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NICE KITTY
I’m not buying this at all, but it’s still great to watch.
UPDATE. It’s legit!
Whether the story is 100% accurate is yet to be determined but based on the cat’s reaction, yes, the animal did know the two men.
The licking and head bumping is very typical affectionate cat behaviour.
A bit like this.
—Nora
Posted by The Thin Man Returns on 2008 03 14 at 01:34 AM • permalinkRight Wing Death Beast hearts Death Beast.
Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2008 03 14 at 01:41 AM • permalinkThat is the way cats behave when they see people they love. They are that goony.
BTW, the elderly gent you see near the beginning is George Adamson. It is he and his wife, Joy, who were the first to successfully return a lion (Elsa) to the wild.
The second lion’s behavior is also fairly typical. Cats do tend to follow the lead of other cats when it comes to people. Likely a case of, “Well, if he says these strange creatures are okay, then they’re okay.”
Posted by mythusmage on 2008 03 14 at 01:42 AM • permalinkThe cat was just checking if those guys were tasty enough to munch on. I’ll bet he dug in right after the clip ended.
But then, I’m just a heartless Right Wing Death Beast. :-P
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2008 03 14 at 01:55 AM • permalinkIt’s good to know that we can make friends with the King of Beasts, because soon enough we will be sharing the savannah and the caves with them. Now we must come to an arrangement with the bears and the crocodiles.
Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2008 03 14 at 02:12 AM • permalink16. Thanks, that reminded me of this one.
Cats are evil, with their beady little nocturnal eyes…
Posted by thefrollickingmole on 2008 03 14 at 04:58 AM • permalinkThere was a similar case a couple of years ago.
A man from South Australia was on holiday in Kenya. While he was walking through the bush, he observed an elephant standing with one leg raised in the air. The elephant seemed distressed so he approached it and had a look. There was a large thorn deeply embedded in the bottom of the elephant’s foot.
He removed it and told people later that the elephant had turned to face the man and, with a rather stern look on its face, stared at him. For a good ten minutes he had stood frozen - thinking of nothing else but being trampled. However, eventually the elephant trumpeted loudly, turned, and walked away.
About a year ago, the man was walking through an Australian zoo with his son. As they approached the elephant enclosure, one of the creatures turned and walked over to where they were standing at the rail. It stared right at him and the man had a feeling it might be the same elephant.
After a while it trumpeted loudly; then it continued to stare at him. The man climbed over the railing and made his way into the enclosure. He walked right up to the elephant and stared back in wonder.This is the amazing bit.
Suddenly the elephant trumpeted again, wrapped its trunk around one of the man’s legs and swung him wildly back and forth along the railing, smashing his skull and killing him.
Probably wasn’t the same elephant.While we’re telling jokes, I got this one today.
Krudd went to an outback community to talk about the stolen generation.
The tribal elders said :
“We don’t know nothin bout a fukken stolen generator” ....
Posted by Richard Sharpe on 2008 03 14 at 05:47 AM • permalinkIts sad, but someone has to link this to LOLcats somehow.
Posted by thefrollickingmole on 2008 03 14 at 07:20 AM • permalinkAwwww..
Meanwhile on this awspicious day..
ABC tilter Jane Hucheon goes to Lourdes (in search of a miracle supposedly)..
Phil (Phranger) Adams enthusiastically describes himself as an electronic contraceptive on his little radio show
and “The World Today” berates an indigenous grandfather for insisting that his ten year old grandson would be safer at boarding school getting an education- than in his own community…“aren’t you even concerned that the community might be effected if children leave and perhaps don’t come back?”
Last but not least ex Labor Min Milton Orkopoulos is charged with indigenous rapes and paedophile attacks in his electoral office etc -unlike ALP’s Sen Bob Collins he did not manage to cheat the justice system.#28 is especially amusing to me as there is a certain co-worker of the same name who, well, let’s just say I spit coffee on the monitor when I saw that picture.
