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Author Archives: Sophie Black

Hi, I’m First Dog on the Moon, but you can call me Penelope

During this morning’s editorial meeting we accidentally found out that had First Dog on The Moon been born a girl, his name would not, of course, be Handsome Mr Dog, it would be:
Penelope.
We also discovered he was a Catholic surprise baby.
This all turned into a fun game of:
What Would You Be Called If You Were [...]

Presenting the inaugural Crikey Logies lookalikes

Roll out the red carpet, and hold off nipping down to the milk bar to buy a copy of TV Week — Crikey presents our comprehensive Logies coverage.
Inspired by Channel Nine’s Tracey Grimshaw, who this year played the part of Grimace from McDonaldland, we’ve google imaged terms like “upholstered pedastal”, “eight-year-old in leotard”, “kitten” and [...]

A pair of very smart spectacles

Ordered a pair of spectacles on Ebay. They were meant to look like Elvis Costello meets Janine Haines, sans perm. Or this. Or maybe even this.
They don’t.

They look like  Stuart Littlemore with a hint of Jenny Kee.
So they’ve gone straight to the pool room. The Crikey pool room consists of a shelf full of [...]

YouTube sub genre # 329: cat v baby

Crikey presents: baby v cat, or the lesser known, cat v baby.