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Highlights of Issue 76, November 2009
 

I Can See Them Now

Tony Rogers

Speaking unmetaphorically, of course.
The Horse in My History — Part One Peter Mara Domesticated or not, this beast can be dangerous.
“If I Only Had a Brain” Tony Rogers Part 5 reveals why it was such heavy going in Russia for so long.
A Word in Your Pink Shell-like Harlish Goop Birds of every description? Crows and cuckoos, anyway.
Downfall of a Squirrel The Innocent Bystander Ronald Reagan and OCD, the Mitchell Library and procrastination, obsolescence and scavengers — they all play their part.
Three Poems Bet Briggs A further selection from The World Outside, a proposed book of poems for children.
Web Line Tony Rogers Public broadcasting and the Internet sites that support it. First, we pay a visit to a favourite Aussie Auntie.
Quintessential Quirky Quotes Various Quotes from Tommy Cooper, Les Dawson, Dilbert, Ethel Merman and Henny Youngman.
From the Back Verandah

 

Fizzgig Solution to Kwizz Gig 9.
 


The Horse in My History — Part One
Peter Mara

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"It’s distressing to view the news and see another burnt out car or one crushed to half size, a dark cover placed over its windows. Yet thinking over my own life and looking through family history it is clear that, for us so far, the horse has been more lethal than the car. Though born and brought up in an inner suburb of Sydney even I have had two close brushes with death by horse. "


“If I Only Had a Brain”
— Tony Rogers

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"As we’ve seen, Russian scientists in the mid-19th century were becoming intensely engrossed in the study of cerebra, especially those of high achievers. Unsurprisingly, many a patriotic luminary gladly obliged with posthumous fodder for the nation’s great research machine. If nothing else, I guess, it was gratifying to be asked.

Typical was the case of novelist Ivan Turgenev, who was only too delighted to leave his body for research. For their part, neuro-anatomists couldn’t wait to get their hands inside his skull."


Downfall of a Squirrel
— The Innocent Bystander

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"Forget Eysenck. Forget Myers-Briggs. Forget Cattell. Forget Thurstone. Forget the Minnesota Multiphasic. Look, when push comes to shove, there’s really only one personality question that counts: “Are you a hoarder?”"

Ronald Reagan once said, “You can tell a lot about a fellow’s character by his way of eating jellybeans.” Well, I’m here to inform you that you can tell even more about a fellow’s character once you know if he’s a hoarder or not.


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