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Margoville is in meltdown! Yesterday brave dissident leader Margo Kingston posted some ill-tempered remarks about her employers, claiming they’d been unhelpful in solving Webdiary’s technical problems and that Fairfax bosses had avoided meeting her to discuss matters.
That post quickly disappeared. When it returned, all critical comments were missing. Margo explains:
The bits deleted from this post were not deleted by me, and were deleted without my prior knowledge. I am unable to comment further at this time.
She’s been silenced! The rest of the contentious post is by Margo functionary Caroline Compton, and details plans to flee the Sydney Morning Herald:
4. Finding Webdiary a new home
This is our present priority.
So set up at blogger and start posting. It’s just that easy! Webdiary is instead adopting the elaborate Compton Plan, an insanely complex and grandiose proposal featuring five separate teams of industrious Margolians all devoted to The Project:
Team Beta: Supporting Webdiary
Objectives: To provide functional support for Webdiary, including fundraising and brainstorming possible donation and registration models. The intention is to raise funding for additional manpower to assist Margo in running Webdiary. All ideas will be considered/approved by the management team, at which point they will be returned to Team Beta for implementation.
Team Leader: VACANT
Team Members/Roles/Functions: Marketing, “Sales People” (attending functions etc..), Merchandising, Product designers, various others - any one with ideas, or who is able/willing to get involved at a more practical level.
Please, God, please let this happen. The world needs Margo merchandise.
Fairfax bosses had avoided meeting her
Who can blame them?
solving Webdiary’s technical problems
It had always been my impression that Webdiary’s biggest problem (besides the rampant moonbattiness) is that the editor in chief goes AWOL so often, but what do I know.
five separate teams of industrious Margolians
How long till the inevitable Trotskyite split over something extremely trivial?
This promises to be fun.
Incidentally, is Margo actually still doing anything else for the SMH besides Webdiary? I somehow have trouble believing they’d bother to keep her aboard if Webdiary goes independent.
Let’s see how long she sticks around if there isn’t that cushy paycheck attached anymore…I suspect some of her wide-eyed contributors could be in for a rude awakening.
So set up at blogger and start posting
Tim, a journalist like yourself should know better than to suggest anything of the sort. Would blogger offer her a six figure salary to run Webdiary? Would blogger offer her the chance to associate with great minds like Allan Ramsay and Robert Manne? Would blogger be able to attract fellow moonbats without the magic words “Sydney Morning Herald” trapping them like politically correct flypaper?
No, the great quest to find a patron even dumber than Fairfax has no easy solutions.
Can I be the Team Leader? Under my leadership, I promise constant pin-up quality photos of Margo will be posted every Tuesday at 10 a.m. Also, under my leadership, Margo will post a dinner men for your weekend enjoyment every Friday at 2 p.m., and will suggest rental movie ideas every Thursday by 4 p.m.
As for merchandising possibilities, the mind reels…
Posted by William Young on 2005 05 28 at 09:34 AM • permalink>4. Finding Webdiary a new home
>This is our present priority.Does this mean she’s going to give up her SMH salary?
Posted by Blithering Bunny on 2005 05 28 at 09:38 AM • permalinkI think you are missing the point.
Margo publishes a quality blog. You can’t expect that it comes for free can you? And don’t any two bit faux supporters think they can get on board with a 50 buck donation. We are looking for the cream of Eastern Suburbs socialists to feel the value and kick us off with $10,000 donations. For God’s sake she’s worth it yeah?
Caroline Compton
Marketing? Sales people? Merchandising?
Careful. That sounds suspiciously like evil capitalism. Its a slippery slope from here on out. Next thing you know they will be drilling for oil in third world countries and clubing baby seals to support their Webdiary habit. Stay strong comrades the revolution is coming any day now!
