NO - it was not an earthquake. Nor was it an asteroid collision. Not even a tsunami. The shaking of the planet was caused by tractors! And if you don't believe me and think I must have been hallucinating, then read on!The occasion was Easter weekend 2004. The venue, a paddock near Cootamundra, where Australia's reputation for integrity, ingenuity, probity, absurdity and larrikinism was on the world stage. News editors around the world's capitals had the headlines puton hold, awaiting the outcome of this global event! Spy stealth satellites hovered unseen overhead. Watchful tall thin men, hiding behind dark sunglasses dressed in equally dark suits and dark hats, mingled with the crowd imagining they would remain unnoticed, but in fact might have well had signs around their neck spelling out FBI, OSS, M.I.4 or whatever.
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