Taking the gallows humor another step, does anybody else remember a nature documentary about a guy named Tim Treadwell who spent summers in Alaska getting up close and personal with the bears? Turns out they must have gotten fed up with the guy because they ate him a few years ago. All that remains to be said is my brother’s name is Tim Treadwell, and we seldom miss a chance to remind him to not picnic with the teddy bears.
Hey, where’s my comment about my son’s bulldog, Mack, and how hugging him is like those guys hugging a lion— not exactly something that should be encouraged ? This is the same thing that’s happening to Huck Foley’s comments. I see a pattern emerging.
paco! You will not succeed in your desire to crush my speech! Remove your Particularly Awesome Comment Obliterator right this minute!
Posted by wronwright on 2008 03 14 at 11:16 AM • permalinkThe only thing that YouTube proves to me is that the big cat likes ex-Glam Rockers. Must have a Sweet album somewhere on the savannah.
Touching tho.
Posted by CrankyNeocon on 2008 03 14 at 11:32 AM • permalink#20 Probably wasn’t the same elephant.
Girlfriend or boyfriend…definitely the jealous significant other.Posted by Deborah Leigh on 2008 03 14 at 12:59 PM • permalinkHmmm not sure this is a good idea. The world contains enough idiots who think lions et al are a bit of harmless fun - this can only increase their number. And the lions will promptly decrease their number.
Don’t post here often now - hope all is well, especially with the boss, although maybe I ought to be concerned about the tumour, languishing on its own down a drain somewhere, poor thing.
Posted by ThinAndBritish on 2008 03 14 at 01:41 PM • permalink#42, ThinAndBritish:
Hmmm not sure this is a good idea. The world contains enough idiots who think lions et al are a bit of harmless fun - this can only increase their number. And the lions will promptly decrease their number.
That’d be a good thing wouldn’t it? First the cats would get to feed up on the stupid and slow then work off that extra fat on the stupid and fast.
#43 Actually, having just read the previous entry on the Melbourne Comedy Festival (or at least as much of it as I can stand without covering my desk with vomit) I can come up with a whole new large-cat-feeding idea which would simultaneously raise the quality of life for the rest of us appreciably.
Posted by ThinAndBritish on 2008 03 14 at 02:05 PM • permalinkI am most certainly not using white font. But I suspect McEnroe
has installed some sort of Malware that is affecting my commentsis a nice guy.Hey, I didn’t write that!Yes, Richard McEnroe, a hero in our day.Stop that!Hail that great leader, Richard McEnroe!Stop that right now!(wronwright smacks his monitor)
Ahem, of course, now that I think about it, I didn’t have any problem with it until Stoop Davy Dave turned up at our back door without his goat disguise. Baaa baaaa.
What the ... Damn it. Stop that right now!(wronwright again smacks his monitor)
Oh well, one thing I wanted to mention is in Ohio we do have some goof balls that live in the country who think it’s just grand to keep wild cats on their property like mountain lions, ocelots, lynxes, and cheetahs. And then one of them gets out and mauls an innocent neighbor. When that happens, the governmental authorities swoops down and brings an end to such shenanigans.
But I will say I wouldn’t mind having a hyena. I think I could raise it like a dog. I could teach it to laugh at my jokes. And every time my mother-in-law walks into the house.
Posted by wronwright on 2008 03 14 at 02:19 PM • permalinkAwww! Things like this warm the cockles of a baby-eating right-winger’s heart.
Posted by Tungsten Monk on 2008 03 14 at 03:34 PM • permalinkActually, I’ve seen this sort of kitty behaviour in the white tigers at Dreamworld on the Gold Coast. We were absolutely stunned at how the keepers were able to play with those fully grown tigers which had all been reared in captivity.
This was ten years ago or so, but don’t miss it if it is still on offer!
#45 wronwright,
The Frogman is having Hyena owning fantasies also.
Scroll down just a little when you get there.
