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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.)
Nice work Ash, I could read that post over and over.
Posted by Margos Maid on 2007 07 26 at 11:07 PM • permalink#242: The therapy for Hypotimblairia (a rare but severe condition) is copious consumption of Sumerian mead.
Hmmm. Wronwright’s probably asleep in front of his television set. The attack daschhund is partial to vienna sausages. And I’ve got this brand new bolt-cutter, ain’t even taken the price tag off it yet. Well, it is for medicinal purposes; Michael Lonie says so. Maybe Wronwright will never know it was me. I’ll leave a Molson Ale baseball cap behind so he’ll think the intruder was Andy Canuck. Fool-proof!
Dammit _ash got it - I’ll have to lie in wait and spam for the next one, while magically avoiding Andrea’s ban stick. Need some tips wronwright, stat!
And in other wonderful news, today is Friday, meaning 2 days of weekend bliss is just a few hours away - who made weekends 2 days only? Some business owner I bet!
I’m guessing that Tim’s headed here. Maybe then he’ll know his durum from his durham.
Posted by Margos Maid on 2007 07 26 at 11:17 PM • permalinkTribute to the King by one of the best voices in the biz
78 1.618 This is a work of feeling, of expressive celbration of the Titanic-like majesty of a media power in its dying days.
I suggest that you supplement the comment policy with a comma policy. I interpret the price in the African way, as nineteen comma nine nine etcetera dollars. This is an opportunity to buy a nine-figure artwork for two figures, and I am on it like Phil Adams on a truffled refugee in chardonnay roux. Do you take Paypal?
Posted by ChrisPer on 2007 07 26 at 08:42 PM • permalink
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...“Channel 9” by 1.618
For Sale $1000 000 000Memo to Chris
If you purchase my little painting you will also receive a free night with me, as Tim Blair is having an affair with something but me. You will receive a free “Where is Paco?” t-shirt.
They say evil never sleeps. Apparently it goes on holidays for 2 weeks.
Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2007 07 26 at 11:58 PM • permalinkI’ve always loved Euro synth pop.
(NSFW if you’re a pentecostal minister or an imam)
Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2007 07 27 at 12:19 AM • permalinkP.S Thanks Frollickingmole and Swinish for putting me onto these hot little numbers. I’ve been humming along for ages.
Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2007 07 27 at 12:23 AM • permalinkIt’s a long way to the shop if you if you want a sausage roll
#243 Ash,
Cocoa; drink rich, dark, hot, sweet cocoa. It doesn’t work as well as scotch, but it will suppress some of the symptoms.Do you think yo can force yourself to do that?
Posted by Michael Lonie on 2007 07 27 at 12:59 AM • permalinkBig News - DDP drops charges against Mohammed Haneef - news is here.
—Nora
Posted by The Thin Man Returns on 2007 07 27 at 01:15 AM • permalink#68 Here’s a backgrounder on the Brimble case Nicky wrote last year.
—Nora
Posted by The Thin Man Returns on 2007 07 27 at 01:32 AM • permalinkRe Bracks: Obviously D-P Thwaites could see the writing on the wall and jumped ship before he was keel-hauled*. According to the OC he had almost gathered enough rope to do himelf in.
I wonder if there’s some big scandal brewing the the wings - the s**t perhaps about to hit the fan. ‘Family reasons’ are generally those given by politicians who have sinned. Or perhaps a nice sinecure has been offered. Whatever - it’s passing strange that a popular leader at the peak of his popularity would suddenly chuck it in.
* Sorry, should have warned: Metaphor Alert!
Posted by walterplinge on 2007 07 27 at 01:33 AM • permalinkNora
I have seen Nick’s comments.
I hope that there is evidence enough to get some of these disgusting sleazes off the street for a very long time.
If they had nothing to hide why did they do so much to hide it all? Cover up? Lie? What has got out about the recorded telephone calls show a trail of lies and conspiracy between the “men of interest” if not to directly commit perjury, to mislead the court.If you’ll allow me the indulgence of going off topic…
Has anyone else noticed that since we reached full employment, that the majority of service staff in this country now appear to have been formally employed as window lickers and windscreen washers? By criminy, how hard is it to make a sandwich.
Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2007 07 27 at 01:49 AM • permalinkNo, Ash, I think you’da been able to work out why there were more teaching evaluations received than the number of students enrolled in the class, especially when you saw that there were TWO academics sharing the teaching of the course…..
Or more than one offering of the class with more than one Lecturer sharing the teaching…
and you had a “total” and couldn’t understand why the total was greater than the enrollments.
So perhaps you should halve the numbers if there are two lecturers?
arrgh
going home.Maybe they worked out they were only premier and dep-premier of Victoria and figured they could do much better with their lives?
Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2007 07 27 at 02:23 AM • permalink#80
I think there will be charges laid. The important part of the inquest was getting the eight ‘persons of interest’ to turn on one another.—Nora
Posted by The Thin Man Returns on 2007 07 27 at 02:23 AM • permalinkWhatever the reason they’ve left, this calls for a mead or six!
Posted by SouthernCrusader on 2007 07 27 at 02:28 AM • permalinkWho gives a flying copulation why they left. Lets hope it starts a mass exodus of the busy body, trough slurping slapheads. This country would be Shang-gri-la if we didn’t have politicians buggering it up.
Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2007 07 27 at 02:42 AM • permalinkThe real victims are the kids of these parliamentarians who may now be forced to spend time with their fathers, and be constantly reminded of their genetic handicap.
Bracks and Thwaites should be compelled to continue on for family reasons.
Posted by Margos Maid on 2007 07 27 at 02:54 AM • permalinkBracksy’s son must have got a heads up. Would certainly explain why he’s been on the wallop like an Irishman with a stolen credit card.
Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2007 07 27 at 02:59 AM • permalinkFallen by Lauren Wood and the Cotton Club
(Pretty Woman theme)
Voice of silk#103
Likewise Randy Crawford
(One Day I’ll Fly Away)#100 - Got any plans for your birthday next week, Margos?
Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2007 07 27 at 03:11 AM • permalinkThe Escape Club - Wild Wild West
Now there’s a beat!A tribute to G-l-o-r-i-a (Swanson) w/ Van the man
I wish River Phoenix had been able to have these as his Own Private Idaho.
#115, 1.6
Yeah?
Well the attack dog at #108 looks like the pup we hope will be coming to live with us in a couple of months. When he’s grown he’ll look like my idea of a proper dog.
Anyone got any interesting theories about what might soon be oncovered?
Yes. Bracks is going to move to Federal politics. He’s leaving a decent interval between resigning his state seat and the announcement of the election, when he’ll be parachuted in in a safe seat. Possibly he’s been tapped as a Rudd replacement.
Posted by walterplinge on 2007 07 27 at 04:18 AM • permalinkegg_ Don’t forget Rock Lobster.
A personal favourite.Now look youse mob. Back from the pub and have this to offer.
Since our fearless leader has abanonded us to our own devices like Moses in the bullrushes and not hidden the keys to his place properly (and I found the tepot) we have a very eclectic mix of music and comedy clips gathered together.
The sort of stuff that gives us happiness and joy.
From CHAD MORGAN, blues to house and acca dacca and B52’s, Sir Leslie Colin Patterson, Steve Winwood, 4 seasons and beyond and some other truly brizarre shit (IT, you have lost it)
It is rather fun. In these dark days when we have a lot of fuckwits to cut the piss out of and a lot to be angry about, it has been fun to gather together the stuff that we like, as opposed to the stuff that gives us the shits.
If we could gather together all this gear I reckon that would be grouse, so when we need a break from stupidity we could just go back to the thread and play good shit, and enjoy that part of our lives that we enjoy.
Andrea, with the greatest of respect, get onto it.
#47 - IT, did you pseudonym for the first comment or the second at that link?
Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2007 07 27 at 06:40 AM • permalinkHere’s another deceased animal story, but this one is rather more farce than tragedy.
As the bullock was finally driven away Brother James shouted, with tears flowing down his cheeks…
You’ll have to read it to find out.
Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2007 07 27 at 06:56 AM • permalink#106
Thanks for asking IT. I might ask Andrea for an apostrophe.
Posted by Margos Maid on 2007 07 27 at 07:00 AM • permalinkAnd just to prove I wasn’t always a hard cynical bastard:
The Look Of Love
They put everything but the kitchen sink into this clip.Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2007 07 27 at 07:59 AM • permalink#164, Swinish,
any remaining vestiges of cynisim you have will be mellowed out if you come over to our town.
OZ, hope the decision to drop charges against that fine upstanding Doctor, don’t come back to haunt any of us children of THE Mother country…and to include THE Mother country.
We, in this small burg of Gatlin, have a few of those Doctor’s of unmentionable description (none of them care for me…period)...but I guess they are safe. I mean after all their evening job is operating the convenience stores they own.
Then of course, prior to starting the Doctor day, they inventory the supplies of stuff, in their lock up rental sheds.
165 Melanie
Thanks, Play That Funky Music was pretty much what I had in mind.
You are most welcome.
Actually my steed (Explorer) and I had a delightful time lance in tow, breaking into various music outlets trying to find things to play. Hope I grabbed the proper ones, didn’t stick around long. (and NO “stick” is not a play on the word “lance”, thingy)
Pity those store owners and operators though, cleaning up after the night…or should I say Knight raids…:).
