...and a reminder that this is a true story about something that happened to a real person:
www.findagrave.com/memorial/668...

Lights are supposed to come down on Jan. 5, the proverbial 12th day of Xmas. This is the day before Epiphany, which is when the 3 Wise Men turned up.

The rule is:
When the Zoroastrians turn up,
The lights come down.

Getting ahead of things, but what is the appropriate gift for the 38th Day of Xmas?

Asking for a neighbour who still had their Xmas lights up on January 31 this year.

I follow a few American (and Canadian) guitar/amp techs on YouTube. Love the way they pronounce 'solder' as 'sodder'.

And I nearly fell off my perch the time I heard Stephen Colbert pronounce 'bitumen' as bi-TOO-min'.

Because it means that GDP increases year by year, and 'growth is good'. (For politicians and top-level managers, at least.)

There is a wall of Nobel Prizes etc waiting for the person who can work out how to shrink economies without collapsing the capitalist system.

Costello was as lousy as a demographer as he was as an economist. (He wasn't much chop as a lawyer, either.)

Makes a big whoop about the 'declining birth rate' - and yet - more babies keep being born each year. How can that be?

It's because of this crazy little thing called IMMIGRATION.

‪Costello was on The Business last night, regurgitating his 'one for the country' blah from 20+ years ago.

Might have to watch it again as I couldn't hear what he had to say, above my screaming at the TV.
youtu.be/YwDxOxzl6Ns

Since the last time I looked at that page, about 4 years ago, someone who obviously isn't an Acka/Dacka fan has edited the caption for the first photo.

Have always wanted to visit this place, just so that when I returned I could say "I've been to Hell and back".
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hell,_N...

Apparently that was a Canadian chap demonstrating the wit and frivolity for which they are justly famous.
au.news.yahoo.com/truth-behind...

No doubt Jordan is a dab hand with a 5 iron, but can she speak Austrian?

Germany's biggest bank, Deutsche Bank, has about the same market cap as ANZ, the smallest of Australia's Big 4.

(Bearing in mind that Germany's economy is nearly 3x the size of Australia's.)

In 2010 the United Farm Workers union and Stephen Colbert teamed up for a campaign called Take Our Jobs, which featured a website where Americans could apply for these jobs.

The result?
3,000,000 website hits
8,600 enquiries
7 people working in the fields

inspiredeconomist.com/articles/ste...