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Just as well Bolty is back, because I’m out of here until mid-August.

(Not entirely; there’ll be occasional posts meantime, and the column never sleeps.)

(Admin note, July 31, 2007: sorry folks, forgot I had set comments to close after five days. Since you all (well, most of you all) seemed to be having such fun, I’ve extended the comment expiration to ten days. Andrea Harris, Administrator.)

Posted by Tim B. on 07/26/2007 at 10:21 AM
  1. Test - no page 5? I posted a comment and it didn’t show up.

    Posted by flying pigs over mecca on 2007 07 29 at 12:47 AM • permalink

  2. OK, here it is again. From Ask-Imam.com: I want to marry someone. But she doesn’t like me. What should I do ?

    Posted by flying pigs over mecca on 2007 07 29 at 12:48 AM • permalink

  3. #2 Without looking: Force her?

    Posted by Ash_ on 2007 07 29 at 12:49 AM • permalink

  4. >a href="http://lolcat.com/pics/hungovercat.jpg"> In Honor of Texas Bob</a>

    Posted by richard mcenroe on 2007 07 29 at 12:50 AM • permalink

  5. I think he should walk up to a Marine checkpoint wearing a bulky vest…

    Posted by richard mcenroe on 2007 07 29 at 12:51 AM • permalink

  6. Fixed link

    Posted by richard mcenroe on 2007 07 29 at 12:52 AM • permalink

  7. #4 LOL Richard, that’s perfect.

    Posted by Ash_ on 2007 07 29 at 12:53 AM • permalink

  8. *Bows* Thanks audience.

    Accepts flowers and cheers from adoring crowd.  :) :) :)

    Posted by Pogria on 2007 07 29 at 12:54 AM • permalink

  9. #8 whoops,
    that was for ash on previous page.

    Posted by Pogria on 2007 07 29 at 12:56 AM • permalink

  10. Check out this one:

    What does the Islam say regarding intercourse with slave girls? In my opinion Zina or sex with any women is forbidden in Islam

    A man may have intimate relations with his wife or slave girl. This applies
    no matter how many slave girls one may possess. He may not have intimate
    relations with his servant. A slave is one whom one physically owns. Since
    slavery is not in vogue nowadays, this does not apply today.

    Refer attached, ‘Slavery’

    and Allah Ta’ala Knows Best

    Mufti Ebrahim Desai

    Posted by flying pigs over mecca on 2007 07 29 at 12:57 AM • permalink

  11. Richard, I’m sure the black and white one is my cat.

    Posted by Ash_ on 2007 07 29 at 12:57 AM • permalink

  12. We’re almost there!

    Posted by richard mcenroe on 2007 07 29 at 01:00 AM • permalink

  13. #11 Ash, your cat was lead astray.

    Posted by flying pigs over mecca on 2007 07 29 at 01:02 AM • permalink

  14. PUSH!  PUSH!

    (Not you, Ash)

    Posted by richard mcenroe on 2007 07 29 at 01:03 AM • permalink

  15. #2

    Use your club and dong her over the noggin. Worked for cavemen and you’re not so advanced from that.

    Posted by kae on 2007 07 29 at 01:04 AM • permalink

  16. #14 Phew! For a second there I thought I was supposed to be!

    Posted by Ash_ on 2007 07 29 at 01:05 AM • permalink


  17. ONE THOUSAND!

    More or less

    Posted by richard mcenroe on 2007 07 29 at 01:06 AM • permalink

  18. It’s definitely my cat.

    Posted by Ash_ on 2007 07 29 at 01:13 AM • permalink

  19. Filthy, disgusting colonials. I’m going to bed.

    Posted by richard mcenroe on 2007 07 29 at 01:13 AM • permalink

  20. ONE THOUSAND!

    or More or less

    fixed.

    Posted by kae on 2007 07 29 at 01:14 AM • permalink

  21. #20 Uh, Richard? Why were you watching a filthy colonial doing such a thing?

    Posted by Ash_ on 2007 07 29 at 01:15 AM • permalink

  22. #20

    Richard, it was obviously morning, he was scratching his nuts.

    Why do women rub their eyes in the morning?

    Cos they don’t have balls to scratch.

    Posted by kae on 2007 07 29 at 01:16 AM • permalink

  23. #23 Well, it’s better than trying to scratch her ovaries.

    Posted by flying pigs over mecca on 2007 07 29 at 01:21 AM • permalink

  24. Another stupid yet addictive game for your amusement:

    Spank the monkey.

    Posted by Blue State Sil on 2007 07 29 at 01:26 AM • permalink

  25. #25 Stupid yet addictive games are always best at work.

    Just like this.

    Posted by Ash_ on 2007 07 29 at 01:38 AM • permalink

  26. I really rather liked this bad Company hit when it came out.

    Posted by kae on 2007 07 29 at 01:44 AM • permalink

  27. And this one.

    Posted by kae on 2007 07 29 at 01:52 AM • permalink

  28. Kae ... what, in the afternoon?

    You must like this one from the Starland Vocal Band!!!

    Posted by Stevo on 2007 07 29 at 01:55 AM • permalink

  29. #29 Morning, afternoon, night.

    Not picky.

    Posted by Ash_ on 2007 07 29 at 01:57 AM • permalink

  30. Well, Stevo, it all depends on the company, doesn’t it?

    Posted by kae on 2007 07 29 at 01:58 AM • permalink

  31. Nice work, people.
    It certainly was a pleasure to watch, er, read… no, I did some watching too - oh, sod it. I’ll shut up.

    Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2007 07 29 at 01:58 AM • permalink

  32. Swinish, it wouldn’t have been the same without your presence.

    Posted by Ash_ on 2007 07 29 at 02:00 AM • permalink

  33. Reckon we could hit 1500 before Tim’s next post?

    Posted by Ash_ on 2007 07 29 at 02:00 AM • permalink

  34. #32

    Where you bin, Swinish? Lurking and watching?

    Posted by kae on 2007 07 29 at 02:00 AM • permalink

  35. Not terribly picky about when. Just who.

    Posted by kae on 2007 07 29 at 02:01 AM • permalink

  36. #227 (p.4) : Paco, perhaps you are thinking of the Hundredth Monkey Effect? That’s a myth chock-a-block full of truthiness if ever there was.

    The outbreak of sudden worldwide dhimmitude you’ve mentioned sure correlates closely with Blair’s Law though.

    Posted by splice on 2007 07 29 at 02:01 AM • permalink

  37. Tim’s officially AWL now.
    He’s ALWAYS posted before it got over 1,000!

    Posted by kae on 2007 07 29 at 02:02 AM • permalink

  38. You all realise that if he is playing with fast cars:

    1. We won’t get the grin off his face, ever.

    2. He’s not going to make a lot of sense.

    Hmm, p’haps that’s why he’s AWL?

    Posted by kae on 2007 07 29 at 02:03 AM • permalink

  39. You might have cracked Da Blair Code there Kae.

    Posted by Ash_ on 2007 07 29 at 02:04 AM • permalink

  40. ‘I wanted to kill him but he was old’

    A TRUCK driver accused of repeatedly punching an 87-year-old returned serviceman 54 years his senior in a road rage incident told police he was going to kill the victim until he saw how old he was, a court was told yesterday.

