Ever sent a tweet you wished you could take back? Of course you can always delete, but the Internet never forgets.
This week, a Victorian Labor MP tweeted something quite obscure to most eyes (it was about the state's police chief scandal), but managed to enrage the Speaker of the House.
He was given the boot, and became the subject of this blog about tweeting pollies, Malcolm Turnbull's leather jacket and Lord of the Rings, which clicked its way into the top spot on the list of this week's most popular stories.
In other bizarre news, a nine-year-old who has a knack for painting - not finger painting, mind you, but painting like none other than Monet - bought his family a house with the proceeds of the sale of his masterpieces - and clicked into second place.
Staying on art, a cleaning lady at a museum in Germany mistook a sculpture for a mess and - well, cleaned it up/thoroughly destroyed it. Given that said artwork was titled 'When It Starts Dripping From the Ceiling' begs the question - can she really be blamed?
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Perennial favourite, so perennial it has now become perennial to refer to it as such, our 'Carbon taxes around the world' factbox came in next, as did the government's controversial legislation on same.
And with their interest in all things 'around the world' piqued, our readers then pounced on this gallery of news pictures from the week that was.
Those old foes, Israel and Iran were at it again in sixth spot, with President Shimon Peres saying it was 'likely' his country would attack Ahmadinejad's. Shortly after, the UN said it was also likely Tehran had been building nuclear weapons, leaving much of the Middle East and surrounds wondering how that may affect them.
But over in Australia, we had other fish to fry, and other things' effects on us to ponder, namely the carbon tax (yes - there it is again!) on our message board.
When you think of whale stories on SBS, you probably think of people eating them in countries whose 'scientific research' has an apparently insatiable appetite for the gentle cetaceans. Not so in the yarn that took eighth place, in which a surfer was nearly swallowed by them. We know it was by accident - as she would easily be 10,000 times the size of their habitual prey, so we hold no grudge.
From marine mammals to earthly mammaries - as ninth spot went to a woman who rushed into the Vatican and stripped off, protesting the Catholic Church's record on women's rights.
And finally, confused and disorientated by the barrage of economic doom-and-gloom claiming political scalps on the Continent (the other one, not ours), enough readers clicked on Factbox: Who has the biggest debt in Europe? to push it into the top ten.
That's all folks - all in all an unusually death-and-destruction-free top 10. May there be more like it!
