This guy takes "I'm All In" to a new level. Check out the story
Maybe he just thought it was a good way to get her off his hands?
When your kids won't leave home, try to lose them in a poker game! Genius!

Thousands of tourists were hauled off beaches, ferry services were suspended and a Manly school was evacuated - all for what the Mayor of Waverley has dubbed the "tsunami that wasn't".

The warnings came after an earthquake hit the Solomon Islands at 6.40am yesterday, and a decision was made in Melbourne to put Australia's east coast on alert. However the sea level rises recorded along the NSW coast would later measure just 10 centimetres.

Pathetic Australia! Hang your head in shame! Surely we can do better than this!

I predict that if we do get a big tsunami someone will try to surf it. You heard it here first.

Here is what WikiPedia has to say about accents:

Children are able to take on accents at a fast rate; children of traveling families can change their accents within a short period of time. However after maturity the accent we have is fixed and though it may have influences, or grow diluted it usually stays the same regardless of time. Accents can be expected to change until we are in our early twenties.

However, I have a friend in his mid twenties who has developed a cali-forn-i-a accent in a little over 2 months! The funny thing is, when we speak to him on the phone he speaks in his usual Australian accent! Is this really possible? Is he just pulling the wool over our eyes? Has he really become a biaccexual???? (Yes, I do believe I just made up a new word!)

I have been going to the same hair dresser for almost 20 years, since I was a kid in primary school. For some reason I cope a bit of grief about this from my friends....anyway thats another story. Last year a work colleague discovered that he also went to the same hair dresser for his hair cuts. Not that surprising since we live in the same area so I really didn't think it was massive news. He would often ask me when my next appointment was, and then tell me when his next appointment was, it was scintillating conversation. The problems started when this colleague, who is about 20 years older than me, would randomly bring up the fact that we visited the same hair dresser to other people at work. Now I found this a bit embarrassing, but I didn't really care. However my annoyance stepped up a level when after several months this colleague started to get the exact same hair cut as me. He was a hair-cut-copier!
Then when he brought up our shared hair dresser he would kind of point to his hair and my hair, as if to say, "We go to the same hair dresser, can't you tell!?"
In my opinion this was going too far! Something had to be done! So combined with the fear that I had reached the last hair style of my life, I have decided to grow my hair longer. Maybe I will grow a mullet.

Bananas

Since Cyclone Larry hit Queensland bananas have been making the news. The price of the phallic yellow fruit skyrocketed due to a significantly reduced crop. Many news programs reported the price of oil, gold, fuel and bananas on a daily basis! Bananas were even blamed for increasing inflation and interest rates. I must admit, I was very sceptical that the price of bananas should have any effect at all. There are plenty of other fruits to choose from, just eat something else. It's not as if it is absolutely necessary to eat bananas! Just have a rest for a while, eat a paw paw! Pretend bananas don't exist for 12 months. Personally I didn't eat one banana during the banana drama of 2006. I was immune from any price increase, except for the effect other people still buying them at high prices caused. So I have a story to help everyone and the economy if a banana* price crisis ever occurs again. When I was five I loved bananas. I always wanted to eat bananas. I nagged my parents for more and more bananas. My family went on a family holiday to Queensland and due to my love of bananas my mother bought a whole bunch of bananas. I was in banana heaven! I ate banana after banana! I kept asking for another banana and my mother kept giving me another. 15 bananas later I started to slow down. Soon enough it was banana vomit time! I didn't eat another banana for 15 years. Even now, I couldn't eat a whole banana on its own. With enough ice cream or honey it can be done but not without. So... my advice for you all is to act today while bananas are cheap and buy a couple of kilos. Sit down and eat bananas until you vomit. Then when the price of bananas skyrockets you will be unaffected.

*could also apply to any other food

On a side note, this is the 100th post of the Random Ramble! I have reached the ton!