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Life of Riley: This little piggy went to market
to MelBORN. Went into debt. — In order to set. Themselves up for life. — They free traded. They sold ... Little piggy. — Ha, ha. Pig. Pig. Tried to be big. — Yes, but it is in the nature of piggies. To grow. ... Globalisation Roadshow. BY DAVE RILEY <http://www.ozemail.com.au/~dhell>. September 6, 2000 419 ...
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Life of Riley: Counting the dead reds
komunis. Did we kill off only 500,000 of them or was it more? Terima Kasih (Thankyou). Dave Riley August 7, ... many people there are in each part of a country, what they do and how they live. Do not use tricks. ... Please answer all the questions for every person, unless the form asks you not to. The government of ...
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Life of Riley: The August 19th movement
your houses are infected with gratuity, so a plague on both of them. Dave Riley October 23, 1996 251 ... The August 19th movement As I write it is all of two months since the doors of parliament ... month of this horrible year of repressed discontent, how can I describe my present state? Like some ...
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Life of Riley: Follow the flame
Follow the flame I too have had an episode with the Olympic torch. Like so many of my land-based ... colleagues I have stood and watched the carbon based life form pass into view. That it very soon passed out ... of eyeshot is perhaps neither here nor there. At least I can say I've seen it. All things being ...
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Life of Riley: Who's for waterfront reform?
were not your standard blue-singlet-type docker, not "wharfies" in the traditional sense of ... the term, but men of mature outlook and experience. The illogical enthusiasm and language one usually ... mainly because we all shared the same, or similar, outlook on the question of waterfront reform. How the ...
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Life of Riley: My meeting with Che Guevara
while I took in the sight before me. His resemblance to so many of his portraits was unmistakable. He ... was about my height but slighter of figure, and while I had come to the door dressed in my pyjamas, ... fronds of his charcoal beard. Between his broad lips glowed a hand-rolled cigar. "Aren't ...
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Life of Riley: Jeeves
Jeeves I was sitting up in bed sucking down the early morning cup of tea and reading over my ... of drivelling old bastards' or mention them in connection with the eating habits of the western ... force. After incredible sweat of the old brow, the thing seemed to be in pretty fair shape, and I had ...
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Life of Riley: Election Aftermath: Woe Is Me
us slaves to indigestion; Joseph Stalin has made us shrink from the name of socialism, and has ... destroyed, in the more refined part of the community (of which number I am one), all enthusiasm for ... I suppose you are referring to the unhappy events of last Saturday fortnight. Deary me, what a catastrophe. ...
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Life of Riley: A modest proposal for easing our conscience
Riley [Freely adapted from Jonathan Swift's 1729 satire concerning the poor of Ireland.] February ... stretched to make four dishes of excellent nutritive meat, and the more craft minded among us may flay the ... honourable. After years of offering idle, visionary thoughts, and almost despairing of success, I realised ...
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Life of Riley: Me Darcy, you Jane
"that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife". This notion is the ... opening sentence of Pride and Prejudice — a book which appeared in 1813. If you have been watching the BBC ... adaptation of Austen's novel you'll understand why the work has been such a favourite for so long. ...
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Life of Riley: Di is dead
"DIANA, late of Windsor palace... (etcetera)" is dead and buried. Amen to that, world. She's ... While it is true that two other occupants of the vehicle were also killed, during the day of the ... mention. Thousands surely died. And very few of those lived in the comfort that the princess enjoyed." ...
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Life of Riley: Them and us
corporate boss cockie of them. Dave Riley Email: dhell@ozemail.com.au April 23, 1997 271 ... years presided over the destinies primarily of my good self and lately that of my pet dog, Jo Jo, cannot ... and will not pretend to be unmoved by the extraordinary news which from the grand city of Ipswich has ...
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Life of Riley: Our greedy seniors
vale-of-years industry can get its hands on their money. By Dave Riley October 29, 1997 295 ... applauded. What sort of nation would it be if there wasn't someone to defend us from these greedy ... bastards? As Tim Fischer, a vocal leader of the government's stand, proclaimed this week: "We are ...
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Life of Riley: The Olympic spirit
was something I thought I must see. It took a bit of wrangling to get a seat but I am only 2.365 ... metres from all of the action (I measured it yesterday). At my place, the best seat in the house is mine, ... lying — I admit that now. My view of Atlanta is really Channel Seven's, I merely soak it up. Thus ...
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Life of Riley: Privy preservation
done with it. I'm sick of bottling it up inside me. Just don't let my mum know: I pull down ... of a sudden overwhelming urge to go places. I mention this habit of mine, not because I'm proud ... of it, but because I feel I must say something now that what goes on in these places is so much in ...
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Life of Riley: Keep up the good work
of Australia will be rootin' for you! By Dave Riley <dhell@ozemail.com.au> November 24, ... that's the point! If we cannot reward entrepreneurial skill with a cash payout at the end of a hard ... working day, then what on earth have we been doing since Adam fell out of the apple tree? That management ...
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Life of Riley: Nothing but air
without being particularly aware of the goings on, blow it out, usually the way it came in. That's ... who would have thought that there was money to be made selling off a piece of the action? You better ... going to come from. Betwixt wherever thou art and me is billions of dollars worth of the stuff — air, ...
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Life of Riley: The Ever So Ordinary MP
The Ever So Ordinary MP It is as notorious as the Melbourne weather that the intricacies of social ... of old bigot zeal against migrants and Aborigines. In the case of the ordinary singular form of MP (I ... a true battler of an MP — should speak so", we are told. "We, of course, cannot agree... But, ...
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Life of Riley: Plain words for hard times
first it may be better to speak of my studies this week. While my mind's bibliography may be ... a thing to behold I am nonetheless lazy and idle-minded despite a strong social sense of what ails the ... with a critical eye. Pursuant of news and current affairs, I sometimes alight on the most extraordinary ...
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Life of Riley: Spit the dummy, why don't ya
Spit the dummy, why don't ya Like many of my comrades among the Greenly Left masses, I am ... prone to a wee bit of cynicism every now and then. There's nothing wrong with that. While ideals ... and the passion they engender may claim a fair share of our dreams and waking moments, within the ...
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Life of Riley
can trust you? For all we know, maybe all you want out of life is some firing practice and an excuse ... Picnicking in peace Situated, as I am, in a somewhat northerly aspect of this landscape, a few ... kilometres south of the Tropic of Capricorn and in cooee of a cane toad or two, I leave myself open to being ...
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Life of Riley: Guns and ammo
trigger-happy members of our society have been sent a message: you can shoot, but don't strafe. Australia ... is keen to stay out of the record books, and in future we want our victims assaulted one round (I ... Of course, that's what they're there for. Behind our freedoms stands a body of armed men. ...
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Life of Riley: Little John
John Winston Howard, MHR (Lib) Bennelong: Get a load of that deficit! Phew! What a big 'un! ... "What we have here is a failure of big government". And then I said to him — and I'll say it ... of the cake. We will be open to any offers. Let's see them print their own money or raise their ...
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Life of Riley: The best police force money can buy
never turn your back on one of them. Dave Riley January 31, 1996 217 ... many activities of daily living I want nothing to do with them. Their thin blue line, mustered to hold ... stuck on the median strip what is the flower of the nation's cophood doing? They're on the ...
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Life of Riley: The Little Aussie Battler (reg'd trademark)
The Little Aussie Battler (reg'd trademark) There is a funny idea abroad (by which I mean, of ... course, in this dry brown land in which we dwell) that there exists a minor figure of such truthful grit ... that every attribute of ordinariness is congealed within their being. This entity, I am led to believe, ...