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Three strike outs and a hang man to complete the game

Ethan Switch - Thursday, October 27, 2005 - 23:30:10 - print it raw

Dashing lines across the pages, strikes flare up as the intent rages on through the week.

From the political angle, the Guantanamo Bay hunger strikers face up front. Their conditions a concern with the sharing of nose hoses running rampant under watch. Conditions cruel no doubt, the prospect of gruel to rule their nightmarish screams. Is this what their religion has brought them?

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Terror up the streets, run down the main and throw out a party

Ethan Switch - Tuesday, October 18, 2005 - 10:45:55 - print it raw

Looking down the lock down, the premiers of New South Wales, Victoria and Tasmania threw in their support for the Federal Government's counter-terrorism laws. Rumours of sudden misdirection through last minute changes and tweaks to the proposed bill opening many channels of questions on the strength, reach and rule of fine print and invisible ink.

Over in the public scales, competition for the public display of jump suits on rails heats up in the windy blows above the CBD. Countering the Sydney Harbour Bridge's ear-raging Bridge Climb, Sydney Tower unveiled their ear-popper, Skywalk.

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Move along, nothing to see here

Ethan Switch - Wednesday, September 28, 2005 - 19:03:04 - print it raw

Not taking to the wrists as originally expected, former NSW Liberal leader, John Brogden, today decided to step out of politics. Unable to complete a ride into suicide, Brogden will be able to shy away from the glare of the public and media.

Such distractions calling to notice attempts at self-harm, possibly thwarting the member for Pittwater's chances at personal execution.

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Ethanol in the petrol mix, but what of sniffing connoisseurs?

Ethan Switch - Friday, September 23, 2005 - 18:05:04 - print it raw

Petrol prices at the bowser continue to make consumers turn and flip up wowsers. Trickling up the steep slopes with cents in their steps, paying to pollute the planet is becoming a considerably taxing excursion.

The crude crisis and the squeezing of the rectum see families consider the option of teaching their children how to siphon. Given the Australian government's move toward increasing ethanol in petrol mixes, they are set to start learning their craft fast.

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ashtrays ashed into cigarettes

Belvedere Jehosophat - Wednesday, August 17, 2005 - 03:04:10 - print it raw

only the eyes are taken from glossy magazines. everything else – the ears, the smile, the teeth, the blank expression, etc – is taken from a mixture of different mediums – television, the judiciary, a disgusting work ethic, deceit, etc.

they trickle it down and we sup it all up.

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When investigative journalists don't attack

Ethan Switch - Saturday, August 6, 2005 - 22:32:45 - print it raw

Enduring evermore of late the focus on bombs in London trains and double-decker buses, an enterprising producer for Channel 7 found the humble box cutter no longer an instant generator of fear in kind proportions.

Inspired perhaps by a CNNNN report on terrorism in commerical flights broadcast last year, the Channel 7 news producer allegedly breached the Federal Air Navigation Act by the very act of drawing attention to herself with the act.

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