Heckler on Arts
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Train fix may only work in Wonderland
Heckler RECENTLY, I noticed a positions vacant advertisement, in the Herald, for managers for NSW trains.
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Invisible living in a wheelchair
Heckler YVONNE is disabled by severe arthritis. We often go out for lunch or a film together - she in her wheelchair and me pushing.
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Weigh-in plan cleared for take-off
Heckler YET again I have been subjected to discrimination at an airport check-in counter.
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Let's stamp out those long lines at post office
Heckler IF YOU are, like me, old fashioned and still send letters by post, you would be wise to purchase all your stamps and aerograms in bulk in future.
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Word to the wise, if that's OK
Heckler I WANT to change the English language - well, the use of it - but I'm going to need your help and your consensus to do it. Are you prepared to try? Yes or no?
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No universal way to make a connection
Heckler MY BLOOD had been simmering through the school holidays because of the ubiquitous umbilical cord. Not, I hasten to add, the human kind, but over the multitude of cables that connect modern electronic...
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Youngsters are clueless about life for oldsters
Heckler AT 64 I have read that a group of 40-year-olds working for a think tank recommend raising the knackery level to 70. Oh, the aches and pains now.
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Going back to school will never be the same
Heckler ''DROP off your school list and we will pack it for you to pick up later.'' This is the offer from a big office supplies chain. I can't imagine anything worse.
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Medication complication a bitter pill
Heckler PICTURE two nights before Christmas 1990. A hot, dry summer in Sydney, a dearth of organ donors and a 50-year-old professor connected to a pump that, with the aid of helium and very skilful medical...
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Let the snobs simmer over slow food
Heckler I USED to think that slow food referred to food that was actually slow. Like snails, or weary cows. No longer! I have recently become aware of the slow food movement and the immense importance...
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Waiting for some sense over weight
Heckler CHILDHOOD obesity is in the spotlight again, with Professor David Penington's suggestion that a child's weight be recorded on their primary school report.
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Shrinking feeling as the gown fades away
Heckler No garment is more useless than the waffle weave dressing gown. You see them in all the department stores at this time of year.
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Anti-football rants out of line and date
Heckler OF COURSE I realise Michael Carlton is exaggerating for comic effect in his attempt to bait me and others with his anti-football rant in the paper last Saturday.
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Why call centres get my goat
Heckler I WRITE this on behalf of the 3 million Australians who, like me, are fed up trying to have our domestic problems solved by doubtless well-meaning, but culturally challenged, people sitting in small...
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Seeing red over use of intoxicating wine studies
Heckler Hardly a day goes by without the media enlightening us with some ground-breaking new research to guide us along the rocky road of life.
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Nothing but a pointless piece of cloth
Heckler Why do we even need a flag in the first place. Honestly, what use is the bloody thing?
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Hoping to hear silent night this Christmas
Heckler CHRISTMAS has a distinct resonance in our house. In other homes, the festive season might be accompanied by the sound of Jingle Bells or the comforting noise of cooking from the kitchen.
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A walking dictionary: how very apposite
Heckler I can now empathise with Kafka's Gregor Samsa when he woke up on that fateful morning and realised he had turned into a cockroach (well, was well on his way to becoming one), because this morning I...
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Bad mothers confab: no fakes please
Heckler DUE to escalated interest in the bad mothers meetings, which have been held on an irregular basis through the year, a Bad Mothers Conference has been planned so that we can all sleep in following the...
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Forgive me for my assault on batteries
Heckler ''ARE there any triple-A batteries in this house?'' screamed an almost hysterical daughter on the morning of the maths exam. Of course there weren't. There never are.