Pally pal Antony Lowenstein and mates are up to their old not in our name tricks again.
check out the list of signatories including the Construction Foresty Mining Energy Union , the Maritime Union of Australia,( well they paid for the elevation of the kruddmonkey so little wonder they expect him to dance to their tune) and the General Union of Palestinian Workers (!?)
Posted by eeniemeenie on 2008 03 14 at 06:57 PM • permalinkOn topic- i buy it- acts just like Wallace, my unfortunately over affectionate moggie.
Posted by eeniemeenie on 2008 03 14 at 07:00 PM • permalink#19 Are cats allowed in Australia? Or did they get there on board ship before it was realized that there were no mammalian carnivores there?
Posted by Wimpy Canadian on 2008 03 14 at 07:14 PM • permalink#52 eeniemeenie, you raise an interesting problem. As we know, the unions are pro-Ruddles.
However, surely given the sea level raises ‘n’ all, the Maritime Union must be opposed to Ruddles’s position on Kyoto.
Posted by Wimpy Canadian on 2008 03 14 at 07:18 PM • permalinkO/T I caught this on Atlas Shrugs:
“We should do something more violent than just protest, but today we are keeping it peaceful,” said Suloh Salaimad, a member of the Muslim Group for Peace.” this onIrony don’t get more ironical than that!
Posted by Wimpy Canadian on 2008 03 14 at 07:25 PM • permalink#52
Go and visit Landeryou. Even some of Loewenstein’s friends are deserting him. Be sure to read comments where members of his family have also panned him as an idiot.
#52 Eeniemeenie
General Union of Palestinian Workers
Must be a some kind of a front for slush funds or something.
Judging by the Palestinians’ devotion to a work ethic (as evinced by the economic achievement of their brothers in Israel), there could not be any members in the aforementioned union.
Posted by Toiling Mass on 2008 03 14 at 08:28 PM • permalinkAnimal protection loonies are planning to act as ‘human shields’ to stop kangaroos being culled by trank darts. That’s got ‘pay per view’ written all over it.
And you think you can befriend the big cats? Just remember: Siegfried and Roy.
No doubt about it, cats are the embodiment of true evil.
#62
In the theme of the era (interesting mix of musical styles) ... and a sad omission from the aforesaid album, incidentally ...We await the timblair comments on:
I’ve never given my vagina a nickname.
By who else, but Tracee Hutchison still beavering away.Posted by stackja1945 on 2008 03 14 at 10:34 PM • permalink#74 From the Traceeee bit linked by Stacks: “It wasn’t an actual live beaver — it was some kind of furry animated puppet-like version”. Is that so? Thanks for letting me in on that secret! For a while there, I thought it was a real, live beaver (Castor canadensis), and that its life cycle featured a migratory pattern involving beauty parlors, the beach and restaurants.
I think Hortense would make a nice nickname.
“But then it came on again. In the next ad break. And that’s when I got angry. Really angry.”
As in Angry Beavers?
74.
“..A hairy, and somewhat toothy, burrowing amphibious rodent just doesn’t have much resonance for me..”
Im safe, thank you sweet Jesus…
Posted by thefrollickingmole on 2008 03 14 at 11:20 PM • permalinkFrom #74 stackja’s priceless link, Australia’s most unwitting comedian, Tracee Hutchinson, strikes again:
It’s not that I feel I’ve been neglecting it or that this confession should also suggest I’m unfamiliar with the process of squatting over a mirror.
Tracee, don’t bother squatting over a mirror. You’ll get a better view from one on the wall.And for #12 et al. from the Daily Mail story linked with the video under the h/t hat tip name:
“We watched him go back to the two lionesses, who were not at all happy with this man, smelling of nicotine, whisky and humans,” says Rendall.
“He just walloped the two of them with his paw, then collapsed.”
Posted by andycanuck on 2008 03 14 at 11:32 PM • permalinkOh… “this man” being Christian, the lion (not one of the humans).
