Beware the lollipop of Mediocrity - Lick it once and You'll Suck Forever.

So I'm reading the papers the other day, as I do on a Sunday and I find two very important things.

 

 The first, is that this is National Vegetarian Week. So is this like "open season" on the Vegies? Can I go out and bag m'self a few? Only problem is of course, you can't eat the meat and the hides are too skinny to be of any real use either.

 

 The other thing wasn't so much a discovery as an affirmation of a previously held belief - that Ozzy journalists are crap. I guess if you live here and you've ever watched the news or read a newspaper you pretty much already knew this but there are two examples in the papers this week that I just can't pass up.

 

 First of all, Andrew Taylor of the Sun Herald, since when do we in this country spell arse - A S S ? You arse, if you can't spell then at least set your spell-checker to 'English - Australian'.

 

 Next is a classic from Daniel Dasey and Kate Hamilton - again from the Sun Herald (does no one check the print before publishing over there?) who refer to a purse as "pocketbook". Seriously guys, if you want to be americans go and live there. I thought it might just be me, so I asked some friends and not one of them calls it a 'pocketbook'. In this country it's a purse or a wallet.

 

Enjoy Vegetarian week everyone, I hear they put up a hell of a fight once you've hooked one. 

 

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