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Love You Leung Time (Good News Week 16/3/09: Strange But True)

A 12-year-old Hong Kong schoolboy posted naked pictures of himself online and offered to be a prostitute to females between the ages of 10 and 45. He just knows that female paedophile market remains mostly untapped. The boy, calling himself Little Leung, described himself as a Christian and offered to make love for $144. Unfortunately, […]

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Good Next Week (Good News Week 16/3/09: closing)

Tues, March 17 And tomorrow, once again the footpaths will be green with vomit for St. Patrick’s Day! St. Patrick’s Day will see green beer, brewed entirely from renewable energy and old-growth forests. Unfortunately, tomorrow’s Telstra Australian Swimming Championships will be put on hold. The Telstra Australian Swimming Championships in Sydney – which is just […]

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Lean Logies (Good News Week 9/3/09: monologue)

This year’s 51st Logie Awards will face budget cuts and a trimmed invite list. Unfortunately it seems there’s no chance of losing Richard Wilkins. / Please let it be Richard Wilkins… Celebrities at the Logies can expect to party til the break of 9:30. Two event companies have been briefed to bid for the event […]

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Kiddie Crunch (Good News Week 9/3/09: monologue)

The credit crunch is hitting home so hard that even Australian 6-year-olds are raising concerns. It’s even worse in America, where 6-year-olds have had to default on their mortgages. Many kids are now imitating their dads: climbing to the top of the cubbyhouse and jumping off. Several kids have had their pocket money cut, and […]

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Obama Inc (Good News Week 9/3/09: monologue)

Obamamania has swept America, not just in terms of miles of merchandise, but also through corporations co-opting his image and slogans. Because change may have come to America, but not to the point where they’ll stop trading in tacky rip-offs. With the similarity of their logo to Obama’s, Pepsi co-opted slogans such as “Choose Change”, […]

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All new Abu Ghraib (Good News Week 9/3/09: What’s the Story?)

Abu Ghraib prison has been given a makeover! At last the grim horror of prison life is torture-free! They’ve given it fresh paint, a new name, and they’ve even scrubbed the electrodes clean. / fed the dogs. They’ve renamed the prison, and given it a total makeover. They’re also going to put lipstick on the […]

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Never-to-be-repeated-land (Good News Week 9/3/09: What’s the Story?)

Sad news: Michael Jackson’s auctioning off the entire contents of his ranch, Neverland. Or as it’s now known, Never-to-be-repeated-land. Jackson’s even selling his famous diamond-encrusted glove for $15,000. Though unfortunately if you want the other glove, Michael’s still not sure where he left it. (He thinks it’s the same place he left his face.) Now […]

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Stand-up flights (Good News Week 9/3/09: News For The Backward)

And now for some stand-up comedy. A survey of Australian aeroplane travellers has revealed that a small number are willing to stand for cheaper international flights. Which is good – there’s all that space on the wings that is going begging. As long as flights are cheaper, passengers are happy to have less. Some wanted […]

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Aliens aren’t actually aliens (Good News Week 9/3/09: Blow Up Your Pants)

World-renowned cosmologist Professor Paul Davies has called for the search for aliens to focus on a new planet: Earth. Not what most of us would call aliens perhaps, but then Professor Davies is originally from Betelgeuse. / Mars. World-renowned cosmologist Professor Paul Davies has called for the search for aliens to focus on the planet […]

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Dissolve-a-stiff (Good News Week 9/3/09: Blow Up Your Pants)

The funeral industry is looking at a new, environmentally-friendly way of method of disposing of cadavers, by chemically dissolving them. The process creates a dry bone residue, plus liquid remains which could be used as fertilizer. Alternatively, mix them together for a delicious soup. Unfortunately, in these days of water restrictions and drought, people will […]