...rural surreal #14

brogo ©280412

...this train carriage home can easily be spotted from the princes highway between cobargo and bega... last stop for the homeowners...

...coastal guggle #13

guerilla bay ©060612

...they're bringing a city silverback gorilla to rural guerilla bay complete with a selected entourage from his harem in sydney's taronga park to mogo zoo... even apes need to take a break from the hectic hustle bustle of the big smoke... but not without the missusss...

...rural surreal #12

tilba tilba  ©160512

         pure democracy you have two cows…
your neighbours decide who gets the milk… 

         singaporean democracy: you have two cows…
the government fines you for keeping 

  two unlicensed farm animals in an apartment… 

                  

         american democracy: the government promises to give you two cows if you vote for it… 
         after the election, the president is impeached for speculating in cow futures… 

          the press dubs the affair "cowgate"… 

        
british democracy: you have two cows…
you feed them sheep's brains and they go mad… 

         the government doesn't do anything… 

        
militarism: you have two cows…
the government takes both and drafts you… 

      
dictatorship: you have two cows…
the government takes both and shoots you… 

         capitalism: you have two cows…
you sell one and buy a bull… 

         

         hong kong capitalism: you have two cows… you sell three of them to your publicly listed        company, using letters of credit opened by your brother-in-law, then execute a debt/equity swap with associated general offer so that you get all four cows back, with a tax deduction for keeping five cows… the milk right for six cows are transferred via a panamanian intermediary to a cayman islands company secretly owned by the majority shareholder, who sells the rights to all seven cows' milk back to the listed company… the annual report says that the company owns eight cows, with an option on one more… meanwhile you kill the two cows because the feng shui isn't good…

  totalitarianism: you have two cows…
the government takes them and denies they ever existed…
milk is banned…

       
australian democracy: you have two bulls locking horns on top of the top paddock… 

        one is full of it… whilst your neighbours the dairy farmers get 22 cents a litre for their milk…

    
surrealism: you have two giraffes…
the government requires you to take harmonica lessons…