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Motivated by Michael Leunig’s interspecies apology call, reader Richard McEnroe launches a solo sorry offensive:
Can anyone doubt, given the emotion he displays, that these apologies are genuine? I’ll thank readers in advance not to call into question Richard’s sincerity.
(Have YOU recently begged forgiveness of a plant, a reptile, an Armenian, a font, an abstract concept, or anything else? Send pictures to the usual address.)
Can anyone doubt, given the emotion he displays, that these apologies are genuine?
Are you kidding? Do you remember a while back that Russian lake? He gave me a sponge and —
I’ll thank readers in advance not to call into question Richard’s sincerity.
Wait. A sponge! And he told me I had one night to steal a lake.
… not to call into question Richard’s sincerity.
But it was one big frickin lake. And, okay, forget it.
Posted by wronwright on 2008 02 19 at 12:53 PM • permalink
I will apologize to abstract expressionism, but when it comes to the things I’ve said about Comic Sans, I regret nothing.
Posted by Don’t Bogart that Midget, Comrade! on 2008 02 19 at 12:57 PM • permalink
Richard: Not to get too far off topic – and certainly not to question the sincerity or earnestness in which you made your apologies – but…about that scene by the tree. Is that your car? And isn’t that a “Happy Meal” on the roof? I don’t know how it works with this new apology religion, but, in the Catholic church, you’re not supposed to eat an hour before communion. Wouldn’t it work the same way when you’re apologizing to the flora? What I’m asking you, Richard, in as kind and gentle a way as I can, is this: were you really prepared, spiritually, to make these apologies? Or were you secretly wondering whether the counter help had given you enough ketchup for your fries?
For those of you not familar with Larry the Cable Guy.
“Lord, I apologize for that right there, and please be with the starvin’ pygmies down there in New Guinea, A-men”
Posted by joe bagadonuts on 2008 02 19 at 01:35 PM • permalink
Now that’s funny right there, I don’t care who you are.
Posted by Spiny Norman on 2008 02 19 at 01:48 PM • permalink
I apologize to Richard for laughing at his pain!
Posted by Jim Treacher on 2008 02 19 at 03:20 PM • permalink
I apologized to my cats for not being a better slave. Pictures coming as soon as they unchain me from the can opener.
Posted by Andrea Harris, Administrator on 2008 02 19 at 03:20 PM • permalink
I think the use of a hat when saying sorry increases the sorry quotient by 50%. Or is it the sincerity quotient?
Whatever. Richard – you’ll need knee pads if you keep this up.
Posted by mr creosote on 2008 02 19 at 03:31 PM • permalink
#11 Paco: Richard got a special dispensation based on the results of the rigorous tests proving that he was, indeed, spiritually prepared to make these apologies.
Posted by Deborah Leigh on 2008 02 19 at 04:27 PM • permalink
So you’re sorry, Wronwright?
Hell no. I’m preparing a list of people and things I will never ever say sorry to. It includes aborigines, the American buffalo, Native Americans, people whose ancestors were slaves including those held by Romans, every college and university in America, Kunta Kinte, and every fucking liberal there ever was.
Want a “sorry” from me? Come get it nancy boys.
Posted by wronwright on 2008 02 19 at 04:38 PM • permalink
Sincere? Feh. Look at his feet. Rubber soled sneakers made by Chinese slave labor next to a smog belching factory. And no head tilt, either.
Posted by Gary from Jersey on 2008 02 19 at 04:40 PM • permalink
Connie Francis would like to have a word with you
Lake in Queensland? Pfaugh. A mere bagatelle.
Ask him about that Roman Legion he snatched out of Syria in the early 200’s.
Now serving as gardeners, cooks and cleaners at “Chateau Wron”, ca. 1,000,000 BC
Or what about the guy in Bavaria who stepped around his carraige and was never seen again?
Now a Butler, same T/S coords.
I could go on, but I have work to do.
I’m truly sorry for Phil Collins.
I should have done more.
Posted by Michaels Duck on 2008 02 19 at 06:35 PM • permalink
I’m sorry for those having their morning tea about now..
Ha Ha!!
Posted by ozconservative on 2008 02 19 at 07:38 PM • permalink
OT but urgent: WRONWRIIGHTT!!
I apologise for all the drinking and fornicating I plan on doing.
Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2008 02 19 at 08:32 PM • permalink
Paco—That was movie theatre popcorn and sodan pop… not an organic compound in the lot of it.
