Hands up those of us who weren’t aware that last Friday was World Egg day!
Well it was, and the National Minister for Agriculture certainly came out with his sunny side up, scrambling to the media with fried hot news about the Australian egg industry’s contribution to the COVID challenge.
According to the Minister: “Aussie egg farmers are not chicken when it comes to COVID challenge”.
“(They) aren’t afraid to have a crack,” the Minister cackled.
Thank goodness PS-sssst! was there to sauté such words of wisdom for eternity.
It shows that even Government Ministers can enjoy a good yolk!
Oh Dear!
Chain of change
From the eggstraordinary to the subliminal now with Western Australia joining the environmental trendies by setting up a container deposit system to spray citizens dropping off used containers with small coins for taking the trouble to de-litter their State.
The difference is that WA announced its scheme with a most ingenious announcement which found PS-sssst! scratching our collective scalps as we took it in a number of times before realising how clever it was.
WA’s deposit scheme greeted the world under the ingeniously sharp headline: ‘Western Australia ready to make change!”
Sooooo clever!
No men clature
Interesting response to last week’s declaration that the NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service could expect the best from its Acting Director of the South Coast Branch, Graham Bush due to the fact that Mr Bush is ‘Aptonymic” inasmuch as his name sits cosily with his job, as more than a couple of readers pointed out that as well as Aptonymic, a person can be ‘Aptronymic’ simply by sharing a name that is suited to them.
Presumably this means a person with the surname “Sharp’ for example would be Aptronymic if they could also be called sharp of wit or wisdom; if the name Strong applied to a heavy lifter; Smart to someone brainy, and so on and so on.
PS-sssst! wonders what the opposite would mean.
A tall person named ‘Short’. A short person named ‘Tall’, ‘Long, ‘Stretch’ etc.
As usual, the enlightened, informed and intelligent readers of PS-sssst! and PS News are called to the rescue with fabulous prizes on offer for their smartest explanations or contributions.
To win a free book/a PS news T-Shirt/a PS News illuminated pen, simply send your thoughts to [email protected] to arrive by lunchtime Monday 19 October.
Giveaway hour
Another week, another giveaway from Rama Gaind’s tantalizing treasure chest of treasured trophies now with the psychological DVD drama The Wolf Hour starring Naomi Watts on the Gaind goods giveaway waiting to be won.
To join the winners and win a DVD, all we needed to do was answer Rama’s testing trivia and tell her the location of June Leigh’s apartment, and then manage to be one of the first two correct entrants to fly out of the PS News Barrel of Booty and claim their reward.
The two readers who completed the course in the knowledge that June Leigh lived alone in a South Bronx apartment were Paul W from the Victorian Electoral Commission and Jan B from RevenueSA.
Congratulations to Paul and Jan and thanks to everyone who joined in. The DVD prizes will be on their way very soon.
For another chance to join Rama’s Army of winners, simply enter her competition for a copy of the DVD Prime Suspect: Series 5-7 at this PS News link and/or for her latest DVD giveaway Waiting For The Barbarians at this link.
Good luck to all who do.
Size and desist!
And finally, at a time when size is important, spare a thought for the shorter-than usual fortune teller in prison who used the wonders of magic to break out of jail.
Calling for the public to keep a look out for the escapee and report any sightings, the official description did little more than confuse the local community.
It called on them to lookout for a small medium at large!
Ka-Boom!
Until next week.
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