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Dorothea McKellar who said Australia was the land of drought and flooding rains and the wild weather patterns of this holiday season are certainly a testament to her iconic Australian poem.
It’s a certain freeeelancer ...
Traceee is prone to a bit of exaggeration. I know the district, as my mother was born in Lake Cargelligo, and my first thought on reading the article was “bullshit, it’s not 200 km from Ungarie to the Lake because it only takes just over an hour to drive from West Wyalong to the Lake and Ungarie is about a third of the way there”. I checked Whereis and it’s 75km from Ungarie to Lake Cargelligo.
Traceee, it only takes a minute to go to Whereis and type “Ungarie” in the ‘from’ box and “Lake Cargelligo” in the ‘to’ box and hit the ‘get directions’ button.
At least she got the approximate distance between the Lake and Condo right. (pedant mode/off)
Dorothea McKellar who said Australia was the land of drought and flooding rains and the wild weather patterns of this holiday season are certainly a testament to her iconic Australian poem.
Try:
In her iconic poem, Dorothea McKellar said Australia was the land of drought and flooding rains; the wild weather patterns of this holiday season are certainly a testament to that.
Why does every sentence have its own paragraph?
It’s awful, especially
What is left is the heartbreaking sight of what was to be the Hardings’ wool cutting stock for 2008, and hundreds of kilometres of missing or damaged fences.
And two para/sentences later she explains that the lambs are dead, in another paddock.
It’s disjointed and hard to read.
She’s a journalist. I’m not.
As someone who used to shear the bloody things this line is like fingernails down a blackboard.
“..What is left is the heartbreaking sight of what was to be the Hardings’ wool cutting stock..”Wool cutting stock? WTF is that? Retardese for a mob waiting to be SHORN.
She probably thinks this is a Shorn sheep
not this.Plaease if your going to write something Tracee get the lingo right for the industry you are talking about.
Posted by thefrollickingmole on 2008 01 08 at 06:37 PM • permalink#14 TFM
When I was a kid we used to have sporting exchange visits with a school in Sydney and would get billetted out.
One year we had a lad staying with us whose name was Lamb. Shaun Lamb.
He was unaware of the joke until we pointed it out to him at dinner on the first night.
His brother Terry ended up being a half handy rugby league player in the 1980’s
With Traceeee providing the comic relief in Aunty’s ‘News’ coverage over the summer, does this mean she no longer writes her ‘Recipes For Head-Tilters’ column in Saturday’s Aged?
Inquiring minds would like to know.
Posted by Jay Santos on 2008 01 08 at 07:00 PM • permalinkAck. Must. Read. Real. English.
The love of field and coppice
Of green and shaded lanes,
Of ordered woods and gardens
Is running in your veins.
Strong love of grey-blue distance,
Brown streams and soft, dim skies
I know, but cannot share it,
My love is otherwise.I love a sunburnt country,
A land of sweeping plains,
Of ragged mountain ranges,
Of droughts and flooding rains.
I love her far horizons,
I love her jewel-sea,
Her beauty and her terror
The wide brown land for me!The stark white ring-barked forests,
All tragic to the moon,
The sapphire-misted mountains,
The hot gold hush of noon,
Green tangle of the brushes
Where lithe lianas coil,
And orchids deck the tree-tops,
And ferns the warm dark soil.Core of my heart, my country!
Her pitiless blue sky,
When, sick at heart, around us
We see the cattle die
But then the grey clouds gather,
And we can bless again
The drumming of an army,
The steady soaking rain.Core of my heart, my country!
Land of the rainbow gold,
For flood and fire and famine
She pays us back threefold.
Over the thirsty paddocks,
Watch, after many days,The filmy veil of greenness
That thickens as we gaze…
An opal-hearted country,
A wilful, lavish land
All you who have not loved her,
You will not understand
though Earth holds many splendours,
Wherever I may die,
I know to what brown country
My homing thoughts will fly.Here’s another for you, JPG.
Lived a woman wonderful,
(May the Lord amend her!)
