The Lethal Weapon movies may look like prime targets for satire, but consider for a moment: Aren t they already a satire of themselves? Don t they get most of their laughs by forcing the conventions of the cop-buddy genre to unlikely extremes? When a suicidal Mel Gibson jumps from a building handcuffed to a guy he s supposed to talk out of jumping, or when Danny Glover s life is threatened by a bomb concealed in the toilet plumbing, somehow the Lethal Weapon crew has already moved beyond Dirty Harry.
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It s hard to satirize a satire. That s what National Lampoon s Loaded Weapon 1 wants to do, but the target proves elusive. This is a would-be comedy that s not as funny (nor as satirical) as the movies that inspired it. If you look back at the successful laffaminit send-ups, from Airplane! through Top Secret! to The Naked Gun, you ll see that their targets are movies that take themselves fairly seriously. Here the target is already in on the joke.
Hay and silage stocks replenished as farmers prepare for the next drought
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Dozens of bales of hay sit in a paddock at Borenore, with 12 million tonnes expected nationally.
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After depleting hay and silage stocks during the drought, farmers across NSW are reaping the benefits of an exceptional season.
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12 million tonnes of hay and silage is expected to be made on the back of a wet year
With drought conditions easing in NSW, the lack of demand for hay has seen prices fall to below the five-year average
Farmers are using the turnaround in conditions to stock hay and silage in preparation for the next drought