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It's the Freak Show time of the week... Get your whips ready and get the freaking circus started!
In this contest you can photoshop and exhibit anything you wish (standard site rules still apply). This is basically a weekly exhibition of your creative works with no "contest restrictions". [ browse best gallery pictures ] [ browse this contest gallery in high resolution ] Tag funny pix freakshow Jackpot: 1st place: $5, 2nd place: $3 , 3rd place: $2 , 4th place: $1 Started: 1/14/2012 5:00:00 AM, Ended: 1/18/2012 5:00:00 PM
A scene that has been etched in my mind is seeing an eel in the creek take a duckling and pulled it under the water only for the mum to flap her wings furiously and moving in a circular motion above the eel that made the eel release the duckling and it came back up to the surface and the mum helped it onto the creek bank.
When debts are piling and the coffers are empty Gideon Gono, the country bumpkin Governor of the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe, a man with a bizarre fetish for the pungent smell of ink cartridge, gets down and dirty with the bare equipment, churning note after shiny note of worthless currency. He is rightly condemned as a money-printing maverick of the Iron Age era.
Across the Atlantic, faced with a similar predicament Ben Bernanke, the City slicker Chairman of the United States Federal Reserve, digs deep into his bag of tricks. Instead of dusting up his Epsom LaserJet printer, the bearded computer geek punches his keyboard in anger and bellows out, “Let there be money!”
Instantly there is money everywhere, enough to mop up all the toxic assets in Wall Street. He calls it quantitative easy. Surprisingly, Boy Ben is hailed as a pragmatic visionary. True, many have assailed the man with a plethora of charges, but even his harshest critics are not prepared to accuse him of the more dangerous taboo of money-printing. It seems some men have all the luck.
The Gunja Granny's door In the Northern Territory your home can be declared a "drughouse" by police when they suspect that "more probable than not there are drugs being used or sold in your house". They will come and superglue a lovely 1.2 metre high fluorescent bright green sign on your front door. Any attempt to remove it or tamper with it is an offence punishable by imprisonment.
Having this sign stuck on your door means that;
Darwin's first poster on the front door of the home of 'Gunja Granny' Margot Laughton
Your house may be searched by a member of the police force at any time without a warrant, anyone on the premises may be searched, every person who is found on the premises at the time a dangerous drug is found on the premises can be charged with possession of the drug, and anyone who is on the premises or within 200 metres of the premises can be required to provide a member of the police force with their name and address This gran was my girlfriend 38 years ago, we spent about 13 wild and reckless months in South Africa, Zululand, Rhodesia etc etc.
Unfortunately, I wasn't able to get a good pic of the poster, the web address for this story and other weird laws http://www.amazingaustralia.com.au/laws.htm
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It's the Freak Show time of the week... Get your whips ready and get the freaking circus started!
