An anthropologist is completing his lifelong study of world dance... And he's celebrating. Celebrating his tail off. See, he'd spent the last 25 years cataloging every single dance performed by every group in the world. Polish Bogarodzicas. Sioux Buckskin dances to Seminole Green Corn dances. Inuit dances to the whales, Ghanaian Kpanlongo, Finnish step-dance. All of it. And he's found himself in Australia, recording the last one of all. A Wungubal in the north, performed by a small group of Abor…

The Man Who Orders Three Beers An Irishman by the name of Paul McLean moves into a tiny hamlet in County Kerry, walks into the pub and promptly orders three beers. The bartender raises his eyebrows, but serves the man three beers, which he drinks quietly at a table, alone. An hour later, the man has finished the three beers and orders three more. This happens yet again. The next evening the man again orders and drinks three beers at a time, several times. Soon the entire town is whispering about…

Surf's up? A Californian surfer visiting Australia was having a good time catching the breakers at resorts along the Gold Coast, but wanted a special experience. He wanted to surf a beach where nobody, or almost nobody, goes. So he gets in the car, drives north. At the first remote beach he hits, he has his board in hand as he's walking toward the water, when one of the locals warns him: ""you don't want to be surfing here, mate: there's too many sharks"". So he heeds the warning, and drives to …

A South African, an Australian and an Englishman are all having a drink The Englishman and South African both drink from Pint Glasses, the Australian from a bottle. The South African, upon draining his glass, drops in back down on the bar, pulls out a pistol, and shoots the glass. ""In South Africa, there is so much sand that I never drink from the same glass twice!"" The Australian, having drained his bottle, sets it down upon the bar and, upon seizing the South African's pistol, shoots his bot…