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Life of Riley: Playing by the rules
that much trouble? Beats me. Guess it's 'cause we like dishin' it out. By Dave Riley ... to play by the rules. Our rules. — Oooweee! I love it when we talk like that. Yeah. Ain't it ... people have died there because of them already. — Jesus. A million, eh? That's what it says. One ...
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Life of Riley: Santa and me
we never see his like again. Dave Riley March 4, 1998 308 ... and preferably sons of the Church at that. We were scheduled to gather as a body each week for ... topic of Why we are in Vietnam (it being 1967 at the time), B.A. unexpectedly arrived and sat next to ...
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Life of Riley: This talkback thing
on. But the likes of me and my wife, honest folk who keep to themselves, all we want out of life is to ... appreciated. You are. You are. And this talkback thing — well it was so kind of Mr Laws to hand over his ... program to you like that. It was. Valda and I — Valda's my wife; she's turned on in the other ...
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Life of Riley: Our greedy seniors
privilege". That's just the sort of fighting words we hard-pressed Aussie battlers like to hear. Old ... drivellers, we'd like to do it in a bit of style. So next time you ring home, tell the oldies that the ... vale-of-years industry can get its hands on their money. By Dave Riley October 29, 1997 295 ...
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Life of Riley: Mum
National Farmers Federation. Just like that with a stroke of the pen: Denying me my birthright. "Same ... demonstrating! You don't say. It turns out she's taken a very poor view of the Coalition. Grave robbers ... she's taken to filing newspaper clippings under her bed. "Keeping abreast of the times", she ...
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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 ... like any other flame. While I only caught a glimpse, the luminescence reminded me of the left back gas ... 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: Fleas
rigging. And who better to rig the votes than the Labor Party! Accusing the ALP of vote rigging is like ... a side order of legalisms with our suffrage. Here, in beautiful downtown Brisbane, where its Labor one ... day and Coalition the next, the ubiquitous Criminal Justice Commission handles the rule of law. When ...
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Life of Riley: 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ Weekly Users' Guide
ground. There's plenty of pivot available, and I'm less likely to be knocked over in the rush ... 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ Weekly Users' Guide Dave Riley I want to explain all about 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ Weekly so ... that you can get into its very vitals. Vitals are what makes a newspaper project like this healthy and ...
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Life of Riley: The rat race
right. But don't forget the Europeans have clumped together this year. There's a lot of ... the top chances? — Well, the whole Asian Tiger thing seems to have had its day. In an event like this, ... like they did got the crowd on its feet. For a time they were saying you could run a race like that. ...
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Life of Riley: When it pleases me
I can sit on them! Sit on them, Sir? Why yes. Like this, Sir? Ah, yes. (Sits) That's much better. ... me. Yes, Sir! Unless, of course, I was to change my mind. (Rises). Yes, Sir. Then it wouldn't. ... Dave Riley February 10, 1999 348 ...
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Life of Riley: Aliens
a stick at, your run of the mill Asiatic has their back to the wall. There's hunger and hardship like ... cuisine, our schools, our welfare net and they say to themselves, "Gee, I'd like a bit of ... you wouldn't believe. But here, just a few ks south of where all that soy sauce and chili is ...
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Life of Riley: My meeting with Che Guevara
Guevara." Yes, of course. That's bloody obvious. But what if I turned my head like this and the light ... 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, ...
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Life of Riley: Peanut butter and pineapple rings
missing an event like that. Not in a million years. Came right up the main street, it did. In cooee of our ... we were up there bright and early in our jim jams waving Aussie flags the kids had cut out of ... a Weeties packet. And they waved them like merry hell. God, it made me darn proud. I felt privileged. I did. ...
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Life of Riley: Win with Winston
Win with Winston I would like to thank everyone who sent get well greetings to Winston — the vent ... myself to know that so many of you have been concerned about the trauma he has been experiencing after ... and was worked on by the best papier-mache surgeons available. The record of the Doll and Teddy ...
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Life of Riley: Let's hear it for fart jokes
anything you care to mention. Indeed, Life of Riley Enterprises would like to go on record with its ... I'm sure Riley and Green could agree on many issues of great import. We could, I'm certain, work ... — I'm sorry, Jim, but we must (as it is said) "agree to disagree". Some of us like fart jokes. ...
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Life of Riley: Let's blockade Tassie!
more Cubans than there are residents of Tasmania. How do you like them apples? I have done my homework. ... Ask me anything you like about either of these islands: the capital of Cuba is Havana, the capital of ... Let's blockade Tassie! Tasmania lies due south of the continent of Australia, 240 kilometres ...
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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: Me Darcy, you Jane
contemporary mores, but of reality. You could be as rad-fem as you like back in them days — but without jobs on ... "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 ...
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Life of Riley: Di is dead
like again." By Dave Riley September 10, 1997 289 ... "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 ...
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Life of Riley: Kurds come from Kurdistan
like them Kurds. Came out here without a cracker. Worked hard. Made something out of their lives. But ... That there's an awful lot of problems in this world. — More for some than others. By Dave Riley ... gettin' so you can't trust any of 'em. You let 'em in and they go bite the hand that feeds. ...
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Life of Riley: How to be true blue
"But I do battle. Oh master, I struggle so hard every day of my life. Why can't I be like ... gets his own Little Aussie Battler™; to have and to hold, as it were. I just feel so much on top of ... feet" — as it were — of the Little Aussie Battler™ at every opportunity in order to hang on his lips. (I ...
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Life of Riley: It pays to be mellow
a vote of confidence, Mr President — in you and your government. President: We like to think so. Prime ... — a gesture sometimes can work wonders. President: The bans stay! Prime Minister: Of course. Demand respect ... Prime Minister: Yes, of course, a forceful figure, a leader to his people, a man among men — but show ...
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Life of Riley: What! Me worry?
credited. Here I was thinkin' that I could see the light at the end of the tunnel. All those years ... Yeah. Right. Don't get me wrong. I was my own worst enemy. Sometimes I think I'm no judge of ... It's real laid back like. That Costello fella's not up nights fretting about the economy, is he? ...
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Life of Riley: A metaphor
A metaphor Hey! Wait up, Little John! You're moving as fast as those little legs of yours ... as he ran up and down in his new pair of red Speedos. Honest to goodness, John. I sometimes think you ... take the job too seriously. — Too seriously? No-one can (pant) take unemployment like ours lightly. ...
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Life of Riley: Fiddling on the margins
up and necked their king. Charles I was executed in 1649 with the avid support of folk like the two ... until 1616. Great times were had by all. What with the bubonic plague and the great fire of London ... Johns: Milton and Bunyan. If you are in the least literary, it comes as something of a surprise to learn ...