Panda PR

It's panda-monium in Northern Thailand at the moment.

The Chiang Mai Zoo has painted their elephants to look like pandas in a PR attempt to help remind Thais of the plight of the national symbol. Not sure if this is brilliant, weird, animal cruelty or all of the above.

As background, the Thai public went absolutely nuts after a rare baby panda was born in Thailand in late May this year. Since then, there's been a panda frenzy amongst the Thai public with panda pens, panda screensavers, panda mobile covers, a panda song and other assorted panda accessories on sale left right and centre!

Think you're tough?

Have a go at this bloke…

(From SMH online, courtesy of Clare)

'Ninja' kangaroo terrorises family in bed

Not a bird, nor a plane, but a kangaroo has crashed through the bedroom window of a Canberra family's home before terrorising its unsuspecting occupants.

The family, from the suburb of Garran in Canberra's south, were awoken in the early hours of Sunday morning when their pet dog began barking from the garden.

Moments later, a kangaroo burst through a three-metre high window of the house's master bedroom and onto the bed where Beat Ettlin, his partner Verity Beman and their nine-year-old
daughter, Beatrix, lay.

"My initial thought when I was half awake was [that] it's a lunatic ninja coming through the window," Mr Ettlin told The Associated Press.

"It seems about as likely as a kangaroo breaking in."

While the family took refuge under the blankets, the injured animal proceeded to jump on top of them, gouging holes in the furniture and smearing blood all over the walls.

The next thing Mr Ettlin heard was his 10-year-old son Leighton screaming from his bed: "There's a 'roo in my room!"

"I thought, this can be really dangerous for the whole family now," the 42-year-old said.

A chef, originally from the Swiss city of Stans, Mr Ettlin followed the thrashing and bleeding two-metre tall marsupial and wrestled it into a headlock before dragging it down the hallway and out the front door.

Left wearing just his shredded underpants and with scratch marks on his leg and buttocks, Mr Ettlin described himself as "lucky".

"I had just my Bonds undies on. I felt vulnerable," he said.

Ever wondered how old you are?

Try this link:

http://www.timeanddate.com/date/duration.html

It basically work out how long it has been between two dates. I'm 9,219 days old and have been going out with Clare for a blissful 169,171,200 seconds.

Nerdy, yes. But brilliant if you're trying to work out how many days/minutes it’s been since you were married, been travelling, or your last alcoholic drink…

Joke for Angus

Four fonts walk into a bar.


Barman: "Get out of here! This is no place for your type!"

Word of the day - Gubernatorial

'Gubernatorial'

I came across this word many times whilst reading the first volume of Bill Clinton's autobiography. I came across it again today in reference to the experience of Sarah Palin, John McCain's presidential running mate.

Definition: "Of or pertaining to a state governor or the office of state governor."

I don't know - it just sounds weird.

Any other votes for weird-sounding words?

Happy birthday Hoff!

It's David Hasselhoff's birthday today - he's 56.

You've changed...

I heard a rumour the other day that the Australian Government is mooting an assistance package to Australian dairy farmers after milk consumption has strangely and rapidly decreased in the past month.

Very un-Rudd like, the word on the street's that Kevin is even calling for an inquiry into what people are now coining 'milkgate'.

Just kidding...

Since I left Australia, my milk consumption has decreased from an average 1-1.5L a day, to about 0.5L per week. Furthermore, good quality meat that isn't in bed with Mr E. Coli is also pretty hard to find in and around my Soi, so I have been eating a lot of vegetarian-based dishes.

And yet another slap in the face to my old Aussie dairy farming mates, I'm starting to drink soy milk. Oh God.

Fresh, cheap, pleasantly-flavoured milk seems to be hard to come by in Thailand. There's UHT and powder - which I don't mind - but after my stint in hospital, I seem to have reformed into a soy-drinking, vegetable-eating girly-man.

I need help.

Can someone please send a batch of bovine-related products to arrest this decline in self...at the very least, I'll need a few litres of milk and a basket of assorted cheeses (and some nice crackers!).

29th

It only happens once every four years, so happy birthday to all of those 'leaplings' born on the 29th of February!!

...including Ja Rule who is 8/32 today.

Friends

Firstly, my apologies for posting the poor language. I made it one of my rules when I started the blog that I would not use any profane language.

However, this time I had to make an exception.

Being green & pondering my mortality

Ever wondered how long you've got until fate makes you pull up stumps? I do.

With the green winds of change starting to blow even stronger in Australia, I thought I'd better also consider how a dirty capitalist like myself can actually make a few dollars to finance my hetero life partner's t-shirt addiction, whilst also being environmentally responsible.

Enter 'The Cadaver Calculator'. Not only does it provide a monetary value for how much you can sell your 'spare parts' for at the end of a day's play, but it can also provide you with the satisfaction that you're making the right steps toward true posthumous environmental sustainability.

Really, dying is just a bloody strain on the earth. Hopefully scientists will pull their algebraic heads out of their asses and develop some sort of inter-space jettison device to shoot people beyond the earth's atmosphere. We've battered the earth long enough.

Here's how I got on:

$4200.00The Cadaver Calculator - Find out how much your body is worth. From Mingle2 - Free Online Dating

How much are you worth? What would you do with the money?

Pick the Transformer

Let's play a game:

Below is a list of pharmaceutical medications currently available in Australia - mixed in are the names of the Autobots (good guys) and Decepticons (bad guys) featuring in the upcoming Transformers movie.

Let's see if you can pick which ones are which. Apologies for anyone who doesn't dig the Transformers.

Allegron Pegatron Ironhide Crestor Lipitor Jazz Onkotrone Optimus Prime Blackout Anandron Dextran Bumblebee Xyloproct Efexor

Microgynon Megatron Femtran Magnevist Nexium Octagam Starscream Diamicron Barricade Probitor Xalatan Exelon Megace

Happy birthday Less!

A 'staple ingredient' to any good time, happy birthday to my favourite first-year uni neighbour who is currently wowing every corner of Europe with her infectious personality!

Happy easter!

Word!

I got this emailed to me the other day:

Story of my life 2

Another example of the pickles I seem to get myself into occasionally...

Story of my life.