Archive for July, 2007

money money money

I know G1 is designing the nook currency, just thought she might draw inspiration from the latest Canadian notes.
 
      

council rant

I need lessons from marywalsh.  Knox Council is arguing the  toss with traders about spending $1M plus re-shuffling the car park spaces in Boronia shopping centre to provide seats and trees.
Most people I know dont want to sit in a smelly, noisy car park, they want to park, shop and go home.
Meanwhile the council can’t find $50 to […]

toothpaste rant

There was a time when you could roll up the end of your toothepaste tube as you used it.  Now it comes in some sort of deformable plastic tube.  When its half empty and you squeeze the middle the toothepaste goes down to the bottom instead of out of the top and the last 20% is […]

A ratty tail

A bloke walked into an antique shop in Punt Road. After looking around for a while, he noticed a very life-like bronze statue of a rat.  It had no price tag, but it was so striking that he decided to buy it anyway.
 
He took it to the owner and said: ‘How much is this bronze […]

el vino collapso

I love these screwtop bottles of wine.  It’s how wine should be, gluggable.  But has anyone else had the problem where when you come to pour the second, third or fourth glass some fool has put the cap back on?  I mean, no-one puts the cork back in (or do they?).  I resolve in future, […]

Dreams

I seem to dream a lot, or at least remember my dreams more than most, but last night was kinda weird.  I dreamt I was asleep and was having a dream!  It was nothing significant, at the time.  In my dream dream I was angry and throwing cushions about trying to find something.  I woke […]



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hannahsgranpa. Ubergrumpy old man with no sense of humour. Cultured, gifted and infinitely modest. My philosophy, like colour television, is all there in black and white. Life's too short to be serious.

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