Just listened to an electoral telecast by Cousin Julia. She should go to my friendly neighbourhood voice coach James Hagan for what another friend insists on calling electrocution lessons. She needs to develop her chest voice. Sounds like a gurl.
I’ve just written a comment in the longest thread in which I’ve participated in Facebook. It’s about parking at a university. Which was defined by Clark Kerr, in The Uses of the University (1963) as something like a loose collection of faculties united by a common grievance about parking.
Cousin Julia wants to give $2000 of what used to be my money to anyone who’ll take their old car off the road and buy a new one. This is meant to reduce pollution. But is it not obvious that it must create a helluva lot more pollution to make a new car than to keep running an old one?
Here’s a cryptic (crossword puzzle type) clue for my ‘cousin’.
PM: nameless apostate (5)
(Thanks to Araucaria.)
I’m wondering if the Australian ‘ratshit’ has anything to do with Pommy ‘wretched’.
I’m delighted that Nadia Tass (and David Parker) have at last made another Australian film. (Matching Jack opens nationally in August.) I was just looking at Mr Reliable (1996) again yesterday and wondering what had happened the the team that made Malcolm, Rikky and Pete, Amy …
Senator Christine Milne thinks that a citizen’s assembly on climate change would be a ‘gobfest’. I don’t think she means La grande bouffe.
I heard a lawyer on Radio National this morning say that something was ‘cast in stone’. He should home his linguistic skills. There are different kettles of fish.
Wrought (as in wrought iron): past participle of the OE word for ‘work’, now no longer a verb, but surviving as a (part-)noun in cartwright, playwright, etc. Wryhta is OE for a builder, carpenter. ‘What hath God wrought’ (Num. 23:23) was the first public message sent in the code he invented by Samuel Morse, in 1844.
Abbott says that he expects a ‘filthy’ campaign from Labor. This tells us more about how he expects to fight it.