"Look, Annameike is a very, very popular artist and no-one can doubt the amount of effort and skill that goes into creating her works," he said.
"She's obviously quite a well-known Gippsland identity, she was on the front cover of the Gippsland phone book a little while ago and of course she was awarded an Order of Australia some years ago for her contribution to the arts."

TWO PATIENTS
Two patients limp into two different medical clinics with the same complaint. Both have trouble walking and appear to require a hip replacement. The first patient is examined within the hour, is x-rayed the same day and has a time booked for surgery the following week. The second patient sees his family doctor after waiting a week for an appointment, then waits six weeks to see a specialist, then gets an x-ray, which isn't reviewed for another month and finally has his surgery scheduled for three months from then. Why the different treatment for the two patients? The first is a golden retriever. The second is a senior citizen.

A proposal to award $1 million in every general election to one lucky resident, chosen by lottery, simply for voting — no matter for whom — has qualified for the November ballot.

For example, a 2004 Toyota Prius got 35 miles per gallon in city driving, off 42 percent from its EPA rating of 60 mpg. The 2003 Honda Civic averaged 26 mpg, off 46 percent from its advertised 48 mpg. And the Ford Escape small sport utility vehicle managed 22 mpg, falling 33 percent short of its 33 mpg rating.

I say shame on the people who elevate environmentalism to a religious status, shame on you for your arrogance, shame on all of us for allowing the environmentalists' war against the human race to begin, and take hold.

When a Greek girl gets married, she always hopes to reduce the number of letters in her name.

[Nicholas Hudson of Hudson Publishing] told Inquirer he recalled reading the manuscript and was being kind in his letter. "I was trying to be polite. I thought is was pretentious fart-arsery. I don't like White".
"Obviously, one has to ask, how the hell did this guy get to be a great literary figure? Right from the start, people were saying: 'Is this really as good as people are saying?"'

I wish I had some good suggestions, but outside of cheap solar cells, I don't. It's just that I'm tired of being told it's the fault of sinful old America, and if we make a vow of poverty, it will cure the problem.

COLONELS Klink and Hogan and Sgt Schultz of the sitcom Hogan's Heroes have done real PoWs of the Nazis no favours, a federal minister says.

"People should not have to drive through the Turnpike tunnels with their fingers crossed," the governor said.

POLICE want to know who built an elaborate underground bunker system hidden inside a Torquay sand dune.

Public transport fares are going up today for commuters in Brisbane and our long-suffering counterparts in Sydney.
I find it regrettable that these new slugs are being introduced without some cultural-political resistance by our songwriters

...and for quite a contrast Emmylou Harris who joins him for three songs...

the TV special was 1 hour of a 165minute DVD.
The blurb was was from the DVD. Lazy programme department.
Typical of these music specials on TV in recent years.
They have been reduced to extended promo clips for the DVDs.