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QUOTEY SAMPLER
A preview in today’s Telegraph of this year’s finest quotes:
“Will Beazley win? Oh, yes. You see if I am right.” – a 2007 election prediction from political expert Bob Ellis
Good call, Bob. Click for quote round-ups from 2003 and 2004; and here you’ll find the quotes of 2005.
The “shithole like Australia” stuff is a bit hard to figure; most of the articles in Hudson’s little paper seem to be about what a shithole Niagara Falls is. (And how Mayor George W. Bush is to blame.)
Posted by Paul Zrimsek on 2006 12 15 at 01:33 PM • permalinkpolitical expert Bob Ellis
Political expert Bob Ellis . . . political expert Bob Ellis . . .
Strange. One says it out loud a few times - rolls it around the palate, so to speak - and one is struck by the intellectual dissonance of the phrase, the sense of words thrown together in haphazard fashion and thus deprived of any meaning at all. Like “wallaby-eating sheepherder”, it’s a “tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.”
Everyone can rest easy now. The world is finally safe for democracy. Prince William has just graduated from Sandhurst.
You can hold me to that quote next December.
And I think I will just stick to Washington’s Farewell Address thank you very much. A bit more statesmanlike than Mr. Hudson’s. But that maybe just me.
Mike Hudson, Boy Reporter, is probably having more fun than he’s had in years. I mean, a few days ago, who had ever heard of him outside Niagara Falls? Hell, how many people had heard of him in Niagara Falls? He’s made to order for the gauntlet of Tim’s Comment Academy: energetic, ambitious (in a small town, booster sort of way), pugnacious, ignorant, opinionated, prejudices set in concrete, not very bright. He’s practically a cartoon version of a small town newspaper editor, something out of a Preston Sturges comedy.
Geez paco, I concoct a good thread de-railment from time to time, but I think you’ve just caused the whole bloody train to crash off the bridge as soon as it left the station!
That said, I can’t help but think that Huddo’s next “column” will be everything that Bob Ellis, Magrok, Germs Greer and John Pilger can concoct, and more. ROFL!
I was disappointed Tim couldn’t come up with a few “deeply disturbed” laments from Koffi Anus.
Posted by Stop Continental Drift! on 2006 12 15 at 05:48 PM • permalinkO/T, but help needed - something to do in the city (Sydney) on a rainy day? I was planning to take the gf on a picnic, but it’s raining, so I’m kinda stuck, especially during the day - everything I generally know is clubs to go to at night, that’s about it.
Posted by Stuart Lord on 2006 12 15 at 06:15 PM • permalinkStuey:
Hmmm.. an afternoon at home admiring your engravings? A visit to the Wests’ Leagues Club to inspect their art collection? A drive around Redfern to look at the architecture? Window shopping at David Jones’ food hall? An afternoon at the Town Hall listening to Clover Moore recite her poetry?Oodles to do on a rainy Sydney day!
Posted by Stop Continental Drift! on 2006 12 15 at 07:10 PM • permalinkOr how about taking your picknic to the Warrangamba Dam? They say it never rains there!
Posted by Stop Continental Drift! on 2006 12 15 at 07:11 PM • permalink#10, so it was Paco who was responsible for this train wreck.
Good one PAco.
Posted by Wimpy Canadian on 2006 12 15 at 08:03 PM • permalinkI was planning to take the gf on a picnic, but it’s raining, so I’m kinda stuck, especially during the day - everything I generally know is clubs to go to at night, that’s about it.
Turn it into a joke. Have the picnic one your living room floor.
Posted by Rob Crawford on 2006 12 15 at 08:27 PM • permalinkSpeaking of year’s best, take a gander at what Time considers the year’s 10 Best Political Cartoons.
Posted by Kyda Sylvester on 2006 12 15 at 08:49 PM • permalink“It’s nice to see Mark Latham has lost none of his raffish charm.” – editorial in The Daily Telegraph following Latham’s demolition of a Telegraph camera.
Quoting the new boss, Tim? Latham has a word for that!
“I am a 58-year-old lesbian with no children. There is NOTHING in the Liberal Government’s budget for me.”
Now that’s GOLD!
“shithole like Australia”
And a finer shithole you will not find my friend.
Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2006 12 15 at 11:47 PM • permalink#9, Paco, Hudson sounds like the country rag editor from one of those 1930s movies starring Jimmy Stewart, with fedora pushed back on his head, pounding a typewriter and shouting “Hold the front page!” and “Copyboy!”, with an adoring Katherine Hepburn in the backgoround as cub reporter. Mr Deedes, perhaps, ready to go to Washington to set the Government right.
@31
Only when Sparky returns ...Cheers
Posted by J.M. Heinrichs on 2006 12 16 at 12:15 AM • permalinkDid anyone else notice that the “Australian National Union of Students” = ANUS?
Posted by richard20_bris on 2006 12 16 at 12:26 AM • permalinkegg_ well done! Earns you the VRWC Merit Order Second Class.
Posted by Stop Continental Drift! on 2006 12 16 at 06:03 AM • permalinkegg_ - I think to most of them it would have been “therver”.
Posted by Stop Continental Drift! on 2006 12 16 at 06:25 AM • permalinkStuey! You back from the Leagues Club yet?
Posted by Stop Continental Drift! on 2006 12 16 at 06:25 AM • permalinkI’m reluctant even to raise this as an issue, for fear someone will set fire to the building.
my vote goes to virginia trioli for her commitment to free and fearless journalism
Posted by eeniemeenie on 2006 12 16 at 08:26 AM • permalinkI think an admirable quote which sadly is too late for Tim’s piece in the Telegraph
From paco
“I have no desire to derail this thread but….”
Posted by aussiemagpie on 2006 12 16 at 09:56 AM • permalink
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I’ve no desire to derail the topic, but for those of you who might not have been keeping up with the adventures of Mike Hudson, Boy Reporter, he came back swinging after being unbanned. Herewith, his farewell note to Tim Blair’s commentariat.