If you can tweet every minute for 3-days straight – you could win a round-the-world ticket from V Australia.

Bad news: you kind of have to be based in Australia to enter (which explains the delightful kangaroo at left) – or, you could just play along for the sheer fun of it!

Anyway, you go to the V website, and they’ll explain how you tweet about why you want to enter – and then you are sent to Los Angeles, where you vie against other Twittering teams (not sure why you have to go there to do it – sort of blows the whole point of a trip to LaLaLand). Anyway, the winning team gets the round-the-world trip.

Of course, by this time, you’ve probably used up all your available vacation, and will no doubt have to pass the trip along to some deserving person (she said, humbly and earnestly). Get going, it all starts this month.

Yes, snakes on a plane – a plane in Australia, wouldn’t ya know.

But alas, no Samuel L. Jackson. On the plus side, nobody got snake bit. Not that it would have mattered. The snakes – four baby Stimson pythons – are non-venomous – they were also non-materializing when Qantas employees went to look for them in the cargo bay. Yikes.

They never did find them – and eventually the plane was fumigated and returned to service.

Poor snakes – they met nearly as ignominious an end as Mr. Jackson’s movie.

An Australian and a Swede were flying over the Arctic (Northern Canada) when their twin-engine Cessna failed, so they crash landed on a slab of ice.

Only the ice wasn’t real sturdy, and plane and ice began to sink.

They hopped out and managed to jump onto another sheet of ice — measuring all of 16 ft by 32 ft. Fortunately, that one didn’t sink or they would have been in big trouble.

Not that sitting on an ice floe overnight was a walk in the park. Temperatures could best be described as “high-end refrigerator” — you know — Sub-Zero.

Anyway, along comes daylight, and they — get this — hopped from one ice sheet to another, til they finally reached the shore (at Iqaluit, Nunavut). Eventually a passing fishing boat saw them and picked them up.

Tough guys.

According a new poll, 4 out of 5 Australians say cell phones on planes would drive them “crazy”.

Oh, perhaps not clinically – but who knows? In any event, most would find these devices “hugely irritating”.

Don’t worry, mates – you’re not alone – nobody much likes them in the U.S. either (and here’s an amusing post on the subject, courtesy Rick Seany). But some airlines already allow them, and Ryanair is gearing up for them.

You’ve been warned.