Posted by Robin J Wade on 2005 05 28 at 10:06 AM • permalinkTeam Beta: Supporting Webdiary Objectives: To provide functional support for Webdiary, including fundraising and brainstorming possible donation and registration models. The intention is to raise funding for additional manpower to assist Margo in running Webdiary
Oh please don’t make me do this. I’m very very busy training 90+ terriers to speak Italian and to operate AK47 assault rifles. Not a damn one is any good. They just look up at me with tongues handing out and tails wagging, hoping for a dog bone.
Why couldn’t we have chosen labradors or dobermans? Or even dachsunds?
I have absolutely no time to help Margo merchandise her name and face. Her name? Her face? Oh puleeze. Moving a lake in Russia was childs play in comparison.
Posted by wronwright on 2005 05 28 at 10:08 AM • permalinkSo they’ve finally had enough of her, ha! I guess the “extra lunatic insane” she’s had recently broke the camel’s back.
Fundraising for a blog? Christ just go make a LiveJournal Community, there’s an almost limitless number of ultra left teens there that hate all authority.
She’ll fit right in with the vampires and the wonderful world of EMO.
Posted by Aging Gamer on 2005 05 28 at 10:20 AM • permalinkTim,
I agree that God should let Margo have her own blogger site. To deny it would be to deny us voyeurs some of the best political comedy since the Canadian duo of John Crosbie/Shiela Copps. Those exchanges of fine prose between margo and yourself, romantically motivated or not, encourage us, the blogging consumer, to only want more!
Posted by Deepthnkr_ca on 2005 05 28 at 10:44 AM • permalinkMargo will be merchandising? When can I order my Margo codpiece?
Posted by Mystery Meat on 2005 05 28 at 11:19 AM • permalinkSo Margo could be the first dissident ever to disappear herself....?
There hasn’t been this much hype for this little product since Vanilla Ice or Milli Vanilli…
Should someone tell her huffington.post is still looking for contributors? A genyoowine foreign dissident speaking truth to the power of an Australian tyrant no one in Hollywood has ever heard of would be soooooo kinky… for the first five minutes.
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2005 05 28 at 12:20 PM • permalinkOT, but… Ed Begley, Jr. didn’t honk for the troops at our counterprotest yestiddy, the rat bastid… maybe his candyass electric car couldn’t spare the amperage…
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2005 05 28 at 12:21 PM • permalinkwronwright — *click* *wheeze* You were supposed to train the terriers to run the Fiats and Le Dozers. I find your lack of note-taking… disturbing… *squeeze*
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2005 05 28 at 12:33 PM • permalinkI’m just waiting for the Margo Bobblehead Doll.
If Margo wants asylum, she can move to Cuba. I hear Fidel is looking for quality journalists [cough cough] after the last series of pro-democracy demonstrations there.
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2005 05 28 at 04:35 PM • permalinkI’m just waiting for the Margo Bobblehead Doll.
Too late, it’s already running a website…
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2005 05 28 at 08:24 PM • permalinkSpeaking of losers, just back from a pleasant hour strolling around the the Collingwood swap meet. Surprised to find a table, manned by an earnest just-out-teens- boy and girl: Australians for Native Title & Reconciliation. Needless to say there weren’t many buyers. None, actually. The geeks could not get past it fast enough.
#18 - “Umm, that should be slippery slope. I don’t trust myself to comment on that slip…”
Not at all. Clearly you were thinking how
Mr Obadiah Slop changed his name to Mr Slope, “for the sake of euphony”, and much to the amusement of the young ladies of Barchester.Posted by walterplinge on 2005 05 28 at 10:06 PM • permalinkWatching this is more fun than sacrificing small, cute, furry, endangered animals on the public altars of the VRWC!
But I have some comments. Furst, Tim, please use the English language in ways that are comprehensible. You know what I am talking about! The words ‘industrious’ and ‘margolian’ cannot be placed together. A crack team of 18 year old leather-clad, whip bearing nymphomaniacs has been despatched from VRWC HQ (RWDB division) to teach you better grammar.
