Kicking Behinds
LEAGUE FOOTBALL By F. Keith Manzie Good old Geelong. At last they’ve done it. They have won a semi-final for the first time in their career. Having...
The Full Quid Blog
Heartburnings and bickerings briskened
LAST SCENE OF ALL By “Kicker” (1910) The last day of the League Matches. Tomorrow will be the end of the season, and either...
Crying In The Sane
INSANITY AND TEARS One of the most curious facts connected with madness is the utter absence of tears amid the insane. Whatever the form of...
Hungarian Goulash
Everyday Signs of Incipient Madness Dr. George S. Bunn, a brain specialist, of Boston, United States, America, in a lecture recently delivered before an audience...
Glowing Demon
It was my 63rd birthday recently. The following article appeared in Melbourne’s Argus newspaper on the day I was born in 1952. When do we see...
The Dunny
Growing up in the unsewered Melbourne suburbs of Bentleigh and later Moorabbin in the 1950s, I became accustomed to the delights of the outside...
Too much of a mao-ful
China bans wordplay in attempt at pun control The Chinese State Administration for Press, Publication, Radio, Film and Television says: Radio and television authorities at...
Moomba
I’m in deep culturo-anthropo-Melbo shock!! As a kid I attended a couple of Moomba parades circa 1958-59 and in my ignorance I believed Moomba MUST...
Hopalong Cassidy
Hopalong Cassidy, the TV ‘good-guy’ cowboy who wore a black hat was a good-guy off screen as well. He visited Australia in November 1954. 60,000...
Xenophobic Deja Vu
It is not the bad qualities, but the good qualities of these alien races that make them so dangerous to us. It is their inexhaustible...
A middle aged man in lycra
A bicycle riding, catholic, misogynist, boat dealing, climate change denying budgie smuggler was sworn in as Australian Prime Minister today …and, we don’t even know...
Letter From Kev
It’s Federal Election day and just yesterday Prime Minister Rudd took time out from his busy schedule to write to ME of all people! It...