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This is going to be a brutally ugly post, because I am in a suspect internet cafe paying far too much for the honour of writing this. So, Singapore and Cambodia.
Singapore is what Asia would be like if it was run by the Swiss. It just works. The traffic moves sweetly, the train network was [...]
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A bizarre story on the ABC website today about a pregnant elephant.
Awkward conversation with the parents.
Dad elephant: Great, this is just great. You’re grounded!
Pregnant girl elephant (sarcastically): Oh, that’s great dad, really smart. We’re in a cage stupid.
Dad elephant: I’M stupid? I’m not the one who got pregnant!
Boyfriend elephant: Hey, you can’t speak to [...]
Filed under: animals, humor, knocked up, zoo | Tagged: animals, elephant, humor, juno, movie, parenting, parents, rebellion, teenagers, zoo | 1 Comment »
I don’t normally just link to other stuff on the web, but tonight is different. I present two pieces of material that I really, really wanted to write about, but after staring at them for a while I realised I couldn’t add anything. I actually couldn’t make sense of either item. Make of it what [...]
Filed under: celebrities, television, wedding | Tagged: celebrities, children, gary coleman, propaganda, redheads, television | No Comments »
Spider-Man actress Kirsten Dunst has reportedly checked into Utah’s Cirque Lodge facility to receive help for an addiction to appearing in dreadful films.
People magazine cited a source as saying that Dunst had entered rehab after the pleas of friends fed up with seeing her movies.
“She’s not doing well,” the source said. “People were pushing her [...]
Filed under: alcohol, celebrities, film, humor, movies, review, satire, superheroes | Tagged: actress, addict, addiction, celebrities, films, humor, kirsten dunst, movies, rehab, review, satire, spiderman | No Comments »
Smorgy’s was a Hawaiian all-you-can-eat restaurant that I worked at in the mid-90’s and I’m not afraid to tell you it was a shithole.
The Smorgy’s kitchen was like an exotic sea port, filled with miscreants, outcasts and freaks of all descriptions.
The dishwasher spewed out steam while the customers just spewed. The cockroaches skidded uneasily across [...]
Filed under: bogans, confessions, humor, idiots, obesity, restaurants, smorgys | Tagged: bogans, chef, cooking, hawaii, humor, idiots, kitchen, restaurants, smorgys | 1 Comment »
The CIA has admitted publicly to exposing high-profile al-Qaeda detainees, including Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, to “wakeboarding”. The practice of wakeboarding - dragging a participant behind a speedboat on a wakeboard - is seen by critics as torture, but is viewed by its advocates as a necessary evil to obtain information about possible terrorist acts.
High-profile [...]
Filed under: humor, media, news, terrorism | Tagged: Al Qaeda, CIA, Congress, humor, media, news, terrorism, terrorists, wakeboarding, waterboarding | 1 Comment »
Hi all,
Monkeybizness has a new address. Instead of http://monkeybizness.wordpress.com, the blog is now just www.monkeybiznessblog.com.
If you are reading this via RSS feed or email subscription, there may be hiccups when I redirect the feed some time this week - I’m not really sure though, because I have little-to-no idea what I am doing. The general [...]
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Channel 10 has announced it’s line-up of promotional advertisements for 2008, abandoning it’s previous approach of showing actual television shows.
“The response to the summer promotions for our 2008 television shows has been tremendous,” said Tony Kelly, Head of Programming at Channel Ten.
“Obviously 70-80 percent of our programming over the summer has been promotions for shows [...]
Filed under: humor, media, television | Tagged: advertising, australia, channel ten, humor, media, television, tv | No Comments »
