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gloomph (a, n) 1. Putting an excessive amount of personal effort into becoming depressed. 2. The effort thus deployed. eg "He's ...

I vaguely recall reading, some years ago, a little truism that people who read stuff about things in the newspaper were more likely to remem...

"So how do you like Melbourne?" he asked. "Very much," I replied into the mobile. "It's a beautiful city. For i...

The internet, described and summarised, in nineteen lines This is the internet. Tim has a blog. John uses Facebook, Twitter, and MySpace. Jo...

It has been revealed that Hollywood actor Jeff Goldblum, who recently fell victim to fake death notices in the press, has also been subject...

Shock news of the day is this: tobacco companies are allowed to do things that are legal. SIMON CHAPMAN: In Australia and every other count...

This entire attack is based on a fake, a fraud, a fabrication, and in fact a forgery... - Kevin Rudd Zip , zero and none... Kevin Rudd Rud...

I am normally indifferent to sport, and the most physical activity that I typically indulge in is my daily power sit in the couch with a boo...

Marketing, at the best of times, consists of inventing a series of non-solutions for fictional problems caused by our overwrought anxieties ...

Overheard in the Victorian Trades Hall, at their Big Red Book Sale, in a very loud voice: "DO YOU HAVE ANY BOOKS ABOUT MARXISM?" I...

I was thinking the other day about literary friendships - strikingly different writers who happen to be writing in the same place at the sam...

Here's a website that lists one of my favourite icecreams, Streets Golden Gaytime , as one of the 15 most unfortunate product names in ...

This year 2009 marks the 200th anniversary of the birth of a great Victorian, twice. Not only was Charles Darwin , naturalist and discoverer...

Am attempting to develop a new facial expression that is part sneer, part scowl, and part smirk. I shall call it the snirkel. Early experime...

Today is Bloomsday , an annual event in which people celebrate a writer that few people have read and even fewer people have understood by ...

Ideally, balls of cheese should come out of bronzed vats of creamy milk filled straight from the udders of contented cows via buckets carrie...

In what may prove to be a cultural turning point of the century, an affluent middle-class heterosexual male from an English-speaking backgro...

That sound you hear is hundreds of Australian radio presenters agreeing with one another. The louder and the angrier they sound, the more un...

Anyone who plays Scrabble on Facebook has one of two choices - either the official Hasbro version, Livescrabble , or the alternative Lexulo...

(Or, from light verse to trite verse in one easy step) 1. Here is the grave of Norman Ned - This man is born, but not yet dead. His life goe...