SM, a friend from college days, draws my attention to this gem:

Australia's top treasury official is taking five weeks leave to look after endangered wombats.

Ken Henry, treasury secretary and animal conservationist, has warned that hairy-nosed wombats are "on death row".

But opposition politicians - and even wombat lovers - question if now is the time to be thinking about wombats.

Inflation is at a 16-year high, interest rates are up and fuel prices are rising. Mr Henry will also miss a central bank meeting.

Mr Henry will be looking after 115 hairy-nosed wombats in an isolated spot in northern Queensland, with no mobile phone coverage and two-and-a-half hours on a rough track from the nearest town.

"There are 10 times as many giant pandas in the world as there are these guys," said Mr Henry.

The opposition isn't sure this is a great idea even though, in what must be one of the lines of the year, Brendan Nelson acknowledges that "I think we all love the hairy-nosed wombat."

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Hey Lisah, is this a big Baltimore firm?

re Les Nessman et al. - I still hear echoes of the first episode when Howard Hesseman's character, being told that the format is changing and he'll have more freedom, blasts Cincinnati with some rock music and then leans into the microphone and says "bugger" (actually, I think it was "buggahhhhhhhhh")

I'm assuming he's a relative of billytea.

Tyson Homosexual.... bahahahahaha...I am 12 today.

I tend to lowball the pain. When I had my surgery, I kept telling them I didn't need pain meds. Finally the nurse said "I'm not asking you if you can bear it, I'm asking if you feel any pain at all" and I said "well yeah, it hurts but I can deal." She then made me take some drugs.

My friend Julie said when she was in labor, she realized there's no reason to overestimate one's pain threshold BEFORE you are in full blown labor. She said she was about a 7 on pain tolerance before the kid. With the twins, apparently she said she was a 2.

I don't wanna go teach summer school.

Hey Lisah, is this a big Baltimore firm?

Yeah, it's pretty big.

Oh man, back in the 90s the semi-local hockey team had a Thanksgiving promotion with Richard Sanders involving paper turkeys dropping onto the ice from the arena ceiling. I felt kind of bad for the guy, as the announcers only referred to him as "Less Nessman" rather than acknowledge that he was an actor famous for playing that part.

There's a firm based on Baltimore that is my work nemesis. Starts with a V. We hates them and they are stupid and incompetent.

There's a firm based on Baltimore that is my work nemesis. Starts with a V. We hates them and they are stupid and incompetent.

Doesn't start with a V.

There are several people there who treated her well and seemed basically competent but the culture is just so toxic. I'm thrilled she's getting out.

Man, how awesome would it be if lisah's friend could sabotage bon bon's nemeses? It's like work Strangers on a Train!