No intelligent man or woman would use the word `bloke.' It is a gutter expression, destitute of the least claim to recognition, a blur on the linguistic landscape, and a standing advertisement of Australian bad language.

As upside-down as it seems to most adults, many kids see lying as a respectful, loving, sensitive act if it protects someone they look up to from unpleasant information. I can't imagine where they learned that. And let's not forget about sex. Can I just tell you how much pornography fries my bacon?

1. Cases of Nouns are six: Nominative, Genitive, Dative, Accusative, Vocative, and Ablative. As in the Latin and Greek languages, these cases are derived from the Nominative by certain rules of inflection; the Nominative being the root of all the other cases, is termed the direct case, the others are called oblique cases.

The fuss and faff meant Christmas had long since been drained of any joy and excitement.