Bruce Tuncks

His land-rover had a clip-on folding shovel, and he decided to surreptitiously bury the dog and pretend he never saw it. Clang! the shovel hit an old urn and a genii appeared when charles wiped off some mud. " since we have been thatcherised" the genii said, "you have one wish". Charles, not being too slow, said " can you fix this corgi up so I don't get into trouble?" The genii pulled long on his goatee and finally said " I'm a very powerful genii, but bringing something back from the dead is a big ask... can you try again?" Charles thinks.... he says " can you make my mum like Camilla?" The genii pulls on his goatee even longer than before... finally he says " lets have another look at that Corgi"...

Spacey, did you hear about the time prince Charles killed a Corgi at Balmoral? When he ran over it with his royal land-rover?

I reckon Netanyahu has done a terrible job. How they were caught by surprise when they should have infiltrated hamas is only the start. It was clear from the beginning that Hamas was only doing it to make the response look bad, and Netanyahu has played right into their hands. He should have given more time/s for civilians to leave as the US wanted, and worked harder at making the hamas thugs look like the bad guys. And he should have nicely asked the surrounding Arab countries to take some refugees and thus made them partially guilty in the sad outcome. I reckon he is too dumb to be leading what I hoped was a smart nation.

My ( very pro Israel ) son in law says that Gaza was given to the palestinians, complete with operating factories, by Israel. The first thing the palestinian-hamas did was to stop the factories making money. Is he right?

From the depths of the crypt at st Giles Came a scream that re-echoed for miles Said the vicar" good gracious Has father Ignacious Forgotten the bishop has piles?" ( from the Alice Springs school in 1960 I think. were they Anglicans, I wonder)

I think that its really the prevailing westerly winds that are mainly to credit for keeping sa vines free, fruit-fly too, for the stone fruit in sa. But every year, we hear about whole suburbs being quarantined and stripped.

So for all these years I've worked hard to keep SA philloxera-free and they only needed to use grafted stock? bugger.

How much is keeping South Australia free from philloxera worth? Any guess nev?

Well I like Bradfield's idea, which I reckon could be considered to be the diversion ( Plus pumping) into the headwaters of the Diamantina river and Cooper's Creek. I wonder if the Snowy scheme would have passed those same tests as they are applying to Bradfield. BUT here is my question.... how much water is going into the murray-darling , the Diamantina and Coopers right now?

I like your post nev, but the fact is that we had a referendum on the monarchy subject and I lost. To this day, I can't decide if Turnbull was a fool or a traitor, so bad were the pro-republic arguments.

getting back to nth Korea, I reckon we are seeing how a monarchy starts... you have a really good murderer as a dictator, and he becomes so powerful that he can pass on his authority to his son, even if that son is goofy-looking. But, I hasten to say, as time passes, the plebs get more powerful and begin to limit the king's powers. This is what we have these days in GB.... which is counted as a democracy, I think. It can't be a very good democracy, or we would have a vote on Charles' tenure.

Personally, I am still nonplussed at how you could give guns to people who hate you and not get shot straight away.

I'm going to a coroner's inquest about a couple who were killed by an autistic truck driver who was on the phone at the time of the collision. My anger is at all those who made it way too easy for such a guy to be driving a truck.

It seems to me that their names tell a story of being started for reasons of independence but since then, much has been lost. The bank of SA, for example, has since been sold to an interstate bidder and the only reason for keeping the old name is to rip off the mugs out there. I couldn't believe it when Keating asked an interviewer " just why the Commonwealth needed a bank" when there was a campaign being run by Don Chipp " to keep the bastards honest". Well they did save me from buying into their super scheme when they gave a $20 million golden handshake to an ex-employee. I think I was the only person to realize it could have been $2000 Million which would have been just as legal and bankrupted everybody silly enough to put their money in there. Personally, I deal with Bendigo and what used to be the savings and loans society. When they go bad, it will be time to move.

I haven't had covid either and I have NOT used any extreme measures to avoid it... Actually, I used to be able to say that I didn't even know anybody who had it but then the no2 grandson got it in Melbourne. Since then, the woman who does our exercise classes has caught it. Bugger huh.

My son used to use extension leads until the latest 18.5 volt battery-powered tools came out. He was too ikey to lose his best month's income to insurance premiums, and tripping over contractor's power tool leads is a good way to make a claim. So it was safe for awhile to avoid insurance safely, until the insurance companies went straight for the jugular and stopped contracts going to the self-insured.

Spacey, I read that the poorer kids never ate as well as they did during rationing. Further, the pommy conscripts in ww1 were 3" shorter that the german ones. Due to the much poorer diet of poor kids in pommyland. To the extent these things are true, the pommy homeland was a rotten and corrupt place. I think though that they are more democratic than Nth Korea, that emerging monarchy.

Not christians, those Jews and Moslems, but Abrahamic religions for sure. These days, Abraham would have been locked away as a "criminally insane" type, on account of he reckoned God was telling him to murder his kids. Personally, I prefer the old viking gods.... at least they had Freya, and a woman is a welcome change from the all-male triumvirate of the father, son and the holy ghost. There was 1. judaism 2 christianity 3. islam and they are all Abrahamic religions. The moslems reckon that christians have rejected the true god in favor of some incomprehensible nonesense about a trinity.

Goh willedoo, there were only about 7 pubs in the Gawler main street and we thought it was pretty good if you survived a pub crawl there. I'm really impressed with your numbers in Toowoomba.

Don't be a spoilsport nev. My alcohol intake is not the lowest ever. We have the farm full of no-good drinking rellies and it is good fun. I liked the story about the kids having a chook called jesus.

I agree willedoo. Maybe the republicans have made themselves unelectable.... i sure hope so.

Here's a bit of trivia for you .... Q: in 1900, which 2 countries had the highest per-capita income in the world? A: Argentina and Australia. I think that if this is indeed correct, it is true because both countries had relatively small populations.

I'm going to a coronial court ( In Horsham or Ballarat) about these friends who were killed by a retard driving a truck near Murtoa about a year ago. Any tips would be welcome. I want to know just how he was given a license, and I would like the coroner to find that he got given his too easily.

I would like to see much better testing of license applicants... This could be done with driving simulators, which is the only safe way that a kid suddenly appears in front of you, and the only way skidding on a wet road can be simulated safely. All candidates could get a score out of 100 say, and this would be objective. The only downside I can think of would be that a different car to your normal one would be used in the simulator. Kids would do well in the scores but would still drive stupidly on the real road, but oldies who reacted too slowly to be safe would be caught out.

Regarding Burma: I was told that there was a pow camp there which the Australians wanted to attack to save many lives, ( before the Japanese killed everybody ) but the yanks ( McArthur) vetoed the idea... I would like to know more if anybody has heard of this too. I reckon it is true to say that the yanks were the first army in history to care for the lives of their own troops. You would think that Australia would have too, but this is not so I reckon. I would welcome discussion on this too.