Sarah and her thirteen-year-old sister had been fighting a lot this year. This happens when you combine a headstrong two-year-old, who is sure she is always right, with a young adolescent. Sarah’s parents, trying to take advantage of her newfound… Read More ›
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The Suspected Wharfie
There was a certain wharfie on the Melbourne waterfront who was suspected of stealing. Each day he left the wharf where he worked, pushing a wheelbarrow filled with straw. So a police detective was detailed to watch him. The detective… Read More ›
Diggers of Two Wars
On a footpath in Tel Aviv one day in October, 1942, an old English colonel and a young American major were discussing the war situation in general when they were approached by four youthful Aussie soldiers who had been imbibing… Read More ›
Arrack and Sympathy
During the second world war two Aussie soldiers were in Damascus on leave from a camp nearby. During their perambulations around the city they sampled quite a number of noggins of the local brew, arrack, and eventually they became hopelessly… Read More ›
Where there’s a will…
The Australian platoon was under heavy Japanese frontal attack. The commander yelled out, “Fire at will!” “Cripes,” growled Chiller, “if you can pick Will outta that mob, you’re a better man than I am !” — Bill Wannan in Come… Read More ›
Joke offense
You can choose to feel offended because someone tells a joke that says anyone from your country is stupid. That doesn’t mean they are stupid and even if you agree that they are, abusing the joke-teller won’t make them any… Read More ›
Jokes
…every time there is a tragedy, it will invariably spawn its own set of jokes. Allan & Barbara Pease in Why Men Lie and Women Cry
Not that kind
Man to friend: ‘What do you have if you have fifty rabbits all in a row and they all back up one step?’ Friend: ‘I don’t know. Tell me.’ Man: ‘A receding hare-line!’ — Herbert V Prochnow & Herbert V… Read More ›
Tart vs bitch
What’s the difference between a tart and a bitch? A tart will sleep with anyone. A bitch will sleep with anyone except you. — Allan & Barbara Pease in Why Men Lie and Women Cry Related articles Bitches Be Like……. Read More ›
Yes men
Why can’t some of these ‘yes’ men be bank officers? — Herbert V Prochnow & Herbert V Prochnow Jr. in Jokes, Quotes & One Liners Volume 2
Don’t worry
An employee became ill and was rushed to the hospital. The next day his boss was among the first to visit him. ‘Now John,’ he pleaded, ‘don’t worry about a thing. Everyone at the office is going to pitch in… Read More ›
Prefix
‘Some plants,’ said the biology teacher, ‘have the prefix “dog”. For instance, there is the dogwood, the dogviolet. Who can name another plant prefixed by “dog”?’ ‘I can,’ shouted the little boy in the back row. ‘How about “collie flower”?’… Read More ›
New priest
This joke has been floating about for a while now, but it’s one of my favourites, so I thought I’d share.
Rafferty's Rules is Closing Down 