This might work in Australia…..

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….but I really can’t see the Horicard work in New Zealand……

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These boots were made for…

…. er….watering…?

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And then….

…there was the dyslectic devil worshipper who sold his soul to Santa.

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There are some strange people out there…

One of my commentors.

Sleeping? Makeup? Barbie movies?

Bloody hell…..

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They missed the Wall Street Journal….

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News of the Screws

“The hacking scandal currently shaking Rupert Murdoch’s empire will surprise only those who have willfully blinded themselves to that empire’s pernicious influence on journalism in the English-speaking world.

Too many of us have winked in amusement at the salaciousness without considering the larger corruption of journalism and politics promulgated by Murdoch Culture on both sides of the Atlantic.”

Carl Bernstein in Newsweek

Right on the button

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Mind the gap…

I get the feeling that my bank manager would have had a quiet word with me in 1975 and given me a severe bollocking in 1978.

By 1983, I would have been bankrupt.

Unless I could have found gullible people to keep lending me money, of course……

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The Thais that bind….


An Englishman, a Scotsman, an Irishman, a Welshman, a Latvian, a Turk, a German, an Indian, several Americans (including a southerner, a New
Englander, and a Californian), an Argentinian, a Dane, an Australian, a
Slovakian, an Egyptian, a Japanese, a Moroccan, a Frenchman, a New
Zealander, a Spaniard, a Russian, a Guatemalan, a Colombian, a
Pakistani, a Malaysian, a Croatian, an Uzbek, a Cypriot, a Pole, a
Lithuanian, a Chinese, a Sri Lankan, a Lebanese, a Cayman Islander, a
Ugandan, a Vietnamese, a Korean, a Uruguayan, a Czech, an Icelander, a Mexican, a Finn, a Honduran, a Panamanian, an Andorran, an Israeli, a
Venezuelan, a Fijian, a Peruvian, an Estonian, a Brazilian, a
Portuguese, a Liechtensteiner, a Mongolian, a Hungarian, a Canadian, a
Moldovan, a Haitian, a Norfolk Islander, a Macedonian, a Bolivian, a
Cook Islander, a Tajikistani, a Samoan, an Armenian, an Aruban, an
Albanian, a Greenlander, a Micronesian, a Virgin Islander, a Georgian, a
Bahaman, a Belarusian, a Cuban, a Tongan, a Cambodian, a Qatari, an
Azerbaijani, a Romanian, a Chilean, a Kyrgyzstani, a Jamaican, a
Filipino, a Ukrainian, a Dutchman, an Ecuadorian, a Costa
Rican, a Swede, a Bulgarian, a Serb, a Swiss, a Greek, a Belgian, a
Singaporean, an Italian, a Norwegian and 47 Africans [Africa being a country, as we – and Sarah Palin – all know] walk into a fine restaurant….

“I’m sorry,” said the maître d’ after he had scrutinized the group one by one  “You can’t come in here without a Thai…..”

HT MQOC

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We don’t know how lucky we are

I stumbled over this 1966 German tourist guide to Yugoslavia the other day.

Don’t let anyone tell you that flying wasn’t a luxury back then.

Based on an gross annual income of DM9893, you would have needed to work close to a month for that (special tariff) DM418 return trip ticket to Belgrade.

These days?

At €32000 gross and €178 on Lufthansa (and there are cheaper flights…..)  just a couple of days.

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Religious Right?

Religious Wrong, if you ask me….

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