This coming weekend will be the Australia Day weekend, the celebration of the founding of Oz in 1788, a day now categorised by indigenous A...

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* * * * * * * * The word “mare” in “nightmare” has nothing to do with a female horse. The word comes from the Old English “more”, a myt...

“To an adolescent, there is nothing in the world more embarrassing than a parent.” - Dave Barry * * * * * * * * * Meet Da...

Recently, in connection with a hospital humour post,  I inluded the hospital quote from Flying High (in the US Airplane! ), Leslie Nielsen’...

Byter Kara sent me an email about yesterday’s post on Princess Olga of Kiev.  You will recall that Princess Olga of Kiev was ...