Tim and Iowahawk better watch it. Dana Andrews ain’t gonna take their crap for long.
Posted by dean martin on 2007 07 27 at 08:48 AM • permalinkBubble Gum, anyone? Music that is.
missred
do hope the tea didn’t wind up spewed all over the place…:).
Pogria
Nahhh…not one person that knows me, could ever visualize ME carrying a violin case (yes I know what at one time was carried in them…lol). Why even Al Capone’s business cards (reportedly described him as a used furniture dealer).
#178 Try this one, missred, a favourite of mine, When it’s over, Sugar Ray
How’d we devolve from samba to the Archies? I wasn’t going to do this to you, but you deserve it.
Posted by dean martin on 2007 07 27 at 09:29 AM • permalink#183, aaahhh Dean,
that is a new low for this thread indeed.
What did I ever do to you? ;-)#184 El Cid,
I’ve lost something. Can you help me find it? :)
#3
Place is going to hell already. Bloody henchmen are squabbling, Paco has knocked off half of Wron’s Sumerian Mead, we have had to sedate 1.618 ‘cause she tried to eat more than her own bodyweight in TimTams while wearing a Blair patch. dammit, we TOLD her it was from PACO Industries experimental division. I mean, those buggers normally make poison gas to eradicate moonbat infestations.
Ash, Kae, IT and El Cid have gone off the deep end, and there is a party in VRWC HQ.
Ah, bugger it… Minions knees up, break out the booze!
MarkL
Minionmeister to the VRWCPS - you all up for a four figure challenge on this thread?
Daily Telegraph Editor takes restful cruise
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2007 07 27 at 09:47 AM • permalink189 Melanie
In China Grove
If one can, turn up the sound to full. These don’t get you up…See a Doctor…).
Must run errands, later.
tim should get a meebo thing like landeryou. bloody slack of you andrea
on the ex-brax (for the seppos, yes, our govt in victoria is like ex-lax) thing, where to start? there’s a ripper of a story on batch which will see the light of day soon if the gods are good. there’s the fraudster working in the office of the head of the bureaucracy. there’s the various projects richo has his paws in. & that’s before you get to the scandals in health, education, police & transport. brumby is seen as the preserver of fiscal rectitude & hence the man to keep the ship steady. roll on 2010
and now for something completely different - gaelic sock puppets
Hey! Iowa’s not that far from Florida! (Well, at least it’s not as far as Australia. Much.)
Posted by Andrea Harris, Administrator on 2007 07 27 at 11:45 AM • permalinkAn interesting take on Cuban doctors that puts some of Michael Moore’s assumptions in a much different light. BTW, does anybody else think Che Guevara looks like one of the actors from Planet of the Apes, in full make-up?
Tim has left this dirty old town because of that smell for San Francisco or is it Tulsa? Don’t know when he is going home to my city of Sydney.
Goodnight all, love is all
(wronwright sits down in Thinking Chair, gets out his pipe, starts pondering)
Hmmm. Three clues. First one, Tim Blair. Blair. Of the Tim variety. Hmmm.
Second, Iowahawk. (puts down pipe, curls index fingers in wriggly motion) Iowahawk. (curls) Hmmm.
Three, Bonneville. Bonneville. Hmmm, just who is Bonneville?
Posted by wronwright on 2007 07 27 at 11:57 AM • permalinkSara Lee recalls bread that may have metal pieces
Do we import bread from China? Nahhh, we can screw the pooch, just as easily. Although this seems a mishap in machine thingys.
I have Pepperidge Farm bread, me self. So as soon as I eat some…guess what?
OH, to those that may have eaten Sara Lee bread, if your gums have shiny bits around them…NO they aren’t dentally inserted…well not by a Dentist anyway.
KK ... Shaun Micallef’s Basement of Shame is frigging funny, I like the third one because a work colleague did that. He called the new HR manager a fat bitch just before she started in the job. He didn’t know who she was. He kept his job after that faux pas. How he kept his job is still a mystery to me.
Basement of Shame # 1
Basement of Shame # 2
Basement of Shame # 3
Basement of Shame # 4OK, for something completely different, Chet Baker and Van Morrison doing a rather unlikely tune:
HereThe video is distracting, turn it off, drink in the voice and instruments with a long sip of mead.
Posted by Harry Bergeron on 2007 07 27 at 01:03 PM • permalinkHere’s an Australian band named for the ladies, but I think everyone will like this excellent & upbeat tune from My Friend The Chocolate Cake ... blokes will like the name of the song ... Home Improvements.
Yes, good morning.
Always a good morning when I’m still high on the first caffiene hit of the day.Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2007 07 27 at 05:58 PM • permalink
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