A Flurry of Plurry Slurry
My old man didn’t swear much and the only cussing I ever really heard from him when I was a youngster was the adjective /adverb ‘Plurry’....
Category: Humour
Newsy Tattle
from the ‘Frankston and Somerville Standard’, 1912-36 Old hands tell me the roads were very bad on the Peninsula in the days when our grand...
To eat or not to eat: that is, ingestion?
THE ODD SPOT GEORGE Bernard Shaw, a vegetarian to the last, gave some thought many years ago to his funeral. He is quoted as once...
A Bolte from the Blue
A 1970 Larry Pickering cartoon about the last Victorian Government Premier not to attend a university, Henry Bolte. (click on images to begin slide show)
The Range of Ben Strange
Like many other cartoonists, I first noticed Ben Strange’s work while trawling through old Australian newspapers online for snippets of family history. Ben Strange was...
Cartoons
A few cartoons from old Australian newspapers (1920-1960) – click on any image to start up the slide show. Ben Bowyang – 1936-1979 Originally drawn by...
Plight of the Night Cart Shite
THE TRAIL OF THE NIGHTCART Yesterday morning Arthur Lewis appeared before the bench in answer to a summons charging him with so filling a night-cart...
Some Glum Slum Chums
SYDNEY’S SQUALID SLUMS ROUND WHERE THE GRIMY MEN LURK Rabbit-O!, Bottle-O! and Beer-O!, An Embryo Major Taylor With Mammy’s Beer, A Battler From Out Back...
The Dunny
Growing up in the unsewered Melbourne suburbs of Bentleigh and later Moorabbin in the 1950s, I became accustomed to the delights of the outside lavatory –...
The Demon Drink
Waiheke is a lovely island in the Hauraki Gulf, east of Auckland, New Zealand. My great, great, great grandparents John Fraser and Mary Kempt were...