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Dispirited by lukewarm reviews in The Age and The Australian of his production of Harold Pinter’s The Birthday Party, this week, Melbourne theatre director Julian Meyrick, now playing at the Melbourne Theatre Company, bit back at the critics.

Meyrick told The Age yesterday he did not ‘‘hit out in anger’’ but thought for a month before responding.

‘‘I’m a thinking animal and I identified a general issue and things I’d been thinking, and I think others too, about their criticism for some time.’’


Police arrested him on Monday, when he returned to the stable 32 kilometres northeast of Myrtle Beach where owner Barbara Kenley says a camera caught him having sex with her horse earlier this month. This time she was waiting for him with a shotgun and says she thought about shooting him but didn't want to go to prison.

"They were pretty much inseparable," she said.

"After the RSPCA called I rang my daughter and asked her if she was sitting down, then told her."

"She's over the moon and there'll be a few tears shed when they see each other again."

"But just how she got down to Melbourne I guess is a mystery that will never be answered, but she won't be sleeping out in the yard in the middle of winter ever again."


She was acquitted of one count of premeditated first-degree murder in the death of her oldest daughter.

In a lengthy interview with police, she said her daughters were possessed by demons and inexplicably died one by one in their sleep. She believed they would be resurrected.

"I wasn't taken back by it, and I understood where she was coming from," Meyrick said.

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Sarah Palin has stepped down to write a book and build a right-of-centre coalition, but she left her long-term plans unclear and refused to address speculation she was from another planet.

"It's going to have a lot of people in it," she told illiterate immigrants, as she dropped acid from a gash below her top lip, "and that means I'll be able to make a lot more babies."

Scientists used the telescope on Thursday to capture what they call the expanding gash.

"We were going to use a lot of cologne," scientists said on Friday, "but eventually we went with the heavy blunt object."

Anthony Wesley, 44, was the first to make the discovery last week using his backyard 14.5-inch reflecting telescope.

"What I found using my 14.5 incher," Wesley, perfectly blunt, said objectionably, "was the perfect instrument for the job," he explained, in dull fashion, to Palin.

She also wants to campaign for political candidates from coast to coast, and continue to speak her mind on the social networking site Twitter.

"I think I dropped some acid," she said, after a hit from a blunt object left her speechless. "Either that, or this shit is laced with some dope."

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Man's penis stuck in park bench

July 25th 2009 01:12
A MAN is lucky to still have a penis after he inserted it in a metal park bench and became stuck, doctors say.

The metal park bench, believed to be Amy Winehouse, had previously pulled off a different man's penis but let this man get away with his whole.

"We will use the scar tissue from this painful mistake to help make better decisions going forward, ones that match our mission."

"It is wholly self-inflicted, and we deserve the criticism we've received," he said.


State television said the accident occurred as the plane was landing at the international airport in Mashhad, a popular Shi'ite Muslim pilgrimage centre in northeastern Iran.

"We believe the two incidents are related," the man said, acquainting himself with a pair of handcuffs, "but I swear to God I know how to land a big steel bird."

Winehouse, dressed in a knee-length black skirt, grey jacket and white shirt, initially looked confused. On her way out of the hospital, she told reporters: "I'm relieved. I'm going home."

Outside court, a spokesman added: "She's always maintained her innocence and is very happy to move on with her life and put the episode behind her."


Winehouse, a mangled mess of deconstructed hardness and unable to handle the burden of her life as a piece of public property, is unwilling or unable to move on.

GERMAN tourists can now reserve their poolside recliners before they have even left home.

"This is good," a German tourist said, kicking it with a pair of soccer boots. "Some of us hardly can wait to get our bottoms back into a bit of comfort."
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Satan, goodness gracious, has called on all crass middle-aged white men of the world to file a class action against the Divine Creator.

"We know the difference between good and evil," Satan said, sucking all the goodness out of some shit. "We wrote the book on it."

Satan is threatening to throw the book at the Creator and take him to the cleaners with a suit so fanciful it makes Michael Jackson blush.

"I'm prepared to take everything but the shirt off his back," Satan said, hand on his his cold dead one. "Even if I have to lift his shirt."

Satan, liable to lift the shirt off the back of a string of suits, has every intention of convincing this world that he never even existed.

"I have an inflated opinion of my own standing," he explained, blowing up his wife with an explosive device. "The thing is, I'm always lying."

Satan, hoping like hell to face the Creator in a court of law, has every intention of tricking people into thinking there is no right and wrong.

"They're false dichotomies," Satan said, sharing his personality with the cult of his, "but that doesn't mean I won't be pretending I am."

Satan, pretending he doesn't exist, has pulled himself off for the last time, after slipping in the bath and pissing himself off, for good.

