Random Play by Graham Reid

That was hilarious. I lol'ed in my latte.

I demand more, at a later date.

this is a 'good' one in a similar vein

this is a 'good' one in a similar vein

Um...

yes well i put 'good' in quote marks. breathtaking isn't it?
thanks to Spareroom for posting it btw.

One afternoon we rounded a corner to see a quaint old Maori man picking up a dead opossum off the roadside. We stopped and asked him what he was doing and he said he was taking it home for what he called 'a feed'.

Back in the 1970's I was driving North with the wife (and children - I was but a child myself) of the then National MP when she suddenly pulled over, pulled out a shovel from the boot, scooped up a dead possum, and deposited it onto a newspaper presumably kept for this purpose.

I was similarly shocked and stunned. Although very young, even then I knew this didn't seem a very 'National Party' thing to do (we lived in a blue-rinse electorate). When I grew up I voted Labour.

Funnily enough good old granny Herald got a mention on Letterman the other night, in a segment called 'small town news'.

A 'mention' inasmuch he displayed an advert placed in the paper. Ulp - I've already forgotten what it was!!

yes well i put 'good' in quote marks. breathtaking isn't it?
thanks to Spareroom for posting it btw.

My meaningful "um" meant that Graham's "Sideslap" was a parody of the NZ Herald's sideswipe, which is compiled by Ana Samways, who also co-runs the Spareroom blog. Geddit?

Also something about truth, fiction, and degrees of strangeness?

doh, got it. i'm in mourning, brain slow