From our file of the ‘Bleedingly Obvious’ this week comes this entry from the ACT authorities tasked with the responsibility of cleaning Canberra’s water and looking after the environment.
Publishing a most informative fact sheet for the neighbours of a suburban recreation pond in readiness for it to be emptied of both water (temporarily) and nuisance fish (hopefully permanently), the authority has adopted a commendable question-and-answer format that poses a series of questions and then answers them.
Luckily there are no prizes for correct answers.
Among the questions “What is happening”, “When will it happen” and “Why is this happening” to which the authority provides informative answers, there is one that doesn’t quite match up.
“How long will it take the pond to refill?” the fact sheet asks itself.
“This will depend on how much rain falls” it advises wisely.
Such wisdom!
Eclectic electric
To PS News’s ever-popular music maestro Ian Phillips now whose inspired review of the US rock band The Voidz’s latest album in this week’s lifestyle section seems to have inadvertently strolled into the realm of existentialism.
Commenting on the band’s “amazing array of music” that ‘swirled’ through “different styles from indie through pop to electronica and experimental and on to heavy rock”, the brilliant Phillips then offers a comment that raises a question that demands to be questioned itself.
“There seems to be no limit to their eclecticism,” the impressively impressed Phillips declares, giving birth to the intriguing question: Does eclecticism have limits in the first place?
Fabulous book prize for the most entertaining answers. Send thoughts to [email protected].
If nothing else, the Phillips’s commentary reveals how far music reviewing has progressed since cow-licked Bill Haley rocked around the clock!
Read about it!
Still hovering over PS News’s lifestyle section, our library-strength book reviewer, Rama Gaind has hit the ground running with her weekly giveaway this week, admitting it’s a first that almost made it in time for Mother’s Day.
“I’ve NEVER done this before,” the excitable Rama wrote to the editor when her cunning plan fell into place.
“I’ve got one book to give away for each of these three titles and I’ve asked ridiculously simple questions,” she added enticingly.
“It means people will have to LOOK at the cover.”
So, readers, best take a LOOK and see if you can see what Rama sees after which she may see her way clear to add you to her weekly winners circle.
The Book review section with the three ‘Win’ stars and ridiculously simple questions can be accessed at this PS News link.
Winning Justice
To Rama’s regular giveaway for last week now in which two lucky readers have the chance to win DVD copies of the acclaimed supernatural western movie Justice simply by knowing which TV soap opera featured the acting talents of Justice star Nathan Parson.
The answer was General Hospital and the two successful entrants whose entries managed to escape from the PS News Barrel of Booty first were from Mark S from the Federal Department of Agriculture and Water Resources in Sydney, and Sabine K, coincidentally also from the Department of Agriculture and Water Resources but from Canberra.
Congratulations to both winners and thanks to everyone for taking part.
The DVDs will be on their way soon.
For another chance to win – this time the prize is one, two or three books – simply visit Rama’s book review at this PS News link and try your luck.
Best wishes to all who do.
Worldly words
And finally, to divert our attention from the PS budget season which is in full swing across the country, a small offering of non-Budget chicanery to tickle the brain cells and give us something to think about.
Does the word ’synonym’ have another word which means the same thing?
Comments welcome.
‘Til next week.
