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Life of Riley: Playing by the rules
people have died there because of them already. — Jesus. A million, eh? That's what it says. One ... million people at the rate of 250 to 300 a day. — So why we wanna go in there and kick 'em good when ... that much trouble? Beats me. Guess it's 'cause we like dishin' it out. By Dave Riley ...
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Life of Riley: Our mutual friend
real glad to hear that, because I'd advise you to make it your business to be on the other side of ... makes himself out to be. Not on your nelly, mate. That acquaintance of yours is a One Nation supporter! ... one thing? What's that? He's our racist. By Dave Riley June 24, 1998 322 ...
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Life of Riley: The story so far
The story so far Synopsis, being a summary of what has gone before, for the benefit of new ... readers: BILL CLINTON, a presidential nominee, conceives the project of executing a salutary missile strike ... to mark the consequences of wrongdoing and creates for the purpose SADDAM HUSSEIN, a species of human ...
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Life of Riley: At last, the 1901 show
At last, the 1901 show Within the four walls of Australia we're working up a bit of a hoot. ... The centenary of federation is here — almost! Girt by sea, festooned with waratah and greased up with ... eucky oil, all the common people of Australia can think about is: wattle we do next? THE COMMON PEOPLE ...
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Life of Riley: Mike's Militia
Mike's Militia Among the local stay-at-home-on-Tuesday-nights population of part-time couch ... potatoes, there may be some of you who were fortunate enough to catch Mike Moore's The Awful Truth on ... SBS TV. As a card-carrying member of Mike's Militia — a bona fide paramilitary protest group ...
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Life of Riley
His fine wit Give or take a few months, it is the 130th anniversary of the death of Thomas Love ... Peacock. B'gad! you exclaim, has he been gone from us for that long a time? Of course there's ... a chance, I grant, that among you there could be some few who have never heard of the gentleman. What ...
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Life of Riley: My meeting with GA
My meeting with GA Here I am, in the full term of my mature years, after years of this and that, ... and I'm turning Celtic. I've seen it happen to others. I've watched as some of my best ... meant to be. Sadly, the measure of my future is to be determined by how well I can hum both A and ...
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Life of Riley: This little piggy went to market
to MelBORN. Went into debt. — In order to set. Themselves up for life. — They free traded. They sold ... Little piggy. — Ha, ha. Pig. Pig. Tried to be big. — Yes, but it is in the nature of piggies. To grow. ... Globalisation Roadshow. BY DAVE RILEY <http://www.ozemail.com.au/~dhell>. September 6, 2000 419 ...
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Life of Riley: Counting the dead reds
komunis. Did we kill off only 500,000 of them or was it more? Terima Kasih (Thankyou). Dave Riley August 7, ... many people there are in each part of a country, what they do and how they live. Do not use tricks. ... Please answer all the questions for every person, unless the form asks you not to. The government of ...
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Life of Riley: The August 19th movement
your houses are infected with gratuity, so a plague on both of them. Dave Riley October 23, 1996 251 ... The August 19th movement As I write it is all of two months since the doors of parliament ... month of this horrible year of repressed discontent, how can I describe my present state? Like some ...
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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 ... colleagues I have stood and watched the carbon based life form pass into view. That it very soon passed out ... 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: Who's for waterfront reform?
were not your standard blue-singlet-type docker, not "wharfies" in the traditional sense of ... the term, but men of mature outlook and experience. The illogical enthusiasm and language one usually ... mainly because we all shared the same, or similar, outlook on the question of waterfront reform. How the ...
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Life of Riley: My meeting with Che Guevara
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, ... fronds of his charcoal beard. Between his broad lips glowed a hand-rolled cigar. "Aren't ...
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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: Election Aftermath: Woe Is Me
us slaves to indigestion; Joseph Stalin has made us shrink from the name of socialism, and has ... destroyed, in the more refined part of the community (of which number I am one), all enthusiasm for ... I suppose you are referring to the unhappy events of last Saturday fortnight. Deary me, what a catastrophe. ...
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Life of Riley: A modest proposal for easing our conscience
Riley [Freely adapted from Jonathan Swift's 1729 satire concerning the poor of Ireland.] February ... stretched to make four dishes of excellent nutritive meat, and the more craft minded among us may flay the ... honourable. After years of offering idle, visionary thoughts, and almost despairing of success, I realised ...
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Life of Riley: Me Darcy, you Jane
"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 ... adaptation of Austen's novel you'll understand why the work has been such a favourite for so long. ...
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Life of Riley: Them and us
corporate boss cockie of them. Dave Riley Email: dhell@ozemail.com.au April 23, 1997 271 ... years presided over the destinies primarily of my good self and lately that of my pet dog, Jo Jo, cannot ... and will not pretend to be unmoved by the extraordinary news which from the grand city of Ipswich has ...
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Life of Riley: Our greedy seniors
vale-of-years industry can get its hands on their money. By Dave Riley October 29, 1997 295 ... applauded. What sort of nation would it be if there wasn't someone to defend us from these greedy ... bastards? As Tim Fischer, a vocal leader of the government's stand, proclaimed this week: "We are ...
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Life of Riley: Di is dead
"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 ... mention. Thousands surely died. And very few of those lived in the comfort that the princess enjoyed." ...