That’s no car, that’s the EEEEEEvil Conservative Decepticon (it turns into a bar at every opportunity) of my co-marcher Deborah Leigh, who handled the camera.
To Lyle
So you we anoint
Laureate of this joint;
I still gotta ask you
‘And? What’s your point?’Posted by richard mcenroe on 2008 02 19 at 09:09 PM • permalink
I’m genuinely sorry for drip-feeding my four children into the public domain.
They all have chameleon like qualities and sustain a multitude of relationships, based on the average person’s ability to forgive at least twice. Naughty children.
But they do possess some Jewish blood so I’ve put Damian Lataans face on the dart board.
Regarding Comic Sans… you should not be surprised to know that Paco has his hand in this somehow. From the Flickr Comic Sans photo pool:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/saintwolf/2261975487/in/pool-comicsans/
#28—SIR! I take the greatest exception to your comments!
It was Indonesian child labor thank you very much…
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2008 02 19 at 09:41 PM • permalink
Bet ya haven’t seen Richard and Dennis Prager in the same place at the same time. Thought not.
OKAY, THAT’S IT! It’s go time! Maw, fetch me the Hippie Stick…!
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2008 02 19 at 09:43 PM • permalink
El Cid—No worries. They were lefty gunmen, so by definition small bores…
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2008 02 19 at 09:47 PM • permalink
I dunno, I don’t see a lot of head tilting here, overall bowed body sure but not GENUINE sincere head tilts
Posted by the nailgun on 2008 02 19 at 10:18 PM • permalink
- #37
Just saw story.
Whose sorry now?
This country has done to the dogfaces.Posted by stackja1945 on 2008 02 19 at 10:46 PM • permalink
OK, Deborah’s threatening me into giving her the keyboard for this…
#29, Paco: You could have saved yourself the trouble. We have the original right here. But you do have copies of the all of the Post-Apology Certification Orders, right? You know, the ones for Non-Sentient Organics, the ones for Sentient Organics, and the other ones for Non-Sentient Organics (Democrats, Congress). They were really expensive! But just a few more and he gets the really nifty embossed certificate, suitable for framing!
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2008 02 19 at 10:53 PM • permalink
Of course, that was before they told me that the Presentation/Archive-quality Certificate Outliner was nine certificates extra. Dunno how much more stuff I can apologize to.
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2008 02 19 at 10:54 PM • permalink
I see Richard has an active interest in “B-movie actresses” – me too! They’re just so darn…almost achievable.
Posted by Pig Head Sucker on 2008 02 19 at 11:50 PM • permalink
#11 Paco, until you identified the roof items, I thought, thoughtlessly, that tit was the red and blue of a squad car. Obviously the cop would have been called Big Mac.
Posted by Wimpy Canadian on 2008 02 19 at 11:52 PM • permalink
#65 … that IT was the red … damn typos can be embarassing.
Posted by Wimpy Canadian on 2008 02 19 at 11:54 PM • permalink
Sharon Stone is doing some apologizing – silly bint.
Posted by Wimpy Canadian on 2008 02 19 at 11:56 PM • permalink
So a woman whos famous for showing where the axe man hit her is apologising for policies of her government?
Then the priceless line at the end about speaking about AIDS being taboo in the middle east for some reason?Because the hangmans noose will kill any gays a long time before AIDS does you gormless twat.
Posted by thefrollickingmole on 2008 02 20 at 12:16 AM • permalink
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PACO: Turning guilt trips into gilt trips.
Are those Australian natives in the background of the second photo? Were they taken from their land and raised alongside whitefella trees?
Posted by We apologise for the inconvenience. on 2008 02 20 at 12:39 AM • permalink
Has anyone seen this? (surely a pisstake)
Gillard gives Hawkins a run in sexy poll
A bewildered and amused, Deputy Prime Minister Julia Gillard says a poll naming her as Australia’s second most sexiest woman is “very unusual”.
Model Jennifer Hawkins – a former Miss Universe – topped the poll of Ralph magazine readers.
“I’m not a reader of Ralph magazine, I would like to make that clear,” Ms Gillard said, laughing, on Fairfax Radio Network today.
“I’m sure many Australians do read Ralph magazine, but I’m not one of them.
“I think people don’t understand that I am probably two foot shorter than Jennifer Hawkins and double her body weight, so it’s been a very unusual result.
