Davo’s quote of the day
“There’s no point in sitting around waiting for IT to find you. You’ll feel better about yourself and life…and you’ll feel less bitter about life, if you at least make a reasonable attempt to find IT”
Davo’s quote of the day
“Sometimes life can be beautiful, and sometimes beauty comes from the essence of life itself……and sometimes the wife just hates you for no reason at all…….then nothing is beautiful”
Is Australia the new USA?
The news each day is full of stabbings and shootings and more violence. The values we inherited from our ancestors are drifting away. Mateship and going to the aid of the underdog are now forgotten dreams. Fight nights and five against one and kicking a man when he’s down, seem to be fun for the … [Read the full story]
Davo’s quote of the day
“Be something…but don’t be a carpet…otherwise you’ll get walked on for your entire life”
Dog calls police and saves his own life
George, a 2-year-old Basset Hound from West Yorkshire, UK, was strangled by a phone cord…and miraculously saved his own life by calling 999, the British equivalent of 000. George knocked over a heavy-duty, old-fashioned phone in owner Steve Brown’s home; he became tangled in the cord and wound up with it wrapped around his neck. … [Read the full story]
Davo’s quote of the day
“It’s easy to write love songs for all the things in your life that go wrong”
On this day…in 1945
Twenty-four high-ranking Nazis go on trial in Nuremberg, Germany, for atrocities committed during World War II. The Nuremberg Trials were conducted by an international tribunal made up of representatives from the United States, the Soviet Union, France, and Great Britain. It was the first trial of its kind in history, and the defendants faced charges … [Read the full story]
Davo’s quote of the day
“Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life”
James Bond’s next mission – find info on the Lesser Spotted Hyena Butterfly
Bond star Daniel Craig is replacing 84 year old Sir David Attenborough as the voice of the BBC’s natural history shows. For his first mission, Craig, 43, will narrate One Life…a film that uses footage from the BBC series Life. The actor said he is “very proud” to have landed the role, adding, “The BBC … [Read the full story]
Wino’s thought for the day
Some stories don’t have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what’s going to happen next…Delicious ambiguity…
