The Movie: I love this movie, it is one of my Top Ten favourites.  I first saw it as a youngster and have seen it many times since, never g...

The Battle of Antietam in Maryland was the first battle of the American Civil War to take place on Northern soil and was the single blooodi...

Max Dupain (1911-1992) has been described as one of Australia’s greatest photographers. Born in Ashfield, he was given his first camera at ...

Change... To cause to be different, to transform. Change has come to America” President Obama said when elected. “If I can change,” Rocky...

Anyone who has seen Mary Poppins could be forgiven for thinking that life in a Victorian English household was carefree and happy, especial...

“There is a little bit of the whore in all of us, gentlemen. What is your price?” To the Australian Cricket Board in 1976, seeking the rig...

"No! I didn't come here to make a speech. I came here to die." Crawford Goldsby, more commonly known as Cherokee Bill, was ...

“Which of you bastards called this bastard a bastard?” During the controversial Bodyline cricket series between England and Australia in 1...

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"They say it is better to be poor and happy than rich and miserable, but how about a compromise like moderately rich and just moody?...

Jack Handey (1949- ) is an American humourist who is best known for his one liners spoken over a still photograph of nature scenes in the U...

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Anthony’s Law of the Workshop: Any tool when dropped will roll to the least accessible corner of the workshop. First Corollary to Anthony’...

  “Had I been brighter, the ladies been gentler, the Scotch been weaker, had the gods been kinder, had the dice been hotter, this could have...

“I am sorry to say that there is too much point to the wisecrack that life is extinct on other planets because their scientists were more a...

What synchronised swimming is to the Summer Olympics, curling is to the Winter Olympics, sports that are head scratching to watch and the c...

Today begins an occasional feature on Australia's banknotes or, more particularly, the designs, pictures and people on them. On 14 Febr...

The movie: Once upon a time in 1934 there was a director with a script seeking to make a movie. The director, Frank Capra, approached vario...

Rugby League footballers in Sydney regularly make the news for being boofheads or alcohol fuelled neanderthals, but the list of quotes belo...

A happy life is one spent learning, earning and yearning." -  Lillian Gish, American actress

Watching some of the ice hockey at the Winter Olympics on the TV brought to mind an iconic moment at the Summer Olympics in 1980. That year...

"Imagination governs the world."

"Don't worry…it's not loaded… " Terry Kath was the original guitarist and founding member of the rock band Chicago .  A...

"Is that the wife? Looks like a real mercy mission. Throw a stick on the floor, see if she brings it back." Don Rickles to actor...

“Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in...

Who?   Adolf Hitler.   Some things arose from posting the photo yesterday:

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“It is a pity, as my husband says, that more politicians are not bastards by birth instead of vocation.”

(Click on photos to enlarge). Marysville is a little town about 100 kilometres out of Melbourne that came into existence as a stopping po...

"I hate vacations. There's nothing to do." David Alan Mamet is an American author, essayist, playwright, screenwriter and fi...