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DUCK ALERT
Commonwealth Games insider WS writes: “The Opening Ceremony of the Commonwealth Games begins with a voiceover from a lunatic talking about a duck. Could these be the words of Victoria’s favourite anti-Semite?” We’ll find out at 8.30pm. Good that Mike’s been keeping busy while on fear leave.
UPDATE. The duck appears! Sound advice from Liz Hayes: “I think you need to suspend all your adult thoughts ...”
UPDATE II. Matt Price:
The decision by Commonwealth Games organisers to bookend the three-act theatrical segment of the opening ceremony with appearances by Michael Leunig’s whimsical figure proved confusing to spectators and TV viewers unfamiliar with the Melbourne cartoonist’s work.
“Did it have something to do with bird flu?” asked a bewildered New Zealander.
“Was it based on a May Gibbs character?” wondered a bloke from Brisbane.
“What’s with the duck?” asked a fellow from South Africa.
I apologise for the spilling of any hot drinks that that last post may have caused. It should have been preceded by a Health Warning. Sorry.
Posted by Stop Continental Drift! on 2006 03 15 at 05:14 AM • permalink#3 Oh but he must be involved.
The Opening Ceremony should be a celebration of those ‘special’ aspects of Victoria. Cue:
Phar Lap’s corpse on wheels, Collingwood’s last Premiership team (snigger), Lesbians and heroin addicts from Smith St, Ninja clad ladies from Coburg, the yellow peril, the people who designed the new Federation Square, Bert Newton, Jeff, the ghost of the last tram conductor, and yes, Leunig riding on a duck with a teapot on his head.
I’ve just discovered that my computer thinks it’s 7pm, even though it’s actually 9pm.
Can I sue Microsoft for making me miss a ceremony that I wasn’t planning to watch anyway?
Posted by Evil Pundit on 2006 03 15 at 06:08 AM • permalinkMy `house’ has gone over to `House’ too ...
Similar retort from `sheilas’ in residence; “What’s this crap?”
They smirk as they hit the remote and laugh at my protestations - I am only a male - the only male.
AND because I’ve got to work tommorrow the vixens have commandeered my tickets to the `sevens’ ....
Didn’t want to go anyway !!!!!
Did really, but don’t tell THEM.
Had another quick look whilst vituperous felines go off to piss together ... what tha???
Flying fairies farting sparks whilst duck boy returns with a real (not plastic) duck ...
No wonder they wanted to keep it secret, if it had got out they would have needed to give away 60,000 tickets instead of 6,000.
Joan Kirner & naked Magrok NOW PREFERRED Opening Ceremony ‘entertainment’.
Did anyone understand the ‘motorcycles and ballet’ sequence?
Sorry, Melbourne. Hope it improves for you.
Posted by Stop Continental Drift! on 2006 03 15 at 06:19 AM • permalinkWhy I married my wife.
Wife: “What’s this crap?”(changes to “House” on CH 10)
Me:“Change back, change back!”
Wife: “Why do you want to watch that??It’s just about some stupid duck!”I go one better.
Wife: “What’s the story with the duck”?
Me: “Dunno”
Wife: ” Can I get you a Lindt Chocolate Gold Easter Bunny “
Me: ” Fuck the duck give me the bunny”
In the immortal words of Chico Marx, “Why a duck?”
Posted by Evil Pundit on 2006 03 15 at 06:31 AM • permalinkLeunig being on leave is a tragedy that - I think he will agree - is right up there with the holocaust
Posted by Margos Maid on 2006 03 15 at 07:18 AM • permalinkI did think of watching it, but couldn’t get interested. Repeats of House on the other hand…..
Needless to say I missed the duck. I didn’t even know there was going to be one.
Posted by Nilknarf Arbed on 2006 03 15 at 07:21 AM • permalinkHow about some effigies of Pentecostal pastors in stocks getting beheaded by some jihadists?
Posted by Flying Giraffe on 2006 03 15 at 07:23 AM • permalinkIn the end I think JoHo got a bigger gig than most. Will send latte sales plummeting in Melbourne.
Posted by Stop Continental Drift! on 2006 03 15 at 07:40 AM • permalinkThe fireworks I could see from my bathroom were very bright, multicoloured, loud and all. The Commonwealth and sport were embedded in the ceremony somewhere. Two great sportsmen who happened to be Labour-appointed governors carrying the baton! But the open-slate portion before the formalities was thoroughly PC and ideological—or not PC enough, with Leunig chosen as the frame, assuming that anti-semitism is still a thought crime.