Posted by andycanuck on 2008 03 14 at 11:33 PM • permalinkTraceee’s in an indignant fever,
About an ad featuring a beaver;
She’s outraged ‘bout nail polish and guys a’flirtins,
Thinks women are walking pairs of beef curtains;
But education about hygiene products is necessary,
For some are confused where they are hairy,
You won’t find out from mum or dad,
Where to deploy a sanitary pad;
The best use by far though for Tampax or Med,
Would a be big one wrapped tight ‘round Traceeee’s head.#89 Not a metaphor, Paco. At least, not for Ms Hutchinson. I guess it’s normal enough for women, at some stage, to use a mirror in order to examine their genitals. It’s not quite so normal to then write about it in a national newspaper. Who knows, maybe next week she’ll tell us about her relationship with her asshole. Bet she went through a few mirrors checking out that one.
“But I will say I wouldn’t mind having a hyena. I think I could raise it like a dog. I could teach it to laugh at my jokes. “
It’s good to have a peer group to hang out with, as my nannies and billies like to remind me. Similarly, every attorney should have an older brother who’s a pimp, because everybody needs somebody to look up to.
See?
I’ll slap something this stupid on the screen and whaddaya bet the gizmo decides to actually work?Posted by formerly Huck Foley on 2008 03 15 at 12:12 AM • permalinkoooooOOOOOooooo
I knew it!
(kicks monitor across the room, goes outside, slams head against the telephone pole. The badly-dented, precariously-leaning telephone pole.)Posted by formerly Huck Foley on 2008 03 15 at 12:13 AM • permalinkPoor Tracee better not get a glimpse of those hyena getitals then.
Or she’d be more confused than a nun in a candle factory.
Posted by thefrollickingmole on 2008 03 15 at 12:56 AM • permalinkI had one cat that had an unnatural attraction for my elbow once. I’d just be falling asleep and all of sudden I’d feel his teeth in the back of my wrist and he’d go all chihuahua on my arm.
I like animals, but it is something of an imposition when your first thought on waking up in the morning is “God, I hope that’s a tongue in my ear.”
Current cat is much mellower, although he hates my laptop with a passion, being convinced it was his lap first. He will head-butt it out of the way whenever he figures it’s time for skritchies.
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2008 03 15 at 01:06 AM • permalinkRats, one can’t leave comments there. I wanted to post:
“I call my dick Eric the Wonderhorse because it’s a good ride”
Sorry, couldn’t resist.
Posted by Wimpy Canadian on 2008 03 15 at 01:31 AM • permalink#100 Ah, Canada’s national animal - really.
Posted by Wimpy Canadian on 2008 03 15 at 01:33 AM • permalinkApparently (blond Oz in the pics) John Rendell made a movie c. 71, from which the youtube clip is taken
(insert tampon-making company’s latest brand name)
Wow, that was a truly instructive ad ...Just one day after International Women’s Day ... taking us back to the 19th century mores of women as Madonna/whores — here was the grossest example I had ever seen.
WTF, this obviously wasn’t ‘thinking day’ - they’re selling you female hygeine products, FFS: Hugh Hefner doesn’t have an angle on this one ...No wonder your beaver’s flying solo in the ‘mile high club’ ...
OT
Bashed and robbed at knifepoint
smh.com.au says three males
police.nsw.gov.au says Middle Eastern/ Mediterranean appearancePosted by stackja1945 on 2008 03 15 at 02:42 AM • permalinkO/T again, Blairs law in motion Marylin Sheep-head hearts Ant Lowenstein.
She surfaces as one of his 2 commentors.
Lowenstein is such a tool he seems to think that the Israelis should commit suicide by allowing the “return” of Palesinians to Israeli territory, where they would outnumber the Jewish population.
Is he just a complete idiot, or an attention seeking whiner?Posted by thefrollickingmole on 2008 03 15 at 02:55 AM • permalinkO/T
Can-Do Campbell is romping it home in Brisbane; who knows, we may even get a majority of Liberal councillors?
