30 October, 2008

Things I find funny

Entries are now being accepted for the 2009 Public Domain Awards, Australia's pre-eminent awards for the innovative use of concrete to enhance the urban landscape.

The Institute of Public Administration Australia (IPAA) Queensland is the peak professional body for people passionate about making a difference through public administration.

Alan Kohler: "Before the mid-30s, all cyclical economic downturns were called depressions, which is why the big one in 1930-33 was called the Great Depression: all the others were just common or garden variety depressions."

Please find attached Airport Doors' press release celebrating their 50th anniversary. As you'll see some of Australia's iconic doors have been created by them.

Jen Bishop: "Do all the comments about your hair annoy you?"
Donald Trump: "Not at all."

"As Haldeman-Julius readily found out, the public also liked titillation. Guy de Maupassant's The Tallow Ball sold three times better when entitled A French Prostitute's Sacrifice, and sales of Gautier's Fleece of Gold jumped from six thousand to fifty thousand when it was retitled The Quest for a Blonde Mistress."
- 'The Henry Ford of Literature' by Rolf Potts in The Believer magazine (Issue #56: September 08)

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