    Martin Bruce Gamman, 33, a New Zealander who lives in Campbelltown, allegedly told police: “I was going to f---ing kill him but when I realised he was an old prick I gave him a couple and then I left.”

    ...

    In granting bail, magistrate Kevin Maughan said Gamman had no criminal record and by not granting bail he would be making a judgment about the case, which was not the purpose of a bail hearing.

    Am I missing some fine legal principle, did the reporter make an error, or is the magistrate an utter twat?

    Posted by flying pigs over mecca on 2007 07 29 at 02:05 AM • permalink

  41. By the way, you have email.

    Posted by Ash_ on 2007 07 29 at 02:05 AM • permalink

  42. #41 The Magistrate is an utter twat.

    Assault is assault, and if you’re really an utter prick like the truck driver, you deserve a while in prison.

    Posted by Ash_ on 2007 07 29 at 02:07 AM • permalink

  43. What got into Jack From Montreal? Does he have an evil twin?

    Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2007 07 29 at 02:10 AM • permalink

  44. I don’t know Swinish. He’s usually a good read.

    Posted by Ash_ on 2007 07 29 at 02:13 AM • permalink

  45. Magistrate twat.
    Truckdriver should be in gaol.

    No excuse for violence. Ever.

    Some time ago in Ipswich a man assaulted a woman in a shopping centre carpark.

    He was reversing his car out of his parking place and nearly hit or did bump a woman pushing a shopping trolley.

    She called him an idiot.

    He got out of the car and punched her in the face.

    The woman was mildly disabled and was using the trolley to help her walk, too hard to walk with trolley and walking stick.

    His defence lawyer said, in mitigation, that he would not have hit her if he had known that she was disabled.

    I wrote to the local rag expressing my disgust at this attitude.

    “So, it’s all right to hit someone as long as they aren’t disabled?”

    Posted by kae on 2007 07 29 at 02:24 AM • permalink

  46. Kae ... is that an offer?  It’s still afternoon here.  How close to Cronulla do you live?

    Posted by Stevo on 2007 07 29 at 02:29 AM • permalink

  47. Kae, some people are just rotten.

    Posted by Ash_ on 2007 07 29 at 02:31 AM • permalink

  48. About Jack from Montreal - everybody has off days. I think he should continue commenting here, if he wants to. (Andrea - just my opinion. I don’t want to challenge your Ladyship’s authority.)

    Posted by flying pigs over mecca on 2007 07 29 at 02:34 AM • permalink

  49. Sorry Kae, it was only a joke ... not unless you want to ...

    Posted by Stevo on 2007 07 29 at 02:36 AM • permalink

  50. #47
    Well, Stevo, you know Kingsfor Smith Airport?

    Posted by kae on 2007 07 29 at 03:00 AM • permalink

  51. Bugger. Kingsford Smith Airport. It’s a bit north of Cronulla.

    Well, I’m a bit north of that.

    Well, north of Coolangatta.

    West of Brisbane.

    (Sorry I took so long to reply, feeding the dogs, bringing up firewood and playing with the dogs.)

    And judging by your photo you might be a bit young…

    League you say. Are you built like a league player? Could I just admire you?

    I actually live where Andy Bichel (cricketer) is from.

    #50
    Aww, don’t pike out now.

    Posted by kae on 2007 07 29 at 03:08 AM • permalink

  52. I have cousins on Woolloware road, Stevo.

    Posted by kae on 2007 07 29 at 03:09 AM • permalink

  53. However you spell that road.

    Posted by kae on 2007 07 29 at 03:09 AM • permalink

  54. Hm, turn your back for a couple of days and everybody’s partying wild with the text.

    oh well *swigs some mead with lemon to kill the alcohol*.

    hmm, needs more lemon.

    AND all my Internet images are blurry :(

    Posted by carpefraise on 2007 07 29 at 03:24 AM • permalink

  55. Uh-oh. Carpefraise, please tell me you did not mix LEMON with Sumerian mead!

    You KNOW this leads to an autodrinkingfrenzy.

    MarkL
    canberra

    Posted by MarkL on 2007 07 29 at 03:28 AM • permalink

  56. #56
    I dunno, MarkL, Carpefraise looks a bit depressed by the look of that emoticon.

    Maybe it was deliberate, the mixing of the lemon with the mead…

    Posted by kae on 2007 07 29 at 03:30 AM • permalink

  57. #41 that’s incredible. Judges are supposed to make judgments - that’s the job description!

    To quote Psmith in Wodehouse: What he wants,of course, is disembowelling.”

    Posted by carpefraise on 2007 07 29 at 03:30 AM • permalink

  58. #56, #57 I mix lemon with EVERYTHING :).

    But I am depressed because i can’t figure out why the pics on my internet are awry. :(
    Any tips? Cos the lemon in the CPU didn’t help at all…

    Posted by carpefraise on 2007 07 29 at 03:34 AM • permalink

  59. #58, re #41

    I reckon I could do a better job as a magistrate.

    Posted by kae on 2007 07 29 at 03:34 AM • permalink

  60. #56 I don’t know anything about drinking. I am a teetotaller.

    Posted by carpefraise on 2007 07 29 at 03:35 AM • permalink

  61. #68 i reckon you could take over the Supreme court and still have enough energy to throw the bench at road rage assaulty types.

    Posted by carpefraise on 2007 07 29 at 03:37 AM • permalink

  62. gosh - look what happens when you leave the house for a few hours - rebeccaH bounces back (goodonyer mate) & jack from montreal throws a hissy fit because we fail to meet his standards for dispassionate & rational discourse. oo-er pardon us

    Posted by KK on 2007 07 29 at 03:38 AM • permalink

  63. It was somewhere up the country in a place of froth and steam,
    That they formed an institution called the Anti-American Meme .
    They were long and wiry veterans of ancient culture wars,
    And no point of view was ever heard that wasn’t dedicated to the cause.
    So their style of discussing issues was predictable and rash -
    They had no need of facts at all, it was just a Yankee bash:
    And they all frothed and steamed and yelled “Curse that bastard Bush”
    “By far the worst President, since they gave that last bastard the push.”
    And they nodded all together at the links from Info Clearing House
    “They are the root cause of terrorism and Cheney is boss louse”

    It was somewhere up the country, in this place so earnest
    That the Meme’s vision splendid burst, it is rumoured they were piss’t.
    As a social institution they thought they were on a roll
    For the members were distinguished by having read Chomsky and Juan Cole.
    They had natty little theories about most things beneath the sun.
    “Starving kids in Palestine? It’s just the Jews havin’ fun.”.
    “Press and politics perverted? It’s because the Zionists are running the game.”
    “I thought you said it was the Yanks?” you ask “Isn’t this claim quite lame?”
    “Ah, but it’s the Jews who control Washington” they say, “and Washington runs the Jews.”

    Readers may see now the Meme are experts at doublethink ,
    Any mental contradiction they can pull off without a blink,
    “Lift those bloody sanctions!” they cried. “Iraqi kids are dying!”
    “Saddam’s running short of gas and Kurdish kids are mutiplying”.
    And when they hear the Madman shout, it’s like did he say “Burn all of Israel!”?
    “A mistranslation” they will scoff. We heard “Learn from Israel!”
    “Give the man nuclear power. He too will soon be short of gas”.
    And so this ancient institution - the losers of the cold war,
    Will prattle on and stagger until the final roar-
    The cowards and closet Stalinists force a nuclear war.

