Game Show Cheat

The television game show was being recorded. The contestant was in the hot seat for the last big question. The host turned to him, and read the question slowly and carefully. But the contestant didn’t know the answer! Fortunately, he had a backup plan (there was no way he was missing out on this million [...]

Instructions

Out here in the desert we need satellite dishes to access the intertubes of the world. The dish we have been using for the past five years has become old and decrepit, as has the operator of that ISP. If I were to use the word “Sol”, most Aussies would know who I mean. Nothing [...]

Discovery Institutes Rethink

Strange as it may seem there are people who doubt the possibility that Charles Darwin stumbled on a truth as he voyaged on the Beagle. That different surroundings cause different survival traits to come to the fore and that eventually, enough differences create new species. The doubters say, amongst a number of other comments, “Where [...]

Minds

Animal minds are simple, and therefore sharp. Animals never spend time dividing experience into little bits and speculating about all the bits they’ve missed. The whole panoply of the universe has been neatly expressed to them as things to (a) mate with, (b) eat, (c) run away from, and (d) rocks. This frees the mind [...]

Outnumbered

While the Australian ABC and SBS TV organisations do a good job in bringing a lot of the great comedy created for the BBC to Australia, there are shows which we Aussies never get to see. About a decade ago there was a marvelous series about television news called “Drop the dead Donkey”. The two [...]

Lent

Where is our sense of humour?

Drunk woman directs traffic on horseback An Adelaide woman has been arrested after reports she was directing traffic on a horse while drunk outside a Paralowie service station early this morning. Police arrested the 25-year-old just after 4am in Salisbury North. She has been charged with riding the horse while under the influence of alcohol [...]

Holmes’ front door

Dr. Watson arrived at 221-B Baker Street and is stunned to find his friend Sherlock Holmes out front in an overall, applying a pale yellow gloss to the front door. “Holmes, what is it?” asked the stupefied Watson. Holmes replied, “A lemon entry, my dear Watson.”

Tuesday Tune

One of the great memories of the 70′s. I wonder what it was all about – – -

Test Tickle

The verb “To Testify” was based on men in Roman courts affirming the truth of their statements by swearing on their testicles. This was an ancient Middle eastern practice as is recorded in the book of Genesis Chapter 24 verse 9;  So the servant put his hand under the thigh of his master Abraham and [...]

Living Will

I, Ærchie Archive , being of sound mind and body, do not wish to be kept alive indefinitely by artificial means. Under no circumstances should my fate be put in the hands of pinhead politicians who couldn’t pass ninth grade biology if their lives depended on it, or lawyers/doctors interested in simply running up the [...]

For No Reason At All

We don’t have these in the desert. It must be some sort of discrimination!

God and Taxation

Burgled from I Am your God

A little local politics

Here in Western Australia we have just exercised our democratic right to vote on two issues. Firstly, who will be the representative for the electorate of Fremantle, Perth’s Port city. The good news is that a Green’s candidate has got up and stolen the seat from the Labor Party who have held it for 85 [...]

Why Men Do It

I have spent much of my life thinking about nothing, much to the annoyance of the lady I have spent my life with. At last I have found out why I do it and why she kept getting annoyed. This is too true to be funny. Thanks, Jeanie