Observing the Aussies: Tabloid talk..

Newspaper headlines in Australia leave me puzzled, at a loss to imagine what the heck they're trying to tell me.

MACCA WANTED BROWN, blares The Adelaide Advertiser. I didn't guess it was about two sports figures.

CUCUMBER TRUCK HITS BUFF NEAR JUMPING CROCS, is splashed across The Northern Territory News front page. If you're like me, you know each of those words but put them together and it's like no phrase in english you've ever seen.

And maybe that's my trouble: perhaps it's not english but a sort of tabloid pidgin-australian, as it were. But papers in the US are not any better I guess:

VACS WACKS: CONCERNS OVER CC, screams The NY Post.

Uh,I say "The fat man has landed, the eagle walks alone."
So THERE!

- Farmer Ted