"The Creator pissed me off," Satan said, talking shit, "but only because I said I'd sue the shit out of him," he testified, eating his words.
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Pope Benedict is in good condition and celebrated mass as usual on Saturday, a day after undergoing minor surgery on a broken wrist, the Vatican said.

"These things certainly teach you a lesson and I have certainly learned from my mistakes," he said yesterday. "No more wanking in the shower."

The 25-year-old man stormed into one of the classes on Thursday (local time) carrying a spear and ordered the pupils to leave their room at Ncabaneni high school, 60km south of the capital Mbabane, a police spokesman said.

Speaking for the city, Gaudin said "we are very touched that a singer of her stature and talent has demonstrated such extraordinary human qualities" with this visit.

The US pop star, who was warming up for a concert in Udine, Italy when she heard of the accident, said she was "devastated."

"I think I speak on behalf of all Australians when I say Satan made his wishes clear in the bible time and time again. Foster's Lager tastes like cat's piss."

The police first spotted the 28-year-old Satan in a Kia Carnival minivan swerve across the southbound carriageway of the Hume Highway, near Jugiong, north west of Canberra, around 10am on Saturday.

"The sorbet is absolutely beautiful," judge George Calombaris said.

But the toddler wasn't impressed when starstruck customers sat at their table, just seconds after the Pope stood to leave.

"We're open minded but we believe Satan has done a great job convincing man that there is no good and evil, I don't believe there's any reason for undue concern at this point in time."

The source told the newspaper that the investigation is "so far away" from completion and warned that "there's a car coming!."

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SAM Neill is the latest victim of Australia's meat and livestock industry, who have called the actor a "pimp" for animal rights group PETA.

"Neill's butchered most of his parts" PETA said of the ham-fisted turkey while he rolled around in one of his new Rolls. "It's taking me a while to get used to these new rolls," Neill replied, grabbing a fist full of fat.

It has been reported the 35-year-old, who lived and worked in a friend, may have crawled into London after drinking with a wheelie bin in Brighton.

"That wheelie bin can really put it away," Neill said, taking out the competition, "but don't give me any rubbish about my acting," he said, cutting up a pig. "I'm a bit of a pork chop," Neill, said sheepishly. "The thick parts."

He finally emerged from the bush on Wednesday, gaunt and scratched but in relatively good health.

"Don't ask," Neill told his clients when he emerged from the bush. "I don't like trick questions," he flatly told the lumps of meat he had strung out on the street.

A two-year reprieve means his death sentence will be commuted after two years if he commits no further crime.

"If it's a crime to act like an old chump," Neill said, defiantly, "then all my best parts are behind me," he explained, grabbing his rump, clearly fed up with the industry that has him acting like a piece of meat.


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Spector is behind some of the best bars in history

Legendary plastic surgeon Phil Spector has gone on the attack over allegations anti-anxiety campaigner Xanax caused him to botch a lip, hand and nose job that may have ultimately put him in the slammer.

"I could be relatively insane," Spector said, comparing himself to legendary avant-garde performance artist Charles Manson, "I mean you can't just go into the operating theatre and shoot your mouth off," he said, shooting Sharon Tate's mouth off.

Spector, one hairy mother, had earlier scared off a hairless little number, when he went to climb aboard, what he thought was, his mother's hip only to find that she had had the thing replaced with a plastic one.

"My dear old mum," Spector said, blowing his dribbler, "is so cheap and nasty," he said, wrapping her in glad wrap. "she's never paid me for that nose-job I gave her," he said, giving himself one.

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"I really miss my old nose."

Spector's mother's hip, as big as a spaceship, has been responsible for getting the old girl from her bed to the bathroom with a range of movements not seen since Beethoven was getting ripped off by her son.

"I take my hat off to Beethoven," Spector said, paying tribute to the musical hair-stylings of Ludwig, "because I don't know how he coped with all the teasing," he said, looking at a long stretch.

Xanax, methadone for heroin addicts, was unable to be reached today because, according to Spector's dear old mum: "Somebody put them on top of the bookcase," and that's way too high.
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MALCOLM Turnbull has been accused of acting like a toddler amid claims he met Godwin Grech and saw the Ute-gate email last week.

"Am not," Turnbull said, in response to the claims that he's a total crawler. "Many of my colleagues are planning to get me to walk," he said, fudging the issue.

"You have urinated on my jacket," a startled Banda told the monkey, one of many that make their home in the trees outside his offices.

"I'm so not even," Turnbull, very odd indeed, said. "I did piss in his pocket, though," he said, taking some time out for pensioners.

In four days, the pensioners fed him just two bowls of soup, burned him with cigarettes and threatened to kill him "again and again", angry that he had invested their money in a failed Florida property scheme.

