My Occasional Thought

For The Day

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There are Thoughts which come >>> And Thoughts which go >>>

And so ...

The repetitive purple lines below, in my formatting of this page, are in Persian Cuneiform.

friday 21st June 2002ad

What I learn most from Lytton Strachey, is that how you craft both the words and thoughts of your argument, is critical. Whether you are right or not is unimportant. That is for the reader's judgement, and if you have provided the substance for that decision to be made, you have done all which is needed.

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Thursday 20th June 2002ad

Thursday is the Saxon and Danish day for legal judgement. Interesting it is, that the Law should be dedicated to the God, who is least a God, and most a Man. No Semite could be so perceptive!

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Wednesday 19th June 2002ad

There is something so sad about a wednesday.
It's the forlorn crest, farthest from the weekend.

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Tuesday 18th June 2002ad

June in Sydney sees even more flowers;
oblivious to the chill winter winds.

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Monday 17th June 2002ad

Always trust the best, your reptilian inner mind, for it has a sure ear & eye, a clear perspective, & knows no lies.

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Sunday 16th June 2002ad

Oh! to have the contentment of a Budgie! for whom seeds, sun, a small view and some hours of music, are enough for a sure felicity. If only my mind was so well disposed.

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Saturday 15th June 2002ad

It is not enough for a writer to love words, though that be essential. Words, also, must love the writer.

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Friday 14th June 2002ad

Border Protection! ... This is a collective delusion indeed; such that Australians become paranoid about a few hundred refugees arriving by boat, when we all know that tens of thousands of illegals are planed in through our airports every year, with nothing effective being done to prevent it!

Yet, all becomes obvious, when you consider that tackling the latter means confronting powerful crime lords, whilst taking on the former is merely kicking the already fallen. As always, the most true and sincere characteristic of Australians, is a grovelling cowardice!

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Thursday 13th June 2002ad

It is ironic that the planet's most complex animal, should be so prone to giving credence to the most ridiculous and simplistic political gibberish.

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Wednesday 12th June 2002ad

Often, I wonder, is there anything, I could actually be good at? And if there is such, would I have the wit to suitably apply myself to it?

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Tuesday 11th June 2002ad

Lying down, convalescing, and watching football on the television. Curiously, despite the fortunes spent on this game, it takes minimal intellectual activity to take it in. Goldfish could probably do it, quite without effort.

As to this new type of football, one can hit it hard and high and in to the net for a goal, but only if one top spins it. And that took very little neuronal activity to work out. This "inspiration" refers to my 7th June comment.

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Monday 10th June 2002ad

This very unpleasant virus has struck me down. Strange it is, how the most complex species on the planet is so easily prey to the simplest.

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Sunday 9th June 2002ad

Gregory Kinda. Mark the name. This young pianist played today in Sydney, for the Liszt Society, in front of a mere few dozen, in a concert centred on Chopin & Liszt. He is very talented.

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Saturday 8th June 2002ad

I am reading Friedrich Nietzsche's "The Birth Of Tragedy". I find it most interesting, that he suggests that the Middle Eastern way is to obey God's commands, regardless; whereas the Northern European way is to oppose God's commands, if it seems the right thing for us to do, even knowing that by taking this action, a terrible retribution may well befall us.

Or, as I would put it: It is all a question of being True to Your Own Honour.

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Friday 7th June 2002ad

This new World Cup soccer ball goes in to the net from close range, or when hit hard and low from distance, but not when hammered high with a curving spin. I would guess it was designed by a European and not by a South American.

However, be that as it may, it helped not Paraguay's cause yesterday, that their goalkeeper is probably that fattest since Fatty Faulke.

[Willie J. "Fatty" Faulke (1874-1916) was 1.9 metres tall and his weight increased from 141kg to 165kg, during his English representative career - according to the Guinness Book of Records. But in those days, if the Goalkeeper caught the ball and you managed to push him across the goal-line into the net, it was considered a fair goal. One cannot imagine this happening to Fatty Faulke, which explains a few things, including why this record seems in no danger of being broken.]

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Thursday 6th June 2002ad

A Budgie Phantasy

I was late coming home, as I had been to the dentist.

Ludwig Van Budgie-Bird gave me a cold & long stare.
Then he asked me: "Where have you been?"

