Extract from David Hunt’s True Girt: The Unauthorised History of Australia, volume 2.

In 1889, seventeen years after South Australia connected its telegraph line to the outside world, Western Australia was connected to the Overland Telegraph. The South Australian section of the line comprised of steel poles & copper wire.

But the Western Australian section was made with wooden poles, vulnerable to termites, fire & decay and steel wire which snapped under extremes of temperature.

Australia has modelled its National Broadband Network on the Western Australian telegraph line.

2017-01-28T23:41:58Z

keep that up & you'll disappear.

2017-01-28T22:35:41Z

Two fish in a tank. One says to the other: "Do you know how to drive this thing?"

2017-01-28T22:34:48Z

6:30 am on a Sunday. I want to go somewhere for a drive but can't think where.

2017-01-28T19:36:58Z

Nope. You're screwed, now you've started the IBM* process.

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*Irwin Baby Making.

2017-01-28T09:01:17Z

@streakmachine
Fuck it all. They're just arbitrary numbers, really.
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2017-01-28T08:29:49Z

Saved myself a 35km round trip to an out-lying library branch: they have the only audiobook version of a certain novel.
But I have the Bolinda BorrowBox app. I was able to download it onto the iPod Touch.

2017-01-28T07:57:28Z

2017 is taking over where 2016 left off, celebrity-wise. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Hurt

2017-01-28T05:55:47Z

I recommend alcohol.

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2017-01-28T05:31:19Z

Australian trivia: Inhabitants of the New South Wales District of Port Phillip city of Melbourne learned of their independence by reading a copy of the Times, delivered by ship on Nov 11th, 1850.

The Australian Colonies Government Act required NSW to cede its rich southern pasturelands to a new colony named Victoria, which would be ruled from Melbourne.

The news was contained in a small article on page 5, nestled between notice of an amendment to the Dog Act and an advert for an impotence cure.

2017-01-28T05:28:34Z