“I would simply agree that Jennifer is a very attractive woman.”
- #75 Not piss-take but Rudd-speak.
also see #37Posted by stackja1945 on 2008 02 20 at 01:43 AM • permalink
#70, Paco mate, he did offer to buy me a curry and a beer. Surely that’s enough compo for turning what would have been a long lock of Scandinavian blonde hair into short faecal brown stubble….maybe that’s what we need to do to move on. Buy every Aboriginal a curry and a beer lunch and say alright guys, you’ve had a good run of the violin playing, now it’s time to get back to….erm….work.
Patricia, I think it was tallow, not lard. Some Hindu complained that they violated his religion. At least being Hindu he didn’t riot or blow things up or hack off somebody’s head.
Posted by Steve Skubinna on 2008 02 20 at 03:16 AM • permalink
I apologize to the flu that I’m suffering from for trying to eradicate it with strong medicines.
Posted by MikeTheLibrarian on 2008 02 20 at 03:51 AM • permalink
- Mcenroe, do you do bulk apologies?
If we all threw a few bob each your way would you beg our universal pardons?
Could be a bigger scam contribution to global well-being than carbon offsets if you market it right.Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2008 02 20 at 05:23 AM • permalink
Last night on a rampage through the Holy Roman Empire I killed countless thousands of pudding headed sausage swilling huns . I razed their cities, I destroyed their culture.
My actions were racist and I am truly, deeply sorry.
(man Medieval II Total War is a great game)
Posted by eeniemeenie on 2008 02 20 at 05:53 AM • permalink
Tell you what, it’s a damn good thing Sorry Day didn’t lead to any compo claims.
Posted by Quentin George on 2008 02 20 at 06:04 AM • permalink
- #90 Dennis Eggington related to egg_?
Rudd’s climate change review tomorrow. Climate will seek apology.Posted by stackja1945 on 2008 02 20 at 06:15 AM • permalink
You could be a bloodnut.
Posted by mr creosote on 2008 02 20 at 06:33 AM • permalink
- Julia Gillard is the second sexiest woman in Australia. And I have a bigger dick than John Holmes.
You read it here first!Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2008 02 20 at 06:44 AM • permalink
Julia Gillard is the second sexiest woman in Australia.
Well that explains Mardi Gras.
Posted by eeniemeenie on 2008 02 20 at 06:46 AM • permalink
- Posted by eeniemeenie on 2008 02 20 at 07:11 AM • permalink
Ask him about that Roman Legion he snatched out of Syria in the early 200’s.
Now serving as gardeners, cooks and cleaners at “Chateau Wron”, ca. 1,000,000 BC
mojo! The chateau you refer to is the previously SUPER SECRET VRWC resort. We use it as a spa and relaxation center for the full members and leaders of our death cult organization. Of course, the minions, rogues, and rabble have their own spa and relaxation center in Death Valley, California.
And for the record, we did not shanghai a whole legion. Just a cohort or band or whatever it’s called, comprised of 100 very enthusiastic Romans (after being shocked with the evil Spock torture hand device).
Posted by wronwright on 2008 02 20 at 07:13 AM • permalink
Is it just me or when someone says “It’s her fault. Well, she’s partially to blame, because she invited him over…” for this, am I justified in shouting at the person saying it “She’s only fifteen. It’s not her fault. It’s never her fault.”
He forced his way into the house, that’s not in the report.
Okay, yes, I stole Venice’s water. I was NOT SATISFIED with my gondola ride last month. I was trying to impress Karl and his daughter my wife with a splendid ride and the steerman made me help paddle. And we got no lamenting Italian ballad either but some Pakistani dirge. I was sorely disappointed.
So the city must pay.
And sorry about the water. It had to go somewhere and Flannery said you needed it. And where else could I dump it? 5000 BC Mesopotamia? Ha, um, why would someone dump water there?
Posted by wronwright on 2008 02 20 at 07:28 AM • permalink
It’s official- Leftism is a mental disorder
Posted by eeniemeenie on 2008 02 20 at 07:49 AM • permalink
O/T, but I just posted this on a this thread about Faine’s desire for a purge of op/ed over at Bolts:-
I’ve got a logical connundrum that I’d like explained- the major justification for the overwhelming presence of left-leaning writers and presenters, resulting in an obvious anti-conservative/pro-“progressive”/hatred of Howard agenda at “our” ABC was to balance the natural pro-government bias of commercial broadcasters.
