Jim,
Being a lover of puns, I thought that your posting was very clever!
Don't worry about being identified with your government. Imagine
living in Australia with a useless Prime Minister who doesn't even
have the common decency to publicly apologise for the way white
Australians have treated Aborigines? Imagine living in a country
where your Prime Minister won't come out publicly and
criticise blatant racism? Imagine living in a country where your
Prime Minister wants to tug his forelock to the English Monarch?
Imagine how it feels to live in a country which sat back (and still
sits back) watching the Indonesian army slaughter locals in East
Timor? Imagine living in a country where the Prime Minister is going
to censor the internet just to appease a single ultra-conservative
Senator?
Believe me, I am not terribly happy to be identified with some of our
national policies.
But on the bright side: a wonderful landscape, lots of sun (unlike
some other countries represented on this list! Eat ya hearts out!),
lots of freedom, generally wonderful people, etc.
There of course is the key: people. Forget the country and focus on
the people.
Anyway, a few more word plays are not out of place.
BTW: Jokes
The major focus of my current research is rural fences. Despite much
searching, I have only found a couple of jokes about fences. Two are
pretty pathetic, and one is quite ribald, and also very funny. I am
not asking anyone for fencing jokes (altho' all welcomed!) BUT I am
curious about sundial jokes.
Does anyone know any sundial jokes????
John
PS: censoring the internet. What a joke!!! All it means is that
instead of typing (say) www.sex.com.au I will just type www.sex.com
and get a site outside Australia! So not only does the censorship not
achieve its objective, but it actually saves me effort! I love the
irony of it all!
Ah, but wait till governments learn that contributors to "sundial"
are a wonderful bunch of freethinkers who explore the universe from
all directions! Sounds like a dangerous group of radicals to me.
Maybe we are already infiltrated by the FBI???
Dr John Pickard
Senior Lecturer, Environmental Planning
Graduate School of the Environment
Macquarie University, NSW 2109 Australia
Phone + 61 2 9850 7981 (work)
+ 61 2 9482 8647 (home)
Fax + 61 2 9850 7972 (work)
