I WAS having what seemed like a reasonably normal (for them anyway) phone conversation with someone, and somehow I moved them to say: “I’m sharpening my Gerber knife right now as I’m talking to you.”
my friend had a particular phrase for those moments in conversation when you had stopped listening, then suddenly realise the silence indicates that you should be saying something. The phrase was: My nanna had one. But the wheels fell off.
it seems to work in most situations
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~YEAR ONE!~
In 2010-11 I tried something new every day for a year.
Hey Man was a mission to reroute those rooted neural pathways and rewire my brain until it was lit up like a bloody Christmas tree – with potentially explosive fairy lights.
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Australia 2012. It's okay, we're friends.
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Can you teach me
How to:
* Crack a whip
* Vault an intersection fence
* Spin a drumstick
* Whistle with thumb and forefinger
* Flick a cigarette in and out of my mouth (hurry - I'm about to quit)
* Play canasta
* Play the spoons
* Chop wood
* Bake a decent loaf
* Pull some self defence moves
* Shear a sheep
* Irish dance
* Play dungeons and dragons
* Put on a faux lesbian routine in a pub near closing time
That’s the flyboy one.
my friend had a particular phrase for those moments in conversation when you had stopped listening, then suddenly realise the silence indicates that you should be saying something. The phrase was: My nanna had one. But the wheels fell off.
it seems to work in most situations
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