    Apologies to “Banjo”

    Posted by geoff on 2007 07 29 at 03:42 AM • permalink

  64. *Cloap clap* bravo Geoff!
    *throws carnations and gladdies*

    Posted by carpefraise on 2007 07 29 at 03:56 AM • permalink

  65. oops *clap clap*...

    Maybe I should have just written “Hearty applause”.

    Rebecca H, welcome back, the spice jar has been empty too long.

    Posted by carpefraise on 2007 07 29 at 03:57 AM • permalink

  66. Geoff, you been off getting your poetic licensed?
    Well done.

    Posted by kae on 2007 07 29 at 03:58 AM • permalink

  67. Time for some bagpipes I think.

    Posted by Janice on 2007 07 29 at 04:42 AM • permalink

  68. Kae, have I ever mentioned my boss is a big meanie?

    I have to go to his sister’s wedding up in Brissy in a couple of weeks, and he’s upgraded my seat from one in economy to one in business class “because you may be pretty big by then”.

    Grrr.

    Posted by Ash_ on 2007 07 29 at 04:44 AM • permalink

  69. #69

    That’s all right, Puddin’, he’s just thinking of your comfort.

    (hides behind cat, move OVER guys!)

    Posted by kae on 2007 07 29 at 04:45 AM • permalink

  70. #70 I’m pretty sure he’s behind the cat too Kae. Say hi to Jimmy for me!

    I don’t think I’m that big yet though!

    Posted by Ash_ on 2007 07 29 at 04:48 AM • permalink

  71. This is pretty good. Not what I was looking for, but I’ll just keep looking.

    Posted by kae on 2007 07 29 at 05:00 AM • permalink

  72. I love that song Kae. If you can get it, try the version by Secret Garden. It’s different, but good.

    Posted by Ash_ on 2007 07 29 at 05:04 AM • permalink

  73. Hey!  Ash_!  He’s not just being nice, he’s also being realistic.  In all likelihood you WILL be pretty big by then.  You’ll also probably want to be visiting the loo fairly regularly.  At least in business you’ll only be one seat away from the aisle, max (I think).

    But, who knows?  The airline might not let you on the plane at all.

    Posted by Janice on 2007 07 29 at 05:04 AM • permalink

  74. #74 That’s true Janice. The doctor’s said that I should be fine, but I’m seeing him a few days before we go just to make sure. QANTAS have said they’ll let me on if the doctor says it’s fine.

    Jimmy and I are always making fun of each other, and I know he reads the comments here.

    Posted by Ash_ on 2007 07 29 at 05:11 AM • permalink

  75. re #61

    Kae, it looks like it’s too late for carpefraise..
    The last hideous stages of the autodrinkingfrenzy start when one is convinced one is teetotal.

    The minions will have to clean up again, I guess, although each one is different. Remember Paco’s? Virgins deflowered, moonbats beaten to a bloody pulp and pubs drunk dry from US east coast to US west coast.

    Whereas Wron’s led to the collapse of several minor civilisations IIRC.

    MarkL
    Canberra

    Posted by MarkL on 2007 07 29 at 05:15 AM • permalink

  76. What I was looking for at #72 was the Edinburgh Military Tattoo which featured as the solo the Millennium Prayer for Peace. It was beautiful. If you can find it, listen to it. Goosebumps. It’s on this DVD. Now I have the details I’ll try and get it cheaper!

    Posted by kae on 2007 07 29 at 05:20 AM • permalink

  77. I knew you guys could do it! I don’t know why you all were so down on yourselves. I had faith in you. Well done.

    1000 wasn’t so hard, was it? If y’all had mustard, you’d shoot for 2000.

    Posted by Grimmy on 2007 07 29 at 05:26 AM • permalink

  78. LOL. Stick around and have a drink Grimmy, and we might just get there.

    Posted by Ash_ on 2007 07 29 at 05:29 AM • permalink

  79. Texas Bob!! I know you’re passed out drunk now, but that was a beautiful rendition of Rank Strangers! Any chance of you doing this?

    Posted by dean martin on 2007 07 29 at 05:36 AM • permalink

  80. Hey ash,
    What do you think about the Blues at the moment? Do you think Voss should get the job?

    Posted by Nic on 2007 07 29 at 05:36 AM • permalink

  81. Nic, I’m still quietly sobbing over our season, but I’m not sure about Voss.

    Maybe we should offer Sheeds a job.

    Posted by Ash_ on 2007 07 29 at 05:40 AM • permalink

  82. I saw a quarter from the Qantas club in Cairns yesterday, they tried hard. Voss, maybe, Sheeds, no, he’s a goat. Too eccentric. Pagan had to go though. Fevola will be punted as well.

    Posted by Nic on 2007 07 29 at 05:44 AM • permalink

  83. Fevola has played some amazing games, but he’s a pure, and simple, ****head.

    I think they’ll let Voss do it, but no way they’d let Fevola do it.

    I was kidding about Sheeds. I wouldn’t want him on my team.

    Posted by Ash_ on 2007 07 29 at 05:46 AM • permalink

  84. Will they win 1 more and lose the prized extra draft pick?

    Posted by Nic on 2007 07 29 at 05:51 AM • permalink

  85. Of course we will. Haven’t you noticed they have a way of screwing things up for themselves?

    Posted by Ash_ on 2007 07 29 at 05:53 AM • permalink

  86. Lol. Im glad you were joking about Sheeds though

    Posted by Nic on 2007 07 29 at 05:57 AM • permalink

  87. Hezbollah: We Are Ready to Strike Israel Again

    Well just give it a shot, you sons of goats. This is just as good a time as any, to extinguish Hezbollah.

    Fox News

    Posted by El Cid on 2007 07 29 at 05:59 AM • permalink

  88. Going around the usual haunts looking for something interesting to read, this via Belmont Club - Peaceful Baghdad, Just After The Invasion Proper (before the influx of terrorist scumbags). 

    Posted by blogstrop on 2007 07 29 at 06:08 AM • permalink

  89. Nic, I’ll never forget the game where, 10 minutes from the final siren, we went from 32 points in front to losing.

    I cried my poor, broken heart out.

    Posted by Ash_ on 2007 07 29 at 06:10 AM • permalink

  90. El Cid, the main problem Israel have is that they’re too kind about not harming those who want to kill them.

    Posted by Ash_ on 2007 07 29 at 06:11 AM • permalink

  91. #209 page 4 egg; this too for the mole.

    Posted by dean martin on 2007 07 29 at 06:13 AM • permalink

  92. #89 Blogstrop, thanks for posting that. BTW, the soldier he is talking about who got killed near the train station was shot in the head while leaning against a tree and drinking a coca-cola. I like the way this guys writes or perhaps it just painted such a clear image that my memory kicked into high gear.  It’s intersting how different one guy’s perspective is compared to another’s though. It was peaceful back then, but I know I would never describe Baghdad as a city I loved.  It is surreal in my memory. But not loved.

