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>I have a friend who’s an artist

> Which sounds suspiciously familiar to Richard Feynman’s “Ode on a flower“, but anyway. She’s very direct. If she sees something she doesn’t like, it “shouldn’t be on the planet”. If you call her on the cellphone and the call’s … Continue reading

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>Keeping things trimmed

>Crikey, we’ve got a lot of lawn down here. Forgot how big the section is… So I bought myself a moa today

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>Pull the plug

> I was visiting a mate who’s a physician at a psychiatric hospital I asked him how they determined whether a not a patient should be institutionalised? “Well”, he said “We fill up a bathtub, then we offer a teaspoon, … Continue reading

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>Catch 22

> So I’e seen a back issue of a magazine, want to get hold of it and call up the publisher’s subscription department. It went like this: “I’d like to get hold of the October/November issue of Homes NZ please” … Continue reading

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>Catch 22 reloaded

>This story is just too silly for words, but I’ll write about it anyway. And it would be quite funny – despite its numbing lack of logic and common sense – if it hadn’t cost me money. We’re flying around … Continue reading

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>Call me old-fashioned if you will……

> …but is that a piece of chainlink fencing suspended between ear and lip? Oh. I thought so…

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>They have big chooks in Thailand

>Crikey, look at the size of their BALLS…! Seen at the Marriott in Bangkok

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>Vitello tomato? Eh?

>Keming reloaded. For anyone who’s still not quite sure what kerning‘s all about, here’s a pretty good example of the lack of same. Vitello tonnato – thinly sliced veal topped with a creamy mayonnaise-based sauce of tuna, anchovies, hardboiled egg … Continue reading

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>Nine Lives

> I’ve almost killed myself on a number of occasions. Fell into the water trough at my grandparents’ place when I was 3 and to this day I can relate every detail of the event. Must have been veeeery close.Fell … Continue reading

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>It must be me…#1

>It’s been said that irony does not travel well, especially in a westerly direction across the North Atlantic. I appear to be on a mission to prove it beyond all doubt.. I’m in Newburyport, MA in the Bookrack, a cool … Continue reading

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