Sunday night randomness (a few nights early)

Sunday night randomness coming to you on Thursday night this week, as I will be in the dust capital of NSW over the weekend.

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Idiotic quote of the week goes to NSW Primary Industries Minister Ian Macdonald, for claiming that torn and damaged shark nets on Sydney beaches were only meant to be “a psychological barrier”. If only sharks knew about psychology.

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Sarah Palin made a speech this week in Hong Kong to Asian business people, investors and fund managers. The speech was closed to the media, however, from all reports the speech was well-received, insightful and compelling. Mark A. McDonald in the New York Times wrote of a quote from an attendee at Palin’s speech: “She didn’t sound at all like a far-right-wing conservative. She seemed to be positioning herself as a libertarian or a small-c conservative,” he said, adding that she mentioned Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher. “She brought up both those names.”

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Sydney experienced something this week that afflicts country residents at least once a year – a bit of dust in the air. Sydney residents had never seen anything like it. They should get out more. Out of Sydney, that is. Fear not guys – it’s just a bit of dirt. A combination of wind and rain and most of it will be gone – as it now is.

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The long-awaited reunion specials of Hey Hey it’s Saturday go to air next Wednesday night (meh, TV’s full of ironies, but what can you do?) and again on October 7.

Hey Hey goes up against Celebrity Masterchef on Channel 10. As the latter program will be sans the superfluous Sarah Wilson, it should be watchable. Having said that, “celebrities” on the show will include Anna Bligh, Peter FitzSimons and Josh Thomas – which means I will be watching Hey Hey on Nine.

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Most people would be familiar with the following emoticons 

:)  

:(  

:o 

but how about these (answers follow)

(-:  

:*)  

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C=:-)

 

 

Left-handed; drunk; the Pope; Chef

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