Honouring PS-sssst!’s never-ending search for the clever and the cunning this week with a visit to the creative creation of another prominent PS-propagated headline, chosen as this week’s winner of the ‘Headline Of the Week Laughing Award’ or HOWLA as it is appropriately appellated
The esteemed winner this week is the Queensland Treasury for its anointment of a boat club’s plans to build a hotel on the seaside as an example of an ‘economic opportunity’ along the way to recovering from the damaging COVID-19 pandemic pandemonium.
“They ensure we power out of this pandemic with the projects needed to keep Queenslanders in secure jobs” Queensland’s Treasurer declared.
And how did the wisely-witty headline honchoes in the creative treasury announce their learned leader’s luminary locution?
With the following seafaring statement: “State hoists the sail on job-creating Hervey Bay harbour development”. Very hoisty, saily and harboury!
Congratulations on our latest HOWLA.
If nothing else, it’s a ‘shore’ winner!
Divine funding
Still in the home of heady headlines, a special mention of another treasury found caressing creativity beyond the call of cleverness, canniness and cunning.
NSW’s treasury won its immortality by heading up a statement from the treasurer announcing that youngsters around the State were to benefit from a new program encouraging them to learn to swim with the help of taxpayer funding who was to pick up the tab,
“The $44 million program will make a $100 voucher for swimming lessons available to every pre-school child aged three to six in NSW,” the water-loving treasurer declared under a headline that not only announced the new program but also predicted how it would be received.
“Kids dive into Learn to Swim voucher program”, his treasureness was headlined as saying.
Ever the pedant of course, PS-sssst! wonders whether the kids dive in before or after they learn to swim.
PS of the PaSt all new
To an unembarrassing, discommodious display of self-interest now with PS-sssst! drawing readers’ attention to a new-ish feature in the already feature-festooned PS News – this time a time-machine unravelling the PS news of the past, 10 years ago to be exact.
Cleverly christened ‘PS of the PaSt’ this new and free addition to PS News’s weekly offering brings back to life this week’s news from all those years ago, revisiting the good, the bad and, sometimes, the best reports best left in the past.
So for those of us with mobile memories, retentive recollections or simply an interest in how much things might have changed (or not!) over the years, ‘PS of the PaSt’ is up and running right now – even if it is 10 years behind the times.
So dust off your decade of memory and unravel this week’s ‘PS of the PaSt’ at this PS News link but with one caution: Some visitors might have to find their own way back if their’ PaSt’ is any better than their present!!
Flooded!
Meanwhile, back at Rama Gaind’s giveaway garden, three lucky readers of PS News are to become the new owners of the immigration-based drama DVD The Flood starring Lena Heady and Iain Glen.
To be up there with the winners all we had to do was tell Rama the name of the actress who plays the star immigration officer – the answer to which was Game of Thrones diva Lena Heady herself.
And the lucky readers with the correct answer who also managed to exit the PS News Barrel of Booty first, were Lyn B from the Commonwealth’s Services Australia, Therese S from Queensland’s Department of Education, and Adrian S, also from Queensland but in its Department of Communities, Housing and Digital Economy.
Congratulations to all the winners and a big thanks to everyone who took part. The DVD’s will be on their way to their new homes very soon.
To try your hand on Rama’s giveaway all you need do is enter her weekly giveaways by visiting either her latest offering of this Book Sort Your Sh!t Out at this PS News link and/or her other offering in this DVD Edge Of The World at this link.
Good luck to all who do!
Cornered!
And finally, another handover to that ever handy wise woman Philomena S of Victoria’s Department of Families, Fairness and Housing for yet another contribution of cleverness to catch our contentment.
This time, Philomena goes for the very top!
“According to the bible” Philomena expounds demonstrably, “*God promised men that good and obedient wives would be found in all corners of the world.
“Then he made the earth round…”
Till next week…..
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