    Posted by Texas Bob on 2007 07 29 at 06:20 AM • permalink

  93. #93 Good morning Texas Bob. How’s the head?

    Posted by Ash_ on 2007 07 29 at 06:23 AM • permalink

  94. Wow, I go away to the beach, come back and there’s a 1000 comment open thread?
    What have you people been doing?
    Oh, I see, straight up, sorry to Jack from Montreal for every O/T comment I ever made, I promise (clasps hands behind back and crosses fingers) never to do that again.
    Well, Texas Bob will wake up soon, with a likely mother of a headache, but still in possession of an awesome backist of songs. :)
    Hey, is anyone gonna drink that mead?

    Posted by 185600 on 2007 07 29 at 06:24 AM • permalink

  95. But Ash, remember, was it the final in 99 when we came back from the dead to beat Essendon by 2 points?

    Posted by Nic on 2007 07 29 at 06:25 AM • permalink

  96. #95
    Maaaate.
    I hope you don’t get deployed any time soon.
    It’ll be mighty hard to cam up with your dacks on fire.

    Posted by kae on 2007 07 29 at 06:26 AM • permalink

  97. Help yourself 185600. I, uh, borrowed it so you can have a taste.

    Posted by Ash_ on 2007 07 29 at 06:26 AM • permalink

  98. It might have been Nic. I can’t recall.

    I know we did something similar earlier this season.

    Posted by Ash_ on 2007 07 29 at 06:27 AM • permalink

  99. #94 Just fine, thank you ma’am. Well, mostly fine anyhow. It’s always best to drink a liter or two of water with some aspirin before you go to sleep. Mostly just tired. I certainly do need my beauty sleep.

    Posted by Texas Bob on 2007 07 29 at 06:27 AM • permalink

  100. #100 You look great just how you are!

    I’m glad you’re not too hard up this morning.

    Posted by Ash_ on 2007 07 29 at 06:29 AM • permalink

  101. I was only 10 minutes late (or so) this morning. I hate being rushed, and I despise being late. But that serves me right since I sooooooo know better.  But, I really did have a good time last night and really enjoyed hanging out here with you guys.

    Posted by Texas Bob on 2007 07 29 at 06:30 AM • permalink

  102. I enjoyed it too Texas Bob. Did you see your special message from Jack?

    Posted by Ash_ on 2007 07 29 at 06:32 AM • permalink

  103. I’m just glad I don’t have to live up to the expectations of being a cleverer commenter. Who needs THAT kind of pressure?

    I’m content just being a regular ol commenter. Very liberating.

    Posted by Texas Bob on 2007 07 29 at 06:33 AM • permalink

  104. #103 The one where he tells me and Cid to F-off?

    Yeah, I see that. Eh, what’d you expect him to say, We were poking at him pretty hard there. I’d have probably said the same thing if I were him.  Still, I’m not sure what he was going on about as this is an open thread.

    Posted by Texas Bob on 2007 07 29 at 06:35 AM • permalink

  105. LOL. We’re under nowhere near as much pressure as Paco here.

    Posted by Ash_ on 2007 07 29 at 06:36 AM • permalink

  106. #106 Yup! I like what Brian Law used to call me: Texas Blurt.

    Posted by Texas Bob on 2007 07 29 at 06:38 AM • permalink

  107. #105 Yeah, that one.

    Posted by Ash_ on 2007 07 29 at 06:38 AM • permalink

  108. #107 He was a cheery guy, wasn’t he?

    Posted by Ash_ on 2007 07 29 at 06:39 AM • permalink

  109. Blurt?

    That’d be the after effects of the chili and beans.

    Posted by kae on 2007 07 29 at 06:40 AM • permalink

  110. #109 Yup, one bug happy cherub-faced tubby little terrorist wannabe.

    Posted by Texas Bob on 2007 07 29 at 06:41 AM • permalink

  111. #111 He’d be no threat. You’d both see and smell him coming.

    Plus he’d advertise it.

    Posted by Ash_ on 2007 07 29 at 06:43 AM • permalink

  112. For Jack.It’s tied to global warming or Aussie politics...somehow.

    Posted by dean martin on 2007 07 29 at 06:47 AM • permalink

  113. Was I Wazir (*)
    I have read elsewhere that there could be a big fight looming in Waziristan, and that it could be a joint venture between the Pakis and the Nato Forces - ok, perhaps just the Yanks and Australians.
    A report here from
    Poweline suggests that the first shots may have been fired.
    (*) Song from act 2 of Kismet.

    Posted by blogstrop on 2007 07 29 at 06:48 AM • permalink

  114. Senator Schumer (D) thinks the US Supreme Court is dangerously out of balance (er ... 5-4 against the moonbats?) due to bushchimpler presidential appointments! Some describe his stance (and reported threats to avoid any further Bush appointments) as contrary to the constitution - does he want to amend it?
    Crittenden has the lowdown here.

    Posted by blogstrop on 2007 07 29 at 07:04 AM • permalink

  115. 185600, I dedicate this performance to you.

    Posted by Ash_ on 2007 07 29 at 07:17 AM • permalink

  116. #97 kae
    Um, what exactly have you guys done to that ‘mead’?

    I was wondering why Ash_ was so keen on me tasting it?

    Next thing you know, Thin and Inebriated will turn up, with a ‘drinks for my friends’ call. :)

    Posted by 185600 on 2007 07 29 at 07:19 AM • permalink

  117. #76, i KNOW I’m teetotal! I’m just sipping on the Sumerian ‘cos it’s the only bevvy here...more lemon please…

    Oh look! Three Pacos!

    Barkeep! Five Sumerians and lemon to go!

    Posted by carpefraise on 2007 07 29 at 07:22 AM • permalink

  118. #117 We haven’t done anything to the mead. I just think you deserve to have my share!

    Posted by Ash_ on 2007 07 29 at 07:23 AM • permalink

  119. #116 Ash_

    Ok, I let it slip, please, please stop it now?
    I mean, come on, it was one stupid comment (fueled by years of motherly anecdotes).
    There is a streak of nastiness in you young lady that I never expected. :)

    Na, I take that back, it was almost Sicilian.

    Posted by 185600 on 2007 07 29 at 07:27 AM • permalink

  120. #120 I’ll be good now. It was the Italian in me coming out.

    I get to go househunting tomorrow. If it wasn’t necessary, I’d rather sit and watch the ABC all day.

    Posted by Ash_ on 2007 07 29 at 07:29 AM • permalink

  121. Ok, this one is really for you 185600.

    Posted by Ash_ on 2007 07 29 at 07:34 AM • permalink

  122. I am seriously impressed, peeps.

    A thousand + comments, and nobody has tipped over the italics or bold jars, despite consuming copious quantities of Sumerian mead (and other less salubrious concoctions that apparently emanate from the the southern US states)

    That oik professor will be disappointed however, that despite all the drunken ramblings and consumption of strong likker, nobody has mentioned guns.

    The RWDB stereotype is suffering, folks.

    Posted by Pedro the Ignorant on 2007 07 29 at 07:40 AM • permalink

  123. #122 Ash_
    Thanks, the second link is a little more me :)
    Househunting? Please explain? (unless that contravenes Jack’s rules and all?)