"At the dentist": I replied.

"And what is a dentist?" he queried.

"He repairs teeth. I had two fillings replaced."

Ludwig then gave me a long quizzical stare.
Finally he asked: "And what are teeth?"

[Actually the real Ludwig Van Budgie-Bird is all forgiving, and when I opened the door, he danced back and forth along his perch with pleasure; no doubt with the hope that music would soon be playing. He was not disappointed.]

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Wednesday 5th June 2002ad

Perhaps the reason why it is "better to give than to receive" is because it leaves you with less mess to clean up.

[Unfortunately, I have not the personality to follow Diogenes the Cynic, who possessed nothing but a drinking bowl. That is, until he saw a shepherd boy cupping his hands to drink from a spring. Then declaring "You have outdone Diogenes", the Cynic broke his drinking bowl. - Please note, that what a Cynic was in the times of Alexander the Great, is quite different from what a cynic is now.]

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Tuesday 4th June 2002ad

Curious I find it, that many people are so keen on war. That is, until they find themselves in the middle of that brutish chaos, they helped to create.

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Monday 3rd June 2002ad

Ludwig van Budgie-Bird seemed happy when I got home [rather late] & played a CD. But then, during a second CD, he began whimpering continually & it took me some time to cheer him up. Alas, he could not tell me what the problem was, albeit I suspect it would have been memory of some melancholy moment in his past, or lost faces or times. He is an old & wise bird.

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Sunday 2nd June 2002ad

Walking briskly uphill in cold rain, with my shins in pain, was no pleasure at all; but it was worth it to hear pianist Tamara Anna Cislowska playing Schubert, Chopin & Liszt. This was at the Schubertiad at the Goethe Institute in Woollahra (Sydney).

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Saturday 1st June 2002ad

Curious I find it, that we should think that the first day of a month can actually mean anything profound. It is merely an artificial human construct, anchored in the miscalculations of the Roman republic's lunar calendar.

[Julius Caesar was so impressed by the accuracy of the Egyptian secular solar calendar (which nation also had two religious lunar calendars running concurrently) that he introduced a solar calendar to Rome; merely crushing in his autocratic style, all opposition. By then the republic was well and truly defunct.]

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Friday 31st May 2002ad

What one wishes to do and what one can do:
There is always a gap, which is often immense.

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Thursday 30th May 2002ad

There is something cold about winter.

[I am a southern hemispherian.]

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Wednesday 29th May 2002ad

The most useless state of consciousness? - The one in which you can
not actually sleep, but lack the ability to do anything constructive.

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Tuesday 28th May 2002ad

The Wisdom in this World is quite limited,
but the Foolishness is utterly infinite.

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Monday 27th May 2002ad

There is a vast difference in music, between nailing a note and hacking it to death. Yet there are some who seem blithely unaware of this fact.

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Sunday 26th May 2002ad

The amount of money spent on "professional sport" is truly obscene.

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Saturday 24th May 2002ad

Every time I see the Australian Prime Minister overseas - either blundering with gormless ineptitude at diplomatic occasions; or stumble-jogging in an oversized slobby-joe - I cringe with embarassment.

Surely even Australians deserve better than this.

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Friday 24th May 2002ad

Australia is the driest of continents.

Yet curiously, most Australians complain when it rains.

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Wednesday 22nd May 2002ad

Strange it is, that people should imagine that the stars of the night sky were put there for our benefit. Rather, with them already being there, we were designed to appreciate their beauty, which makes us happy & therefore, likely to live longer.

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Tuesday 21st May 2002ad

Genius [noun] - The ability to see something very obvious,
that no-one has noticed before.

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Sunday 19th May 2002ad

Computers have this ability to cause extremely stressful frustration,
which one is unable to access any other way.

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Saturday 18th May 2002ad

A monotheist is one who has the answer,
before the question is known.

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Friday 17th May 2002ad

My sleep pattern for the last four nights has been:
5 hours; 5.5 hours; 11 hours; 4.5 hours.

I find it strange that I felt no different after the
11 hours sleep, than I did on any other morning.

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Thursday 16th May 2002ad

In Australia, there has been the strong suggestion that
the retailer, "Coles-Myer" will have a "liquor shakeup".

