I have a love-hate relationship with cockies — that’s sulphur-crested cockatoos, to you. The birds are an Aussie icon. So ubiquitous that graziers are commonly called “cockies” in this wide, brown land. The sobriquet supposedly emerged because, in the squatter days, farmers would crowd around a waterhole like said birds.
“It belongs to my mate, I didn’t know it was there!” didn’t wash as an excuse when my Mum found a pack of cigarettes in my room all those years ago, and it’s not washing as an excuse for planting apparent pro-paedophilia material in a fashion catalogue.
The word for today is… anthropomorphic (adjective): 1 : described or thought of as having a human form or human attributes 2 : ascribing human characteristics to nonhuman things Source : Merriam -Webster Etymology :We are endlessly fascinated by the uniqueness and complexity of human language. Many species use sounds and gestures to
The word for today is… conscription (noun): : compulsory enrollment of persons especially for military service Source : Merriam -Webster Etymology :With its scrip- root, conscription means basically writing someone’s name on a list—a list that, unfortunately, a lot of people usually don’t want to be on. Conscription has
The word for today is… misnomer (noun): 1 : the misnaming of a person in a legal instrument 2a : a use of a wrong or inappropriate name b : a wrong name or inappropriate designation Source : Merriam -Webster Etymology :What’s in a name? Well, in some cases, a name will contain
If we’re to believe the legacy media, “groomers” are nothing more than a hateful, right-wing conspiracy against gay people. Which might be news to the gay people who’ve formed lobby groups such as “Gays Against Groomers”. But, no, the media insist: it’s not only a hate conspiracy,
The word for today is… defer (verb): 1a : put off, delay 1b : to postpone induction of (a person) into military service 2 : to delegate to another Source : Merriam -Webster Etymology :There are two distinct words spelled defer in English, each with its own history and meaning. The defer having to
The word for today is… perspicacious (adjective): : of acute mental vision or discernment Source : Merriam -Webster Etymology :Some perspective on perspicacious: the word combines the Latin perspicac- (from perspicax meaning “clear-sighted,” which in turn comes from perspicere, “to see through”) with the common English adjective suffix -ious. The result is
Robert Lyman Dr. Jay Lehr cfact.org Robert Lyman is an economist with 37 years of service to the Canadian government. CFACT Senior Science Analyst Jay Lehr has authored more than 1,000 magazine and journal articles and 36 books. Jay’s new book A Hitchhikers Journey Through Climate Change
The word for today is… verdigris (noun): 1a : a green or greenish-blue poisonous pigment resulting from the action of acetic acid on copper and consisting of one or more basic copper acetates b : normal copper acetate Cu(C2H3O2)2·H2O 2 : a green or bluish deposit especially of copper carbonates
The word for today is… haywire (adverb or adjective): 1 : being out of order or having gone wrong 2 : emotionally or mentally upset or out of control Source : Merriam -Webster Etymology :The noun haywire refers to a type of wire once used in baling hay and sometimes for makeshift repairs.
The word for today is… ilk (noun, pronoun): noun : sort, kind – e.g. politicians and their ilk pronoun (chiefly Scotland) : same —used with that especially in the names of landed families Source : Merriam -Webster Etymology :The Old English pronoun ilca is the predecessor of the modern noun ilk, but by
The word for today is… exponent (noun): 1 : a symbol written above and to the right of a mathematical expression to indicate the operation of raising to a power 2a : one that expounds or interprets b : one that champions, practices, or exemplifies Source : Merriam -Webster Etymology :You probably won’t
Walter Block fee.org Walter Edward Block is an American economist and anarcho-capitalist theorist who holds the Harold E. Wirth Eminent Scholar Endowed Chair in Economics at the J. A. Butt School of Business at Loyola University New Orleans. He is a member of the FEE Faculty Network. With the
The word for today is… laconic (adjective): : using or involving the use of a minimum of words Source : Merriam -Webster Etymology :Laconia was an ancient country in southern Greece. Its capital city was Sparta, and the Spartans were famous for their terseness of speech. Laconic comes to us by way
After my partner and I had spent nearly 24 hours travelling from Asia to return to New Zealand our last leg from Sydney to Auckland was delayed by two hours. We finally arrived at Auckland Airport on QF143 18 November 2022 only to be advised by the captain they had
