Robert Drewe on knuckle crackers, and other important issues…
Robert Drewe looks at the strange art of becoming a crack knuckle-cracker and the even stranger disease High Altitude Flatus Expulsion (HAFE) – it’s…
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Robert Drewe on why these days it’s a dog’s life
Robert Drewe says he’s a dog lover, but there’s limits. And they’re being stretched… In my day I’ve owned intelligent, obedient, affectionate and adventurous…
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Baby talk – but not from babies, writes Robert Drewe
Sometimes Australia’s obsession with shortening words goes just too far and that’s ‘defo’, writes Robert Drewe. The other day I heard a hospital administrator…
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Robert Drewe on why he’s never going to Burundi
Burundi may be the unhappiest place on earth, but it’s still got a nerve when it comes to scamming, writes Robert Drewe. Three times…
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A Bob or Tim by any other name would be round or thin?
Robert Drewe on the vexed question of scientific research, the importance of names and why toast always lands butter-side down. Don’t you love complex…
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What’s in a name? Quite a lot these days according to Robert Drewe
There’s more consonants and vowels in modern names than ever before, and in weirder combintations – or at least that’s what the sports commentators…
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India Morris on the dangers of hugging, butter knives and cold sore cream
We’re in grave danger of becoming an over-protected society, writes India Morris, who thinks it’s about time we started taking the occasional risk. Today…
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Mother-spit – the great eliminator
It’s a time-honoured tradition – ‘mother-spit’. But, writes Robert Drewe, it may just be falling out of fashion. It may even just be ‘yuk’……
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Robert Drewe on the nutty name game
It was overhearing the young mother chastising her small daughter at the Coles checkout the other day that persuaded Robert Drewe a roundup of…
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Speaking ‘police’ – it’s not that easy
Robert Drewe, a male individual, not currently of interest to the police, examines some of the more tortured expressions he’s heard over the years……
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