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Rabbiters & Corpses. In South and Western Australia, census takers from Humbug Scrub to Boologooroo prowled the inner edge of the Great Australian Bight in search of opal gougers, oil drillers, boundary riders and randomly wandering rabbiters. One truck driver from Adelaide was asked to deliver and collect questionnaires on the lonely "No Tree" Plain when he went out to pick up rabbits from the wandering hunters. He got five tons of rabbits and 200 questionnaires...
...dolly from the scene, I say cheers for your gear article on the swinging, switched-on city of London [April 15] and boo to all the American geese who call it humbug...
...real thunderbolts are the words, the wit, and the ever-skeptical cast of mind. Twain knew that the lies people tell themselves are much funnier than the lies they tell others. He had a bird dog's nose for humbug, and he found it everywhere-in religion, patriotism, politics, ethnic pride and national vanity. With baffled awe and unquenchable laughter, he looked upon man as the most arrogant of the apes and found him passing strange: "Man is the only animal who's got the true religion-several of 'em." Twain wonders aloud if mankind would...
...enclose with his card a sermon by the Dean of Duke University Chapel, entitled "Bethlehem and Bedlam." But along with all the frankincense and myrrh was an ever increasing band of Scrooges-Walter Cronkite, David Brinkley and Earl Warren among them -who continued to cry humbug to the greeting game and sent no cards...
...until force was met by force did things begin to quiet down; then up went cries of police brutality. Nonsense! Rioters shouted "Freedom now!" Humbug! It's privileges that these few are looking for -or else! They reduced a cause to nothing more than blackmail. These race agitators here in Rochester have succeeded only in losing what they probably want most: respect...