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Drivers of Nissan’s new Primera have been getting traffic tickets due to the car’s high-tech cruise-control, which interferes with police radar guns. Police thought the cars contained illegal radar-scrambling devices.
Hector, a 32-year-old galah who sits outside a Sydney pet shop, has been petnapped. Hector is famous for his verbosity, “Give me a kiss” and, “Hector’s got a cough.” Hector is believed to have been taken by two grey-haired women. A reward has been offered for Hector’s return.
In each 40-hour period, Australians consume six million fast-food meals. If each of these meals were placed on a food tray end-to-end, the smorgasbord would reach from Cape York, Qld, to Wilsons Prom, Vic. Together the meals would amount to some $A24 million. In the same period Australians gamble $A57 million in $1 coins.
Some 31 per cent of uni students abuse alcohol and 6 per cent are diagnosed as alcohol dependent (alcoholic). This leads to trouble, with about 5 per cent of final-year students charged with alcohol-related offences by the police. Beer bottlers Lion Nathan recently launched an irresponsible “Citizen of the Keg” promotion offering free beer, specifically targeting uni students, to counter falling beer sales among the 18-25 age group.
Like Mark Twain, who claimed reports of his death were exaggerated, just so Keith Richards of that timeless rock band, the Rolling Stones. September’s Back-Pack incorrectly included Keith with a number of his rocker peers who have met early deaths. The Stones’s lead guitarist and principal songwriter, who battles drugs and alcohol, was included in a summary in a Melbourne Age feature of rockers who’ve suffered premature death, and, by association, was pronounced DOA. Apologies, Keith.
I’m really not trying to compete with beauty: it’s about how high you can jump. —Tatiana Grigorieva
Sources: The Age; White Ribbon, Sydney Morning Herald; Daily Telegraph, World Vision publicity
The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas.—Bits & Pieces
Some machines can do the work of 50 ordinary people. But no machine
can do the work of just one extraordinary person.—Bits & Pieces
Extract from Signs of the Times, October 2002.
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