Speaking of licences – which we weren’t today but have been in PS-sssst! for the past three weeks – the Victorian Commission for Gambling and Liquor Regulation (VCGLR) is the latest to boldly take on the ‘licence’ challenge, declaring that temporary liquor licences had been granted to many Victorian businesses to help them survive the COVID-19 pandemic.
“We made a commitment to process these applications within three business days,” the State’s licensing director disclosed, “so industry could adjust and continue trading as seamlessly as possible.”
“Around 2,500 temporary liquor licenses were also granted when the hospitality industry was first directed to close its doors,” the Director explained before counter-constructing: “these licences allowed businesses to supply liquor via takeaway and delivery.”
Luckily the VCGLR commission commits for Gambling as well as Liquor so it can defensively argue that by choosing to use both spellings ‘licens e’ and ‘licence’ in the same sentence despite them meaning the same thing, producing the same result and one of them bound to be wrong, it was the perfect gambling example of having a betting two-bob each
For its part, PS-sssst! wonders if the word licence has a licence to allow the name ‘license’ to be licensed to become ‘licence’ and if so if it could license ‘licence’ as (an American) license.
Too many lice to make sense perhaps?
Phunny Philomena
A stroll down WiseWit Lane now with a welcome return visit of the redoubtable genius of the Victorian Department of Health and Human Services’s Philomena S, whose contributions to PS-sssst! over the years has kept us thriving as a mental-health-free sub-column of clustered, cunning, clever, canny, capable, competent and capricious clowning around.
To this end, the philosophical Philomena has collected, collated and contrived the following examples of wise, wittish, wisdomic and wollicky examples of exemplary excellence and humour for all us to h-enjoy!
It’s also evidence that a shuffle of elections recently has left the picking of PS preposterousness lacking
- DID you hear about the burglar who stole a calendar? He got 12 months!
- HAVE you noticed over time that our workmates who get too big for their pants are always the ones totally exposed in the end.
- THE TROUBLE with a car’s bucket seats is that not everybody has the same size bucket.
- THE BEST WAY to defend ourselves if we’re being attacked by a gang of clowns is to go for the juggler!!
- WHAT DO WE CALL a dog with no legs? There’s no need to call it anything because it’s not going to come to you anyway!!
Yet another big Thankyou to Philomena for her philharmony of filled-up fun and harmony.
Thanks Philomena.
Shining sunshine on Ray
Welcome to PS-sssst!’s giveaway corner in which the PS News Giveaway Guru, Rama Gaind spreads the charity with another great prize for readers all over Australia and the world to try their hand at after which at least one winner chosen each week becomes a better entertained person.
This week Rama’s Big Prize is the Blu-Ray version of Ray, the classical true-to-life story of US singing legend Ray Charles whose humble beginnings saw him go blind at seven years old and then rise meteorically to stardom during the 1950s and 1960s.
The way to win as simply to know the year the movie came out, the answer of witch was 2004 and the first correct entry to squeeze out of the PS News Barrel of Booty and claim ownership of the film came from Gail W of Services Australia.
Congratulations Gail and thanks to everyone else who joined in the fun of the giveaway.
Gail’s new Blu-Ray will be on its way any day but for readers keen to join Rama’s ranks of winning workmates, the opportunity lies right here:
Simply check out Rama’s latest giveaways with her current DVD freebie at this PS News link and her also-prize book at this link.
Good luck to everyone who does.
The sinking vote
And finally, after so many months of publicity, commentary, coverage and controversy the United States Presidential has finally arrived after the Australian media has invested millions of TV and radio hours, thousands of kilometres of newspaper column-centimetres and literally squillions of online discussions and debate to get here.
How much, PS-sssst! wonders, can Australia expect the Americans to return the compliment by giving our next national election the saturation service. From past experience it will be an improvement if they manage to spell our Prime Minister’s name correctly!
Shameful we know, but PS-sssst! admits it hasn’t decided who to vote for yet and we know we’ll have to make up our mind very soon. We don’t want to face a fine for failing to express our democratic duty and dutifully filling in our election form.
We really don’t have enough US dollars to pay the penalty.
Till next week…..
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