#111- Possible, but the ALP is firmly entrenched in a lot of Brisbane; they however managed to preselect a candidate for mayor who would be regarded as inept, gormless and charm-challenged even by state liberal party standards. A liberal majority would be the best out of a bad lot of potential outcomes- Campbell reflects all that’s wrong nationally with the liberals, a big tax/big spend/big government type who is far too easily besotted by environazi/nimby/coffin dodger and assorted other rentseeker opportunists at the cost of every other poor sod who gets a rates bill every quarter. I reckon councils should be encorporated and put up for tended every three years.
The day wasn’t a total waste though- I waddled over the QRU headquarters at Ballymore to waste my vote, and blocking the entrance with her substantial bottom was local Greens candidate and serial complainer Anne Boccabella, most notable for her establishment and continuance of the Herston-Kelvin Grove Action Group (after she blew in from bloody Melbourne), with which she has plagued the area with whines, gripes, stickybeaking, interference and general pain-in-the-arsedness. “Vote for Anne Boccabella, local businesswoman!!” She trilled at me, failing to mention her allegience to the Greens.
“Local dingbat and ratbag more like.” I replied, pushing her glossy, unrecycled brochure back. Made my day.A quick rewording of Traceeeee’s
columndribble-“And that is the most demoralising part. The social parameters of Western culture have been smashed so far beyond recognition that
womenprogressivesmorons themselves can no longer recognise when they are being exploited” by agenda driven Islamo-Fascists or prosperity envious relics of a non-existant class war disguised as eco-warriors.Posted by Richard Sharpe on 2008 03 15 at 05:28 AM • permalink#112 - Heh. Glad you encountered some of the local wild-life, it was tumbleweeds over at Albion today. The Labor pamphlet pusher was looking decidedly miserable though, which usually indicates a good day.
I agree with the high-tax sentiment, although to be fair Campbell does get the private sector to cough up, both in building and usage (tolls etc). Being a renter I don’t know about rates, but I drive and the roads sure need work. I’d also contend he needs to suck up to those types (coffin dodgers - love it) to keep the media and luvvies on side as much as they can be - so he can actually get things done.
#112 Habib, he comes from a fairly good pedigree. His mum is Jocelyn Newman (Senator type), his dad Kevin was CO 5 RAR and later a minister in the Fraser cabinet, and he spent 13 years in Her Majesty’s employ as a sapper officer.
Could be worse.
Posted by Richard Sharpe on 2008 03 15 at 05:43 AM • permalink#115 PS Habib, I sent you an email the other day. I didn’t realise you were in Brisbane. I’ve just moved down here from the wonderful tropical north.
Posted by Richard Sharpe on 2008 03 15 at 05:46 AM • permalink#116
I am in Sydney but like to see Labor put out of office everywhere.Posted by stackja1945 on 2008 03 15 at 06:00 AM • permalinkCompletely O/T.
I clicked on the blogad, and I think those people who placed it, does’t know us very well does they?
Speaking for myself of course,
Apart from paco and wronwright, who in this motley crew could afford a wallet like those?
If I am the only “mottled” “motley” I ‘umbly grave your pardon.
#118
“your highest self” “you naturally exude.”
Not me.Posted by stackja1945 on 2008 03 15 at 06:26 AM • permalinkIt would seem that Australia has been through it’s Churchillian “Darkest Hour” and is emerging on the other side. All is not right yet, but the things are on the up. The Brisbane City Council elections are going very well and it looks like the first Labor Party electoral defeat in this country since (could the more learned amongst us here clarify, but I think it is in the vicinity of 60 odd elections at all levels). To prove that the heavens are realigning, the Qld Reds just beat the Bulls 40-8. I say again, the Reds won, and they won 40-8. It is now time for a schooner of Drambui.
