£27m scheme to give free books to all under-fives

Every child up to the age of four is to get a free bag of books under a £27m government scheme designed to promote reading.Well-known children's favourites will be distributed alongside less familiar titles in an attempt to develop a lifelong passion for reading among the country's children. The scheme will be run through the charity Booktrust.

Team Working on Birth Control for Men

Only 27 percent of women who practice contraception rely on their partners to use condoms or have vasectomies, according to data from the Alan Guttmacher Institute.

27 months in jail...

From talk arena. I think 27 might be a little much...but I am not a parent I suppose.

"Via The Agitator, a Virginia couple was sentenced to 27 months in jail for hosting a party for 16 year-olds and providing alcohol. They did it, they say, to protect the kids, which they did by gathering car keys at the door."

Another 27th birthday

Reported by Eden...

Diablo (at the Pussyranch) wrote a long post about turning 27.

Garfield!!!

From

Dispensing Happiness.

It's up! EoMEoTE #7!!

Hooray! The End of Month Egg on Toast Extravaganza round-up is now up at Cook Sister!; with 27 entrants! Please check it out...

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This one's for Jen!

This CD by Mike Doughty (of Soul Coughing) includes a song entitled 27 Jennifers.

Philip Roth is in the know...

I am only on page 15 of The Plot Against America by Philip Roth


And there has already been 3 references to the great number. Perhaps it is historically accurate too, I am not going to look it up, but wow. THREE 27's?

Page 3- Route 27
Page 5- A day in the Spring of 1927
Page 14- Thursday June 27th.

I am a bit freaked out! :)

The blog post that goes like this...

Monty Python's Spamalot," a loose - and loony - adaptation of the 1975 film "Monty Python and the Holy Grail," won the top prize at last night's Tony Awards, adding a Tony for best musical to a résumé that already includes a $27 million advance, international press coverage and more knights in tights than any other show on Broadway.

Art

Carl Buchheister (German, 1890–1964.)
Composition Number 27. (1927)

From the Opinion Journal :)

Watching the Watchers
Australian blogger Tim Blair calls our attention to an amusing kerfuffle Down Under that involves this Web site. It began when Janet Albrechtsen, a columnist for the Australian newspaper, gave a plug to the work of Arthur Chrenkoff:

Good news [about Iraq] is not hard to come by. But when something positive does happen, it either gets filtered through the anti-war eyes of the media or is all but ignored. And that is what the terrorists are counting on. They must detest The Wall Street Journal. Each fortnight the paper's website (www.wsj.com) includes a round-up of good news from Iraq. It makes for refreshing reading, if only to even up the Iraq ledger.

Last week came the latest instalment, all 27 pages of it.

27 pages of good news, from the prestigious Wall Street Journal? We wanted to know more . . . but couldn't find it on their web site.

The Buffalo/WNY sitering grew to 27 members today!

Ah. 27 :) So happy.

Boozie had a random 27 a few days ago...Thanks to Eden for alerting me to this:

Somehow, I ended up drinking about 27 pitchers of bowling alley beer. You know that shit is overcarbonated, right? I STILL have a headache from it. Also? when we came home from the bowling alley? after drinking 27 pitchers of beer? I drank one more.

Hee!

From...

Hypocrite in a Pouffy White Dress: Tales of Growing Up Groovy and Clueless
Susan Jane Gilman



"What I did not expect to see was 27 hippies cramming themselves into a pink and purple VW bug."

I want my TWO DOLLARS!

In the movie Better off Dead with John Cusack, Lane (Cusack) is chased by a crazy paperboy who follows him everywhere asking for the two dollars the family owes him. He rides a bike, and the bike has a number 27 on it.

YOU SAY TOMATO

From the New Yorker...

STATES’ RITES

YOU SAY TOMATO

Issue of 2005-03-21

Red Mascara doesn’t much care whether the tomato is a fruit or a vegetable, and if he were a less patient man he might have become bitter over the expedited treatment that the tomato seems to be receiving in the statehouse. For forty-four years, Mascara, who is eighty-two, and whose birth name is Joseph Mascari, has been lobbying for the recognition of an official Garden State song; New Jersey is the only state that doesn’t have one. Specifically, Mascara is campaigning on behalf of his own composition, “I’m from New Jersey,” which he wrote in 1960 and then recorded in twenty-seven different versions—symphonic, marching band, keyboard. Every legislative session, without fail, Mascara appears in Trenton to plead his case, passing out gumdrops around the statehouse—to no avail.

Bankruptcy terms toughen

The first big change in bankruptcy rules in 27 years is past its main snags in Congress.

~Only 27 Spots Left!~

~Only 27 Spots Left!~
The Spring 24-Hour Short Story contest is almost full!. You
can sign up for the Spring contest at the link below below.
Participation limited to 500 entrants, so don't delay! You
can see a list of prizes and sign up here:
http://www.writersweekly.com/misc/contest.html

Found on MONSTER.com :)

27 People Needed~Work At Home.

BUGS BUNNY IN THE 2772!

Even Bugs is in the know!!!

The WB network will take the famed Looney Tunes characters as models for a new children’s series, “Loonatics,” that will air on Saturday mornings starting this fall. The characters’ descendants — Buzz Bunny and the like — will be superhero action figures for the cartoon set in the year 2772.