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Easter foolery

The school was visited by the Easter Bunny today, coincidentally on April Fools' Day.

Meanwhile, Central Station's restored paybus has again been decorated for the season. A friend posted a pic yesterday before one of its ears went floppy:



Strangely enough, my friend, Jeff Campbell (below left), posted two Easter pics to his Facebook page yesterday: himself having an Easter ear malfunction, and the original version (below right) of what the Easter paybus was supposed to look like. Looks like the paybus went out in sympathy by the time I wandered past:



Archival pics:

There's something in the woodheap...

Today is a very good day to go to the movies, I think. Anything to avoid a day of letting Jack in and out of the back door.

My Jack Russell terrier, Jack, has spent the last few days patrolling the backyard, and under both side gates, with his nose glued to ground level, relentlessly following the unseen path of some invisible creature, which has obviously been passing through with some regularity.

In the past, we've suspected a possum, cats and/or small garden skinks, and it often has been the latter. I have also spotted blue tongue lizards (Jack's cornered two of these in the past, flipping one over on its back), and there was the famous ferret sighting - not to mention large water skinks at Zena's and my red-bellied black snake encounter down at Penrith railway station. Nor will I mention the near-tragedy of the baby blue tongue lizard at my aunt's last year.

Who knows what monster is lurking under the woodheap (the remains of the old balcony decking boards)? But Jack did finally see it under there twice this morning. "Bark, bark, bark" etc.


"Where is it? Where is it?"


On the topic of monsters, I've recently had a curiosity about the fate of Peter Jackson's "Son of Kong" movie, which he'd promoted in the bonus DVD features of his "King Kong" remake (2005). I haven't heard a thing about the sequel, which was going to star an albino progeny of "Kong", in ages; in fact, not since seeing the bonus features of the DVD, now that i think of it. Today it was time for that Google and IMDB (Internet Movie Database) search, and thus I discovered this comment in a review of the Jackson "King Kong" DVD:

For those that fell victim to the joke (I did) about "Son of Kong", there won't be a "Son of Kong". That was an April Fools joke.

Really? Now I feel silly.

I must admit, watching the DVD bonus features, I thought it was a weird move for Jackson to do such a sequel when "King Kong" itself had had a less-then-impressive performance at the box office, but I was equally surprised when the recent media seemed to be totally ignoring the progress of the (seemingly elaborate) sequel. The bit about Kong's son growing up to fight Nazis should have been the give away. Gosh, I'm slow.

You know, Peter, it was a great joke, but I'm still not looking under my woodheap.

April Fool?

I'm rather surprised at the lacklustre (and small) number of April Fools' Day gags yesterday.

TrekBBS managed to set up the auto-censorship program to exchange "Star Trek" words for wacky phrases, eg. "star" became "HowdyHi", "book" became "foghornleghorn" and "Deep Space Nine" became "spoon".

But there seemed to be quite a shortage of 2007 pranks, despite being a Sunday.