House to share ad from the early 80's

This for rent advertisement is mentioned in a Phillip Adams column in an old Christmas edition of The Bulletin dated December 23 1980. This is in the "old days" when the Bulletin was the organ for rather well to do lefties. Ads for Dunhill cigarettes, Pierre Cardin accessories, European cars, Internationial airlines and large ther various multi-nationals feature prominently.

I've always remembered the ad for some reason, couldn't find it on the web....so here it is reproduced in all its glory.

"TWO BEDROOM HOUSE: with fireplace, garage, workshop and large yard. $200 per month. No children, no pets, no smokers, no drinkers, no drugs, no gays and no free thinkers; no Buddhists, no Baptists, no Moonies, no Junies, no communist sympathisers, room deodorisers nor tranquilisers; no creeps, no punks, no fools, no losers, no onions and hold the Mao. In fact never mind... I'm going to sell the property and move to Denver or India or some place. (And no musicians.)"

Classic!

Image courtesy of ektarama at Flickr used freely under Creative Commons

Strange relgious icons part two.

These are souvenirs from Lourdes I picked up in 2003.

1. The official Lourdes water bottle which I filled with healing water and use to exorcise various demons and malevolent evil spirits from bottling machines at my place of employment in a beverage plant. It works!
   
2. The official Lourdes cigarette lighter which has healing properties when I light up.
3. The official Lourdes "floaty pen" where the blessed vigin floats down from the heavens to the Lourdes grotto.............just like the real thing!
4. The official Lourdes snowscape/snowglobe.
5. The glow in the dark blessed virgin, thrown in as a free gift for spending more than 20 Euros at a souvenir shop.

Tags

Technocrati has tags (which IMHO aren't that useful....make that f*&%$ing USELESS)

FLICKR has tags (which are half useful) but.......

MOFF has the best tag of all SPECTACLE which is the most useful tag of all.

It's a catch-all tag that applies to every one of his posts much as his tag OTHER or UNCATEGORISED did in the old days. Spectacle is Moff's tarting-up of OTHER which is to be commended and a useful lesson in the black arts of spinmeistering.

In any case,Blogger has upgraded to beta.blogger which includes tags.

So.......I'm following Moff's lead and lumping everything under smoking-memo. I obtained this tag from Random word of the day at Wordspy. Either that or I'll use the even more useful TAG.

I went through a few others: leaf-peeper, strollerobics, tipping-point and biopharming before settling for these useful catch alls.