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Life of Riley: Next door
Next door I guess things have finally settled down next door. Next door? Indonesia. Looks like ... To being a particularly nasty situation. Oh. I guess so. Of course you know what those military ... fellas are like over there? Not like our boys at all. They're gun-totin' politicos. Cowboys. ...
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Life of Riley: Thwack!
boy, is the voice of Israel. BY DAVE RILEY <dhell@ozemail.com.au> November 1, 2000 426 ... muck have we? Golly I don't know how you A-rabs stomach the stuff. Looks like baby poo to me. Been ... foul mouthed are we? [THWACK!] Dirty words won't get you far with me. I don't like hearing ...
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Life of Riley: Splash... gurgle
I'm sure, depart like all the others. But the one that is soon to leave us, this year of 1998, was it ... how much of this year we're soon to bid farewell to will be extant (don't you like that word ... a good year as good years go, do you think? I ask you to take a moment of the little time we have left in ...
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Life of Riley: How about that!
the building block of life. Something like Leggo, really — you put it all together and make life forms ... isn't? It's like knowing the plot in the great novel of life! Every twist and turn, all those ... marvellous that a celebrity like you can spare a moment from your busy schedule to talk to us. I'm sure ...
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Life of Riley: Bill gets his 15 minutes
It's Bill Hayden, I tell you. I'm sure of it. He wrote a book about himself and got all that ... Hayden. And that woman with him is his wife. Ummm. Dallas, that's it. Just like the TV series. There ... rest of the office on Monday. He's looking up again — Excuse me, but aren't you Bill Hayden? ...
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Life of Riley: Toot this and toot that
were like my friend Ray, who was of histrionic bent, you pin this statement to your front door and go ... Toot this and toot that I think it goes like this: everything passes, everything changes, ... everything dies. Except in the original French, it had a line of toute s in it — being, as it were, a French ...
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Life of Riley: Regarding the last 30 years
— You're having me on. What? Someone like you? I wouldn't dare. By Dave Riley May 13, 1998 317 ... Regarding the last 30 years And so we go ever forward sentenced to make the best of what we find. ... going to go all soppy on me. I was just looking back. Taking in the last 30 years of struggle and fight. ...
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Life of Riley: Deciding
someone in particular? No. No-one special. Just general like, that's all. I'm making an ... to. It doesn't work that way. When the bottom drops out like this, it's every man for ... like this, I'd pull out and cut my losses. But since you're not... — Yeah. Go on, Mister ...
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Life of Riley: Budgeteer Junior
a game of Federal Treasury — a game whose rules I didn't much like. If I wanted an apple at all this ... — K.E.I.R.A.N. What do I say next? I am six years old. I am in grade 2. I like Power Rangers, Batman and the ... Simpsons. And I like the computer. I like the games on the computer. Can I play Cosmo after this, can I, ...
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Life of Riley: Tea for two
Life of Riley: Tea for two "Come in if you're good looking." "I wish you ... and did her bidding. "Let it draw a bit, love", she said from her armchair. "I like it ... "Of course, love. I wouldn't miss my grand-daughter's... eh... " "Twelfth, ...
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Life of Riley: Do you want tax with that?
the footy season is under way, but don't get too carried away. I fear that the introduction of ... a new tax system may be too much excitement for one year. Think of your blood pressure! We can't ... and service tax whenever you please. Don't go playing with it hither and non like a new toy. ...
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Life of Riley: Trespassers prosecuted
underpants) to visit these shores was Lemuel Gulliver. His visit down-under was to the outback settlement of ... Lilliput, which was located in the inland region of what is now known as Western Australia. See if I'm ... a beach at some distance from the briny and within cooee of Uluru. This spot is not now listed on any ...
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Life of Riley: That's the point
of friendship, with a tidy sum in it, and that Suharto fellow starts knocking off the locals. — It ... with blood like that. — Knocked off a million or so back in the sixties. Who? — Suharto. That's ... like this... — You want to be able to run for cover. Exactly! Let them sort it out among themselves. ...
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Life of Riley: Professional foot soldiers
easily the amateur can eclipse the good standing of an industrious professional like myself? There I was, ... connoisseurs of — what we call — militant, non-violent direct action. That's the way we like it. And ... anyone who says different is (please excuse my bluntness) simply full of bull. Dave Riley Email: ...
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Life of Riley: Politics for beginners
game. With sharks like Richo at large maybe it is best to stay out of the water altogether. "Be ... choose to dabble occasionally. But beyond this I like to look upon myself as a righter of wrongs ... that's a bummer. But if you don't fight, you lose anyway. Politics may seem like that king of ...
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Boots Riley: Why I am voting for Bernie Sanders
seen things like the anti-Iraq War movement, which mobilised millions of people onto the streets all ... North America Boots Riley class struggle labour movement Occupy Black Lives Matter I have never ... the general election. If I’m doing that, there are probably tens of millions in that same position. ...
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Life of Riley: A community service announcement
significance. There's been the Year of the Pig before this and maybe the International Year for the ... Prevention of Bad Breath — but 2001 is chalked up as the Year of the Volunteer. Much as I am into ... volunteering — I step forward when others step back — I think people like me shouldn't get all the credit. ...
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Life of Riley: The magic carpet
Life of Riley Enterprises are much distressed to hear such talk. Having just designed a range of John ... part of its pudgy face fell onto the floor. Now it looks like a teenager suffering from acne. But we at ... Life of Riley Enterprises are working non-stop to find a mix to keep Kimbo in one piece. All Kimbo ...
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Life of Riley: Ask what you can do for your country
bit for my country! And anyone who doesn't like it... can see me after. By Dave Riley E-mail: ... of you is on the threshold of citizenship. And it's about time you learned what that means. If ... — what would you say? Don't think I'm giving out one of the questions in this year's ...
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Life of Riley: Sound the trumpet
much like the 21st. I ask you: is that a good thing? Don't get me wrong — I'm a boy of the ... — not just a lot of hype. Like it or not, January 1, 2000, is going to be the first day of the rest of ... for it. But I'd be dreaming. I'd like to say that, come midnight of the day in question, we ...
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Life of Riley: Coming out
became addictive and seemed to fit me like a glove. I couldn't get enough of it. All my social ... Coming out By Dave Riley I admit to it. It was some time ago when I first realised that despite ... the pressure of my friends and family it was time for me to come to some resolution, if only at first ...
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The Life of Riley: STR*KE!
veterans of old class wars remember how to swear like troopers. The verb to strike is no longer to be ... don't tell my mum. The word is — I have to use it and be done with it. I'm sick of bottling it up ... it. But that's the word: strike. Maybe some of you are thinking: what's he on about ...
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Life of Riley: Elian, the boogeyman's here
Life of Riley: Elian, the bogyman's here Elian! Elian! Where is that boy? Elian, you come to ... no where to be found. Elian! Elian! Oh, he's like this all the time. These last five months ... he's given his dear old uncle no end of trouble. Has no idea what's riding on his arse. Play ...
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Life of Riley: 'Reformasi' has had its day
taken note. That's all the democracy you're likely to get this side of... of...the next time ... live with that. So should you. Out of the old regime a new promise is surely born. We may not like it, ... mobilisation of the masses within the framework of the campaign is over. That's it. You've all had ...
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Life of Riley: Sentenced to history
hand of all past generations rests like a nightmare on the mind of the living and, despite themselves, ... times together, history and I. Of course, I'm no celebrity, nor am I likely to become one. While ... Sentenced to history It is a feature of existence, often noted in the circles within which I move, ...