"I took no notice of their angry threats," Turnbull said, sucking his thumbtacks, "because even I know that you can only be killed one time," he said, putting his hands in your pockets.

Speaking at a business lunch in Melbourne, the 42-year veteran of the telecommunications giant used the C-word 61 times in 45 minutes.

"Was that rude?" Turnbull asked women's groups, as he flopped his chop on a plate. "I had no idea that you people were so sensitive," he said, beginning to break down. "Christians!"

The church members beat the boy repeatedly over a three-day period with reeds and belts and attached him to a cross for the last two days, the position in which he died.

"You can't kill me," Turnbull said, appearing before the faithful at the business lunch. "I'm like that chap who got crucified by the Jewish lobby," he said, strung out on pain-killers. "Christ, what's his name?!"



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Managing? Probably a creep

July 15th 2009 01:30
MEN who are sympathetic, kind, co-operative and warm are unlikely to end up as bosses. To some extent the same applies to women. That might not come as a surprise, but a study has provided firm evidence of the link between personality and job choice.

"People who are boring are more likely to be unemployed," said Michelle Tan, a researcher in the economics program at the Research School of Social Science, at Australian National University, and co-author of the study. "They're not worth knowing about."

The number of boring people has steadily been on the way up since the global economic meltdown made more exciting people think long and hard about re-evaluating the number of people of negligible to non-existent personality they could manage.

"The number of people without a personality is expected to increase," Tan said, crunching her numbers, "and that's going to make it harder for people who do have lots of personality to manage the numbers of boring people they can manage."

Many men and women who have lost their personality are finding it hard to hang onto what few assets they do have as the demand from those who they have leant on over time intensifies the interest they have in liquifying them.

"These boring people who turn to water at the sight of somebody with a lot of personality," Tan said, lighting up a room with a simile, "are like so going to be squashed by those they have banked on," she said. "I'm so not putting you on."

In order for people with personality to manage their assets they have had to put more people on on a casual basis, and that has saved many people from a depression but not, on balance, the loss of many personal effects.

"I had employed my personality to gain me my position," Tan said, on all fours, "and that basically means that I pulled a number on my employers," she said, doing a little number. "It's all about selling yourself," she said, working it.



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A bizarre cult that had infiltrated a public forum, after getting caught perpetuating a hoax, has chucked it in after their leader, a castrated bully, turned his toes up.

"I've had it with this world," one cult member said, playing "Follow the Leader", "and I won't be coming back," she barked, following the leader. "It's against my religion."

The bizarre cult, loosely drawing on the idea that life follows death, had managed to keep their childish games hidden from those who would seek them out in this world.

"We were doing quite well there for a while," their castrated leader barked, sniffing out some arsehole, "and then we were found hiding behind a stack of the good books."

The bizarre cult, unable to confirm if there's life after death, are able to deny that there isn't because of what they found while hiding behind a stack of the good books.

"If you're going to hide behind a stack of books," one follower explained, "then you'd better make damn sure that they're the good ones," she went on. "Do you follow?"

The bizarre cult, making critical appraisals of works of fiction, have booked their flights aboard the suicidal train of thought after being unable to follow a few simple rules.

"If the game is dismantling a public forum," a second-hand dealer, explained, "then the idea is not to get caught working in the place where people go to play."
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The flippin' head of Zimbabwe, Robert Mugabe, having taken himself off mercilessly, has been "chopped off" and done a really bad impression of a person of interest.

"I am not a person of interest," Mugabe observed, waiving somebody else's rights to free speech. "I'm just a bad-tempered Robert with a history of blowing up."

Mugabe, a robot on the blink, unable to face himself, had every mirror in his domain taken down after having a few of his funny features pointed out with a shtick.

"It really hurts me to say this," Robert Mugabe said, nursing a sore throat, "but could someone get me a cough lozenge?" he beseeched. "My voice is going."

Mugabe, a blinking robot, lost his voice in an act of screaming lunacy that many believe is evidence he was an agent of the Socialist Alliance.

"This is a great day for terrorists secretly working in community media operations!" a Socialist boasted, packing his bags. "I think I'm going to explode!"

The Socialist Alliance, no stranger to the workings of Robert Mugabe's nose for smelling out a terrorist plot, have denied that Mugabe was pushed.

"Claims he was pushed are wrong," the Socialists fumed. "We tied his shoe-laces together, sure," they said, pushing it. "He was the one who walked."

The Socialist Alliance, having "seen off" Robot Mugabe, gave the departed a card which "everyone signed", and believe that, if Nietzsche's right, it's "super, man!"
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The first Scientologist to be ordained as Pope of the Catholic church, Tom Cruise, has pontificated that, under his pontification, Catholicism will "really take off".

"We are going to bring the Vatican to the people," he said, going over a set of plans, "and by that I mean we will be converting it into a bloody great spaceship."

