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Life of Riley: The Olympic spirit
was something I thought I must see. It took a bit of wrangling to get a seat but I am only 2.365 ... metres from all of the action (I measured it yesterday). At my place, the best seat in the house is mine, ... lying — I admit that now. My view of Atlanta is really Channel Seven's, I merely soak it up. Thus ...
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Life of Riley: Privy preservation
done with it. I'm sick of bottling it up inside me. Just don't let my mum know: I pull down ... of a sudden overwhelming urge to go places. I mention this habit of mine, not because I'm proud ... of it, but because I feel I must say something now that what goes on in these places is so much in ...
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Life of Riley: Keep up the good work
of Australia will be rootin' for you! By Dave Riley <dhell@ozemail.com.au> November 24, ... that's the point! If we cannot reward entrepreneurial skill with a cash payout at the end of a hard ... working day, then what on earth have we been doing since Adam fell out of the apple tree? That management ...
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Life of Riley: Nothing but air
without being particularly aware of the goings on, blow it out, usually the way it came in. That's ... who would have thought that there was money to be made selling off a piece of the action? You better ... going to come from. Betwixt wherever thou art and me is billions of dollars worth of the stuff — air, ...
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Life of Riley: The Ever So Ordinary MP
The Ever So Ordinary MP It is as notorious as the Melbourne weather that the intricacies of social ... of old bigot zeal against migrants and Aborigines. In the case of the ordinary singular form of MP (I ... a true battler of an MP — should speak so", we are told. "We, of course, cannot agree... But, ...
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Life of Riley: Plain words for hard times
first it may be better to speak of my studies this week. While my mind's bibliography may be ... a thing to behold I am nonetheless lazy and idle-minded despite a strong social sense of what ails the ... with a critical eye. Pursuant of news and current affairs, I sometimes alight on the most extraordinary ...
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Life of Riley: Spit the dummy, why don't ya
Spit the dummy, why don't ya Like many of my comrades among the Greenly Left masses, I am ... prone to a wee bit of cynicism every now and then. There's nothing wrong with that. While ideals ... and the passion they engender may claim a fair share of our dreams and waking moments, within the ...
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Life of Riley
can trust you? For all we know, maybe all you want out of life is some firing practice and an excuse ... Picnicking in peace Situated, as I am, in a somewhat northerly aspect of this landscape, a few ... kilometres south of the Tropic of Capricorn and in cooee of a cane toad or two, I leave myself open to being ...
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Life of Riley: Guns and ammo
trigger-happy members of our society have been sent a message: you can shoot, but don't strafe. Australia ... is keen to stay out of the record books, and in future we want our victims assaulted one round (I ... Of course, that's what they're there for. Behind our freedoms stands a body of armed men. ...
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Life of Riley: Little John
John Winston Howard, MHR (Lib) Bennelong: Get a load of that deficit! Phew! What a big 'un! ... "What we have here is a failure of big government". And then I said to him — and I'll say it ... of the cake. We will be open to any offers. Let's see them print their own money or raise their ...
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Life of Riley: The best police force money can buy
never turn your back on one of them. Dave Riley January 31, 1996 217 ... many activities of daily living I want nothing to do with them. Their thin blue line, mustered to hold ... stuck on the median strip what is the flower of the nation's cophood doing? They're on the ...
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Life of Riley: The Little Aussie Battler (reg'd trademark)
The Little Aussie Battler (reg'd trademark) There is a funny idea abroad (by which I mean, of ... course, in this dry brown land in which we dwell) that there exists a minor figure of such truthful grit ... that every attribute of ordinariness is congealed within their being. This entity, I am led to believe, ...
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Life of Riley: Kurds come from Kurdistan
That there's an awful lot of problems in this world. — More for some than others. By Dave Riley ... gettin' so you can't trust any of 'em. You let 'em in and they go bite the hand that feeds. ... Don't they know they're guests here? Obviously not. — We expect a certain level of propriety from ...
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Life of Riley: Who's a naughty boy?
(You hear that Winston? All week!) It may be all right to poke fun at the democratic institutions of ... the Australian Commonwealth of consenting adult states, in the privacy of their own borders, and to ... They've all got the gift of the gab. He doesn't have to mean it, you know. Winston's the same. ...
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Life of Riley
born. And golly, there were lots of us. To be born after the war made us a lucky bunch of so and sos. ... of know-it-alls, but we were bold and brazen enough, with our commie ways, to make it happen. Talk ... out the CV of the crowd I used to run with and find a deplorable lack of fidelity. Yesterday's ...
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Life of Riley: Murder most foul
to say that Martin didn't have any. In all of the land downunder, no-one would call Martin their ... undone, by reason of the burden that lies hard upon me. You are a child of our bowels yet we must disown ... you as a creature of darkness." And having said many words to that effect and looking sternly ...
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Life of Riley: Is there a God?
Is there a God? Some thinkers — all locals, all of them conservative, some unruly — have confessed ... Eminence". The latter name, meaning also "Big on Bull", was also to attract the snappy tag of ... on one big, critical issue. The pope has never denied the existence of the Almighty; indeed he daily ...
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Life of Riley: My holiday
see her again. She's still the same old Fliss — only now, of course, she's Victoria's ... first lady. With Jeff now an exhibit at Madame Tussaud's, Fliss reckons if she ever gets sick of ... of her, eh? Really, she's such a wag. As for Jeff — my visit proved quite opportune. He's ...
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Life of Riley: Stranger danger
all. But sometimes, I wish I had a friend as pure of heart and as clean of body as I am. By Dave Riley ... Stranger danger You're not to know, are you? I could have shaken hands with one of them or ... of strangers. You don't have to be Havelock Ellis or Krafft-Ebing to know what devilish deeds ...
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Life of Riley: Budgeteer Junior
with squillions of numbers. Golly! Daddy says that the person who has the most fun is a man called the ... treasurer is doing his sums. Daddy says the federal treasurer has this big — really big — enormous bag of ... Then Daddy wrote some numbers down. He put down a one, then a line of all these noughts. There were ...