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The Sydney Morning Herald’s Hugh Mackay on the deaths of Steve Irwin and Peter Brock, and swimmer Ian Thorpe’s retirement:
Steve was one of our great gifts to the world. Some of the neighbours might have been saying “Steve who?” and making up jokes about stingrays, but in America people were openly weeping …
And then for Peter Perfect to go so soon after, crashing a car of all things. It was too much. Yet there was a kind of poetry in it, we all felt. A stingray for Steve, a prang for Peter. Going out doing what they loved best. May we all be so lucky.
Thinking along the same lines, you can’t help wondering whether Ian would have done better to have met with a watery accident of some kind.
What a ghastly little man is Mackay.
- Standard SMH “humour”. This guy makes Adele Horin sound funny.Posted by Dminor on 2006 12 23 at 08:57 PM • permalink
- ‘As for AWB, least said, soonest mended’
is this an admission that the shiny new leader has spent over a year barking up the wrong tree and the ALP line has been not only wrong and slanderous but has damaged our farmers and cost the country billions in lost exports?
Posted by eeniemeenie on 2006 12 23 at 09:24 PM • permalink
- A completely crass sms I received from a mate after both these great Australians died: “Mate, Peter Brock died doing what he loved, Steve Irwin died doing what he loved. I’m worried about you, for God’s sake don’t have a wank tonight.”
All I can remember thinking after I heard about both their deaths is “Christ, I hope someone has wrapped David Boon in cotton wool.”
Mackay wouldn’t know journalism if it jumped up and bit him on the arse.
- Merry Christmas to Tim, Andrea and all the crew here and thanks for making this site so entertaining – much appreciated
As for Hugh Mackay – he’s written this letter to the world in his wonderfully arrogant and superior style as if it’s coming from us plebs – you know Mr and Mrs Ordinary who didn’t follow the AWB matter, who actually care about Steve Irwin and Brockie and the cricket and values
He needs a smack in the mouth as he’s getting to be as nasty as Leunig and David Williamson
Posted by aussiemagpie on 2006 12 23 at 10:10 PM • permalink
- His collum in the local rag here in WA is “the moral maze”. Hed have to have 2 dicks, you cant get that silly playing with just one.Posted by thefrollickingmole on 2006 12 23 at 10:14 PM • permalink
- Take a holiday involving sex and travel you sad old tosspot.
In happier news – Felicitations of the season to one and all. Joy to the world!
Please remember a puppy isn’t just for Christmas, but luckily your drunk and annoying uncle is.
Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2006 12 23 at 10:18 PM • permalink
- “the” pater? Correct Latin—or none at all.Posted by MentalFloss on 2006 12 24 at 12:07 AM • permalink
(Dminor, this eight word restriction is killing me)
Posted by MentalFloss on 2006 12 24 at 12:08 AM • permalink
- Better still would be if Hugh died from an rectal hemmorhage as a result of a pack rape by multicultural males of unspecified religion or ethnicity.Posted by Jim Geones on 2006 12 24 at 12:59 AM • permalink
- I was kinda picturing him getting his tie caught in his IBM Selectric (TM) and then having the return key stick and him getting strangled to death by his own typewriter. Seems appropriate.Posted by JorgXMcKie on 2006 12 24 at 02:32 AM • permalink
- Hugh Mackay used to make sense to me once, when he wrote in the AFR (does he still?). Is that because he did, or because I’ve shifted a lot in my political beliefs and leanings since then?Posted by AlburyShifton on 2006 12 24 at 03:22 AM • permalink
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