A strange scene
This scene unfolded during an electioneering wander by John Howard through a shopping centre complete with all the hoopla of cameramen etc. A woman...
An echo from the decade of the teenage mutant ninja turtle
As America entered the 1990s, Republican speaker Newt Gingrich was busy making plans for the nation's future. "I keep reminding my friends we've entered the...
Ken Phillips on the car industry
The article - filched from Crikey! is over the fold. (more…)
Bad Acting
As usual my correspondents seem incapable of taking responsibility for their own emotions. Troppo reader Don Arthur asks: Dr Troppo, I’d like your advice on...
Pregnant vegetarian bleg
Peach's longest serving employee is pregnant! Isn't that good! Well I think so and so does she. But she now has a problem. She's a...
Voyaging to Elixesse Quartenary
What a lucky little girl Polly must be to have a dad who gives her a story like this for a fifth birthday present. Read it and...
Clarke on Strine
In Nicholas's thread below tigtog raised the topic of The Sounds of Aus, John Clarke's documentary on the Aussie accent, written by Lawrie Zion. (Apparently...