Starting off in South Australia now where the art of creatively clever composition has reached the dizzy heights of the Ministry with the State’s Attorney-General showing a level of literary learnedness not often found in a formal press release.
Congratulating the SA Public Service on the runaway success of its very useful petrol price app which points motorists towards the cheapest charges, the A-G took it upon herself to deliver the message melodically, engaging the magic of onomatopoeia and the skill of a noted novelist to make her point.
“As prices increase, apps become an important means of shopping around,” the yodelling Attorney-General warbled.
“And bagging a bowser bargain!” she jingled joyfully.
And ‘Brilliant!’ PS-sssst! jingled back in awe!
Fired up!
Still in SA where the State’s Metropolitan Fire Service has reported that of the 250 cooking related fires it puts out each year, two of every five of them are started because occupants leave their stove unattended.
“Cooking is a task that requires full attention,” the Service’s Community Engagement Officer declared, “and any distraction may lead to a fire that potentially threatens lives and destroys property.”
And, as if to reveal firsthand how lacking full attention can lead to destruction, the Service went on to point out how easy it is to be burnt in the kitchen.
“Unsafe cooking practices are one of the most common causes of preventable residential fires in South Australia,” it explained confusingly, discombobulating its duplicate practices with the singular ‘one of the most’.
Must have been due to the rush to put them out!
In Regs we trust
Over to Victoria now where all is regularly regular and even the most regulated regulations are regularly regulated.
At least that’s what PS-sssst! registered from a recent record report of revelations relating to the Victorian Gambling and Casino Control Commission (VGCCC), whose reputation as the State’s gambling regulator is to be rejected and replaced by a renewed regulator.
“The new regulator will have greater oversight” the Minister for Liquor Regulation recited.
“Unlike the existing regulator…the new overarching body will not regulate liquor licensing”, she related.
“A dedicated casino regulation division would sit within the new gambling regulator.”
Retrospectively the Minister said the VGCCC’s structure was to be guided by a recent Royal Commission’s review into the regulation of its casino which returned recommendations regarding the appropriate regulatory requirements.
In what might best be termed ‘regular regression’ the Minister’s modest statement out-modested itself by including the words ‘regulate’, ‘regulation’, ‘regulator,’ or ‘regulatory’, a total of 12 times in eight sentences – a world-shivering average of 1.5 regu-somethings in each and every line.
Irregular? Reckon!!
Hitting the sort
Another wonderfully free book game in Rama Gaind’s weekly giveaway this week in which a round of rude reading raises a repugnant name in a rally to receive Rama’s much rated reward in the form of the embarrassingly titled self-help textbook Sort Your Sh!t Out by Gary Waldon.
To join the successful sorters and win one of two free copies of the book, all we needed to do was tell Rama the unique name given by Mr Waldon to the toolkit he claims helps maintain a healthy mental balance.
The correct (and rude) answer is the ‘Self- Help Improvement Toolkit’ (abbreviated at your own risk!), a rough riposte resolved correctly by the two first-found entrants Zoë B from the Federal Department of Home Affairs and Greg W from Queensland’s Department of Communities, Housing and Digital Economy.
Congratulations to Zoë and Greg and a b!g thanks to everyone who took part in the f!n. The prize books will be on their way to their new owners shortly.
For another chance to take a share of the next lot of Rama’s weekly giveaway prizes, simply engage her latest DVD review of The Last Days of Chez Nous at this PS News link and try your hand, and/or visit her also-offered second DVD Till Death at this link and try your luck on that prize too.
It’s free for the fun and Rama might even help you find the answer!
Good luck to all who take her on!
Pre-hysteric history
And finally, best wishes to the State of Victoria voting for its new ‘Fossil Emblem’, being adopted to join the State’s six other official emblems, its State Animal (Leadbeater’s Possum), State Flora (Common Heath), State Bird (Helmeted Honeyeater), State Marine Animal (Common Seadragon), State Mineral (Gold) and State Tartan (Blue, white, green and pink).
Among the fossils to choose from, the voting Victorians get to decide between the Isograptus victoriae, the Baragwanathia, the Bishops whitmorei, Koolasuchus cleelandi, Janjucetus hunderi, Pelagornis, Palorchestes azae and Leaellynasaura amicagraphica.
Shouldn’t be too hard!
Apparently Victoria won’t be the first State to adopt a fossil emblem with New South Wales already honouring the Devonian fish (Mandageria fairfaxi), South Australia the Spriggina floundersi and Western Australia the Gogo fish (Mcnamaraspis kaprios).
May the Latin be with you!
Until next week….
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