Is this some kind of cocktail?

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Tuesday 14th May 2002ad

What is the point of a headache?

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Monday 13th May 2002ad

It is a poor sort of conscience, which only understands that murder is wrong, after that person has committed a murder. This seems a flawed system.

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Sunday 12th May 2002ad

Psychopaths cannot lie. They have no concept of the truth.

[So, even if a "lie detector" could be made that actually worked, it would be useless for this kind of personality, which, if it is criminally inclined, is indeed most difficult to control.]

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Saturday 11th May 2002ad

In Mozart's "Exultate Jubilate" or Beethoven's "Mass in C",
even the most devout atheist may find God.

[This is inspired by a concert last night in Chatswood, by the Willoughby Symphony Orchestra, with soloists Su-Cheen Yu [soprano], Shelley Hayton [alto], Jamie Allen [tenor] & Richard Alexander [bass]. But for the record, I am no atheist, regardless of what some have presumed.]

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Wednesday 8th May 2002ad

Prejudice is the first casualty of Reason.

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Monday 6th May 2002ad

Surely, in the way that English usually works,
"Alternative Health" should mean "Illness".

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Sunday 5th May 2002ad

Character [noun] - Ugly [Real Estate use only].

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Saturday 4th May 2002ad

Strong men apologise, but weak men find that impossible.

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Friday 3rd May 2002ad

Budgies do not snore.

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Wednesday 1st May 2002ad

Do Yellowing Leaves ponder their Impending Mortality?

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Sunday 28th April 2002ad

It is if I am a green beetle in a red forest.

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Saturday 27th April 2002ad

Reform [noun] - Any change made by a government,
regardless of its virtue, justice and morality.

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Friday 26th April 2002ad

Ariel Sharon - The wrong man at the wrong place at the wrong time.

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Thursday 25th April 2002ad

The Ultimate Question has had its Ultimate Answer!

Manchester City did score more goals [108] than Stockport County conceded [102], in the the recently completed English Division One. The former finished top & go up a division, while the latter finished bottom & go down a division. Stockport County were relegated before Manchester City were promoted, but in between these two milestones, County actually beat City, in their second personal encounter, by scoring 2 goals in the last 4 minutes. ... There are those who would say, that such happenings concede to reality, the utter futility of all sporting competitions.

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Wednesday 24th April 2002ad

Human Society is like a Steel Blast Furnace.

The Slag rises to the very top.

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Tuesday 23rd April 2002ad

When the Serpent comes, it is every Budgie for itself.

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Monday 22nd April 2002ad

Finishing anything is a kind of death.

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Sunday 21st April 2002ad

This morning I heard an Australian Senator, in a television interview, use the cliche: "every man and his dog". However, he would never have said: "every woman and her bitch". Language is indeed a curious beast.

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Saturday 20th April 2002ad

Inertia has its own Inertia.

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Wednesday 17th April 2002ad

A message to all rich people:

Still no sightings of a camel passing through the eye of a needle.

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Tuesday 16th April 2002ad

The pursuit of Pleasure? ... It can hardly be run down and wrestled in to submission, like some defiant fowl. ... Pleasure is always there within you; its seeking needs be unhurried; of quiet acceptance & understanding.

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Sunday 14th April 2002ad

Words are not Thoughts.
They merely present them.

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Saturday 13th April 2002ad

Small Birds have a Sympathy & a Generosity,
which is altogether lacking in Most People.

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Friday 12th April 2002ad

To deny a wounded combatant medical treatment & to let them bleed to death, is a crime against international law.

To deny a wounded non-combatant medical treatment & to let them bleed to death, is a crime against international law.

To do so repeatedly & persistently is a crime against humanity.

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Thursday 11th April 2002ad

Our cities have too much tar & not enough feathers.

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Wednesday 10th April 2002ad

You do not prove that killing an innocent civilian is wrong,
by killing another innocent civilian.

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Tuesday 9th April 2002ad

Yesterday I stubbed my little toe, left foot. It was painful and the cut bled a bit. Then it caused some discomfort when I had shoes on. ... The thought did occur to me, that it would be more useful if you felt the pain before stubbing your toe, thus avoiding injury.