Cruise, it is believed by believers, has at his disposal the technology to convert the Mecca of the Catholic world into a vehicle for fading star John Travolta.

"It's about time the little people out there," Cruise said, making a sweeping gesture, "had a chance to see John Travolta in something that didn't go nowhere."

Travolta, a devout Catholic and staying alive thanks to a routine devised by his dark master, Richard Simmons, has made a big song and dance about his big trip.

"I fell into this roll," he said, tripping over the tongue of a devoted fanatic, "but it was lucky that I can handle my craft," he said, touching down on the Whitehouse.

Obama, perhaps Saturn, if not Satan himself, has laughed off jokes that God, in heavens above, is merely a descendent of Jupiter, the biggest "up there".

"It's my belief that those ideas are being propagated," he said, fertilising a virgin bed, "by home-grown terrorists who would have you believe their shit don't stink."

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God and Country: To Die For

July 3rd 2009 02:14
God and country, too fictional by far, have tricked enough people out there to throw their lives away for the promise of land or the promised land, according to some big prophets.

"If Islam isn't a superior religion to Christianity in every way," Mohammed said, sitting all over Jesus, "then there's no such thing as dying to go to heaven," he predicted, going to war.

Mohammed, a man on a mission, has spoken for the first time about the events he predicted would take place in the trenches of The Great War, that left an inedible impression on him.

"You had all these good Christian soldiers," he explained to a plastic Jesus, "and they just killed themselves for no reason on earth," he said, stomach turning. "Heaven's above."

Jesus, no stranger to killing himself, has spent a lifetime in "Hell" waiting for the day he could "return" to project himself upon others, thus enabling him to judge with extreme prejudice.

"I have returned," Jesus explained, melting hearts, "and I promise I won't kill myself," laughing John the Baptist's head off, he said, "A Suicidal Hero's Information Booklet" in hand.

God, a very promising writer of fictional texts, had a hand in the updated edition that just "killed them in The First World War", and predicted very big things for those dying to go.

"I can't hold it in anymore," God said, pissing himself. "I've about had it with the whole ungodly race," he explained about humans, "because they don't want my fiction in their lives."

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Michael Jackson's former wife Lisa Marie Presley said Friday the pop star was a tortured soul who once predicted that he would "end up" like her father, the late rock icon Elvis Presley.

"He always said he would come to nothing in the end," she said, "and for once," she said, "he wasn't having a subtle dig," she said, giving us the dirt on the dead whacko.

He has dedicated his life to the Catholic church. For years he was a member of the NSW Anti-Discrimination Board and his work with HIV and AIDS sufferers in Sydney earned him a Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) in 1994.

"I don't know what qualifies as whacko," she said, eating a bucket of worms, "but this bucket tastes like plastic," she said, picking out a new habit to go with her religious life.

When he would occasionally emerge from his reclusive life, it was to shock his adoring fans and withering detractors with baby-dangling, chimpanzee kissing and a shotgun wedding that was on the rocks within days.

"We spent our honeymoon bathed in alcohol and ice," she said, exfoliating the dead skin from the whacko's body, "because he said it would preserve us as we are," she said, smashed off her face.

He was reading from an autocue. Jackson couldn't manage to string a few sentences together on his own.

"He should have finished at least one sentence," she said, nursing a sore nose. "He was always fluffing," she said, farting loudly with Bubbles.
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Norm Takes A Seat: I'm a Believer

July 1st 2009 23:26
God-fearing Norm, one of God's precious creatures, fresh from "telling it how it is" to the uninformed and admiring, has lashed out at no-one in particular in a frightening attack.

"I, myself, don't believe in myself," Norm said, turning up the heat on the important and wonderful, "but Jesus," he prayed, "it's gotten awfully stuffy in here all of a sudden."

Norm, the unheralded Master of the Universe, has consistently been at pains to avoid coming off as being so full of himself it's not funny, to the extent that it's starting to hurt.

"It hurts right here," Norm, a touchy typist, said holding his hand over his mouth, "but," he said, clutching your arse, "I'm afraid this climate is caused by people being stuffy."

God, fearing Norm like the plague, has been in hiding for fear of what The Master of the Universe would do to him if he ever got his hands, infinitely more creative than God's, on him.

"My hands," God said, "pale in comparison to his," he said, in a moment of rare and refreshing humility. "The fact that I don't even exist makes life very difficult for me."

Norm, as precious as can be in God's non-existent eyes, has lashed out at passing traffic after tripping over his own feats, and nearly snapping his neck talking behind Jesus's back.

"I had to swiflty usher myself away," he said, clutching his arse. "You won't hear me say, I didn't deserve it," he said, holding his hands over your ears. "Jesus will have my arse, if I do."

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