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Logies not quite as rigged as usual (Good News Week 11/2/08: monologue)

The Logies is undergoing an extreme makeover, meaning voters no longer have to have a copy of TV Week to vote. However, given the list of nominees, they still need to have a TV Week authorised brain. / However, you won’t know who the nominees are unless you already buy TV Week. While you no […]

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Trendy Rehab (Good News Week 11/2/08: What’s the Story?)

With so many celebrities checking into rehab, local rehab centres are being inundated with calls. People are also wondering if they can get a treatment program that matches their shoes. Rehab centres believe high profile rehab stints by celebs like Lindsay Lohan and Amy Winehouse are behind the surge in enquiries. Because rehab has worked […]

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The Ruddy Dozen (Good News Week 11/2/08: What’s the Story?)

PM Kevin Rudd is organising a summit of the country’s varied experts to help generate 12 great ideas for the future of the country. Coz he’s totally out. / Because he only had one idea, and that was to rhyme his name with “07”. Kevin Rudd is hoping his “Future Summit” will produce 12 good, […]

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Premiers are Grand Pricks (Good News Week 11/2/08: Bites)

NSW Premier Morris Iemma reckons Sydney is a better place than Melbourne for putting Australia on the world map. But let me tell you all, I saw a world map recently and guess what? Australia’s already there. NSW Premier Morris Iemma reckons Sydney should take the Grand Prix, as it’s a better place than Melbourne […]

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The Adventures of Gothdog (Good News Week 11/2/08: Strange But True)

British Goth Tasha Maltby was shocked when a bus driver told her “We don’t let freaks and dogs like you on” – just because she was being led on a leash by her fiancée. Plus she was trying to argue that pets travel free. The bus driver later apologised, but said he just wasn’t sure […]

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Naked Germans on a Plane (Good News Week 11/2/08: Strange But True)

Naked Germans can now fly, unencumbered by annoying clothing. And their clothing can be transported in a separate plane, unencumbered by fat sweaty Germans. Of course a nude flight is potentially more exposing than a nude beach. Rolling over to hide an unwanted erection could just make things worse, depending on who you roll into. […]

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Livin’ on Carcasses and Dirt (Good News Week 11/2/08: So You Think You Can Mime)

A Canadian man trapped under his quad bike for 96 hours survived by wearing and eating rotting beaver carcasses. All that and more in the new series: Survivor: Beaver Carcasses! The guy’s very lucky. In some parts of the world, beaver carcass is considered a great delicacy. He even tried eating one of the beaver […]

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Junkie Whitening (Good News Week 11/2/08: So You Think You Can Mime)

A US thief was arrested after trading four boxes of teeth-whitening strips for heroin. Police are still trying to catch the dealer, said to be a thick-set, swarthy man with a winning smile. The dealer uses so many strips at once, the police are looking for a man who glows in the dark. Somewhere, a […]

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EDIT 21/1/07: Well I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, never believe what a writer tells you… according to Channel 10’s press release published at TV Tonight the show will actually be on Mondays at 8:30pm, not 9pm as I said yesterday. As that great poet Homer once put it, “D’oh!” Well, you […]