Archive for July, 2007

Simon And Garfunkel

“Laughing on the bus
Playing games with The Faces”
These lyrics flag a dramatic change in the musical tone of Simon and Garfunkel’s smash hit single America as it moves into its thrill-binding second verse.

But am I the only one who finds the lyric puzzling? The only one who wonders why in blazes Art and Paul were [...]

The Usual Suspects

Fact!! The original cut of the smash-hit film The Usual Suspects, had ‘And starring Kevin Spacey as Kayser Soze’ at the end of the opening credits. Producers of the film agree this was a major contributor to this cut being a ‘disaster’ in audience testing. They claim the removal of this credit made the twist [...]

Where Have All The Typists Gone?

These days, how many people bother to put the bottom half of their mouth into a typewriter and punch out the text to a classic work of literature (eg The Iliad or He’s Just Not That Into You)? Fewer then thirty-five percent would be my estimate. And yet, the deaf people persist with the lip [...]

Kicking Butt: A Spotter’s Guide To The FInest Practitioners

Kicking Butt

Cost: $AU 19.95, available wherever people need a good butt-kicking!

Butt-kickers! They’re the glue that binds the fabric of society together. Assuming, that is, one binds fabrics with glue. It may be more accurate to call them the pieces of thread that bind the fabric of society together. But I’m not going to call them pieces [...]

Man Boobs

Dear Dr Dan,
What can I do about my man-boobs?
– Masculine Yet Buxom

Dear Masculine Yet Buxom
You could try a sex change.

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