    I guess you are probably not far off having Ember in your arms, but I thought you had a place?

    Actually, I don’t mind that ‘Sunshine’ song so much now that I found out that mum took it from history, apparently, Ned Kelly’s mum called him ‘our Sunshine’.  :P

    Posted by 185600 on 2007 07 29 at 07:41 AM • permalink

  124. #124 I do have a place, but I’m feeling extremely like I have to move elsewhere.

    “apparently, Ned Kelly’s mum called him ‘our Sunshine’.”

    She did. In fact, it’s the name of one of the books written about him.

    Posted by Ash_ on 2007 07 29 at 07:43 AM • permalink

  125. Ah crap.

    Posted by Ash_ on 2007 07 29 at 07:45 AM • permalink

  126. #123 Debo discrepar con ti Pedro mi amigo. I distinctly remember commenting last night where I mentioned both my Winchester and 30.06 ammunition.
    Got to keep up appearences ya know.

    Posted by Texas Bob on 2007 07 29 at 07:47 AM • permalink

  127. It’s good that you’ve recovered from being as munk as a drunkey Texas Bob.

    Posted by Ash_ on 2007 07 29 at 07:51 AM • permalink

  128. #125 Ash_
    Great, now I am linked to criminal activities, admittedly from a couple of generations ago?

    I hope the househunt goes well, just remember, as per the emails I sent, you two are the priority, not other people’s feelings. :)

    I have to go to bed now, (stern looks from Dirty Harriet), but let me know how things go mate, please?

    PS sorry Jack, a bit of personal stuff in there as well.  :P

    Posted by 185600 on 2007 07 29 at 07:53 AM • permalink

  129. #129 Well, at least you know what I meant.

    Have a good sleep mate.

    Posted by Ash_ on 2007 07 29 at 07:55 AM • permalink

  130. It may not be Sumerian, but not a bad drop… http://www.bartholomewsmeadery.com.au

    Posted by SouthernCrusader on 2007 07 29 at 07:56 AM • permalink

  131. #129 Hey, think about it this way, Kelly loved his family.

    Emailed you.

    Posted by Ash_ on 2007 07 29 at 07:57 AM • permalink

  132. 185600 would be pretty familiar with this morale builder.

    I’m an ol’ fart digger, but that one throws a bit of dust in the left eyeball.

    Posted by Pedro the Ignorant on 2007 07 29 at 08:04 AM • permalink

  133. Oh well, I shouldn’t have mentioned the italics jar.

    Say farewell, Mac users. It was fun while it lasted.

    Posted by Pedro the Ignorant on 2007 07 29 at 08:07 AM • permalink

  134. #131 Enough.

    Sumerian mead I could ignore. Mead distilled in Queensland I could ignore. But trying to pass off an upstart like Bartholomew’s as genuine. Nooooooooooo.

    Try Maxwell Mead - breakfast of champions since I was a kid. I have had to abstain since, but winter with the Spiced Mead always looked good.

    Posted by Pa Feral on 2007 07 29 at 08:15 AM • permalink

  135. Carpefraise - if I ever came off the wagon, my eyesight would not last long enough to see anything, not even Ash.

    Where is the cat? I need to hide.

    Posted by Pa Feral on 2007 07 29 at 08:16 AM • permalink

  136. #136 Don’t sweat it Pa Feral, you’d know me because I’d be the one there to catch you.

    Us ladies do all the work, don’t you know?

    Posted by Ash_ on 2007 07 29 at 08:18 AM • permalink

  137. How good was that>?!

    Lions smashing pies by 93 points!

    made me weekend

    :)

    ps well done on 1000 posts ppl - I’m impressed!

    Anyone want to have some fun with tim?

    My suggestion is that we wll change our nicks to 2 words, beginning with t and b

    so there will be about 200 people all posting with variants of t and b, and I’m sure it would be a WTF moment for him

    whaddyareckon?

    Posted by peter m on 2007 07 29 at 08:21 AM • permalink

  138. 137 Thanks Ash

    Ma says the same thing. Have you two met?

    Posted by Pa Feral on 2007 07 29 at 08:22 AM • permalink

  139. #134 Pedro, Mac users?

    Posted by flying pigs over mecca on 2007 07 29 at 08:22 AM • permalink

  140. #140
    If the italics escape mac users can’t see the thread.

    Posted by kae on 2007 07 29 at 08:23 AM • permalink

  141. #128 Yes it Ash_ very good indeed.

    Interesting tidbits in the news today:

    Man claims he didn’t smell his wife’s body decomposing in a closet because diabetes has wrecked his sense of smell.

    Hezbollah has decided it wants its ass kicked. Again.

    Michigan man ordered to clean war memorials with a toothbrush for scamming junk yards for scrap metal, claiming it was to be used in the construction of an Iraq war memorial.

    Posted by Texas Bob on 2007 07 29 at 08:24 AM • permalink

  142. #138 It’d be funny Peter.

    #139 Not that I know of Pa, but I wouldn’t rule it out completely.

    #140 When people mess up tags, our self-fixing jobs only work on Windows, not Macs.

    Posted by Ash_ on 2007 07 29 at 08:24 AM • permalink

  143. #138 Or append “, Administrator” to our handles. :p

    Posted by flying pigs over mecca on 2007 07 29 at 08:24 AM • permalink

  144. #138 OK. I’m all set.

    Posted by Texas Bob on 2007 07 29 at 08:25 AM • permalink

  145. Texas Bob, Israel is far too kind to Hezbollah.

    If Israel was as evil as Hezbollah says it is, it would have killed civilians just to get one or two Hezbollah people. Israel hasn’t done that.

    Posted by Ash_ on 2007 07 29 at 08:27 AM • permalink

  146. #144 No, no. I fear Andrea if she thinks we’ve taken over her Troll Squishing.

    Posted by Ash_ on 2007 07 29 at 08:28 AM • permalink

  147. #147 Yep, ‘twas a joke. I pity the fool who’d actually try it.

    Posted by flying pigs over mecca on 2007 07 29 at 08:30 AM • permalink

  148. 138 Peter

    Lots of football results made my weekend enjoyable. Fremantle lost. Adelaide lost. Magpies lost. Kangaroos won.

    The only problem I saw was that Brisbane thumped the Pies, and have got their confidence sky high before they meet the Kangaroos at the Gabba next weekend.

    It is almost like the road trip to hell (sorry Kae).  We then have West Coast, Geelong, Carlton and the Bulldogs. We will be there in September.

    Posted by Pa Feral on 2007 07 29 at 08:30 AM • permalink

  149. #149 Please tell me that you didn’t just say you’re enjoying my AFL sorrow?!

    Posted by Ash_ on 2007 07 29 at 08:33 AM • permalink

  150. "Administrator” can fix that.

    Posted by Andrea Harris, Administrator on 2007 07 29 at 08:34 AM • permalink

  151. My comment was to “Radius” above.

    Posted by Andrea Harris, Administrator on 2007 07 29 at 08:35 AM • permalink

  152. Radius, I’ll distract her by wearing my wronwright face mask and loudly accuse her of stealing my 3rd century Chinese sex toy, while you run.
    Run like you’ve never run before…

    Posted by Texas Bob on 2007 07 29 at 08:38 AM • permalink

  153. Am hiding behind the cat.

    Posted by flying pigs over mecca on 2007 07 29 at 08:40 AM • permalink

  154. #153 Texas Bob, are you sure you want to face the torture and pain that is sure to ensue?

