StrangeSights

• Say that line again? UK website LOVEFiLM.com has surveyed 1,500 movie fans to find out what are the most commonly misquoted lines in films. The winner - “Luke, I am your father” (should be “No, I am your father”) - is said by Darth Vader in the second of the Star Wars trilogy, The Empire Strikes Back. Second place went to that famous quote from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs - “Mirror, mirror on the wall, who is the fairest of them all?” (actually, “Magic mirror, on the wall) - and third to Clint Eastward’s alter-ego, Harry Callahan, in Dirty Harry - “Do you feel lucky punk?” (actually “You’ve got to ask yourself one question: ‘Do I feel lucky?’ Well, do ya punk?”).

• Meanwhile a survey of CVs has found that 94 per cent of job seekers in the UK are risking missing out on jobs due to errors such as spelling and grammatical mistakes and poor presentation. Among the clangers unearthed by career advisors Personal Career Management was a CV missing an obvious comma - “My interests include cooking dogs and interesting people”, another missing a word - “I was responsible for dissatisfied customers”, and another with an example of terrible typing - “I am a prooficient typist”.

• Being a Vulcan is hard work. Makers of the new Star Trek film apparently ran into a hiccup when it was discovered the Mr Spock - played by Zachary Quinto - couldn’t put his fingers together to perform the Vulcan salute. Their solution? To glue his fingers together.

• A New Zealand woman has sold a piece of fruit shaped like a kiwi for NZ$1000 on an online auction site. The woman reportedly found the unusually shaped feijoa fruit (which really does look like a kiwi in profile!) under a tree on Anzac Day and subsequently listed it on auction site, TradeMe. A Christchurch-based mortgage broker, Mike Pero, bought it on the condition half of the money raised be donated to charity. He plans to preserve the fruit.

• Still on odd-shaped things, a Beirut developer has unveiled plans to build an artificial island off the coast of Lebanon in the shape of a cedar tree. The proposed 3.3 square kilometre island would have luxury homes and an entire community located on it. It’s not the first time islands have been built in the shape of other things - in Dubai three artificial islands are being constructed in the shape of palm trees and, in another project by the same developer, a series of islands is being built to look like a map of the world.

• Want to look your best at the beach but still keen to indulge in some snorkling? Do we have the shoes for you! A Belgian artist has reportedly come up with a design that combines flippers with high heels. Sadly, while the design has caused much talk since it was mooted in 2006, there don’t appear to be any plans to develop the ‘High Tide Heels’ commercially.