Sunday, October 22, 2006
BEHEAD THOSE WHO INSULT VEGEMITE
ULURULULULULULULULU! I call on my brother Australians to avenge this most grievous attack on our people and sacred beliefs. A phatwa upon the infidels and untasters!
Let it be known: the volatile Australian street is very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very angry. Apologise now, pig monster American hegemen, or face our wrath.
UPDATE. In other regulatory news, Jules Crittenden slams the military’s dumb response to milbloggers.
UPDATE II. kisdm001: “Newsweek is reporting that a jar of Vegemite has been found in a toilet in Gitmo.”
UPDATE III. Regarding military dumbness, further from Michael Yon:
While our enemies have “journalists” crawling all over battlefields to chronicle their successes and our failures, we have an “embed” media system that is so ineptly managed that earlier this fall there were only 9 reporters embedded with 150,000 American troops in Iraq. There were about 770 during the initial invasion.
Many blame the media for the estrangement, but part of the blame rests squarely on the chip-laden shoulders of key military officers and on the often clueless Combined Press Information Center in Baghdad, which doesn’t manage the media so much as manhandle them.
UPDATE IV. Geoff on the Vegemite controversy: “This is the greatest outrage in all of history.” Hey, don’t talk it down, man!
UPDATE V. Felix K. emails: “Vegemite is sold in supermarkets here (I am an ex-pat Austrian living in Redmond, Wash., USA). Admittedly, the FDA has reason for concern—the stuff reminds me of toxic sludge—but as of August, Vegemite and Marmite are foods and freely sold at Larry’s and other places. If the supermarket can find a buyer, that is.” Thanks for that information, Felix. Of course, your vicious slurs now require that you be executed.
UPDATE VI. Reader Apostic calls urban legend; the Geelong Advertiser sticks by the ban claim.
UPDATE VII. Send your Vegemite complaints to the White House!
UPDATE VIII. Skeeter: “Our 15-month-old granddaughter prefers her vegemite straight from the spoon. She always eats it first before all the other foods offered to her.” Hardcore!
UPDATE IX. Further news from Apostic: “After declaring ‘urban legend,’ I went back to said Cost Plus to double-check. They’re out of Vegemite. A sales clerk told me the FDA put a hold on it a couple of weeks ago. The store wasn’t required to remove it from the shelves, but they won’t be able to get any more for a while.”
UPDATE X. As always, I am loved.
UPDATE XI. Worstall must die.