    Posted by Ash_ on 2007 07 29 at 08:40 AM • permalink

  155. This baby-growing is a tiring business, so I shall retire for the evening. G’night y’all.

    Posted by Ash_ on 2007 07 29 at 08:42 AM • permalink

  156. #155 Not to worry. I’ll leave the mask on the end of broom handle, while I make my escape.  The resemblance to wronwright’s physique should confuse her long enough for me to get way.

    Posted by Texas Bob on 2007 07 29 at 08:42 AM • permalink

  157. #156 Goodnight sweetie, rest well.

    Posted by Texas Bob on 2007 07 29 at 08:43 AM • permalink

  158. #158 Thanks Texas Bob. I must get up at six, and I’m certainly not looking forward to it.

    The broom will be a perfect decoy, but I figure that only gives you a 10 second head start.

    Posted by Ash_ on 2007 07 29 at 08:45 AM • permalink

  159. #159 That’s when I will rely on my army training. I can seriously move out when I need to!
    Goodnight!

    Posted by Texas Bob on 2007 07 29 at 08:47 AM • permalink

  160. #149

    It is almost like the road trip to hell (sorry Kae). 

    Wha? I was beginning to think my diet was really working, either that or I’d become invisible.

    Kangaroos? I had a friend half a lifetime ago who barracked for North Melbourne.

    Posted by kae on 2007 07 29 at 09:00 AM • permalink

  161. #154
    Stop shoving, Radius. (It’s getting crowded behind this cat. Can’t someone get a bigger kitty-cat?)

    Posted by kae on 2007 07 29 at 09:02 AM • permalink

  162. #162 Emerges from behind cat. It’s OK, I don’t think Andrea was really after me; her sudden appearance did startle, though.

    Posted by flying pigs over mecca on 2007 07 29 at 09:07 AM • permalink

  163. #123, it’s all the lemon juice!

    #146, Ash your kind comments do not go unnoticed. When Hezbollah attacks Israel again feel free to email positive things to the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs. I did that last year as a tiny morale booster and even received a thank you letter!

    #136 Pa Feral, pleased to meet you :).
    Rest assured if you fall off the wagon I will hasten unto you with a refreshing citron presse, a pair of reading glasses and a brand new novel. You’ll be too busy to think about wagons, on or off!

    Posted by carpefraise on 2007 07 29 at 09:08 AM • permalink

  164. The real action is over at Gaza’s place:

    While there is something comical in the vision of Kroger, his bosom and only pal Peter Costello, and the glove puppets staging a coup de tat against the Prime Minister, it is black amusement.

    When I wrote on Kroger’s imposition of puppets, including his retarded ex wife, as candidates in safe Federal Liberal seats, I warned Kroger will do to the Federal Liberal Party, what he’s done to the Victorian Division, completely wreck it. Between Costello, Turnbull, and Kroger, Liberals should be very disturbed, for that lot of power hungry, cowards, whose instincts are authoritarian, will sink the Federal Liberal Party to the bottom of the political ocean, effortlessly.

    Posted by monaro on 2007 07 29 at 09:10 AM • permalink

  165. Nonsense, wronwright’s weedy physique, though much resembling a broom handle, is quite distinctive—and in any case, my new DNA-detection implants make all attempts to fool me with amateurish “disguises” (or even clever, Mission Impossible-style disguises) obsolete.

    Anyway, I would never steal wron’s sex toys. Everyone needs a hobby.

    Posted by Andrea Harris, Administrator on 2007 07 29 at 09:11 AM • permalink

  166. Plea to Mistress Andea from Mac users, can you put the lid back on the italics jar, re-number the posts, and for good measure, kick the perpetrator -*looking at Ash*- fair up the date?

    Seriously, it is really annoying for Mac users to lose track of the thread because a commenter makes an error by not closing tags. Surely there is some sort of ‘self correction’ that can be done to restore legibility to this blog for the small % of users on Mac systems.

    Having said that, I flatly refuse to use the execrable Internet Explorer browser, the gateway to Hell. Wrists would be slashed and remains ponging to high heaven before I ever allow that beast near my pearl white high tech lovely object of (purely platonic) love.

    Posted by Pedro the Ignorant on 2007 07 29 at 09:25 AM • permalink

  167. You’ll find little sympathy for your satanic brood here Pedro.

    Posted by monaro on 2007 07 29 at 09:30 AM • permalink

  168. Italics fixed. I can’t do anything about the numbering though—I’ve tried everything. I don’t know why each new page of comments starts over at “1” and as well the permalinks to individual comments don’t work on all but the first page of comments. I have an upgraded version of the software I need to install, maybe that will do it.

    Re Internet Exploder: I use it as little as possible too. I prefer Firefox.

    Posted by Andrea Harris, Administrator on 2007 07 29 at 09:45 AM • permalink

  169. I run Windows XP and use Firefox, but still have to slum it with MSIE for some poorly coded pages.

    Posted by flying pigs over mecca on 2007 07 29 at 09:51 AM • permalink

  170. Don’t they have Firefox for the Mac?

    Posted by Andrea Harris, Administrator on 2007 07 29 at 09:53 AM • permalink

  171. Umm, safari is reading the comments fine on my imac, Pedro.  Beautifully in fact.  Mind you I skipped to the last page.  There is only so much mead and hissy fits that one can cope with on an sunday night. 
    Anyway, the problem arises as the weblog software does not use open standard code.  IE copes with it as it is not very standard itself.  Firefox, Safari and Opera, not so good.

    Posted by entropy on 2007 07 29 at 09:54 AM • permalink

  172. You can get Firefox for the Mac here. But you probably already know that.

    I’m hoping the latest version of EE will be more compatible with everything. To tell you the truth I’m not so sure I’m thrilled with the program, but at the time I set this up it was the only blogging setup with a member-registration module. Troll- and spam-control needs trumped all others. Also if I changed blogging software you might all have to reregister, I might not get everything copied over to the new server right (the links to posts would all go belly-up, etc.)—the problem has been on my mind.

    Posted by Andrea Harris, Administrator on 2007 07 29 at 09:59 AM • permalink

  173. #92 dino
    Oldie but a goodie.
    How ‘bout this chart topper?

    ... and don’t forget your punctuation!

    Posted by egg_ on 2007 07 29 at 10:15 AM • permalink


  174. Muchos Gracias, Senorita Andrea.

    It has been a long standing grump of mine that when the bolds or italics are allowed to run loose here at Blair’s blog, my pearly white (platonic smooch *no tongue* here) darling loses the plot and re-numbers every post after that as “1.” and continues to use the last ‘un closed’ tag as the default text.
    i.e. don’t close the bold, everything after that is “ 1. Blah-blah-blah"
    Don’t close the italics, everything after that is "1. nag nag nag"

    Having said that, I still lurk here, and have done for years, and Tim is my first morning read, and the commenters are my window on the world, and in the immortal words of pugilist extraordinaire, Jeff Fenech, “I love youse all”

    Posted by Pedro the Ignorant on 2007 07 29 at 10:25 AM • permalink

  175. Drunken guests won’t be tolerated!

    Posted by egg_ on 2007 07 29 at 10:29 AM • permalink

  176. I shall forever be grateful to Jack for “Perview is my fiend”, a phrase I believe he coined - or at least, he was the first one to use it here. To this day, I can’t read it without chuckling.

