#AskBoxhead - Freedom

Dear Mr Boxhead,

How much freedom can we supply to our friends in the Ukraine?

General Smedley

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Peter Dutton's Nostril Flaring

It is no secret that the federal Liberal party's marketing team are working hard to present their new leader Peter Dutton in a softer and friendlier light.

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Sean Penn to star in new Stepan Bandera biopic

Sean Penn is set to produce, direct and star in a movie biopic of much loved Ukrainian hero and legend Stepan Bandera.

Penn announced the new production shortly after the world wide release of the beautifully filmed and potentially war changing gesture of him handing his Oscar to the embattled Ukrainian president.

Stepan Bandera in folkloristic Cossack costume (Source: Wikipedia)

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Old Mate - The Rise and Fall of Colloquialisms

Colloquial terms add colour, flavour and humour to language.

Some colloquialisms emerge from the street and, like a virus, quickly go mainstream.

"Hold my beer" is a good example.

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#AskBoxhead - Are they my friends on the internet?

Dear Mr Boxhead,

I spend a lot of time floating around on the net. Twittering, Facebooking, TikkyTokking... And I follow these people and some of them they follow me, and I seem to want to get their approval and I am offended and shocked when they say things I don't agree with. I wonder, should I be taking these things personally?

Yours sincerely,

Lonely Leroy, Maroondah

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Betty Bites the Bullet

Elizabeth Windsor, the “Queen” of England has finally died, aged 97, having “reigned” for 70 years.

She and her inbred brood have been a background noise all my life but I still have no bloody idea what she or they actually did/do for a living.

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Relevancy

How is it that a person can be labelled as "suffering from relevance deprivation syndrome" or be criticised with the "struggling for relevancy" barb?

Is this type of criticism targeted at the person specifically for "appearing" to struggle for relevancy?

"The poor blighter thinks that there are relevant things that he might do, the deluded chap. But nothing is relevant. Vincent's struggle to achieve relevancy is ridiculous."

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#AskBoxhead - Them Sunglasses...

Dear Mr Boxhead,

Them Sunglasses...

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