Monday Miscellany: Some Odds, Ends and Personals

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Email from Arthur, commenting on the story of the dead grandmother’s phone responding to text messages:

“As much as I like texting I hope they don’t put my mobile in the coffin when they bury me.”

Arthur, then how about a coffin that looks like a phone:

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Email from David:

I must take issue with your statement that "Australia is the only country that is also a continent." Most geographers recognize the continent of Oceania which includes Australia, New Zealand, Melanesia, Micronesia and Polynesia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states_and_dependent_territories_in_Oceania

And, whist not a racehorse name, I must mention that in my sailing days a rather reserved young lady used to sail a dinghy called Shy Tot.

Comment:

A week earlier I posted a trivia item that continent names started and ended with the same letter, but that that depended on which classification of continents you adopted:

We now add Oceania to that.

As someone who was taught that a continent is a landmass, I still have trouble getting my head around a concept that a continent includes a whole lot of "nesias".  But then again, we were also taught that Pluto was a planet, that date was BC or AD and that getting brown in the sun was good for you.  As George Burns once also said, I remember when the air was clean and sex was dirty.

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An email from Graham in respect of the post on racehorse names:

Hi Mr O,

Saw this and thought of you !

Regards

Mr G 

Is 'Piston Broke' too rude for the racetrack? The racehorse names approved and banned by authorities

Read more at http://www.9news.com.au/national/2014/10/20/14/26/the-racehorse-names-that-were-approved-and-banned-by-the-racing-authority#STAZ2pXgQ3FdCCfO.99

Graham’s link lists some of the names banned and some that were approved.

Banned:

Hoof Hearted

Youfor Kenstar

Woftam (For those unaware, this is an acronym for “Waste of Fucking Time and Money”).

Wear the Fox Hat

Sofa King

Torque’s Hit

Piston Broke

Pistol

Far Canal

Far King

Bluey Tsarsoff

Anzac Parade

Fair King

Dilligaff (Acronym for Does it look like I give a flying fuck?”)

Pistol Knight

Debbie Does Gallop

Linda Love Race

Irish Wrist Watch (Banned because it is a tongue twister that would have driven the announcers nuts).

Approved:

Wind in the Pillows

Web of Love

Pushycat (From Top Echelon, out of Purr and Pounce)

The Eire We Breed (From Eire, out of Sandy Princess)

Polka Dot Bikini

Fraady Mercury

Lonesome Tonight (From Elvstroem, out of Dateless)

In the Mattress (From Secret savings, out of Al Mamzar)

Ima Nigh Source

Best I Can Get

Hughes My Daddy (From Henny Hughes, out of We’ll See)

Bank on Henry ( From Henry The Navigator, out of Shannon Bank)

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