using just Beatles song titles.

According to reports we have seen on Ananova, originally from the Sun, a manager has been fired after only 10 minutes in the job.

James Doohan, who played the original Star Trek Chief Engineer Montgomery "Scotty" Scott, died in 2005.

At last, Meg Ryan's classic loud orgasm scene from 'When Harry Met Sally', but this time for real... No acting necessary...

Here is another one of those stories from Eastern Europe out there on the internet (thank you Ananova), it made us smile...

The UK never had an equivalent of the Payola scandal they had in the USA in the 1950's, but it's going through one now, and if people weren't being ripped off out of millions of pounds it would be hilarious... Try answering these questions... [here]

An oil portrait of what is claimed by her descendants to be a portrait of Jane Austen went up for auction in New York. However, experts in the National Portrait Gallery in London said that the painting is not her at all and that their sketch of her is the only actual picture of her that there is...

Website cdc.gov have published some statistics which a number of news outlets have picked up on. The websites we saw all concentrated on the fact that the number of nail gun injuries by customers has trebled since 1991, to 14,800.

With April Fool's Day falling on a Sunday this year, it seems that nobody was safe...

900 musicians performed in a marathon concert lasting 184 hours, showcasing songs from the Beatles to harp music, in what is being described as a small railway station in Hikone city, western Japan.

Mr Tumble, a kids TV presenter on the BBC's Something Special, greets deaf pre-school children by rubbing the palms of his hands together between his thumb and index finger. He's even smiling from ear to ear when he does it.

Fact of the day: apparently 10 people die during British Airway's flights every year...

A woman from Hong Kong somehow managed to slip and then swallow a 15cm toothbrush.

We saw a story on the internet a little while ago in which three 16 year old High School girls in White Plains, New York, had been suspended from school for saying the word vagina during a reading from The Vagina Monologues at a school event.

A 102 year old was accidentally invited to his local nursery school in Belgium, reports ananova.com (quoting the Antwerp Gazette).

According to reports we have seen on a number of web sites today, a sign has gone up along Midland Beach, Staten Island with a classic misspelling...

Maya leaders in the ancient site of Iximche in Guatemala say they will have to cleanse the ground that US president George Bush walks on during his trip, later.

With a number of papers and web sites determined to give you ideas what to get up to this weekend, trust us at theVoiceofReason.com to come up with an idea not to.

We think that there's something funny about how stupid people sound when they are complaining. Take the Prince performance at the Superbowl this year.

The next time you go to a cash machine and see a dog put in the card and take out the cash, remember us for telling you about it...

An Austrian man (who we will not name before his trial) is reported to have stormed into a bank on the main street of Vienna (Bawag Bank) brandishing a gun...

Too lazy to get up off your backside to get another beer? What you need is the new beer launching fridge....

Two students at a school in Brightlingsea, England, have tested positive for drugs, but it was a false reading apparently due to the brand of toothpaste they used.

Loughborough, UK: Imagine the groom's surprise when, after returning from his honeymoon, he finds out that he has legally married his male best friend of 20+ years...

So, the best film of 2006 was The Departed, and Martin Scorsese, at last, gets a Best Director Oscar... congrats to everybody... but what about the movies to avoid?

According to reports we have seen on weatherforddemocrat.com, 1385 residents in Weatherford, Texas, were all the victims of a printer error at the utility company.

Somerset, England: A biker could be charged soon, after police apparently saw a video of him speeding on a 180mph Yamaha R1, that was posted on YouTube.com.

We reported earlier (here) that a Dad who saw Tigger apparently punch his son in the head had reported the incident to the authorities.

Alex Da Rosa has been sacked for appearing completely naked at a press conference.

Apparently, a museum owned by British astrologer Jonathan Cainer is to close it's doors after attendances of only 100 a week were much less than expected.

Two coins that someone somewhere has conveniently released on this Valentine's Day, apparently shows that Cleopatra and Antony didn't look like movie stars. Shock horror.

The woman, a 36 year old dance school teacher, asked the bank for a new book... she normally gets through 2 a year.

Atlantic Theatre in Florida advertised The Vagina Monologues on its roadside display board... a woman driving along with her neice complained.

We have just seen reports in the Los Angeles Times (AP) that a Chewbacca impersonator has been arrested for assault.

The thing is, thinking of the practicalities here, you are in the middle of a house burglary, the house is empty apart from an annoying yappy type dog... What do you do?

The annual nude Olympics was canceled two weeks earlier on Maslin Beach, Adelaide, when the weather was too stormy...

To show our solidarity with our feathered friends around the world in these bird flu H5N1 times, here's a tale to warm the cockles of your hearts.

Fact of the week: Iguana's have two penis's.

Web site consumerist.com has thought up a list of ten ways to really get one up on shops, and therefore save you a load of money.

You may have read our story earlier in the month about a duck who survived being shot, and then stored in a fridge for two days ...

According to a story in Sol, a Portuguese newspaper, the report of which we saw on Ananova, a 42 year-old man has left his entire fortune to 70 strangers.

According to a report that appeared in The Sun recently, a wife has made one of the funniest and yet heart-in-the-right-place blunders we have heard for a long time...

The drink in question is called Kwispelbier (Kwispel means 'wagging a tail' in Dutch) and is made from beef extract and malt.

A new survey of American drivers, from Nationwide Mutual Insurance, an American Insurance company, shows up some concerning driving habits.

Beijing, China: Pan Aiying, a teacher in the province of Shandong, was cycling home after work when her bag, with yuan to the value of $630 in it, was stolen by a guy on a motorcycle, according to a report in the Qilu Evening News.

A hunter in Florida shot a duck in the wing and leg and believed the duck was dead.

A 46 year-old man in Bremen, Germany, says that his SatNav system directed him onto a tram line, where he got his Audi stuck.

It allegedly happened in Disney World, Florida. Tigger is said to have punched a 14 year old, as reported in the Orlando Sentinel.

A 36 year-old woman (we won't name her to save her any more embarrassment) was admitted to a hospital in Yeovil in the UK with a severe migraine, according to a report we have seen on Ananova, reporting a story that appeared in The Sun.

Well, we assume the men don't want man breasts, so it must be for their women...

We don't intend doing this every day, but we have just seen that the record for riding a stationary bicycle has been broken.

According to a report we have seen on Ananova, a 27 year old woman in Austria thought it would be funny to say "I don't" at her wedding ceremony to the crucial question.

It happened on New Years Day, 2007. The actor in question was "Days Of Their Lives" star Drake Hogestyn, who plays John Black...

Five of the best silly lawsuits from the web site mlaw.org...

The winner and runners up in the annual mlaw.org silly warning of the year contest...

We have just come across a story on sunherald.com (AP) in which a plucky pensioner, said to be in his 80's, repelled a burglar by thwacking him around the head with what is being described as a 'long shoehorn'.

According to a report we have just seen on the internet, the Oxford English Dictionary is asking the British public to help them find examples of the first usage of around 40 naughty English terms including 'Tosser', 'Prat', 'Wassock' and 'Wally'.

For full details see the website here. Remember that the Darwin Awards are given to people who aid the gene pool of the human race by killing themselves doing stupid things...

It is claimed that in the UK up to 25% of all calls to 999, the emergency services number, are hoax calls... Here we have the funniest hoax calls we have seen in the last year...

According to the Burlington Liar's Club, allegedly set up in 1929, this was the biggest lie of the year:

"There are three kinds of people in the world; those who are good at math, and those who are not"