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09 November 2005

Is Father Ralph de Bricassart part of the cast?

At long last, the holy matrimony of Drogheda and The Real World that I've been waiting for....

A&E will air Outback House, an Australian reality show that is the true story of 16 squatters, overseers, shepherds, governesses, stationhands, cooks and maids, picked to live on a 19th-Century sheep station and have their lives taped, to find out what happens when people stop being polite, and start shearing sheep.

I will certainly TiVo this, although I think it would have been more interesting to set the show in the 1840s at the penal settlement of
Port Arthur, Tasmania. Or perhaps on Sarah Island in Macquarie Harbour -- there we could watch fame-seeking reality contestants fell massive Huon pines without the aid of modern machinery, and then resort to fiendish cannibalism as a means of sustaining themselves in the Tasmanian bush. But perhaps I am a tad too interested in the macabre.

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