OK, it's a wire story and doesn't get checked very thoroughly, but I'm not sure the SMH should be reporting "Debate over Hick's health continues". I thought he was from Adelaide, anyway, so it's hardly fair to call him a hick, unless you also called Alexander Downer one.
Archive for June, 2006
Chess still isn’t interesting
8 Jun 2006I don’t mean to be cynical . . . OK, I don’t always mean to be cynical, but I have noticed this blog gets the most hits when I write about someone in the news who people are looking for pervy pictures of (Lara Bingle and the Queensland Reds cheerleaders, for instance).
So how could I possibly pass up the opportunity to mention Arianne Caoili, teenage Australian chess champion and, to avoid being overly euphemistic, rather hot. (OK, OK, those of you who were only after pervy pics were never going to read this anyway so go away and perv here and while you’re admiring the great Renaissance Woman she is, why not listen to her passably belt out a few jazz standards?)
Arianne, like many attractive 19-year-olds, doesn’t mind getting a bit frisky and perhaps dancing slightly inappropriately with someone other than alleged boyfriend and fellow chess nerd Danny Gormally; charisma king, ain’t he?
