They say everyone loves a wedding and in case you hadn't heard, there's a rather large one on in London tomorrow.
Apparently, a lot of people also like betting on weddings. According to a British bookie, a lot of people who know they will be made to watch the wedding are "keeping it interesting" by placing bets. You can get the following odds from William Hill:
2/1 The train on the dress will be less than 8 feet (good to see the UK using that metric system they taught me about at school 40 years ago)
7/4 "Waitie Katie" will only keep him waiting 3 minutes before arriving...(and he won't be the only one saying "Phew" - when it's on TV, a quick wedding's a good one...)
3/1 Kate to say William's names in the wrong order
5/1 James Blunt's You're Beautiful to be played for the Wedding Dance (and if that's not scary enough, it's 8/1 on Bryan Adams, God forbid)
8/1 William to have a beard during church service
8/1 Prince Phillip falls asleep ( that's come in from 40/1 - he must have heard that they might be playing James Blunt or Bryan Adams at the reception)
18/1 Kate's Wedding Wedding shoes to have RED soles
19/1 Prince Harry to catch the bouquet
20/1 Kate To Have Twins
21/1 To Be Seen In A Night Club On Night/Early Hours Of Their Wedding Day
22/1 That William Splits his trousers as he bends down in the church
23/1 Carole Middleton to be snapped Chewing Gum during the service
24/1 Harry Drops The Ring During the service
30/1 William To wear Glasses In Church
33/1 Harry not to make/finish his speech due to being inebriated
38/1 Prince Harry To Forget The Ring
All that's missing is a dopey song called something like: Willie's Getting Married, At Last
Thursday, April 28, 2011
Thursday, April 21, 2011
Say It Again and Again and...
I heard our Treasurer this morning again talking about our "patchwork economy". I must have now heard him use this phrase 5 times (in about 3 minutes) over the week.
Somebody needs to explain to these guys' script writers that there's a fine line between "staying on message", as they like to call it, and sounding like a kid who's showing off the new word he's just discovered.
Somebody needs to explain to these guys' script writers that there's a fine line between "staying on message", as they like to call it, and sounding like a kid who's showing off the new word he's just discovered.
Wednesday, April 20, 2011
Working For The Weekend
A 5-day weekend coming up. That just rolls off the tongue. Clearly, it is the way it should be.
We should therefore celebrate Easter and ANZAC day every weekend, although we'd have to make Good Friday Better Friday to liven it up a bit.
Leaving aside the minor industrial relations issues, that only leaves one question: if there is no Friday in the working week, is it casual Thursday?
We should therefore celebrate Easter and ANZAC day every weekend, although we'd have to make Good Friday Better Friday to liven it up a bit.
Leaving aside the minor industrial relations issues, that only leaves one question: if there is no Friday in the working week, is it casual Thursday?
Monday, April 18, 2011
Trump Card
What a card that Trump fellow is! I heard this morning that he was being talked about as a possible Republican candidate for the next US presidential election.
Apparently, he's not happy with the current approach to Libya. If it was up to him, having decided to intervene, the Americans would just go in there and take the oil, generously leaving plenty for the Libyans to be able drive their cars. "You know, in the old days when you have a war and you win, that nation's yours," he said. Funnily enough, that sounds rather like colonialism, which I thought was something America at least pretended to disapprove of.
No doubt it's all just a publicity stunt but then again, he could make it a much cleaner situation in Libya by simply insisting that Colonel Gaddafi appear on a new "Presidential Apprentice" show and telling him "You're fired". He'll probably do that after he's invited Barack Obama onto the show to tell him the same thing.
Apparently, he's not happy with the current approach to Libya. If it was up to him, having decided to intervene, the Americans would just go in there and take the oil, generously leaving plenty for the Libyans to be able drive their cars. "You know, in the old days when you have a war and you win, that nation's yours," he said. Funnily enough, that sounds rather like colonialism, which I thought was something America at least pretended to disapprove of.
No doubt it's all just a publicity stunt but then again, he could make it a much cleaner situation in Libya by simply insisting that Colonel Gaddafi appear on a new "Presidential Apprentice" show and telling him "You're fired". He'll probably do that after he's invited Barack Obama onto the show to tell him the same thing.
