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December 2, 2008

for happy feet [Dan Collins]

An image driven by the metaphor of Ron Howard:

Australian Neologisms [Dan Collins]

From my friend, Jonathan Wilton: Billabonk: to make passionate love beside a waterhole Bludgie: a partner who doesn’t work, but is kept as a pet Dodgeridoo: a fake indigenous artefact Fair drinkum: good-quality Aussie wine Flatypus: a cat that has been run over by a vehicle Mateshit: all your flat mate’s belongings, lying strewn around the floor Shagman: an unemployed male, roaming the Australian bush in search of sexual activity

Pakistani Economy [Dan Collins]

too dependent on catering to foreign students.

Painful Choices [Dan Collins]

I found this woeful article from the Times of London via Hot Air. The author, a certain Minette Marrin, feels pressured and censored, but bravely decides that it she will bear the brunt of disapproval to state what many feel but won’t say: This misleading news story [claiming that more Britons were refusing to abort Down’s-afflicted children] provoked an impassioned response. Several parents of babies and children with Down’s, and