Christmas time and it's the season of summer in Australia. A period where the many find comfort in walking aimlessly in the freezers everyone knows as shopping centres. They may sweat out and lose three kilos in the trek from their homes to the multi-level car parking facilities, but make no mistake. The winner is clearly the festive fun.

The loser is the water weight conscious. They who judge their lives on the bathrooms scales. The ones who see how much the bag of dates helped them lose. How far closer to rails they are now with the dodgy food court tastings. The ones who may take to drinking up to water load in times of competition weighing machines.

Care needs to be taken in which liquids go into the temple that is the body in times of staving off dehydration. Simple plain tap water will suffice. Recycled water even. Flat soda water isn't too bad. But stay away from the variety made of hops and barely or potatoes. Stuff which will take the eyes and swim them through what may very well seem like an endless bath of chlorine.

Which also is not a good thing to ingest on any basis, no matter the occasion.

 

Takes a loose minded entrepeneur to figure out that skinning a dog in a banana suit may add to the high price of a hand. Pity not the dog, in this case Brian Griffin from The Family Guy, a tool in the whole marketing scheme and scam.

Takes the discerning consumer to work out that a dog dressed in a banana suit helps no one in the long run. Not if the dog isn't playing all the cards that are involved in the game of dressing up fruity.


Such as knowing the limit at which the costume will work. After a certain period of time, it should be either taken out as a whole or left for the compost and hopefully the return back into the environment.

Another thing to note is the infuriating stickers that comes with the costume. Vital for those who are interested in knowing the wheres and whats. Less so for those who forget and throw it in the wash, only to end up with bits floating about not yet ready to let go.

Dressing up as a fruit is one thing. Knowing how to be the fruit is another thing entirely.

 

On this Invasion Day, if all is to be believed there will be lamb chops as bats, barges made of emptied VBs and barbeques smoking more than the bush fires. Glory is this day in which the forefathers came slashing their way to a brand new life on an island prison larger than Alcatraz.

Celebrate today and stumble back tomorrow before the weekend begins again. A tragedy of public holidays to fall outside the prime real estate of Friday or Monday to rejoice.

Sipping martinis on Australia Day? Not likely if you're Australian. Don't bother looking for the red fire hydrants around either. Not yet, the recolonisation of this big brown land is at least a year away. At best hopes.

For the relief of bladders and stomachs made full from soft drinks, beers and burnt meat, trees, drains and empty bottles will be lying about. Step over and past each one of them to make use of the facilities.

Australia is already the big brown land without the extra leg up.

 

DC's sorceress supreme, Zatanna Zatara, has unwittingly found herself in the middle of an anti-myxomatosis versus pro-myxomatosis battle over the population control of rabbits. Honing an age old magic trick of pulling out a white rabbit from a top hat, Zatara -- daughter of John Zatara and Sindella and a reputed descendant of Leonard da Vinci -- soon found her quarters filling up with the lagomorphs.

As the act scurried wildly out of control, the enchantress found herself ambushed by a pack of publicity hungry photographers armed with their telescopic lenses and flash bulbs. Under the glare and sudden capture, red-eye reduction methods were of no aid against a mammal whose eyes stain red like the morning after a heavy bender.

With the facility based off an island near Themyscira, it's not clear how the sudden population explosion of the rabbits will affect the environment. Assurances that the rabbits are all merely temporary constructs doing little to abate worries of the cabbage patch kids.

What started out as a mere profile boost in the vein of I'm a Celebrity - Get Me Out of Here! and Reborn in the USA now sees two sides of a debate pitted against each other by its very definition.

 

 

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