Wordplay Brainteasers
NAMEPLAYS are fun wordplays on people's names, presented as brainteaser puzzles. They show a keynote speaker at a lectern with their talk topic on the banner overhead. Their first name has been removed. Using the clues in the drawing, the task is to figure out the missing first name. If you think you've got it, saying the the full name out loud will help confirm it.
Speaker Pole's first name is Lou (Loophole).
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Rare Phrase
(website at rarephrase.com)
RARE PHRASE is a continuous quest to find the least-used statements in English - things you're very unlikely to ever hear. Each Rare Phrase panel is a contender for the title of Rarest Phrase in the World.
Terra Australis
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Golf course concept
Ockatoo
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Ockatoo is an Australian sulphur-crested cockatoo character whose view of the world comes from his TV set. He comments on what he sees and hears on the box with witticisms and wordplays. (He is a compulsive and shameless punster).
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Portrait of my son Callan (as an 11 year old) with Yonda – painted in the NSW Southern Highlands – circa 2007