Archive for January, 2010
Let’s not be too precious about using our national symbols
By admin - Last updated: Friday, January 22, 2010
Happy Australia Day everyone.
Emblems can be a handy marketing prop, a means of identifying one’s heritage – and a cause of impassioned debate, write Richard White and Melissa Harper. Maude Wordsworth James was an enthusiastic ”patriot”. Her contribution to Australian nationalism was the promotion of ”cooee” as a patriotic symbol. One night in 1907, sleepless [...]
The Royal Fart – just human
By admin - Last updated: Monday, January 18, 2010
Like I have been saying for years, these people are just humans, like you and I. Their fart stinks like yours and mine.
It would seem that someone within the ranks passed wind whilst on the balcony – much to the amusement of all. Notice the Queen’s face in the first two photos, then look at [...]