Michaeloops

Michaeloop No. 201 Nola and Paul from five houses down invited me to a barbecue in their backyard. It began to rain heavily, so we moved under their back deck. To my consternation, within a few minutes the backyard was flooding, then, without warning, six very green frogs hopped onto the table and... Sign in to see full entry.

Michaeloop No. 197 My friend Michelle and I went for a drive yesterday. We got deeper and deeper into the forest. Then, two-thirds of the way up a tree, was a sign that simply said “Lawn Bowls”. I swear we were an hour away from any lawn of any ilk. Who put the sign there, and what did it mean? In... Sign in to see full entry.

Michaeloop No. 193 Even most long term residents of Townsville don’t know that just beyond the city perimeter is a sphinx. In fairness, it is a pretty well kept secret: it has been cordoned off since the early 1950s by the Department of Defence. I happen to know that tween computer prodigy Jake... Sign in to see full entry.

Michaeloop No. 189 Once, when I was a boy, I was out walking along a nature trail when I came to a clearing. To my astonishment, there was an alien spacecraft, and three aliens sitting cross legged around a campfire, cooking sausages. We got talking. It transpires that Earth sausages are the nicest,... Sign in to see full entry.

Michaeloop No. 185 What can only be described as wind chime wars has broken out in my street. My neighbor three doors up, Sam, has installed a ludicrously expensive wind chime imported from England that will play all of the English group Yes’s back catalogue. In two tit for tat one upmanship moves,... Sign in to see full entry.

Michaeloop No. 181 There is a warehouse in Manila that is chock full of bottles of after shave. The former dictator Ferdinand Marcos had it filled for his own personal use, and it still stands undisturbed today, as a monument to fragrant folly. I mention all this because that particular after shave... Sign in to see full entry.

Michaeloop No. 177 In a bold move that promises to stabilize the world’s financial system for the long haul, Chair of the US Federal Reserve, Freddie Melonloop has proposed that all the world’s stock exchanges be relocated to Antarctica. Once a new city is built down there – think of the global... Sign in to see full entry.

Michaeloop No. 173 How do you approach the important topic of welcome mats? Traditionally, they have just had “Welcome” embossed on them, and been for wiping shoes, but the new, expensive designer mats have become status symbols. My neighbours Bill and Jeanette have bought a $2,000 Gucci one, and... Sign in to see full entry.

Michaeloop No. 169 A local theatre company decided to stage a Gilbert and Sullivan revival. Unfortunately, Martin O’Flannery, the hearing impaired director, sent out a casting call for "The Pirates of Men's Pants”. The resultant, hairy rash of indecent exposure charges created such a fuss that... Sign in to see full entry.

Michaeloop No. 165 The brutal and dastardly Spanish Inquisition had a whole array of means of torture. One of the more effective ones was the toe tickler: when you tickle someone’s toes with a toe rubber, they will confess anything. Wolfgang the Celery Martyr was tortured into a confession of heresy... Sign in to see full entry.