Posted by Richard Sharpe on 2008 03 15 at 06:49 AM • permalink#116- I’ll check my webmail. Can Do’s shat all over the ALP bozo, and it’s not looking good across the wards for labor either- at this stage (unless preferences come into it and they’re optional in this election) my local rep and pompous, smarmy, horrible art funding, dog-hating chutney ferret David Hinchcliffe has got the arse (ooerr!). The Powerhouse will be a house of pain this evening.
I apologise in advance to the millions of Australians who will lose their jobs, homes, wealth and livelihood over the next three years of the Krudd regime for my flippant comment at #120. I got a bit excited over a Reds win, it doesn’t come often. Tonight may just be our Dunkirk though, a daring escape with fine examples of spirit and heroism. We are yet to face the dark days of the Blitz, but I look forward to the Queensland state election, which could well be our El Alamein. We are of course, still three years away from our D Day.
Posted by Richard Sharpe on 2008 03 15 at 07:44 AM • permalink#121 - not so fast. It looks as though he’s in by 27 votes (via Green preferences - Boccabella’s revenge!). Still, the Liberals look like they’ve got 18 of 26 wards plus a Can-Do landslide. Well done chaps. Small victories.
#120 - Reds 40-8? What, have we slipped into some kind of parallel universe?#120 - I hear you brother. Two good-old fashioned pantsings in one night. The council win was entirely expected but the Reds win! Unbelievable.
I’ll be a happier man when Josh Afu gets selected ahead of Houston, but I will remain content for now with Ben Lucas holding a spot on the bench.
Now if only someone in Moranbah gave a crap about either of those results…
#125 I’ve played Rugby in CQ, I know they are aware of the fact that there are two different codes of Rugby (unlike some of our southern compatriots) and that the Reds are their team. Is the pub at Moranbah so League-centric as to inore that?
Posted by Richard Sharpe on 2008 03 15 at 08:50 AM • permalinkOT: Here’s hoping all the fellas had a happy Steak and BJ Day.
#128, Dave S.
A cheap knock-off of the real thing.
Steak and Knobber Day is March 20th, this coming Thursday. I hope all you fine couples celebrate it with a good porterhouse and a fine kielbasa.
Posted by mythusmage on 2008 03 15 at 12:50 PM • permalinkThe Washington Post’s map of hate groups. Seems to me like there are a few notable omissions.
OT - Labor staffers are whinging to the media about ‘intrusive questioning’ for their security clearance required to handle Cabinet-in-Confidence material. Poor precious petals didn’t realise it’s a requirement for the job and has been for yonks. What the Sunday Telegraph should have added was that all the staff of the previous government had to get security clearances as well, but didn’t run screaming to the media about it.
#132 paco
Notable ommissions indeed. Did you see the comments for that?
Open1 wrote:
The number of hate groups operating in the United States has actually jumped a staggering 48 percent since 2000. Many of these groups thrived under the Bush regime after the Pet Goat Lesson when evangelical power went unchecked.
Covert Bushies conducted violent hate crimes with impunity, targeting the same individual hundreds of times repeatedly over and over, while those whose solemn obligation was to act saw no evil and heard no evil. Even in Hitler’s Germany there was only one Kristallnacht but in Bushistan there were hundreds that were far better funded and far more clandestine.
Covert Bushies? Ooh, boy! They got a live one.
Posted by Spiny Norman on 2008 03 15 at 06:13 PM • permalink#133 craigo
Labor staffers are whinging to the media about ‘intrusive questioning’ for their security clearance required to handle Cabinet-in-Confidence material. Poor precious petals didn’t realise it’s a requirement for the job and has been for yonks.
They sound a lot like the US Democrats. Poor babies.
Posted by Spiny Norman on 2008 03 15 at 06:16 PM • permalinkMiranda Devine not into Tracee “thinking” asks:
...it seems trees are more important than people….view in which flora and fauna are more important than humans. Without humans, ....no carbon dioxide, and hence no global warming.
