Consist and Comprise, Cultural Trade Offs, Google, Hurrah for the Clerihew, Letter to Clancy, Thomas Wainewright

Issue 47

Contents of Issue 47 (January 2005)
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Open Your Log-books — Tony Rogers
It looks as though electronic jottings are here to stay.

Letter to Clancy — Leon Bannister

"I know you for the blackguard you are and, should the need arise, I will not hesitate to see you are brought to justice, or what passes for it in these colonies."

There’ve been rumours that a long-lost Aussie relic was recently recovered. Just in case they’re false, we have the next best thing.

Mary Bennet — Jennifer Paynter
Part 19 of our serialised novella.

A Word in Your Pink Shell-like — Harlish Goop
Your columnist disregards his painful feet for a few minutes and stands up to be counted.

Hurrah for the Clerihew — Bet Briggs
What better way to celebrate the 100th anniversary could there be than to submit to the urge instead of fighting it?

Cultural Trade-Offs — Eileen Marshall

"I deplore the cant of xenophobic do-gooders. A nation’s repository of sacred customs must be revered. Without them a people are without dreams and succeeding generations are left to flounder in normlessness."

“Do-gooders are missing the point.”

Web Line — Tony Rogers

Let’s hear it for the printed word. Better still, let's see it.

Quintessential Quirky Quotes
Comic and Classic, from Everywhere and Everywhen

From the Back Verandah — Fizzgig

"Meet a suspected (though unproven) strychnine poisoner who in his day was a well-regarded painter and art critic."

Essays, paintings, forgeries and a nasty alkaloid.