    Richard M.: I say, I knew you were a well-read, brainy cove, but you startled me by pulling “morphogenic field” out of a hat with such alacrity that it made the pince-nez jump off of my nose and bounce around on the end of the silk ribbon affixing them to the button hole of my suit jacket.

    Posted by paco on 2007 07 29 at 10:31 AM • permalink

  177. Good gracious.  The fifth page and still going strong.  At least I see you’ve managed not to knock the house down, or set fire to Tim’s car (disappointment, there), and wronwright has apparently forgotten his catering duties.

    Congratulations, Texas Bob, on your promotion to Not the Administrator.

    Posted by RebeccaH on 2007 07 29 at 10:57 AM • permalink

  178. Iraq won the soccer cup!!!

    Posted by SandiM on 2007 07 29 at 10:59 AM • permalink

  179. 1-0 over Saudi Arabia.

    Posted by SandiM on 2007 07 29 at 11:01 AM • permalink

  180. #180, Congratulations, Iraq!

    Posted by Retread on 2007 07 29 at 11:09 AM • permalink

  181. Waltz Away Dreaming
    Magnifique

    Posted by egg_ on 2007 07 29 at 11:11 AM • permalink

  182. UK funk

    Posted by egg_ on 2007 07 29 at 11:22 AM • permalink

  183. What a great morale boost for them. I am really proud of the Iraqis and got all teary eyed watching it just now on the news. Congratulations Iraq!

    Posted by Texas Bob on 2007 07 29 at 11:24 AM • permalink

  184. #176 Pedro, it was me who left the italics open last night. Sorry.
    I was a little ahem under the weather*

    *I was indulging in the spirits.

    Posted by Texas Bob on 2007 07 29 at 11:25 AM • permalink

  185. UK squeeze

    Posted by egg_ on 2007 07 29 at 11:29 AM • permalink

  186. um - why do people use tags instead of the nice buttons thoughtfully provided by andrea? it’s impossible to leave the lid off the jar with those

    Posted by KK on 2007 07 29 at 11:30 AM • permalink

  187. testing - think i broke the page

    Posted by KK on 2007 07 29 at 11:33 AM • permalink

  188. oops

    Posted by KK on 2007 07 29 at 11:35 AM • permalink

  189. #185 crying
    The Big O and the only other who could do the song justice

    Posted by egg_ on 2007 07 29 at 11:35 AM • permalink

  190. #177 egg, ha ha!!! That was great clip! I loved watching Dean and Foster together, it still makes me bust a gut laughing. I read somewhere that Foster Brooks did not drink, which only attests to his talent. Few people could play a believable drunk with that much acuity. Really a funny guy.

    Posted by Texas Bob on 2007 07 29 at 11:35 AM • permalink

  191. is that better?

    Posted by KK on 2007 07 29 at 11:35 AM • permalink

  192. note to self - must hide behind the cat for a while

    Posted by KK on 2007 07 29 at 11:37 AM • permalink

  193. Yeah KK, these buttons work great. As long as I can remember to use them. Which, evidently, I cannot.

    Posted by Texas Bob on 2007 07 29 at 11:37 AM • permalink

  194. blokes, buttons - that explains open flies on 501s after a few beers

    Posted by KK on 2007 07 29 at 11:39 AM • permalink

  195. Texas Bob, ‘Forgiven’ for the italic jar tip up. (BTW the that’s the title of the best cowboy movie since The Searchers)

    Anyone who wears the uniform gets cut a lot of slack from me and mine.

    I’m on the turps too, cheap(?) plonk from the Margaret River.

    Life is tough here in West Oz.

    Posted by Pedro the Ignorant on 2007 07 29 at 11:40 AM • permalink

  196. Well done, KK. Now its all “1. Bold bold bold “ for all us long suffering Mac users, possibly forever, unless Mistress Andrea is looking in.
    Sheesh.

    Posted by Pedro the Ignorant on 2007 07 29 at 11:44 AM • permalink

  197. #123—Go with the classics.

    Posted by richard mcenroe on 2007 07 29 at 11:46 AM • permalink

  198. #192 TB
    Yeah, very authentic act, plenty of him on the ‘tube.

    Posted by egg_ on 2007 07 29 at 11:47 AM • permalink

  199. Radius—Dang.  That mother don’t blink.  At. All.

    Posted by richard mcenroe on 2007 07 29 at 11:52 AM • permalink

  200. Juz the Middle Of The Road

    Posted by egg_ on 2007 07 29 at 11:55 AM • permalink

  201. Aaah, Guns!
    Totally agree Richard.
    Blue steel and walnut trumps back plastic and tin.

    Posted by Pedro the Ignorant on 2007 07 29 at 11:56 AM • permalink

  202. That would be “black”, of course.
    Damn you, 2002 Semillon.

    Posted by Pedro the Ignorant on 2007 07 29 at 11:58 AM • permalink

  203. #202
    The Lion Sleeps (same era)

    Posted by egg_ on 2007 07 29 at 12:00 PM • permalink

  204. While Tin’s walking around sucking his gut in out at Bonneville, do you think the other drivers will be impressed that he once test-drove a milk truck?

    Posted by richard mcenroe on 2007 07 29 at 12:00 PM • permalink

  205. #204 When a five year old can take you for a fool… :p

    Posted by flying pigs over mecca on 2007 07 29 at 12:02 PM • permalink

  206. #206 Before artificial insemination, the glint in a milkman’s eye was the traditional method.

    Posted by flying pigs over mecca on 2007 07 29 at 12:04 PM • permalink

  207. Oh Lordy, Richard. There goes the ANZUS treaty.

    It wuz Photoshopped, ask Dan Rather.

    Posted by Pedro the Ignorant on 2007 07 29 at 12:05 PM • permalink

  208. Well, I believe this is the first thread at Tim’s place that I’ve seen hit the 1,000 mark.  Congrats to all posters!  A job well done!  I wonder at this rate if we could hit 10,000 before our dark master’s return?  “O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!” He’d chortle in his joy.

    In related news, I missed seeing the odometer on my car hit 50,000 miles yesterday (sniff).  Although I must say, watching a digital odometer roll over is nothing like watching the old-fashioned analog odometers:  the way the digits would “cheat” moving upward, with the ones leading the way, followed sequentially by the tens, hundreds, thousands and ten thousands.  Boy, I miss the old days....

    Posted by Tex Lovera on 2007 07 29 at 12:37 PM • permalink

  209. #210 Enough Molesworth. I’m off to bed.

    Posted by flying pigs over mecca on 2007 07 29 at 12:46 PM • permalink


  210. #210, LOL. I once drove in circles in a parking lot to watch the old style odometer roll over from 100k, to start over at zero.

    Have you ever driven in reverse to see if it unwinds?

