Monthly Archives: April 2007

My brother’s underpants

Posted on April 29, 2007 by

What would you think if you got a party invitation like this: Classy, isn’t it? It’s just one of 110 party invitations my brothers did for the occasion of their 21st. Each one features a different item of clothing. Must … Continue reading →

Posted in Family, Humour, Nutbar, Personal | 9 Comments

Five word coffee shop reviews #19: Melbourne, South Melbourne, Fitzroy, Glen Waverley, Sassafras

Posted on April 28, 2007 by

The longest running five word coffee review series in the blogosphere continues!  Café Bastille, Clarendon St, South Melbourne Good coffee. Also liked food. Shine, Kingsway, Glen Waverley Decent coffee. Nice looking staff. Café Andiamo, Degraves St, Melbourne Not bad. Degraves … Continue reading →

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Chernobyl is now like the Garden of Eden

Posted on April 27, 2007 by

It’s a wildlife haven, apparently, despite the mutations. (Insert jokes about three-winged birds etc here.) The Reference Frame has more info. You can view some very eerie photo galleries at the BBC of abandoned cities and villages as they appear today. But … Continue reading →

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Which former dictator would make the best roommate?

Posted on April 27, 2007 by

Hitler, Stalin, Mussolini or Hussein? Those are the options in a rather hilarious poll at the Melbourne Victory Forum at the moment. From the comments: Hitler would organise an invasion of the neighbours and have them exterminated or incarcerated in … Continue reading →

Posted in Communism, Humour | 4 Comments

Exercise? Don’t bother. Matrixercise is all you need.

Posted on April 26, 2007 by

This sounds too good to be true, but you don’t actually need to do exercise in order to get the benefits of exercise. All you need to do is convince yourself that what you do for a living is exercise! Given … Continue reading →

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Absorb caffeine through your skin with caffeinated soap!

Posted on April 25, 2007 by

Unbelievably Ridiculous Products Department presents Caffeinated Soap. Yes, that’s right, caffeinated soap. The caffeine is absorbed through your skin as you shower, delivering the equivalent of 2 cups of coffee per use. Also available as caffeinated body wash. So for … Continue reading →

Posted in Coffee, Nutbar | 7 Comments

If you don’t believe in a young earth, you will be eaten by a ravenous giant squid

Posted on April 24, 2007 by

According to Answers In Genesis: Pretty scary stuff.

Posted in Comics, Humour | 2 Comments

Is this about to be going to have happened?

Posted on April 23, 2007 by

From the “Future Echoes” episode of Red Dwarf:  RIMMER: Lister, it *has* happened. You can’t change it, any more than   you can change what you had for breakfast yesterday. LISTER: Hey, it hasn’t happened, has it? It has “will … Continue reading →

Posted in Humour, Science | 11 Comments

Family food fight (with pictures!)

Posted on April 17, 2007 by

So there we were at a family picnic last Saturday, at the most obscure picnic area in the Dandenongs that we could find, eating ham, tomato and cheese rolls. I managed to get flour on myself, so brother Peter suggested … Continue reading →

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Jokes from Soviet Russia

Posted on April 14, 2007 by

I’ve long held interest in humour originating from the long-suffering residents of Communist countries. The examples following are from Laughing Under The Covers, but I’ve seen variants of them in other places. First of all, a joke about shortages in … Continue reading →

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