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Monday 8th April 2002ad

Before the "Euro" was a currency, already there was a "Euro": i.e. a large Australian Wallaby. The Euro is noted for it ability, when it takes fright, to descend over steep terrain at great speed.

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Sunday 7th April 2002ad

When I was searching in & around "Doctor Who" in some idle minutes earlier today, I learnt that Katy Manning [who played Jo Grant, a companion to Doctor Who #3] had in the 1970s been involved in a photo-shoot with a Dalek. I agree with Katy, that the photos are both innocent & humorous!

And, most importantly, no Dalek was harmed!

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Saturday 6th April 2002ad

Death is Nothing. ... Life is Everything!

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Friday 5th April 2002ad

A women who drinks with style and pleasure is intoxicating.

[I shall only add, that anyone who believes that the intention of the
above is to belittle women, is completely and utterly mistaken.
Unlike yesterday's line, there is no "i" concept involved.]

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Thursday 4th April 2002ad

Music has been on a long downslide since Flying Circus disbanded.

[If this seems quite inexplicable, then ask a past-youth Australian!
If you are one & it seems improbable, forget not the "i" word!]

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Wednesday 3rd April 2002ad

The downside for a Perfectionist? EEEFailure is all the more galling!

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Tuesday 2nd April 2002ad

In the German Bundesliga, Bayer Leverkeusen.

Or, if you feel reckless, Buy Two Leverkeusens.

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Monday 1st April 2002ad

In the end, self-pity is the only sympathy that is truly reliable!

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Sunday 31st March 2002ad

A word on the religious and spiritual nature of Easter - Egg.

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Saturday 30th March 2002ad

Pain is so wearisome.

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Friday 29th March 2002ad

Holiday [noun] - A day regarded as Sacred,
because you have the day off work.

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Thursday 28th March 2002ad

If you can not love a Budgie, you can not love.

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Monday 25th March 2002ad

Tiredness weakens even genius.

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Sunday 24th March 2002ad

Everything is a struggle!!

The first struggle for me each day is getting out of bed, leaving the safe warmth for the chill darkness, or fighting my way up through the terse dust-flecked shafts of yellow. In either case, it is to cut to a chaotic world. Those who have never arisen out of bed, have no concept of true terror.

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Saturday 23rd March 2002ad

Budgie is man's best friend.

A dog is no more a friend than a pitchfork is.

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Friday 22nd March 2002ad

BHP -Billiton.

[If this seems inexplicable, ask an Australian!]

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Thursday 21st March 2002ad

Australian politics has a persistent disagreeable grubbiness.

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Wednesday 20th March 2002ad

I wonder why humid heat is so much more debilitating than dry heat.

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Sunday 17th March 2002ad

Ludwig Van Budgie-Bird's favourite music is Classical & Baroque, especially the Soprano arias of Mozart & Handel.

Wolfgang Razorbeak & Amadeus Bat-Budgie [the "kids"] are different. Their favourite music is soccer crowd noise.

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Saturday 16th March 2002ad

For Manchester City fans, the real "Axis Of Evil" is Manchester United,
Wolverhampton Wanderers and Manchester United.

The "Ultimate Question" Update.
[Refer this page - 23rd January 2002AD]:

Manchester City went ahead of Stockport County by 89-88 last tuesday, after some weeks behind, following a 1-3 result at Crewe Alexandra.

[For continuing updates to the last round - The English Division One Table]

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Friday 15th March 2002ad

Religion should be a personal matter,
not an excuse for national bastardry.

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Thursday 14th March 2002ad

When Robert Mugabe says that the 2002 Zimbabwean presidential election was free and fair, he means that anyone (alive or dead) was free to vote for him, and that he, Robert Mugabe thinks this is perfectly fair.

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Tuesday 12th March 2002ad

Self-Destructiveness has multiferous
perverse ways of inflicting itself!

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Monday 11th March 2002ad

My Budgies are in cages for reasons of security.
.... Mine, that is.
Otherwise, I may well be pecked to death
when the music stops.

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Sunday 10th March 2002ad

Murphy's Law Of Concert Seating:

The people whose seats are in the most inaccessible place in any row
will always arrive last.

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Saturday 9th March 2002ad

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Friday 8th March 2002ad

You cannot play a Beethoven Symphony with too much passion.

