Rumours about the shuttlecock diplomacy being conducted by Prime Minister Miklós Kállay went the rounds, with people saying that “a deal” was going to be struck with the Allies behind the backs of the Germans.

Crazy Cats […] is the prime strippery of Perth. Apart from the actual bareskin performers, the place features “See Thru Waitresses” every night except Sunday […]

Somewhat less gentle is the anonymous The Modern Hiawatha, a sharp take on Longfellow’s insistent use of anaphora, mesodiplosis and other forms of repetition in his famous Song of Hiawatha, and also of the sense of bathos that these devices can often create, in part, at least, because of a tendency to over-explain everything by saying the same thing several times.

They had to stop short to avoid hitting the dog in the street.