May 30, 2001. How did you get to be lucky enough to read email sent to Phar Lap from around the world?
"If he had of been a human and still alive today then think that he would be a very famous runner, you know like Cathy Freeman."
"His arrival was a bit like the arrival of Australia's Don Bradman ..to put it simply ... "sometimes in the darkest days a hero will come along"."
"I think that they should have a Phar Lap day every year to give thanks to this magnifosent hourse."
"pharlap is a great hourse because he realy helped to form federation by how good he was"
"i want to know who it was so people are aware of who it was that killed such a creature. they are a disgrace to themselves and others and hope live a life of torment if still living toady."
May 29, 2001. Drug-Affected Demonstrator
"It has many features that mimic those of
a real drug-affected infant. These features include a
high-pitched, warbled cry recorded from an actual drug-affected
infant, tremors that cause the Demonstrator to tremble as if from
drug withdrawal, and a detailed, lifelike appearance resembling
a drug-affected infant with a painful facial expression and tiny
limbs."
I bet it's the only non-white (or "Medium-Skinned") baby they make.
May 24, 2001. This is news? Australian performer Dannii Minogue has discovered that her boyfriend of three months is seeing another woman, it was reported yesterday.
May 15, 2001. I'm not sure that moving overseas is worth being woken up by couriers at 7:30am.
May 13, 2001. So my brother signed us up for myfamily.com, and there's a popup window with the following 'survey' that's a beautiful example of a clumsy marketing tool. Do they think that being in a family makes you automatically stupid? It asks:
"Do you receive a weekly newsletter from MyFamily that announces new features and shares ideas about how to use the site to keep in touch with you family?"
As if!
But I wonder how many people get sucked in.
(For the record, 24% said "No, but I would like to")
May 9, 2001. So cute!
The line in today's online edition about "Hundreds of protesters" isn't so cute, considering that I can see the entrance from here and the prostesters are pretty thin on the ground.
May 8, 2001. I'm not sure that moving overseas is worth the gruelling half-hour I spent watching Humphrey B. Bear in the waiting lounge at the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs.
May 3, 2001. On another trip to seaside Shimoda, a woman plucked her armpit hair with a pair of tweezers.