Neither simple, kind, nor true,
But her Pagan beauty drew
Christian gentlemen a few
Hotly to attend her.Christian gentlemen a few
From Berwick unto Dover;
For she was South Africa,
And she was South Africa,
She was Our South Africa,
Africa all over !Half her land was dead with drouth,
Half was red with battle;
She was fenced with fire and sword
Plague on pestilence outpoured,
Locusts on the greening sward
And murrain on the cattle!True, ah true, and overtrue.
That is why we love her!
For she is South Africa,
And she is South Africa,
She is Our South Africa,
Africa all over!Bitter hard her lovers toiled,
Scandalous their payment,
Food forgot on trains derailed;
Cattle-dung where fuel failed;
Water where the mules had staled;
And sackcloth for their raiment!So she filled their mouths with dust
And their bones with fever;
Greeted them with cruel lies;
Treated them despiteful-wise;
Meted them calamities
Till they vowed to leave her!They took ship and they took sail,
Raging, from her borders
In a little, none the less,
They forgat their sore duresse,
They forgave her waywardness
And returned for orders!They esteemed her favour more
Than a Throne’s foundation.
For the glory of her face
Bade farewell to breed and race
Yea, and made their burial-place
Altar of a Nation!Wherefore, being bought by blood,
And by blood restored
To the arms that nearly lost,
She, because of all she cost,
Stands, a very woman, most
Perfect and adored!On your feet, and let them know
This is why we love her!
For she is South Africa,
She is Our South Africa,
Is Our Own South Africa,
Africa all over !#13 kae: I think the choppy formatting is because she thinks in terms of bullet points. Maybe they published her outline by mistake.
I think that I shall never see,
A scribe as bad as ol’ Traceeee,A scribe whose puckered lips are prest,
To the butt of every moonbat pest,A scribe who looks agog all day,
At human gods with feet of clay,A scribe who may the year-long wear,
A tinfoil hat pinned to her hair,Upon whose bosom drool has puddled,
As she looks at life with a mind befuddled,Fools are limned by poets like me,
But do only fools write for ABC?#22: For the record: with the most profound apologies to Joyce Kilmer.
Hoow about a little Haiku
Traceeeeeeeeeeeee HutchisonEgo Maniac In Drag
Must Suck To Be Her
Posted by swassociates on 2008 01 08 at 08:41 PM • permalinkGood one, swass.
Hey, I just had a thought (don’t say it). Maybe a cockroach write’s Traceeee‘s stuff.
English is Traceeeeeeee’s second language.
She doesn’t have a first.Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2008 01 08 at 09:57 PM • permalinkLabor was talking about stopping most drought payments now there is talk about floods damage payments. Should not all farmer payments be stopped and spend more on the arts? Who needs farms when we have starving artists? And of course we need the ABC to keep us informed too. Do we not?
By the way off. O/T?. Why do all Indians sound like Mahatma Cote?Posted by stackja1945 on 2008 01 08 at 10:19 PM • permalinkthe bar for natural disaster activations seems to be getting lower and lower, and areas of the north coast NSW or parts of SE qld are no doubt deserving, the area declared is getting larger and larger. All so various hangers on can access the public tit.
And then the meeja waxes hysterical about every bit of wind or rainfall that deems to smite the earth. When the worst doesn’t happen it seems to make no difference, the hysteria just gets cranked up for the next cold front or tropical low.
#34
By the way off. O/T?. Why do all Indians sound like Mahatma Cote?For the same reason all Orientals sound like Jackie Chan.
Also - anybody seen ‘I am Legend’?
Not bad, but bloody disconcerting to have Will Smith who’s supposed to be the brainiest scientist in the world, talkin’ like rap ghetto speak man, like, I mean he talks like Ice T on steroids.
Ridiculous.
G’day Ash
Mixed review. Excellent sfx - Times Square with lions prowling around etc. is exceptional.Plot well, is overcooked - it’s a straight remake of The Omega Man. It’s a bit like Planet of The Apes, it’s got mutants and zombies, and a rap talking scientist. Nothing new here. Move along folks.
