If the title of this post doesn’t whet your trivia appetite, then odds-on Mental Floss is not your kinda magazine. Where else on the newsstand can you nibble articles about The World’s Laziest Inventions, The History of Hacky Sack, and How Pirates Shaped American Democracy?
And that’s just the March/April edition. Online you can test your [...]
So anyhow, we’re driving down the Geelong freeway this week, my body still battered from playing two days of touch rugby on Corio Bay, when the mobile starts blipping.
Just to explain, the rugby was part of the Australian Masters, a mock-Olympics for onshore tragics over 40 years old. As a diehard rugby nut, slow to [...]
Mumbai gigolo on the road waiting for their customer
Jeez that phrase went close to making the Gold-Class Googlers for 2007/2008. However, after close consultation with the snickometer, the umpire has plumped for this lot. Howzem?
The Ten Weirdest Key-Words To Lead To This Blog
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A random sample of some single keywords that have unlocked this blog over the last calendar year. Yet none cuts the mustard compared to the following bunch of esoterica, each inquiry bringing you browsers this way.
As you can see, the last post was the Bronze Googlers, while today is the odder set of search terms. [...]
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Just a taste of the keywords that you crazy surfers have used to chance by Cassowary Crossing over the last year. Yet none qualifies among the 30 strangest.
As you’ll see.
Today’s Bronze Google Medals are devoted to the less-than-common search terms used over the last 12 months. In coming posts I’ll be [...]
A spot of housekeeping before this week’s posts roll out.
My ten-minute play, The Mercy Kitchen is due to run on December 20 at The Arts Centre in Melbourne, a matinee show featuring the weird, the wild and the occasionally subtle Short & Sweet Wildcard winners. Come support the fest, and let your voice be heard [...]
A muddle of a week, hence the delayed post. So what’s my defence? Well, Your Honour, I have ten in total, and none is too persuasive:
1) Preparing for the Melbourne Writers Festival. I’m part of the Whole Shebang at Federation Square tomorrow. Check here for a few more clues. http://www.mwf.com.au/2008/content/mwf_2008_home.asp?
2) Preparing for the Melbourne Writers [...]
Three months of evidence, 105 witnesses and over a million dollars of taxpayer kitty went into a Sydney drug trial – only to be aborted due to a puzzle.
Not a crossword in this case, but a rampant sudoku fetish among the twelve honest men and women. Every morning, a sort of test-within-a-test, a jury member [...]
Here’s a teaser extract from the fine spoof-meisters at The Onion. To read more of this literal larceny, and many other exquisite piss-takes, click on the link below this post:
‘Wheel Of Fortune’ Contestants Hit Hard As Vowel Prices Skyrocket’
LOS ANGELES””Contestants on the television game show Wheel Of Fortune have been hit especially hard at the [...]
All morning the radio bulletins blared warnings about the westerlies due to strike the state. Gales, they say, topping 100 clicks per hour were coming. Fasten your wheelie bins. Batten your pets. Lock up the patio furniture.
And the radio was right. Zephyrs turned to gusts turned to gales. Whole branches blew across the Monash. Yachts [...]