Given that the ALP is now the government and thus theoretically (and in practice) swooned over by management, talking heads and copy-writers at 7, 9, 10 and commercial radio, if this requirement for a balanced media is essential for democracy then logically the ABC (and SBS) should be purged of pinkos and staffed with fearless critics of the government, to ensure full and frank scrutiny of their policies and actions, and to take them to task for their failures, excesses and omissions.
Get around that one.
I await replies with baited breath- I’d say that the main one will be that big money/big end of town etc still supports the Liberal Party and thus a commie ABC is required to keep badgering them about their workforce exploitation/planet rape/ignorance of cultural and biodiversity etc.
Re #102, eenie, at first I thought that was a spoof. Only it appears that Dr. Lyle Rossiter is a real person who wrote a genuine book.
Haven’t read it as yet, but it’s gonna piss off a whole bunch of lefties. Which makes it a great book!
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2008 02 20 at 10:25 AM • permalink
You got there in a car, don’t you know how many Iraqis died for the oil for the petrol? Bush lied, you know!
The tree? It was rudely stolen, stolen from it’s natural soil!
The concrete? It stole the natural habitat of ants and bugs!
The tyres? I dunno, but definitely Bush’s fault somehow.
/Labor voter
Yet another instalment in the death of civilisation. First we got novels based on computer games and now we get movies based on Monopoly and Battleship and other even less sane games.
I begged forgiveness from a hooker for not having exact change.
Does that count?
Posted by memomachine on 2008 02 20 at 01:00 PM • permalink
Last night on a rampage through the Holy Roman Empire I killed countless thousands of pudding headed sausage swilling huns . I razed their cities, I destroyed their culture.
My actions were racist and I am truly, deeply sorry.
(man Medieval II Total War is a great game)
I haven’t gotten that far into it, but in Medieval Total War I, I had the Byzantines wipe Islam from the planet.
Grinned for a week over that one.
(Although I risked fatal eye-rolling when I read in the manual that jihad is “only defensive”.)
Posted by Rob Crawford on 2008 02 20 at 01:23 PM • permalink
UN to examine US human rights record.
Oh, wunnerful. The organization that puts slave states in charge of human rights is going to criticize the US?
No doubt they’ll find we’re not nearly as accommodating to barbarians as we should be.
Posted by Rob Crawford on 2008 02 20 at 01:25 PM • permalink
the minions, rogues, and rabble have their own spa and relaxation center in Death Valley, California.
Is “relaxation center” what we’re calling it now? I admit it sound better than “punishment compound”, anyway. BTW: ever notice how Wron’s “enemies” have a funny way of vanishing?
Sorry about blabbing about the Chateau, but hey – why should you be the only one to blurt out top secret info in a public forum? Sure, I’m not a “Director” (la-tee-da!) with access to a TARDIS, but I’m just as much a member of the Organization as anyone. Got my cert and everything.
And anyway, the fur bikinis for the female staff were a bit much, don’t you think?
And anyway, the fur bikinis for the female staff were a bit much, don’t you think?
They were complaining about the cold!
Posted by Rob Crawford on 2008 02 20 at 01:57 PM • permalink
Hey folks! I’m breaking in here to announce an emergency Fundraiser over at my place. Because it’s going to be hard to maintain this place from my car. Anyway—we’ve got over 4,000 members (go us! And not all of them are trolls), so if you all contributed at least a dollar, I could… buy a whole lot of cat food. And pay my rent.
Of course, I will accept individual donations of more than a dollar. I’m a fair person.
Okay, off to make excuses to my landlord and the power company.
Posted by Andrea Harris, Administrator on 2008 02 20 at 02:09 PM • permalink
#97, wron, a full strength cohort is 480. Duh. A century at that time was 80. So what you got was a century plus.
Jeez, I hate it when people display such ignorance of Roman military organization under the Principate. Of course, maybe it’s hard to get an accurate count when you’re trying to outrun a volley of pila back to the TARDIS.
And I could have told you in advance that Roman wine was really, really sour and not worth heist- uh, I mean obtaining.
Posted by Steve Skubinna on 2008 02 20 at 02:57 PM • permalink
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Jeez, I hate it when people display such ignorance of Roman military organization under the Principate.