Wait till it comes to DVD.I wish one of our resident wordsmiths would do a 21st century updated version of “My Country.”
Hint.Posted by spot_the_dog on 2008 01 09 at 01:46 AM • permalinkThere’s nothing new about the Aussie climate. See another poem, Said Hanrahan, by John O’Brien, published in 1921. It’s humorous to those who aren’t scared by Chicken Little.
Posted by Angela Bell on 2008 01 09 at 02:58 AM • permalinkThe first three paragraphs are appalling - she repeats the same stuff in para 1 that she mentions in para 1 and para 2(quoted above) only makes sense if you read it a few time very slowly.
I didn’t bother with the rest.
Posted by carpefraise on 2008 01 09 at 04:29 AM • permalinkYou know what? I’ll just repost. (Too tired to riposte)
She repeats the same stuff in para 3 that she mentions in para 1. Para 2 - hard to understand unless you read it very slowly.
There - I’ve proofread it properly.Posted by carpefraise on 2008 01 09 at 04:32 AM • permalink#28 Your comment reminded me - Catherine Deveny’s got a book out. There’s a complimentary comment on the cover by Rove McManus. He includes the word “funny” in his comment.
Posted by carpefraise on 2008 01 09 at 04:39 AM • permalink36-38: This was on my list of movies to see until I saw the name of Akiva Goldsman in the script credits. Mr Goldsman has added stupid to such cinema classics as the Lost In Space movie and Batman and Robin. If the writer’s strike in Hollywood is keeping him away from the typewriter then some good is definitely coming of it.
Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2008 01 09 at 06:18 AM • permalink#38 - I thought “The Omega Man” was based on a book written in the 1960’s called “I am legend”.....
Posted by mr creosote on 2008 01 09 at 06:18 AM • permalink52 - Exactly right. This is the third movie based on the book. The Omega Man was the second; The Last Man On Earth with Vincent Price was the first.
Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2008 01 09 at 06:26 AM • permalinkI Am Legend actually scraped home with me. There were some pleasant plot deviations from the Hollywood norms. It almost harked back to the good old days.
The main character is a soldier who isn’t the at the centre of, or uncovering, a military/industrial complex plot, or right wing conspiracy. This soldier is actually the hope and solution for the problem.
Surprisingly, civilian scientists are responsible for creating the zombies and not the military ones. Also, no commercially motivated, superfluous love scenes to broaden appeal.
Although there are several wobbly bits of internal logic, the scenes of an abandoned city make up for it. The CG zombies however, are not scary. Kinda like a hippy pacifist telling you he’s gonna kick your arse.
This is the third movie based on the book.
Fourth, actually. There’s also I am Omega (which looks like crap, but I’ll watch any Marc Dacascos movie in the hope he’ll take his shirt off).
Achillea, I Am Omega sounds rather cheap and nasty. This movie on the other hand…
Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2008 01 09 at 04:07 PM • permalinkOkay, okay! I retract that statement.
Never argue with a man who’s holding an axe and smeared all over with blue paint - something my grandmother taught me many years ago.Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2008 01 09 at 04:58 PM • permalink#54 Penguin—Aw, no “superfluous love scenes”?
Damn, with Will Smith in it and dialog such as Bonmot reports, it coulda been titled like another “end-of-world” book/movie:
“On the Bitch”
Posted by MentalFloss on 2008 01 09 at 09:47 PM • permalink“I Am Legend” was almost ruined by the dreaded CGI.
Really, why do filmmakers rely on this crap so much? When done well, and depicting monsters (“Jurassic Park”, “The Host”), it’s great. But it can’t model human motions (they look rubbery) or familiar machines (like the scene in “Enemy at the Gates” where the Russians are attacked by cartoon Stukas.)
The “zombies” in “I Am Legend” were basically bald, grey-skinned people. How much could it have cost to make-up extras like that? Instead we get Will Smith attacked by a group of - Gollums. Rubbery, goofy Gollums. What should have been terrifying was just dumb.
That said, it’s a good movie because Will Smith is in it. And there are some knock-out scenes.
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