Better late than never to congratulate the Federal Parliament’s House Standing Committee on the Environment and Energy for a brief but humorous foray into cleverness and punism.
Last month the learned Committee announced a public meeting to inquire into the spread of the amphibian menace, the imported – and now impossible – Cane Toad.
Setting aside their traditional dress of woolly wigs and long flowing soutanes, the Honourable Members chose to meet the people via their funny bone, making a rare but remarkable contribution to capriciousness in the selection of a humorous, if somewhat hop-full, headline.
Announcing the public meeting, the venerable Committee headlined its message with the witty: “Committee hops into public hearing on cane toads.”
One is sure the toads were impressed!
Flying high
To our ‘Credit where Credit is Due” file now where an exercise of usurpness seems to have broken out over the funding for a program to encourage more women to think high and take to the skies in the nation’s aviation industry.
Always sensitive to avoid the paroxisms of politics, PS-sssst! makes no other comment than to comment on the comment in the official announcement which speaks for itself.
According to the national Minister for Infrastructure, Transport and Regional Development the Women in Aviation program “has been bolstered by a $4 million investment from the Liberals and Nationals”.
No mention of the government, the public sector, or the taxpayer whose money it is.
Of course if the funds did come from the two political parties, it is indeed a most worthy and commendable gesture, particularly in the current climate when they will need every dollar they can scrape together to finance their upcoming election campaigns.
DVDs for grabs
To Rama Gaind’s weekly giveaway now in which DVD copies of the acclaimed crime thriller Backtrace starring Sylvester Stallone, Matthew Modine and Ryan Guzman are up for grabs simply by answering one of Rama’s super-easy quiz questions.
This time it was to name the actor who plays the main character in the film, Detective Sykes.
That esteemed actor is Sylvester Stallone and the first three entries to escape the PS News Barrel of Booty with the correct answer belonged to Wilhelmina V of the NSW Department of Family and Community Services, Adrian S from the Queensland Department of Housing and Public Works, and Claire W of the WA Department of Local Government, Sports and Cultural Industries.
Well done to all and many thanks to everyone who took part. The DVDs will be on their way to their new homes any day now.
If you’d like to take the chance to join Rama’s winners’ circle simply visit this link to this week’s competition and try your luck.
Good luck to all who do!
Science to the rescue
And finally if you weren’t aware that it’s a slow news week in public sector land, the following sliver of insanity should prove that point once and for all.
Thanks go out once again to the sharp wit of the Victorian Department of Health and Human Services’ Philomena S for offering us a wonderful wonder of the world of nature and in so doing resolving an issue that has puzzled farmers, veterinarians, animal lovers and all other kinds of naturalist for millenniums.
Thanks to Philomena, and the wonderful discipline of modern science, we now know the answer to this long-troubling mystery.
For years, the world has wondered why cows wear bells around their neck.
Well the truth can now be revealed.
According to Philomena, after a great many experiments, observations, examinations, speculations and theories, the frightening truth is finally out: It’s because their horns don’t work.
Sheer Genius!
Well done Philomena.
Till next week…..