Brahms is quality schmalz.

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Wednesday 6th March 2002ad

Why can't I be depressed? ... Everyone needs a hobby.

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Monday 4th March 2002ad

Sometimes, I become very depressed.
Othertimes, I just become depressed.

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Saturday 2nd March 2002ad

The USA has a Shadow Government
whereas the Australian Government is but a shadow.

[Yet I do wonder how a shadow of something above ground,
can be hidden underground.]

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Friday 1st March 2002ad

Yesterday morning I saw a leaf in a building lift.
It must be autumn.

[I live in the Southern Hemisphere. In some parts of the world,
a "lift" is termed an "elevator".]

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Wednesday 27th February 2002ad

Budgies are natural born headbangers.

[Personal Observation. I have even observed the wild head shakes matched with ecstatic warbling, in response to Johann Pachelbel's "Canon in D Major for Strings & Continuo"!]

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Tuesday 26th February 2002ad

Zarathustra's creation of the concept of evil may well itself have been an evil thing. But the millenia old error cannot be undone.

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Monday 25th February 2002ad

I had to ban myself from the internet on saturday & sunday. With Cyndia Sieden & the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra at [the aptly named] Angel Place on saturday night, followed by Beethoven's "Fidelio" performed by Opera Australia [with Lisa Gasteen] at the Sydney Opera House on sunday afternoon, plus necessary housework, it seemed the only option.

p.s. Both performances were excellent!

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Friday 22nd February 2002ad

Chess is a eloquent and elegant method,
of ego self-destruction.

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Thursday 21st February 2002ad

Pain, when it continues seamlessly in to the distance, well past the point at which it tells you anything useful, is surely one of evolution's worst errors.

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Monday 18th February 2002ad

My favourite fitness accessaries are my feet. To use:

[1] Attach left foot to base of left leg,
toes pointing forward.
[2] Attach right foot to base of right leg,
toes pointing forward.
[3] Walk.

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Sunday 17th February 2002ad

It is always a mistake to confuse ethnicity and language.

Almost all Irish speak English as their first language
but this does not make them English.

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Saturday 16th February 2002ad

My Enthusiasm has secreted itself under the fridge
and I cannot reach it.

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Thursday 14th February 2002ad

If you say you did not know, but the reason for your ignorance, is that you refused to let anyone tell you, then you are still lying.

["Our civil laws naturally cannot handle suppression of the facts in all its forms." - Marcus Tullius Cicero: On Duties III - VII Sharp Practice And The Law. Michael Grant's translation, Penguin 1960.]

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Wednesday 13th February 2002ad

Different Thoughts have Different Time Zones.

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Tuesday 12th February 2002ad

Transposing the obscene as the absurd,
helps to deaden the blow.

[Please note that I use "obscene" in the sense of bastardry.]

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Monday 11th February 2002ad

The difference between Sport and War

is that War aims to kill

whereas Sport aims to maim.

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Sunday 10th February 2002ad

Music is my only pleasure. All else is obligation.

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Saturday 9th February 2002ad

Interesting it is, that the generosity of a country to those fleeing another country, due to war or natural disaster, is in inverse proportion to the ability of the "recipient" country to afford the expense.

Or, to put it more succinctly: usually, the poor are generous, while the rich are miserly!

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Friday 8th February 2002ad

Life is God's Way of giving Death Meaning.

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Monday 4th February 2002ad

One has not lived, till One has offended some other One.

But then, Life is what it makes of You.

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Sunday 3rd February 2002ad

"Why can't we play more Richard Strauss and Edward Elgar?"

asked the 2nd Harpist in the Symphony Orchestra.

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Saturday 2nd February 2002ad

Baby Budgie Philosophy:

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Friday 1st February 2002ad

Never have I witnessed an Australian Prime Minister so humiliated in a journey abroad. The most senior members of the U.S.A. Executive would not meet him, being more concerned with lauding the Afghan President. Media Mogul, Rupert Murdoch declined to meet him. However, the said Afghan President sought him out & it seems that this Prime Minister, so unmoving when at home during an election campaign, is now prepared to make many concessions on Refugees; but then, he is on a lonely journey to nowhere in a foreign land.

