Heckler on Brain
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'Mummy brain' is for real, I think
Heckler TWO days ago, my best friend and I engaged in a sweaty ballet familiar to mothers across the Western world. We spent two hours looking for my car keys. We marched, we huffed, we swore.
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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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Not much cause for a tea party
Heckler IT'S TEA, people. It's not rocket science or brain surgery, not even as hard as getting all your media outlets sorted together on one remote control.
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It was either T. rex or the coq au vin
Heckler ONCE again, dinosaurs rule the living room. It's all thanks to Claude, a five-year-old nephew from Paris, who has been caught in the thrall of giant creatures with unpronounceable names. With
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Mary had a wittle lamb, full of iron
Heckler ''I'LL have the steak, thank you, medium rare. No, not the tuna steak, the beef steak.
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Dissecting a problem
Heckler "Don't eat the whole elephant at once!" I was saying. "Maybe think about …" Dividing? No, that's not the word I want, but it's something like that.
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Gloves could lend a hand
Heckler It used to be that some people lacked a filter between their brain and their mouth, but a new strain of this disease is now affecting fingers, and it's getting worse.
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At 38,000 feet it's all smiles
Heckler Recently I endured a series of international flights in cattle class. My onboard neighbours ranged from armrest hoggers and shoe-removers to passengers with verbal diarrhoea.
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It borders on racism
Heckler It is perhaps our nation's most effective method of border protection. Quick and infinitely more cost effective than detaining and deporting ''unwanted'' people: just make them feel so unwanted that...
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Good diction is now fiction
Heckler If there is one thing that raises my hackles it is sloppy diction. ''Ee-NUN-see-ate,'' my speech teacher would bellow when I was at school.
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Bare ankles don't suit me
Heckler After my ritualistic workout in the sweat-pit of one of Sydney's CBD gyms, I entered the change room, endorphins flowing, spirit upbeat.
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Committed to memory
Heckler As a woman of a certain age I am more than entitled to critically reflect on the chronic scourge of Expectations to Live the Life Well-Lived that women are subject to throughout their lives at each...
