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Milking the Rhino: Dangerously Funny Lists

"Chris Rush promised that if I gave him a favorable blurb, he would agree to be placed in a secure, isolated neuropsychiatric facility, away from the rest of us. Here goes: 'Chris's book is crammed with good, big, sick belly laughs.' Your turn, Chris." --George Carlin
"I first saw Chris Rush thirty years ago, and he killed me. He has a bizarre, funny way of looking at things, and this book is proof of that." --Jay Leno
"Chris Rush combines the stream-of-consciousness of a Lenny Bruce, a Monty-Pythonesque appreciation of the surreally absurd, and the mental energy of a Robin Williams." --New York Times
"He is universal and intellectual without being elitist." --Variety
Comedian Chris Rush was one of the original contributors to National Lampoon magazine. He can be heard on Sirius and XM satellite radio and on the Joey Reynolds radio show every Friday at 1 a.m. Eastern Standard Time.
In Milking the Rhino, Rush uses a series of unforgettable surreal images to create hilarious verbal cartoons presented in a seductive list form to transport you into a world of nonstop laughter.
Lists include:
* Seven Examples of Truth in Advertising You Will Never See
* Twenty-Five Really Lousy Jobs
* The Ten Worst Pickup Lines
* Ten Bizarre Hobbies
* Fourteen Novelty Items That Never Took Off
* Four Things You Shouldn't Do in Zero-Gravity Conditions
* Four UFO Incidents That Are Weirder Than Usual

4676. It is not the end - but it is a day for some acknowledgments. This is list of Contributors to this Photostream, dedicated to the Royal Australian Navy's Centenary, which falls on July 10, 2011 - today.

We are so grateful for some extraordinary contributions within this list, and the level of support given by some individuals that literally turned the Photostream into a shared 'family' project, and created a community of interest around it. Those to whom special thanks are due, and has been given, are well aware of it, and thank you to you all.

The Photostream will continue, because we've come to feel that it serves a genuine interest, and even fills a need. For today, however, this is an updated list of Contributors, alphabetical by surname:


GRAEME ANDREWS, OAM, RAN 1955-1968, RANR 1980, Koolewong NSW.

BRENT BALCHIN, RAN 1963-1974, Fish Creek, Victoria.

ALF BATCHELDER, Melbourne.

RONNIE BELL, Livingston, Scotland.

ALAN BENN, U.K. [AlanBenn] Moderator, World Naval Ships Forums.

CAROLYN CHURCH, niece of the late Jack Davis [1923-2004], Sydney.

LATE P.O. HECTOR CLARK, courtesy his daughter Faye Clark, Molong, NSW.

BRUCE CONSTABLE, World Naval Ships Forums and /PerthOne website, Sydney.

LATE WILLIAM EDWARD COSH, 1938-1948, via family representative Tony Gray.

GLEN CROUCH, COP/CPH RAN, Sydney.

WAYNE CUMMINGS, ME [D] RAN 1966-1971.

RON CUSKELLY, Senior Vice President, Queensland Air Museum, Caloundra, Qld.

TERRY DICKENS [Astral Trader] U.K. Moderator, World Naval Ships Forums

KIMBERLEY DUNSTAN, RAN 1958-67, Melbourne.

GEOFF EASTWOOD, maritime photographer, Sydney, and his late father ROGER EASTWOOD.

GORDON CURTIS EVANS, CPO, Air Artificer, RN [ret]. Frankston, Victoria.

ROSS GILLETT, maritime author, Sydney.

CMDR MACKENZIE GREGORY, St Kilda Rd, Melbourne.

GEOFF GREEN, ex-RAR, Mt Martha, Victoria.

WO OFFICER MARTIN GROGAN, RANR, Curator, HMAS Cerberus Museum, Flinders Training Establishment. Victoria.

DENIS HARE, 104 Signals Squadron.

FRANK HOLDEN.


STEPHEN HOOD, RAN 1982-1998, RANC 1982-1985.

ROBERT E. HOSKIN, nephew of the late PO Edward Hunter McHaffie, HMAS SYDNEY [II], and
author of 'A Voice from the Deep.'

CHRISTOPHER J. HOWELL, shipping agent , providore and maritime photographer , Bluff, New Zealand.

ALLAN HUBBELL, Halifax, Canada, historicakl contributions from ‘The Sphere’ magazine.

LATE DENIS KENDALL, ex-HMS Implacable, courtesy his daughter ROSEY KENDALL, active in Seaworks and Maritime Heritage, Williamstown, Vic.

