November 2011
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So I haven't posted in a while.
OK a long while. But as I always say…“Better late than pregnant.”
So I haven't posted in a while.
OK a long while. But as I always say… “Better late than pregnant.”
April 2010
1 post
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“I never comment on referees and I’m not going to break the habit of a...”
– Ewan McKenzie - Former Wallaby great and coach of the QR Queensland Reds
March 2010
10 posts
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Happy St Patrick's Day!
St Patrick’s Day is the one day of the year on which those who lay rightful claim to Irish ancestry celebrate and those who do not lie about it.
So for all you Irishmen and women out there a blessing…
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May the Irish hills caress you. May her lakes and rivers bless you. May the luck of the Irish enfold you. May the blessings of Saint Patrick behold you. May there always be work for...
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gig review...Kevin Bloody Wilson
A couple of mates and I went and saw Kevin Bloody Wilson at the Wynnum-Manly Leagues Club on 14 March 2010. KBW played to a packed house with his daughter ‘Jenni Talia from Australia’ warming up the audience as the support act.
He trotted out his classics ‘do you f*%k on first dates?’, ‘Hey Santa Clause (you c*%t)’ and the time honoured ‘Nigel - f*%king...
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“Smoking kills. If you’re killed, you’ve lost a very important part...”
– Brooke Shields
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ever wondered...
…why it is that you hear about people being disgruntled but you don’t hear of anyone ever being gruntled?
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ever wondered...
…what things were ‘the best thing since’ before sliced bread was invented.
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you might be Taliban if...
…you wipe your arse with your bare hand but consider bacon to be unclean.
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“We’re the only form of life on this planet that needs religion, that will...”
– Keith Richards
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you might be Taliban if...
…you have more wives than teeth.
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ever wondered...
…why you only ever hear of people being ‘fucked stupid’. Why is it that you never hear of people being ‘fucked smart’?
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website of the week: the official God FAQ →
The Official archive of FAQ relevant to God.
A seminal resource for all would be theologists.
February 2010
15 posts
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“Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able?
Then he is not omnipotent.
Is he...”
– Epicurus
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you might be Taliban if...
…you cultivate poppies, harvest, process and export heroin for sale but have a moral objection to the consumption alcohol
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ever wondered...
…why ‘dyslexia’ is such a hard word to spell?
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$1,000,000 for 23 minutes work.
Even though John Cleese’s character was killed off in “Shrek 3,” the actor’s voice was needed for a dream sequence in “Shrek 4.” He rattled off his lines for 23 minutes, took a paycheck for $1 million, and split. You know things are good when you can pull down seven digits in less time than it took you to find a parking space (and without even having to...
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ever wondered...
…why ‘abbreviation’ is such a long word?
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“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I’m not...”
– Albert Einstein
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at the movies... Up in the Air
Up in the Air bills itself as a comedy. That is misleading. Whilst the movie has many funny moments and wonderfully crafted and witty dialogue there are no belly-laughs here. Up in the Air is a study of the disconnection we suffer from echother.
Clooney’s portrayal of Ryan Bingham the corporate downsizing consultant and master ‘termination engineer’ is brilliant.
Whilst Clooney rightly has...
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ever wondered...
…why ‘mnemonic’ is such a hard word to remember?
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website of the week: ZGeek →
Self-proclaimed geeks recycling news and things of interest to the ‘geek’ community.
Includes the highly ranked ‘Relationship Forum’ and the much maligned $42.5 million dollar defamation suit.
Go for the laughs; stay for the abuse.
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life, chaos, laughter and the search for a strange...
Many years ago I read James Gleick’s ‘Chaos’ trying to acquaint myself with the science buzzword of the day.
In reading that book I learned of Strange Attractors, Mandelbrot Sets and the Butterfly Effect among other fascinating concepts.
Now, some twenty-plus years later the concepts related by that book have percolated down and I find myself thinking of them when I look at things going on...
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“It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or...”
– Oscar Wilde
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ever wondered...
…why ‘phonetically’ is not spelled phonetically?