    Posted by Retread on 2007 07 29 at 12:48 PM • permalink

  211. How to discipline a woman who refuses to cover her hands.

    Yeah, that’s appealing.  Sign me up for that religion. 

    *waves a middle finger in the general direction of Meedja Watch*

    Posted by Blue State Sil on 2007 07 29 at 01:09 PM • permalink

  212. Sample Chapter from Steve Graham’s New Book from Steve at hogonice.com

    Posted by richard mcenroe on 2007 07 29 at 01:48 PM • permalink

  213. Dang.  Slow day.  Think we done wore folks out yestiddy....?

    Posted by richard mcenroe on 2007 07 29 at 02:06 PM • permalink

  214. I am not worn out - am just plain ol’ out
    some say out of my mind

    #216 Richard, that book looks like a good read!

    Posted by missred on 2007 07 29 at 02:53 PM • permalink


  215. oh pishaw

    Posted by missred on 2007 07 29 at 03:23 PM • permalink

  216. Damn, it has been Bush’s fault since Adam & Eve. It was George who had slain Abel, not Cain

    Posted by missred on 2007 07 29 at 03:27 PM • permalink

  217. #213 Retread

    Did a car rally once in a Holden Shuttle, and accidentally drove past one of the checkpoints where we had to look at a clue.

    Found that the odometer was unwinding while we were reversing. At the finish we were the only car with correct mileage for the run.

    Driving a van, did we win?  Not on your life.

    Posted by Pa Feral on 2007 07 29 at 03:35 PM • permalink

  218. #220 Pretty sure there’s an apple orchard baring his name as well…

    Posted by Texas Bob on 2007 07 29 at 03:37 PM • permalink

  219. #222
    think you may be right there too!

    Posted by missred on 2007 07 29 at 03:41 PM • permalink

  220. Is it just me, or is Powerline (http://www.powerlineblog.com) kinda, er, light reading today?

    Posted by richard mcenroe on 2007 07 29 at 04:01 PM • permalink

  221. #224 looks very light to me

    Posted by missred on 2007 07 29 at 04:05 PM • permalink

  222. invisible ink springs to mind

    Posted by missred on 2007 07 29 at 04:09 PM • permalink

  223. Good Morning y’all!

    Posted by Ash_ on 2007 07 29 at 04:29 PM • permalink

  224. good morning, Ash.  you are up early!

    Posted by missred on 2007 07 29 at 04:51 PM • permalink

  225. oh right, you are pregnant, normal is thrown out the window ;)

    Posted by missred on 2007 07 29 at 04:54 PM • permalink

  226. Texas Bob, this is your cellar calling. Some bottles down here desperately want to pour their hearts out to you.

    And some bloggers want you to liven the place up again.

    Posted by Dminor on 2007 07 29 at 06:00 PM • permalink

  227. morning pps

    kae - yeah bl on kangas coming to gabba - lions have a really tough run home - most are away games, but their confidence must be sky high now.

    Ash_ - got your name right finally!  Best wishes for your final weeks.  Our little bub is now 4 months, and life has never been the same (or better) (although she is waking a tad early at 4am last 2 nights!!).

    work ......

    Ok I fear we need a new goal, do I hear 2000??

    c’mon aussies - usa (btw what do you chant at international sports?)

    Posted by peter m on 2007 07 29 at 06:06 PM • permalink

  228. #228 Ah, yes I am Missred, and it’s overrated.

    I got up early to head from home into Hawthorn. Traffic was as bad as I expected. I didn’t have to be here until 9.30, but better early than late.

    Posted by Ash_ on 2007 07 29 at 06:10 PM • permalink

  229. #231 Thanks Peter. I’m beginning to worry that it’s going to really, really hurt.

    Posted by Ash_ on 2007 07 29 at 06:12 PM • permalink

  230. Epidural, Ash.

    Posted by Dminor on 2007 07 29 at 06:21 PM • permalink

  231. That’s the plan Dminor. The more drugs they give me, the happier I’ll be.

    Posted by Ash_ on 2007 07 29 at 06:27 PM • permalink

  232. We had a great Obstetrician. Just out of curiosity, my wife asked for his opinion on water births. To quote: “If God wanted us to give birth underwater, he would have made us dolphins.”

    Posted by Dminor on 2007 07 29 at 06:33 PM • permalink

  233. Morning Tim tam, ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!
    uuuuuuuuuuuggggg screams ground hog day!

    Posted by 1.618 on 2007 07 29 at 06:33 PM • permalink

  234. Morning, Golden One. I’m also over at Bolta’s, BTW.

    Posted by Dminor on 2007 07 29 at 06:35 PM • permalink

  235. #230 Sorry Mr Cellar, but I’m not going anywhere near you for awhile. I make it a point not to show my ass more than once a quarter.

    Posted by Texas Bob on 2007 07 29 at 06:36 PM • permalink

  236. Good Morning Dminor. I’m there as well. This will be fun which topic?

    Posted by 1.618 on 2007 07 29 at 06:37 PM • permalink

  237. #236 Ha ha ha. I like the guy.

    Posted by Ash_ on 2007 07 29 at 06:37 PM • permalink

  238. 2 CDs full of MP3s coming your way in the mail tomorrow Ash. Mostly the old stuff that I like, hopefully you will too!

    Posted by Texas Bob on 2007 07 29 at 06:38 PM • permalink

  239. #238 I think we’re all at Bolta’s. According to one of his usual detractor’s, he’s “over simplify(ing) the issues for the benefit of Tim Blairs rejects”.

    Posted by Ash_ on 2007 07 29 at 06:39 PM • permalink

  240. Good morning 1.618

    Posted by Texas Bob on 2007 07 29 at 06:39 PM • permalink

  241. #239 Is the cellar no longer your friend?

    Posted by Ash_ on 2007 07 29 at 06:39 PM • permalink

  242. Dminor, you look good at bolty’s blogg.  Tim B will be so proud of us.

    Posted by 1.618 on 2007 07 29 at 06:40 PM • permalink

  243. The Communist Broadcasting Corporation has a program on Sundays at 6 pm which often contains items from elsewhere. Today, they had an item by an Australian But Communist announcer, you can hear it here.

    She says that global warming is causing an increase in the suicide rate amongst farmers and that Australian Prime Minister John Howard, a notorious global warming skeptic, said two months ago that if the drought didn’t end in 6 weeks, then the irrigation system will have to be turned off. “That time has passed” she says - neglecting to mention that it appears to have pissed down with rain in the mean time.

    This woman’s name is given in the CBC program. I suggest she, and her editors, be held account to the mythical “fairness” doctrine and also be reminded who pays their cheques.

    Posted by Wimpy Canadian on 2007 07 29 at 06:41 PM • permalink

  244. #242 Don’t ever let anyone tell you that you’re not a sweetheart Texas Bob, because they’d be lying.

    Posted by Ash_ on 2007 07 29 at 06:41 PM • permalink

  245. #245 I think that me and Jack are on better terms than I am with Mr Cellar right now…

    Posted by Texas Bob on 2007 07 29 at 06:41 PM • permalink

  246. Ducking out for dinner.

    In the meantime, bar dice for everyone!

    Posted by richard mcenroe on 2007 07 29 at 06:41 PM • permalink

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