Some trivia to keep you entertained. Have you ever wondered where some of those crazy sayings come from?
Well, here's a few to start off. If you know of others, please share them.









Some trivia to keep you entertained. Have you ever wondered where some of those crazy sayings come from?
Well, here's a few to start off. If you know of others, please share them.









The Gazette May Be Slow, But Roderick Isn't Giving Up By Roderick (Whiskers ) McNibble. …
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I have been reading about the state of affairs in the United Kingdom and what…
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Democracy: Now With 97% Less Majority Rule Because who needs the will of the people…
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The Emu War is one of Australia’s strangest historical events. In late 1932, the government…
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AI, governments and the dangerous imitation of friendship. We live in a strange age where…
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Civilisation is not what we create. It is what we do when someone needs a…
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On 6 and 9 August 1945, the United States detonated two atomic bombs over the…
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RATTY NEWS SPECIAL REPORT THE PROFESSOR PECK PHENOMENON How Dusty Gulch University Accidentally Created the…
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Barefoot in the Grass: The Last Lesson My Father Taught Me My father passed away…
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Thomas Pritchard, Australia's last "Rat of Tobruk" passed away at the age of 102 on…
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From immigration policy to identity politics, energy to ideology - the erosion of Western society…
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Twenty-Five Teenagers. One Mother. What Could Possibly Go Wrong? When I was about twelve years…
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Swish, Swish... Off With Their Heads When I was a young lass, I was a…
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Mystery Deepens: Who Are the Chookhouse Four? By Roderick (Whiskers ) McNibble, Chief Investigative Correspondent,…
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The sea doesn’t warn you. It doesn’t care who you are, what rank you hold,…
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The Census Came for the Quiet Ones I have just finished the Australian Census. Had…
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In a fast-changing Australia, where new cultures and identities weave fresh threads into our ever…
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“Every tyrant must begin by claiming to have what his victims respect and to give…
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At nine years old, I felt the silence of the lambs, long before I knew…
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While the new aces argue about the runway, the old crew still knows how to…
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Howling into the Abyss of Settler-Colonial Absurdism A Decolonial Reading of "The Werewolves of Dusty…
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RATTY NEWS SPECIAL INVESTIGATION THE WEREWOLVES OF DUSTY GULCH Project Howl, the Hacked Rolling Pin,…
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The Ghost Returns The first thing he noticed was the silence. Not the silence of…
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A Dream Needs a Driver: Sir William Hamilton, the Jet Boat, and the Men Who…
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When I tell people I’m a beek, inevitably the first thing they say is, “Yes,…
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He stood on top of the world - literally. But Sir Edmund Hillary never saw…
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The Basement at Yekaterinburg When People Become Symbols, History Takes a Dark Turn On the…
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In many Western countries today, we often speak of multiculturalism as though traditions no longer…
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RATTY NEWS EXCLUSIVE THE DUCKS WHO KNEW TOO MUCH How the Mysterious Death of the…
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In a world that seems determined to teach us to hate our countries, I remember…
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When the Bush Is No Longer Enough Just days after Sam Neill's passing on 13…
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Why Churchill Still Matters in Australia: Blunt Voices, Shared Goals, and the Fight for a…
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