Happy Commemorating the Assassination of Captain Cook, everyone!

February 14, 2007 - 12:51pm | email this page
Happy Commemorating the Assassination of Captain Cook, everyone!Another bloody Valentine's Day.

And that's just what it was for Captain James Cook on 14 February, 1779.

Cook, the great British explorer whose legacy of paving settlement of Australia and other scientific achievements, has done more for me than the feckless St Valentine ever has.
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Radio Ga Ga

January 4, 2007 - 2:16pm | email this page
Radio Ga GaWords of a forlorn, taking-the-mick Tube conductor broadcasting random sentiments over the train’s comms system on my way home: "You don't write, you don't text, you don't phone, you just treat us like a hotel, coming and going…coming and going…coming and going…"
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That Great British Sport I - The Weather

January 3, 2007 - 8:47pm | email this page
That Great British Sport I - The WeatherAs a newcomer, people ask me how I'm enjoying the weather. Well I freakn didn't come here for the weather, did I? Have to employ biting tongue to keep from explaining, "There's enough searing blue sky, dust and dazzling ocean at home to send you blind for weeks. It makes you want to dig out your old Midnite Oil records and scratch them to billy-o with the paw of a roo run down with the ol' Barina along the Parkway."
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