Hanyu: “Porn is where the money is, so I think it’s a slippery slop from codpiece to, well, I’ll leave it to your imaginations… “
Hanyu, Hanyu, Hanyu, you know that when discussing this matter (porn and Margo) ‘slop’ IS the correct word. Even the lowest of the low, the most vile of the perverted would not buy the last margo porn vid! They have their standards too, you know. Now go and scrub your brain with a wire brush and dettol.
ErnieG, you KNOW the only reason anyone works for the Sydney Morning Herald is that Walmart will not employ them under any circumstances, so STOP PRETENDING THAT YOU DON’T.
Now that I think of it, you have all been very naughty. So when the team is done with Tim, we are sending them ‘round to your places too…
MarkL
CanberraReading that stuff is like flashing back to the high school AV squad only with a less active sex life…
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2005 05 28 at 10:30 PM • permalinkDamn you, Blair! I knew it was your fault:
How do we know these volunteers are legitimate? I fear Tim Blair and his neo-con lackeys will infiltrate our community and manipulate us into factional fighting over petty issues. This fate appears to haunt all great revolutionary movements.
Margo: That’s an issue I am well aware of. Jack is responsible for dealing with it re comments editing. Our management group will manage the issue overall.
Are they daft? Why would we interfere with this? That would be like letting the bear out of the pit before the dogs are released… where’s the fun in that?
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2005 05 28 at 10:45 PM • permalinkFolks. Before your eyes, all humanity, in the form of its vehicle Margo, stumbles poked from behind and intoxicated from ahead to a New Evolution. This, in turn, after a brief spell, will blossom into a Great Revolutionary Movement, which will not be “manipulated into factional fighting,” since alienation, false consciousness, and devious Tim Blair consciousness will be shrugged off by the burgeoning New Global Person.
You see the tender beginnings and what do you do?
Why don’t you grasp its promise and importance—just this once? Admit it—you don’t. All that you see fit to do is to display and compare myriad ways to—in essence—[voice cracking]...flip the bird. Wellllll—Margo’s dog may not hunt, but some day it will dance, and you’ll be sorry and weeping to see it frisk and your birds fly awry as, at Margo’s name, all workers stand.
Who’ll be sitting pretty then, hm? Hm?
Important protocol question: what is the equivalency of rank between a Tim Blair lackey and a Little Green Footballs minion? Do we get a patch, too? I need something for the other sleeve of my digital brownshirt…
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2005 05 28 at 11:50 PM • permalinkForNow —
Who’ll be sitting pretty then, hm? Hm?
Well… we will, ‘cuz when the workers stand, we can steal their chairs, can’t we?
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2005 05 28 at 11:56 PM • permalink#41
Why would we bother with that when we have Rovian Moon Rays? Tin foil hats for everyone, especially Jack, can’t have the front line grunt of the thought police getting corrupted by conservative moon rays.
Posted by Aging Gamer on 2005 05 29 at 12:26 AM • permalinkOh, and Margo, it’s “neocon,” unless you’re implying we’ve been recently incarcerated…
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2005 05 29 at 12:33 AM • permalinkShort-sighted neocons. We can (a) hide the chairs, (b) disguise the chairs as short workers, (c) designate certain workers to lie stretched out on rows of chairs, so as to save the seats for the others, or (c) glue the chairs to the workers’ behinds so that when the workers stand up, their chairs rise with them. You may fidget assured that whatever course is chosen will be pursued with faction-proof seamless determination.
ForNow — a) All you have to do to hide the chairs is tell union workers they have to be delivered on time; no one will ever see them again b) A union worker who is directed to lie down on a row of chairs will assume they are on the job and demand to be paid c) those glues do not meet environmental safety standards, or worse, were tested on animals, and their manufacture involves numerous violations of the Kyoto Accords/
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2005 05 29 at 01:17 AM • permalinkRog2 said (#34)
I reckon that Margo should start a new blog called Margos Mass Debater using funds provided by the govt Dairy deregulation authority.
But to access the money, she would have to move to a community heavily dependent on dairy farming - you know, a national party voting district. Wouldn’t you like to be the fly on the wall when Margo goes to meet the neighbours?
Moo
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