NOT MEANT TO BE TAKEN LITERALLY!
If this blog is anything it's sit-down comedy. I don't break news stories. I rant, growl, quack on and joke about them.
If you can't see where this blog is coming from you're an utter peckerhead.
Over in Perth, a bloke pretending to be a monkey has been arrested by a bloke pretending to be a policeman . Kind of ironic, since that city has more than its fair share of criminal rock apes running free.
So the internet is now overtaking newspapers as a preferred choice of information, at least in America. Readership may still have further to fall, but print won't be superceded entirely. There are some things a newspaper will always do better. Tr
In another bizarre online auctioning story, a Kiwi called Walter Scott has tried to hock his very soul to the highest bidder. Seeing a spectacular opportunity for free publicity (or maybe having putting him up to it in the first place?) a franchise c
The West Oz meeja are going spacko over this Troy Buswell chair-sniffing scandal. But there's another related controversy that has receved little attention yet has been brewing for a while.That's the Alan Carpenter blouse-lifting and br
Some people might find this story about a bloke who reckons aliens landed in Oz yonks back and created humanity quite bizarre. I find it spooky as well. See, a few years ago I wrote and performed a comedy show based on an eerily simi
For those who like to find odd news you can't go past Fark, the social bookmarking site with a difference. It's a great resource worth visiting for the hilariously smart-arsed story summaries alone.
Not a day goes by without another trendy social networking site starting up. Latest one is an Australian based news aggregator called Tiinker. It's cool. It's innovative. It has idosyncratic spelling. Wonder who
Just a gripe about the news coverage of the election: Almost every time I read or heard about Tony Abbott he was described as a "pugilist" or "pugilistic". I got so annoyed with this, I wanted to b
Here's a strange story about a bloke who copped 3 years on probation for simulating sex with a bicycle. Hmm ... Wonder if he would've got a reduced sentence if he'd chosen the town bike?
The story of a loyal dog called Storm who gave up her life for her master has echoes of an act of canine bravery from a while back. Storm's passing is way more touching, though, I reckon. Only the truly heartless c