Juliet was watching Grumpy Old Men on pay television tonight and invited me to join her. I declined, but conceded the title was me, especially at work these days. She kindly reassured me I wasn’t a grumpy old bloke and we discussed the program, which we had both seen previously. I said I thought One [...]
Great sporting streaks
Andrew Symonds shoulder charged a streaker at the Gabba tonight in a bone-jarring tackle more reminiscent of rugby than cricket. It will send the otherwise ho-hum, yawn pitch invasion into the realms of sporting folklore. And let’s face it, a photograph or video footage is necessary to make a streak memorable. There was a female [...]
Python eats family pet
Overseas readers will be interested to know the story reported in the Cairns Post of a monster python stalking and devouring a family’s pet dog. Daniel Peric said he now would not leave his two children, aged five and seven, alone in any part of the house, after the “enormous” python ate his silky terrier-cross [...]
Cricket sledging
Sledging is part of cricket and some examples are better than others. Sometimes it rebounds on the bowlers who deliver the words. Australian fast bowler Glenn McGrath to lower-order Zimbabwean batsman Eddo (chicken farmer) Brandes: “Why are you so fat?” Brandes: “Because every time I “f**k” your wife, she gives me a biscuit.” In an [...]
Election night drinking game
This is a funny post by Dave from Albury. I won’t repeat it here, so follow the link if you’re interested. I won’t be playing the game. I have to work next Sunday, and with my political journalist away it will fall to me to report the election. Saturday night will be fairly relaxed, but [...]
