CHINESE VERSION IS FUNNIER

The media is giving much attention to the drive in China to amend zany English language public notices . The internet seems clogged with Chinese clangers . Here in Darwin , we have our own funnies. At the Nightcliff Supermarket signs have gone up at all entrances saying NO HAUKERS allowed on the premises. And Little Darwin heard an Irish backpacker, standing outside SHENANNIGANS Irish pub in Mitchel Street , declare Territorians can't spell . In a lilting voice, boyo, he announced to one and all the correct spelling : S-H-E-N-A-N-I-G-A-N-S . As getting up to shenanigans is an Olympic sport at which the Irish excel, he must be correct . Dictionaries , of course, support the backpacker , probably on sabbatical leave from Dublin University .