Glancing at a BBC webpage one day last month, we were surprised to learn that Perth wants to be classified as one of the world's slow cities. "A move to win Cittaslow status for the Fair City has received backing from the council and enterprise company," said the report....
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Helen of Wales was probably more famous in Britain a few years ago than Helen of New York is in America today. By a remarkable coincidence, her amusing comments on life were also listed as Helenisms, a word that American computer wiz Steve R. White claims to have coined to...
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Royalists, fashionistas and followers of the world's most unusual sporting events will enjoy reading an account of the Royal Ascot Goat Races, held in Kampala, Uganda (one of the world's poorest countries) on August 26. Read Elizabeth Kameo's literary cameo by clicking on her...
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Sopchoppy, Florida, US (population 253) holds an annual Worm Gruntin' Festival that seems to resemble the recent Worm Charming contest in the English village of Willaston, Cheshire (pop. about 4000), where Tom Shufflebotham made a record catch of 511 worms in 30...
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No more “Press button one”?Paul English must have felt he was a canary surrounded by hungry cats when he addressed 1000 representatives of the telephone and speech technology industry in New York last month. He’s the helpful computer genius who has publicly disclosed...
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Don't be surprised if friends, or even strangers, greet you that way on September 19 (or on September 22 in Australia). Just smile back, and repeat the greeting to them, and to anyone else you meet. It's contagious. Normally-sane people in more than 40 countries will...
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From Hillbilly Zeb in Texasto a soldier from Eromanga
(and Siobhán in Mullinavat)
It's not often that a story makes us laugh out loud, but this one did. It's posted on several Australian websites:
Letter from a kid from Eromanga to Mum and Dad. (Eromanga is a small town...
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"Every four years, world athletics and swimming records are broken, but the egg-throwing record has survived for more than a quarter-century," we wrote in September 2004. "We'd like to see this bizarre sport included in future Olympic Games."
That hope may yet be achieved....
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