Well, excuse me, but I had an excuse. I didn’t know we were stopping at Rome, circa 60 BC. paco said he had “secret information” as to where Stoop Davy Dave was hiding. I groaned and said “no no no no, not after the Aztec debacle. And remember the Battle of Poitiers fiasco? Never!”.
Well, without permission or authorization, he leaned over and changed the chronometer indicabobulator do-hickey and flopped us down in the middle of Circus Maximus.
As is the case whenever paco or Michael Lonie touches anything in the Tardis, we had to run from the Praetorian Guard, arrows started flinging, I almost got stuck like a pin cushion, and once again I shouted “paco, you idiot, you’re going to get us killed!” Long story short, we hid in a Roman brothel for 3 days. It was a very frightening experience. I’m still shaking.
Posted by wronwright on 2008 02 20 at 04:31 PM • permalink
Sorry for linking to this old sorry piece.
O/T: Polar bears are mighty fussy critters. First they were endangered by melting ice; now they’re in trouble because of too much ice.
- Looks like Rudd’s bridge building with the sorry needs a bit more explaining to the indigenes. They’ll bash you if you don’t say sorry, in person, to each of them.
Miranda Devine wants us to say sorry for our four-wheel drives – and baby buggies!
The rise of the baby buggy behemoth rivals the four-wheel-drive phenomenon. Big, unwieldy, selfish four-wheel-drives have been hogging the road in increasing numbers for a decade.
Working for Fairfax, she’s gone native.
Paul Sheehan was going all feminist recently, detailing cases where mature women ditch their boring husbands for a younger model. Does this sort of behaviour, once scorned when practised by men, now pass muster just because women are doing it? A very sorry state of affairs.
I’m glad that Andrew Cameron has taken him to task for it.
OT that will probably become its own thread soon.
One of Rudd’s pet academics, Ross Garnaut, who was contracted at vast expense to do an Aussie Stern report, has delivered his interim report. According to the news he wants Australia to shut down today because tomorrow will be too late.
The fun will be how Rudd reacts. The last thing he wanted was a call for immediate action. He wanted to be retired behind the walls of his Gold Coast beachfront compound before all the sackings and blackouts and petrol rationing began.
Expecting a “we are taking a leading role in reducing global greenhouse gases within the framework of the UN and the Kyoto Protocol, which I signed. Acting outside this framework as the Howard government did achieves nothing on a global scale.”
Translation: “We won’t be doing anything for at least five years, so shut the fuck up Garnaut if you want another gig that pays this well.”
- #114 The only reason there’s mileage in examining the US’s human rights record is that the US is one of the few countries that actually give a damn about human rights and having a good record thereon.
When they examine (if they ever get around to it) the human rights records of North Korea, China, Burma, Laos, Cambodia, Indonesia, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Iran, Syria, Lebanon, Turkey, Bosnia, Serbia, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Chad, Zimbabwe, Nigeria, Congo … none of said countries will even register that they’re being examined, let alone be embarrassed by what the UN goons find. As for corrective action, HAHAHAHA.Posted by arrowhead ripper on 2008 02 20 at 06:11 PM • permalink
I’m afraid you’re only too right, arrowhead.
There is a cycle of obligatory legal reporting in connection with international human rights treaties (e.g., the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and the 1966 covenants on civil and political rights and on economic, social and cultural rights etc).
Every country that has rafified one or more of the treaties must report on action taken to implement them, or obstacles encountered.
Regrettably in recent years, it is as you say. The countries that you mention may be obliged to submit reports but the Governments of many do not take the process seriously, often using the label of “developing country” as an excuse.
Any criticism is shrugged off or put down as an effort of the evil West to besmirch their good name. Or at least that is how it is played out at home.
Whereas discussion of the reports submitted by countries such as the USA, Canada and Australia – which up until now have taken the reporting process seriously – are seized upon as an opportunity to harass and embarrass. A lot of the time, this is initiated and abetted by individual activists or quangos in the countries concerned.
It’s probably not exactly what Eleanor Roosevelt, the main proponent of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, had in mind at the time of its adoption.
Mr. and Mrs. Hussein Obama are sorry.
Michelle Obama Clarifies ‘Proud’ Remark
“What I was clearly talking about was that I’m proud in how Americans are engaging in the political process,” she said.
Back to you, Hussein…
Obama himself gave a similar explanation during an interview Tuesday with WOAI radio in San Antonio, Texas. Expressing frustration that his wife’s remarks had been taken out of context and turned into political fodder, the Illinois senator said, “What she meant was, this is the first time that she’s been proud of the politics of America, because she’s pretty cynical about the political process, and with good reason, and she’s not alone. But she has seen large numbers of people get involved in the process, and she’s encouraged.”