I now know that the let’s-not-sing-God-Save-the-Queen decision, a grave departure from the 80s legislation regarding the anthem, was completely ideological and not an adjustment to what a Melbourne audience could be expected to take. The crowd cheered Dame Kiwi singing `long to reign over us’ in the ridiculous deformation of Happy Birthday.
Janette could have got her jugs out for Phil…the carrots, peas and corn are rising.
The Queen’s in her 80s now, the song obviously works.
In the ‘60s, you had LSD. We just watch the opening ceremonies of the Olympics and Commonwealth Games.
Posted by LeftieLatteLover on 2006 03 15 at 11:40 AM • permalinkThe link behind “fear leave” gives me puzzlement, plus a good smirk:
1/ Is “spat the dummy” Strayan for “jumped the shark”?
2/
he is a millionaire socialist who owns a country estate with olive groves and goats.
Heh heh heh, thinks he’s safe there, does he? Heh heh heh, he should ask Bobby Mugabe how safe he is.
Posted by Stoop Davy Dave on 2006 03 15 at 12:03 PM • permalink#29
Spat the dummy means to throw a tantrum. A dummy is what Australians call what the rest of the world calls pacifiers - those teat like things you stick in babies mouths.
It usually implies something innefectual as well - after all the baby is the only one negatively affected by not having its dummy…
Overall, I thought it was a yawn . . . . apart from Ron Barassi walking on water!
Posted by Oafish and Infantile on 2006 03 15 at 03:48 PM • permalinkIn this hilarious pan of the ceremony from news.com.au, we get this:
Many of us were too emotionally churned up to take in the rest of the ceremony, though a real duck appeared at some stage. It is not believed to be the one that took Leunig’s cartoon to Iran. The cartoonist is understood to have shot that one in a quiet moment on his Euroa property.
Posted by Quentin George on 2006 03 15 at 04:04 PM • permalink#29 Stoop
Also, it’s “Strine” we speak here, not “Strayan”. There’s a book on the subject: “Let stalk Strine” by Affebeck Lauder (say it quickly with Aussie accent)
Here’s a handy primer, with spoken examples
Posted by Stop Continental Drift! on 2006 03 15 at 07:25 PM • permalinkI just heard the Premier of Vitoria on the radio, trying to explain the duck. Rather awkwardly.
Hilarious!
Posted by Evil Pundit on 2006 03 15 at 09:18 PM • permalinkWonder how Leunig and his duck would go down at the Maccabiah Games?
Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2006 03 15 at 11:20 PM • permalinkHorror upon horror. The SMH now has Leunig trying to explain the duck. Sounds like he’s weally quacked!
Rather than show some of the more entertaining Rugby Sevens games this morning, channel 9 got an inarticulate ex-AFL player to interview the kid who carried the duck…
Kerry Packer must be spinning in his grave.
Posted by Art Vandelay on 2006 03 16 at 02:14 AM • permalinkI read his duck shit and part of my brain is bleeding.
Anyone else here “know” the soviet threat wasnt real??
Wanker!Posted by thefrollickingmole on 2006 03 16 at 03:54 AM • permalinkThanks Kywong, now my head hurts after trying to make sense of Leunig’s gibberish in the SMH.
I console myself, however, having confirmed my long held belief that Ron Barassi can walk on water.
How come Delta didn’t go up in flames? That would have been interesting.
Posted by Pedro the Ignorant on 2006 03 16 at 11:19 AM • permalink#30, Sam: Thanks.
#36 SCD:
but but but I though “Strayan” was Murkin for “Strine.” Don’t the Northern Hemisphere rules apply here?Posted by Stoop Davy Dave on 2006 03 16 at 04:10 PM • permalink
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Surely the opening scene will be Joan Kirner* (in polka dot dress) walking hand-in-hand with Magrok, naked, in a Bracks Government-sponsored statement of sympathy for refugees.
* For Americans: Joan Kirner. Think of worst Democrat Governor ever, multiply by 3, take away any brain function, think of… well jeez, just STUPID - that was Joan Kirner, Labor Premier of Victoria about 10 years ago. Got booted out as soon as voters could get to a ballot box and still can’t shut up. (Yet another conservative media asset.)