There’s nothing more annoying in a column like PS-sssst! when everyone the PS over behaves themselves – when media officers dodge the danger of pseudo-cleverness and when spokespersons speak without tripping over the grammatical booby traps that entertain so many of us when exposed in attempted wittiness.
It is therefore PS-sssst!’s melancholy duty to confess that the past week has been just that, a non-event, leaving our rabidly rhapsodic readers ravenous for a dollop of dilemma, discomfort or discomposure which so often releases us from the reality of the world of work, if only for a short but satirical stretch of self-indulging satisfaction.
So, in the rare week that wasn’t, PS-sssst! hopes its devoted disciples will enjoy what it has to offer anyway.
May next week be more subservient.
Headline headed on
One respected reader who was working as usual was Adrian S of Queensland who took the chance to express his opinion of the headline on a recent PS News article relating to his State’s Department of Justice and Attorney-General.
The story reported that the Department was reminding the community that October was Sexual Violence Awareness Month and everyone had a role to play in stamping it out.
“I believe the heading ‘October the month to beat violence’ should be modified”, Adrian declared in a note to PS News.
“It is not being clear in its message!” he said.
Adrian said he found the article itself “fine”, it was just the heading he had an issue with.
Lots of thanks to Adrian for sharing his opinion and he has our promise we’ll take more care next time.
Brewing up a break
To the wise, witty, and whimsical woman of the wag now, Philomena S of Victoria’s Department of Families, Fairness and Housing has raced to our rescue again contributing the comical to a stalled column, this time brewing up a mug or two of coffee to help us through the day:
Philomena reported on:
* A tragedy that was reported recently when a factory worker died after falling into deep vat of coffee. The coroner ensured the family he didn’t suffer however, declaring in his findings that ‘It was instant’.
* The regular coffee drinker advised by her doctor that the volume of coffee she enjoyed every day amounted to her being addicted. She was not impressed.
“I don’t have a problem with coffee,” the disputing patient declared.
“I only have a problem without it!”
* Taking the first sip of a coffee prepared by his bride on their first time alone together, the young husband complained that it tasted like dirt.
“What do you expect?” countered his new partner.
“It was only ground this morning!”
Ka Boom.
Many thanks again to the Phabulous Philomena.
Another Icing giveaway
Another of Rama Gaind’s high flying fortunes of free fun film-making now with the model mobster movie The Birthday Cake manifesting the Mafioso as a family with heart.
Starring stars including Val Kilmer, Shiloh Fernandez, Ewan McGregor and McGregor’s daughter Clara, the Birthday Cake DVD could be yours by correctly answering Rama’s original riddle “Who plays the Lead as character Gio?”, the answer to which was ‘Shiloh Fernandez’.
And the three lucky readers whose correct answers were first out of the PS News Barrel of Booty were Yusuf K from the National Measurement Institute, Rhiannon P from Western Australia’s Department of Planning, Lands and Heritage, and Scott P from the Commonwealth’s Services Australia.
Congratulations to all the winners and a big thankyou to everyone who entered Rama’s questionably easy quiz. The prizes will be on their way to their winners very soon.
For another chance to prove our perspicacity and prudence to Rama the princess perfect and pick up a popular prize, simply visit her review of the Book The Pick-up at this PS News link and answer her question of quiz AND/OR put the pressure on her other running giveaway of the Book Breaking Good at this link and play at pinching, poaching and pillaging a price-free prize by popping her quiz question there.
Jolly good luck to all who do!
Going big!
And then there was Snow White’s eighth dwarf who possessed the power of fortune telling but was too creative for his own good.
Spending more time than he should as a guest of Her Majesty’s corrective services, the mini-mobster made an art of breaking out of the jail every time he found a hole in the system.
Eventually, it was the pathetic excuses he gave Ms White for his escapes that proved too much for her.
He claimed he was simply a “Small Medium at Large”!
Ugh!
Till next week…..
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