Having sex … in the headline … got your attention. Just like this forum post by Ebony Jackson, titled: “Supermarket shopping is like bad sex with the lights on”. The post includes this wisdom: “If you don’t eat, you won’t go to the toilet, if you don’t go to the toilet, you will die.” Homespun [...]
Die, Fluffy Wuffy, die
Thanks to a remark he left on another website I used to win, I discovered the entertaining blog of Matt “not the cricketer” Hayden enticingly titled Die, Fluffy Wuffy, Die. He writes more wittily than I could ever hope to do about current political topics. I don’t think he’s from Perth, but he’s well across [...]
Man died at desk
I’ve promised to write a book one day about my country newspaper experiences. As I head towards the end of my time at the Kalgoorlie Miner some anecdotes are coming back to me. This one isn’t strictly related to the Miner, but I should be able to adapt it for the book somehow. Shortly after [...]
Car park warning
I start each work day with a smile thanks to lawyers who have an office at the back of our building. Their private car park has a sign warning “offenders will be prosecuted” if they dare to park an “unauthorised” vehicle. These guys normally defend people, but mess with their car park and they’ll turn [...]
Newspaper mistakes
“Rotary supports bowel cancer” proclaimed the headline in the (now defunct) Golden Mail. They were writing about the Bowelscan program, which aims to detect and prevent bowel cancer. In the Kalgoorlie Miner this week we dropped a clanger by describing a vehicle which caught fire as a Holden when in fact it was a Falcon. [...]