ROSEY KENDALL.

DR TOM LEWIS, Curator, Darwin Military Museum, East Head, Darwin NT.

THEO VAN LOON, maritime photographer, Hobart, Tasmania.

PETER LONGHURST, ex-RN, Surrey, U.K.

RONALD L. MARSH, RAN RAN 1957-1963, Brisbane.

JAMIE MCINTYRE, CPO/CSM RAN 1990 - present.

ERN McQUILLAN, courtesy his son MICHAEL McQUILLAN.

ALAN MEADE, RAN 1943-1946, courtesy his son BOB MEADE.

ASHLEY MOORE, Sydney, with items from his own, and his late father's collection.

LES NAPPER, RAN 1952-1962.

ROGER PEARSON, modelmaker, light coastal forces, Bendigo, Vic.

JOHN PHILLIPS, images volunteer , SHF Maritime Records and Research Centre, for Davidson Collection permissiions assistance.

ALLEN PORTER, RAN 1941-1952, ex 20th Carrier Air Group photographer.

RUSSELL PRIEST, Down Under Ships Photographs, Melbourne, acquisitions, permission and donation.

BILL SCOTT, Northumberland, U.K., colorisation of photos of the Cape Spade action from the albums of his late father Willie Scott, RN.

JENNY SCOTT, [Adelaide Archivist] State Library of South Australia.

CHRISTOPHER STOCKMAN, RAN 1974-1980, photo permissions.

LIZ THOMAS, Special Collections Librarian, Coffs Harbour City Library, assistance with permissions.

LUKE TSCHARKE, photographer, Melbourne - HMAS Castlemaine.

DENNIS UREN, RAN 1966-1988, RANR 20O2.

LATE CPL ROBERT WALDING, courtesy of his son DR RICHARD WALDING, University of Queensland, rare HMAS Vigilant photo permission.

TIM WEBB, maritime photographer, U.K.

JOHN WESTWOOD, RANR Sydney Port Division 1965-1972, also with photos of his late father CPO Bill WESTWOOD, EX-HMNAS YARRA [II].

ROBERT WINDUSS, maritime photographer, Port Melbourne, Victoria, both for photographs and waterfront locations advice.

THANKS also to TONI MUNDAY, of the CrestCerberus organisation at HMAS Cerberus Museum; CORALEE of the Pictures Department, State Library of Victoria [La Trobe Library] for assistance in respect of the Allan C. Green Collection; BRETT MORROW, Sydney [WNSF]; and BOB MEADE, Melbourne [WNSF], for active ships photo-spotting. Also COLIN ALLISON [FrigateRN] administrator of of the Nautical Pictures of Interest group on Flickr, for much endless support and encouragement, like that of several others.

If I walk into a South Korean bookstore and ask for a national map, this is what I will get.

The entire Korean Peninsula is shown as a unified country, and labeled by the title "Republic of Korea," dating back to the independence fighters during the Japanese colonial era and currently South Korea's official title. However, jurisdictional information (provinces, cities, counties) are up-to-date for both Koreas, including jurisdictional changes made by North Korea since the division, not recognized officially by South Korea but officially used in South Korean news reports on North Korean current events.

The lower left shows an inset map of North Korea using jurisdictional boundaries of 1944, the boundaries officially recognized by South Korea. In fact, South Korea continues to maintain ceremonial provincial governments for the five northern provinces, complete with appointed governors, and they are responsible for maintaining vital records of South Koreans whose home addresses on family census registers are in North Korea.

The "five northern provinces" were North and South Hamgyong, North and South Pyongan, and Hwanghae. Today, Hwanghae is split into two North and South provinces, part of North Pyongan was split into Chagang Province, part of South Hamgyong was split into Ryanggang Province, Pyongyang is a directly governed city equal to a province in itself, and an ever-changing list of special zones also exist. In addition, province boundaries have also been moved here and there; for example, the eastern port city of Wonsan, once the southern end of South Hamgyong, is now the capital of North Korea's portion of Kangwon Province. Many placenames were also changed in honor of Kim Il-sung's family members and key revolutionaries; naming places after people is otherwise not done in Korean context.

On the southern end, jurisdictional changes have been minimal, except for Jeju Island breaking off from South Jeolla to become a Self-Governed Province, and six major cities - Busan, Daegu, Daejeon, Gwangju, Incheon, and Ulsan - becoming Metropolitan Cities equivalent to provinces. Seoul was, and still is, a Special City, itself equivalent to a province.