...the psychology of mobile phones….carefree self-sufficiency so infuriates mobile phone control freaks.
Posted by stackja1945 on 2008 03 15 at 06:23 PM • permalink#136
Evatt’s staff handed papers over to the USSR.
ALP Combe was too close to USSR spy too.
Labor needs to weed these types out.Posted by stackja1945 on 2008 03 15 at 06:25 PM • permalink#138
Hell, the Clinton White House authorized the handover (*cough* sale *cough*) of sensitive missile technology to the Chinese.
I think the Left misses the Cold War.
Posted by Spiny Norman on 2008 03 15 at 06:33 PM • permalink#139 paco
Are we “covert” or “overt”? I can’t remember.
p.s.: Lord Rove will have me roasted, so don’t tell wronwright.
Posted by Spiny Norman on 2008 03 15 at 06:35 PM • permalinkCall mew heartless, but I was unmoved by the film clip. When I saw their idiot grins as that sleek killing machine leapt up on them, all I could think was “you utter morons.”
People should stick to dogs, domestic cats, and horses. We have a long-standing symbiotic relationship with those creatures. It works. We have a very different kind of relationship with snakes, spiders, and large cats.
Posted by daddy dave on 2008 03 15 at 07:22 PM • permalinkApparently, Traceh invited herself on-air into singing backing vocals on JTV co-host James Reyne’s track Light in the Tunnel, kinda apt title, considering her latest column ...
To be fair to Rendall and Bourke, according to their story, Christian was in the exotic anmials dept at Harrods from which he was rescued by them and subsequently rehabilitated to the wild with the aid of George Adamson; the film &c aiding in the cost of getting the animal back to Africa, where it belonged ...
that article by Trace was pathetic. She took offense to a tampon commercial because it is a reminder that women have “beavers”. Like nobody knew that before.
Personally, I thought the ad did a good job of giving the message very metaphorically. What does she think tampon companies are supposed to do? Just not advertise?
Pathetic.Posted by daddy dave on 2008 03 15 at 07:46 PM • permalinkTraceees offence reminds me of an old joke.
A chap walks past a shop on his way to work every day, in the window is the business name and an enormous clock face.
Finaly the blokes watch craps itself so he thinks, well I know where to get it repaired.
He strides into the shop, whacks his broken watch on the counter and says “fix this!”TRhe lady at the counter looks at him and says “Im sorry sir but this isnt a watch shop”
The bolke says “Well if you not a watch shop then why to you have a huge clock in your front window, thats stupid to mislead your potential customers like that?”The lady looks accross at him and says “Its a proctologists office sir, what do you suggest we put in the window?”
Posted by thefrollickingmole on 2008 03 15 at 07:55 PM • permalinkHere’s your good news story for today: some girls at one of Melbourne’s top public schools have accused their teachers of sexism for terminating the school’s cadet programme. As usual, it’s moonbat teachers afflicted by kneejerk ‘anti-militarism’, and two of the students have described a teacher slurring the cadets as ‘Hitler Youth’. It’s heartening to read about kids who (a) obviously disdain the mindless leftism of their teachers and (b) are adept at turning the tools of gender politics against them.
An Ageist male perspective
“But what in hell made you presume I wanted to get an erection while sitting stuck in traffic?”
Posted by stackja1945 on 2008 03 15 at 09:54 PM • permalinkHope I am not overdoing the posts but this seems too good. Tim may delete me soon so click quick.
Weather Channel Founder: Sue Al Gore for FraudPosted by stackja1945 on 2008 03 15 at 10:06 PM • permalink#152 That’s a limp-as-lettuce SNAG article if ever there was one. Keeps him in good with the office militant feminists.
Well so much for the swingin’ sixties. If Fairfax journalists are anything to go by, the Left have become the new Puritans.
Posted by daddy dave on 2008 03 15 at 10:12 PM • permalink#131 - Paco,please indulge my ignorance of the USA’s spiritual nomenclature, but how come that Nation of Islam guy, Farrakan, is referred to as “Reverend” instead of Imam.