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Thursday 31st January 2002ad

Ah! Baby Bush's State of Confusion Address! How can a major world leader be so ignorant, as not to realise that Iran was the Taliban's most consistent & determined enemy during the latter's period of power?

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Wednesday 30th January 2002ad

Curious as it may seem, the Australian Prime Minister has travelled to the United States of America, to write their President a letter.

[Sydney Morning Herald, 30th January 2002. Actually, he wrote the letter last week, but if he was a VIP with something important to say, then surely the President would have seen him.]

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Monday 28th January 2002ad

"terra australis" [Dharawal] - [literally] "sandflies not-so-bad-there"

This is what the local Botany Bay people, in 1788, said to Captain Arthur Philip of the British Navy, to persuade him to move his shiploads of convicts from Botany Bay to Port Jackson.

[This day is a holiday in Australia, courtesy of the anniversary two days earlier. The said anniversary commemorates the ground being soft enough, just behind Sydney Cove, to safely plant a flagpole.]

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Sunday 27th January 2002ad

My most unexpected discovery of 2001? - - - - - That I liked Opera!

Or, to be more precise, at least some Opera. ... Even only two years ago, the idea that I would gladly part with $87.00, to witness over three hours of an Opera, would have seemed, to me, to be utterly impossible!

But then, Life has this habit of innovating the most unexpected surprises!

[Last night was my third live Opera at the Sydney Opera House: Mozart's "The Marriage Of Figaro". The second was Mozart's "The Magic Flute" & the first was Umberto Giordano's "Andrea Chénier". The fourth, next month, will be Beethoven's "Fidelio".]

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Saturday 26th January 2002ad

"line dancing" - a failed attempt to prove one is sober.

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Friday 25th January 2002ad

"big'ot" [noun] - see "ot".

"ot" [noun] - diarrhoeic duck poo.

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Thursday 24th January 2002ad

Ah! Queensland! Mosquitoes one day! Sandflies the next!

[For those who are not from the east coast of Australia, this is a variation on a famous Queensland tourism promotion. I grew up in the place & can well vouch for the voracious insects.]

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Wednesday 23rd January 2002ad

In English Football, in Division One, there is one ultimate question: Will Manchester City score more goals than Stockport County concedes, during the 2001/02 League season?

[At the time of writing, it is Manchester City by a whisker - 68 to 67. For the current state of play, if you are interested - The English Division One Table.]

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Tuesday 22nd January 2002ad

"Belief " or "Faith" is a state of Absolute Trust. So I, who do not even trust myself, am incapable of "Belief". Yet, this causes me no angst.

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Monday 21st January 2002ad

An ego is like a vege-patch.
Keep it well nourished and it will flourish.

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Sunday 20th January 2002ad

An Axiom of Mine:

"All things being equal, always choose the simplest way of completing a task."

The above is a variation on the so-called Ockham's Razor, which actually predates that prelate by over a millenium.

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Saturday 19th January 2002ad

Not all serendipitious solutions work both ways. Having run out of laundry detergent today, I used shampoo as the surfactant in the wash. I have used this before and it works well, albeit it is a little more expensive. However, I have never seriously entertained the reverse possibility: ie. using laundry detergent to wash my hair!

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Friday 18th January 2002ad

I saw [j] crossing [b] Street today in Sydney's North Shore. The sign said 'DON'T WALK'; so he ran.

A training video, on lifting heavy objects, went thus: " ... keep it close ... bend your knees ... keep the pressure off your spine ". ... I thought it all would be irrelevant for anyone spineless.

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Thursday 17th January 2002ad

I use but two fingers to key words. So when they wear out, I still have three spare pairs.

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Wednesday 16th January 2002ad

Stress is often the cause of a sudden & unexpected faint. However, very few people are stressed out by eating a pretzel!

[This is inspired by the Intellectual Activities of George Bush jnr. - to wit, or otherwise, Baby Bush - and his hasty brush with a Pretzel of Talibanic Tendencies. George Bush jnr. became President of the United States of Amorica ... sorry America, after losing the Presidential Election in November 2000, by a clear and unassailable margin. Well, no-one is perfect!]

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THE END IS NEAR

INDEED, IT IS HERE !!

©TONY SIMS, 2002 ad - Text, Formatting & Ego.

16th January to 21st June 2002

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