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Marriage cash dash is just trashy
Heckler AN INVITATION arrived recently to attend an interstate wedding. A lovely young couple who've been living together for about five years.
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Graceful ageing tells a story nip and tuck cannot
Heckler WHEN I was 18, a great-aunt helpfully told me that at 20 we have the face we were born with, and at 50 we have the face we deserve.
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No reaching a retching email reader
Heckler MY JOB involves working with international counterparts in business as well as consumers, and during the past six months, I've noticed a palpable increase in the use of the phrase ''reaching out''.
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Effronteries of scale
Heckler ONE day recently the chief executive of a large company was on TV telling us that his corporation would terminate 1000 jobs in order to improve "efficiency and service to the public".
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It's always jam today
Heckler IN THE 1993 comedy Groundhog Day, Bill Murray wakes every morning to find his radio playing the same old tune. I know how he feels.
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My kids make me sick
Heckler I'm told my children are cute. Adorable, even. This winter, all I see is two walking petrie dishes.
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Let's declare a new pest
Heckler ARRIVING home from a trip overseas, I pulled the arrivals card out of the plane seat pocket and began to fill it in: name, nationality, occupation. Megabytes of information for Big Brother.
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One born every minute
Heckler Commonsense is not common. An old saw but, like many, based in truth. Although I am a doctor (declaration of interest), one does not have to be to grasp the failure of commonsense implicit in two...
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Forget piety, think party!
Heckler THE other day my son's day care sent home a note detailing their Christmas activities.
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Time to turf out the lawn
Heckler WHO needs lawn? Parks need lots of lawn for people and dogs to walk, gather and play. Old-fashioned backyards need lawn for family games. Grand houses need lawn to set them off in aristocratic style.
