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Catalogue, Arranged by Issue, of
All Material That Has Appeared to Date in Bikwil
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Catalogue, Arranged by Issue, of
All Material That Has Appeared to Date in Bikwil
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Surely Not Another Great Leap Forward? |
Tony Rogers |
The editor announces Bikwil's Web site, welcomes the newsletter's fourth year and thanks a few special people |
| The So-Called American Spelling | Annette Potts | Webster's Dictionary and Australian spelling |
| Foolishness Unbridled | Tony Rogers | Fun and games with "our flawed intellectual tradition" |
| My Good News Week | Bet Briggs | She sprang to the library, and ref books, and pen |
| A Word in Your Pink Shell-like | Harlish Goop | Review of Jeffrey Kacirk's Forgotten English, a book about words that "never quite made it into Modern English" |
| Quintessential Quirky Quotes | Various | Quotes from G.K. Chesterton, W.C. Fields, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Shirley Maclaine and Rev. Sydney Smith |
| Web Line | Tony Rogers | Media influence, media abuse and the legislative, independent-watchdog- and self- control thereof |
| Bearded Man, Reclining | Therese Kenyon | A new contributor arrives with some art under her arm |
| From the Back Verandah
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Fizzgig | Have you heard what they're saying about Richard Burbage, Will Shakespeare and a certain lady? |
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"Let Therefore the Next Friendly Contributor . . . Write Secretly . . ." |
Tony Rogers |
Our editor’s quest for quietly enthusiastic input goes on |
| In Memory of Oscar | Joan Willmott-Clarke | Nostalgia for a beloved steed |
| A Word in Your Pink Shell-like | Harlish Goop | Not exactly everything you wanted to know about clichés, but still plenty to be going on with |
| Bread | Bet Briggs | The poet extols the joys of her daily bread — words |
| Where Three Ways Meet | Bunty | Eight magnificently useless pieces of information |
| Clavierübung | Tony Rogers | Our Memorable Moments in Music series continues with a piano story — with a few fifes and drums thrown in, not to mention hundreds of sheep |
| Web Line | Tony Rogers | A briefer history of time |
| Quintessential Quirky Quotes | Various | Quotes from George Burns, a New Zealand newspaper, Denis Norden, Saki and Mark Twain |
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Fizzgig | Some more about those ancient Ethels |
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News from Cyberspace |
Tony Rogers |
A far flung audience begins taking notice |
| Game Plan | Tony Rogers | The Sydney Olympics in context |
| Begin | bohdan yuri | A poet at exam time |
| On the Trail | E. Roy Strong | Another tall (but allegedly true) story from Sleepy Jack Hanrahan |
| Plum Tree | Bet Briggs | Life after death |
| Web Line | Tony Rogers | Now that Bikwil is doing it, we'd better ask, "Does any good really come from putting a print magazine on the Internet?" |
| A Word in Your Pink Shell-like | Harlish Goop | The odd chance remark rears its head again |
| Quintessential Quirky Quotes | Various | Quotes from Fred Allen, Sir Winston Churchill, Clifton Fadiman, Jerome K. Jerome and Alexander Woollcott |
| From the Back Verandah
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Fizzgig | Ferries — here and there |
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Five Easy Pieces |
Tony Rogers |
Another brainteaser for you to grapple with |
| Yard Work | John Birkbeck | Some intriguing lines about the lady of the house and her yard boy |
| Web Line | Tony Rogers | Progress report on Bikwil's first six months on the Internet |
| A Word in Your Pink Shell-like | Harlish Goop | Solutions to two earlier musical anagram puzzles |
| Quintessential Quirky Quotes | Various | Quotes from Samuel Johnson, Groucho Marx, H.L. Mencken, Dorothy Parker and Tommy Smothers |
| Being | Bet Briggs | Imagine yourself as a morning flower . . . |
| Here Be Nutters | Tony Rogers | Bikwil celebrates a few Sydney oddballs, and for good measure investigates a serious book on the whole subject of eccentricity |
| The Feral Joke Collector | Various | Some hilarious church messages Katisha has stumbled upon |
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Fizzgig | Entrepreneurship, but do you really think you should try this at home? |
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A Few Words for the Reader Who Has Heard It All Before |
Tony Rogers |
Now, what might those words be, do you suppose? |
| Jazz, a Womanly Thing? | Clare Hansson | A woman's place is in the band |
| Quintessential Quirky Quotes | Various | Quotes from Woody Allen, Beachcomber, Arnold Bennett, Rodney Dangerfield and David Lloyd George |
| A Word in Your Pink Shell-like | Harlish Goop | Bandersnatch vs. computerese? |
| Down Limerick Lane | Tony Rogers | A failing quartet drags itself back from the brink |
| The Book Lover | Therese Kenyon | Reader in paradise |
| Web Line | Tony Rogers | Some more sources of electronic texts |
| In the Saddle Again | Bet Briggs | Postscript to her Good News Week |
| Do You Remember? | Lavinia Godfrey | Childhood and adolescence — where did they go? |
| Larick and the Aratronts | Harlish Goop | At last! Your next Bandersnatch excerpt (Paglet 4) |
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Fizzgig | All good clean seventeenth century fun |
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“More Puzzled than the Egyptians in Their Fog” |
Tony Rogers |
Let’s hear it for perseverance and lateral thinking |
| Newsworthy | Tony Rogers | American beauty |
| In March Time | Bet Briggs | A peak-hour dance |
| Interesting Origins | R.K. Sadler | Strange perhaps, but true — another in this stimulating series of derivations |
| Web Line | Tony Rogers | Hot and cool: some jazz sites on the Internet |
| A Word in Your Pink Shell-like | Harlish Goop | Anagrams unite! (otherwise spelled “marinate Angus”, “Austrian mange”, “anaemia grunts”, “auntie’s ragman” or “migrant nausea”) |
| The Station | Lachlan Drysdale | A railway platform briefly comes alive |
| To Phrase a Coin or Two | Tony Rogers | A puzzle solved |
| Quintessential Quirky Quotes | Various | Quotes from Frederick Loewe, Spike Milligan, Marilyn Monroe, Sir Peter Ustinov and Evelyn Waugh |
| From the Back Verandah | Fizzgig | Start your own rumour |
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