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Dictator, er, voted out (Good News Week 7/4/08: monologue)

Robert Mugabe could become the world’s first dictator to be ousted by being voted out. Well there you go. It’s like an armed revolution, only done by voting. / Who’d’ve thought an election could be the perfect bloodless coup? Mugabe’s disappointed: whatever happened to good old-fashioned armed revolution? Mugabe’s disappointed: he was hoping to be […]

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Military work experience (Good News Week 7/4/08: monologue)

Defence Minister Joel Fitzgibbon has ordered military chiefs to immediately open bases to work experience kids. He’s sick of making his own coffee. After all, Fitzgibbon’s still a work experience Defence Minister. The work experience kids will be given jobs like making coffee, filing, and photocopying top secret information for the Russians. How are we […]

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Camp Pretend Refugee (Good News Week 7/4/08: What’s the Story?)

Oxfam Australia is giving Melburnians a chance to experience life in a Third World refugee camp in Albert Park. Visitors will be taken through the daily trials faced by refugees, and will never be allowed out. / before being shipped off to a remote island to live the rest of their days in imprisonment. And […]

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Olympic torture relay (Good News Week 7/4/08: What’s the Story?)

China wants its army to oversee the Australian leg of the Olympic torch relay to ensure protests don’t mar the event, and just do some minor scouting for an invasion. China wants its army to oversee the Australian leg of the Olympic torch relay. They promise a small-scale presence, with only 3 tanks and minimal […]

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2020 wannabes (Good News Week 7/4/08: 1000 words)

Applicants rejected from the 2020 summit’s “best and brightest” panel have voiced their disapproval to organisers. Kevin Rudd said he understood the feelings of those who had been left out. It’s not easy being dumb and crap. I can see the bouncers now: “Sorry mate, not with that IQ.” Kevin Rudd was quick to respond […]

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Self-saucing pudding (Good News Week 7/4/08: So You Think You Can Mime)

Two German air force sergeants are facing court martials for cannibalism after drawing their own blood to make black puddings. But the prosecution may have a tough time – is it really cannibalism if you’re eating yourself? / is it really a crime if you’re consensually eating yourself? Come on, they were just being environmentally […]

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Phoney wombat rape (Good News Week 7/4/08: So You Think You Can Mime)

A New Zealand man has been found guilty after calling police to falsely claim he was being raped by a wombat. The case was tried in a Kangaroo Court. A New Zealand man has been found guilty after calling police to falsely claim he was being raped by a wombat. In actual fact he’d led […]

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Jessica does Kuwait (Good News Week 7/4/08: Spot the Bull)

Jessica Simpson is performing a concert for US troops, saying “I am in Kuwait, I’m enjoying all the troops having a blast.” She also said she was having a “suicide bombing of a time”. / a “sectarian slaughter of a time”. / it was “da bomb”! / she was just blown away. / it was […]

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The Boinking Stones (Good News Week 7/4/08: Spot the Bull)

Keith Richards says the Rolling Stones didn’t just have “boinky-boinky” with their groupies. Sometimes it was “sucky-sucky”, other times “squeezy-squeezy”, and on one notable occasion it was “sharky-sharky”. Or was that Led Zeppelin? It wasn’t just ‘boinky-boinky’ with the groupies. Sometimes they had sex. It wasn’t just ‘boinky-boinky’ with the groupies; there was also kerplunk, […]

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Scare your children for science (Good News Week 7/4/08: Strange But True)

A professor from Victoria University wants thousands of Australian mums and dads to blast their kids awake with a smoke alarm to test their effectiveness. But keep it down, or you’ll wake her own kids. It not only tests the alarm’s effectiveness, it’s also an excellent psychological test to see whether your children hold grudges. […]