Tuesday, April 12, 2011
Air 1999
According to the very groovy logo on Google today, it's 50 years since the first manned space flight. All those great hopes launched in a blaze of optimism.
A mere eight years later, we were walking on the moon. So over the next 42 years, you'd have thought we'd have really gone places.
Oh I know there's robots running around on Mars and amazing telescopes being built but I just find it disappointing that 50 years after we first went into space, we're all still here. No-one is living on the moon and I can think of a few people that should be.
Meanwhile back on planet earth, even our planes fly slower today than they did 30 years ago. It wasn't like this in the Jetsons! Are we never going to get jetpacks?
It's not all bad though. We do have Facebook and Twitter, so at least we can whinge more quickly.
A mere eight years later, we were walking on the moon. So over the next 42 years, you'd have thought we'd have really gone places.
Oh I know there's robots running around on Mars and amazing telescopes being built but I just find it disappointing that 50 years after we first went into space, we're all still here. No-one is living on the moon and I can think of a few people that should be.
Meanwhile back on planet earth, even our planes fly slower today than they did 30 years ago. It wasn't like this in the Jetsons! Are we never going to get jetpacks?
It's not all bad though. We do have Facebook and Twitter, so at least we can whinge more quickly.
Thursday, April 7, 2011
Mixed Messages
I heard this morning that the rebels in Libya are complaining that NATO aren't reacting fast enough. These are same the people that didn't want the West to be involved.
So what they're actually saying is: "We'd like you to not help but a lot more quickly".
So what they're actually saying is: "We'd like you to not help but a lot more quickly".
Another Australian Defence Production Starring...
Anyone really. Especially if they don't know they're in the movie.
It's all very shoddy on both an individual and institutional level but perhaps the most remarkable thing about the whole sordid affair is that filming people having sex without their consent is not a crime in the ACT.
No wonder Canberra's the place from which to buy all those DVDs in the discreet packaging.
And where's Harmon Rabb when you need him?
It's all very shoddy on both an individual and institutional level but perhaps the most remarkable thing about the whole sordid affair is that filming people having sex without their consent is not a crime in the ACT.
No wonder Canberra's the place from which to buy all those DVDs in the discreet packaging.
And where's Harmon Rabb when you need him?
Monday, April 4, 2011
Voting On The Big Issues
I was impressed at the range of upper house options I was given to choose from when voting in the recent State Election.
Obviously, I didn't bother trying to find people from the list of over 300 names under the line. Seriously, does anybody really do this? We could save a lot of paper by not bothering with that part of the form or just printing a few of them and handing them out on request to the very keen.
Going instead to choose from the list of parties, I realised that I didn't know too much about any of them. Some of them appear to simply name themselves after their sole area of concern. This is why, in a time where there are so many major issues being debated, we have a "No Parking Meters" party. These guys obviously have their finger on the pulse of what really matters to people.
Similarly, we didn't just have a Fishing Party, we also had the Shooters and Fishers party. They didn't even preference each other. I'd have thought that both at least being into fishing, they'd form some kind of anglers' tactical alliance. For the voter, trying to differentiate between them, the only tip I could have given was that one of these parties would not approve of shooting fish in a barrel.
Obviously, I didn't bother trying to find people from the list of over 300 names under the line. Seriously, does anybody really do this? We could save a lot of paper by not bothering with that part of the form or just printing a few of them and handing them out on request to the very keen.
Going instead to choose from the list of parties, I realised that I didn't know too much about any of them. Some of them appear to simply name themselves after their sole area of concern. This is why, in a time where there are so many major issues being debated, we have a "No Parking Meters" party. These guys obviously have their finger on the pulse of what really matters to people.
Similarly, we didn't just have a Fishing Party, we also had the Shooters and Fishers party. They didn't even preference each other. I'd have thought that both at least being into fishing, they'd form some kind of anglers' tactical alliance. For the voter, trying to differentiate between them, the only tip I could have given was that one of these parties would not approve of shooting fish in a barrel.
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