October 2007
Dull Leaders
FIVE things the nation would rather do than watch another Howard v Rudd leaders’ debate.
1. Holiday in Baghdad. 2. Endure 24 hours of childbirth. 3. Paint the house. 4. Get a pap smear or prostate examination. 5. Have root-canal surgery.
How did we get stuck with two such boring, nerdy, wordy, all-bran, plain-yoghurt leaders? We’re not a conservative or timid nation. We like to rant...
The Bus
I should remember that no matter how slow the traffic, or how annoying the seatmate, things could always be worse. My driver could decide to stab me. “8, 2007 - A bus driver is in police custody in New Jersey, accused of stabbing a passenger. Police say the driver got into a fight with the passenger around 8:45 Monday night at a stop along Bloomfield Avenue. The passenger allegedly spat in...
Australia's Wonderful Filter
“When I found that the tens of thousands of t-shirt and coffee mug shops at http://www.cafepress.com/ were unavailable because of a blanket ban for drug references I started to giggle hysterically.” “My daughter suggested that someone must have been selling t-shirts with pictures of marijuana leaves on them. Something which I thought had gone out of fashion at about the time the...
Alex: ...
Trent: You're the male version of Daria
Alex: And?
“Thank God im an Atheist!”
– Luis Bunuel