As to Wright, he appears to be a froot loop of the first order. It will be interesting to see the means by which Obama distances himself from this preacher of anti-Americanism whose “church” he attended, and who married the Obami.
“Distance? Yes we can!”#110 - Thanks Habib - I had a nice chuckle. Two great poems!
Posted by walterplinge on 2008 03 16 at 03:48 AM • permalinkBlogstrop, forgive me for butting in. Perhaps a history of the Nation of Islam will guide you into enlightenment. Or maybe not.
Posted by dean martin on 2008 03 16 at 04:06 AM • permalinkChannel 7 currently has a Poley polemic on, funded by guess who, made by serial carbon combuster Greg Grainger and featuring more fibs in the first five minutes than a Peter Garrett press release.
Seven must be trying to swipe the non-commercial tv viewing gullible enviroloon demographic from Channel 10.
A bunch of the usual suspects showing up to the “rent a mob” (small variety) anti war march in Sydney.
Alex Bainbridge, serial nob gobbler.
Donna Mulhearn, How weird, she gets airtime on the ABC as well, must be a coincidence?
Also demonstrating her enormous grasp of the world outside capital cities with this comment. ““I don’t want to go and play sport with people who shoot Buddhist monks in the malls of Lhasa,” she said.” MALLS????
Greens MP Kerry Nettle, Doesnt a slogan from the 70’s seem so hip and rightous dude??All from this little story on the protest here.
Posted by thefrollickingmole on 2008 03 16 at 05:03 AM • permalinkDo I know? I’ll just say, no. I’m no theologian. Is David Duke a christian? I no tink so. I think the Nation of Islam glommed onto Islam (or parts of it) as part of the black power thing in the 60s. I think the “minister” or “reverend” titles were glommed onto in order to connect with black southern baptists. I can call myself reverend if I pay $15 to a mail order site. A friend of mine got married that way. At Farrakhan’s high water mark, the Million Man March in ‘95, he glommed onto the number 19 to explain all the evil in the world. I’m trying to glom onto a link for transcript of his speech there, but either my computer, or my whiskey, is getting in the way.19
Posted by dean martin on 2008 03 16 at 05:07 AM • permalinkAnd another thing dammit! When The fruitloop Farrakhan speaks, nobody riots. But they do when the Most Reverend Al Sharpton does.
Posted by dean martin on 2008 03 16 at 05:25 AM • permalinkWhile on the subject of dangerous cats:
Listening to Lyse Doucet interview Mr. Khalilzad on the BBC the other day, I was shocked to hear her say to him (US Ambassador to the UN) that the Taliban was winning (although controlling only about 10% of Afghanistan), in a way that implied that the US was wrong, and the Taliban right.
I expect nothing less of her, based on past record. But does she, and the BBC, realise that they are de facto endorsing the horrendous ideology and tactics of the Taliban? If the US/UN/NATO want to prevail in each and every conflict (and if Doucet is to be handed a victory of another sort) they would have to use tactics likely to earn them “bad press”, to say the least.
If the Taliban and/or Al-Qaeda are to be comprehensively defeated, then their wives, children and other cohorts need to be vaporized or pulverized along with them. Will Doucet accept, for example, the complete and unsentimental destruction of all Waziristan (and other) bases (including so-called civilians) as the price of success, or is her preferred option the defeat of the West? Would she even accept a western version of the suicide bomber tactic, whereby the Taliban families were dismembered at the local kebab shop or souk?
She offered as an alternative strategy only that perhaps the US should talk to the Taliban.#175- By the time I give up working I’ll be in a coffin, so despite dodging the bugger for as long as possible I won’t be rent-seeking off any level of government, just the way I like it. I’ve been working on the Pete Townsend technique but to no avail thus far.
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“AAAUUGH!!! My face!” :P
May not be real, as you say, Tim, but I have to agree it is heartwarming.