Well, its the third week of March, 2014, and I am still alive.  The internet hasn't killed me.  Anyone ease still alive?  Can you prove you are you, and not an AI clone? 

People are notoriously hard to kill... they have a thick skin, a thick skull, they move in unpredicable ways, they can eat the worst kinds of food and actually enjoy it, about half of the population wears protective eye-wear 24/7, and lots of people have hands that can destroy anything they touch.

Um, are you just trying to cover your a.... er, bottom, after letting the cat out of the bag?

I would have said arse but then I realised I was talking with a lady.

I met one of the Doctor Who's some years ago, Jon Pertwee.  He was doing a pantomime at a local theatre in Devon England back in the 60's  Was playing the part of Worzel Gummidge, something he revived for BBC TV.

That's a shame!  We get it here in OZ on our ABC... free of charge.

Elana: There's but one thing in the world worse than being a starving, beaten, threadbare orphan abandoned in a blizzard...being adopted by starkers.

Happy Australia Day, Cap'n.

Hehe, I would if I could... the hurdle, though, would be tough immigration laws that make it difficult or nigh on impossible for migrants to settle/stay here.... not like when my family and I migrated here in 69.

It's madness, refugees that cost the government millions can come, but self-funded migrants who would NOT be a burden on the taxpayer have to jump through hoops to often be told no

My mother remarried to a British subject who now wants to live here.  He is self-funded and has medical and funeral insurance, so would cost the government nothing, but he's been told he has to apply for a special partners visa, at the cost of $4000, and even then he has no guarantee that he will be able to stay.  I can understand rules to preven marriages of convenience, but they have been married 6 years now... and were married here in Australia, so it's not like they are trying to fiddle the system.

Oi, now that's not nice.   I'll have you know I'm a great dad... well I got two daughters who think so.  Got a son who likes to think of himself as a criminal.  He doesn't like me much, but then that's because I didn't bring him up that way and verbally denounce his chosen lifestyle.

Thanks for the holiday wishes, Doc.  I'm having a quiet one at home... just me and my puter, but I don't suffer my own company so being here by myself doesn't bother me any.  In fact, I don't mind my own company one little bit.  At least I can have an intelli.... er, semi-intelligent conversation now I've started answering myself back. 

I'm told the first sign of madness is talking to yourself, and the second sign is answering yourself, but I think I'm long past that... like waaaay past it

Last night I started an argument with myself.

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Yes, I was warned.  A secret cabal of refugees in New Guinea sent me an insta-gram warning me to be very careful about getting too close to Starkers.  Message revealed Starkers actually loves Rick Astley's 'Never Gonna Give You Up'  I'm outta here.