Now, someone has to say “Sorry” here. I’m just not sure who should be the one apologising….
Is this the scariest picture….?
Mind you, she’ll probably even beat Mssss Gillard in my books.
Posted by ozconservative on 2008 02 20 at 08:11 PM • permalink
Anthony Daniels has a good piece on Castro. One interesting bit describes the New York Times correspondent falling for one of the oldest tricks in the book:
When he was a guerilla up in the mountains in 1957, he duped the correspondent of the New York Times, Herbert Matthews, into believing he had many more men under his command, simply by making the same men march past Matthews several times, and by having another approach him to tell him that a second column of his soldiers, which did not exist, was on its way. Matthews’s article, implying that Castro could not be defeated, was a great propaganda blow.
This seems a good illustration of why one shouldn’t believe most what reporters send out of warzones.
Kae, if I ever decide to undergo a few touch ups, I definately won’t be going to her surgeon. Not very good advertisement of your work is it. A bit like Michael Jackson’s work.
Posted by ozconservative on 2008 02 20 at 08:38 PM • permalink
#126 Blogstrop, it hadn’t occurred to me that the sorry fiasco would cause this sort of violence, although in retrospect it seems obvious it should have; it’s a natural effect of the aggrieved and aggressive sense of entitlement that has been built up over the last few decades. I expect we’ll be seeing this in the larger cities down south as well before too long – along with a resurgence of land claims for city centres.
We’re all going to be sorry as shit when the bill comes in for this hair shirt exercise in futility– it’s going to make Sorrypalooza* seem like having a ciggie machine swallow your change in comparison. The comments are interesting, seeming about 3 to 1 skeptics; I wonder how the bogans and ladies who lunch who voted in these dribbling cretins are going to react when their SS Commodore and frog plonk attrack a couple of extra monkeys a year in carbon surcharges and distance penalties- somehow I don’t think Waxy Boy’s going to be Mr 70% for too long.
*Kevvie’s New World of Reconcilliation is off to a whizzo start– I’ll assume the demand for an apology was accompanied by a request for compensation.
Shirley MacLaine
Just gives me a pain.
Take her New Age notions and toss ‘em.
But I will tell you what,’
She was STILL goddam hot
In ‘The Apartment’ or ‘Bliss of Mrs. Blossom.’Posted by richard mcenroe on 2008 02 20 at 09:09 PM • permalink
- #140
Earlier, Walter Duranty, helped Stalin.Posted by stackja1945 on 2008 02 20 at 09:38 PM • permalink
El Cid, now I’m sorry I looked at that with a mouth full of biscuits!
Posted by ozconservative on 2008 02 20 at 10:04 PM • permalink
Absolutely brilliant new news site – search a map of the world and click to read the front page of the local paper:
Posted by stackja1945 on 2008 02 20 at 10:21 PM • permalink
#151 Every time I see a picture of that woman I think Kerry Packer.
- #135
WhenEleanor Roosevelt the main proponent of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, had in mind at the time of its adoption.
Most of these “countries” did not exist.
Posted by stackja1945 on 2008 02 20 at 11:07 PM • permalink
Tim and Andrea, if you’re tired of asking readers of the blog to donate to your site to help buy a laptop, and if you feel News Ltd doesn’t pay you enough and your super isn’t enough to feed you, why not apply for this grant?
You just might be competing with Barry and Axel, but hey, a grants a grant as they say.
- #140 Burbank,
Matthews didn’t need much duping. He was a Castro groupie.Posted by Michael Lonie on 2008 02 21 at 12:58 AM • permalink
- I apologise for linking to this.
(probably NSFW)Posted by thefrollickingmole on 2008 02 21 at 01:25 AM • permalink
O/T, Does this count as Blair’s Law? (Dont you just love those pics?)
#113, Rob, “I had the Byzantines wipe Islam from the planet.”
I used the Danes myself, something about a hoard of manic vikings leaping off the longboats and beating the snot out of the ‘Religion of Peace’ put a smile on my dial for some time.
#146, Habib, Enough with the bogan bashing already. We here in WOZ sent Sir JWH more votes this time around than last time when he was re-elected. So in future please refrain from lumping us in with our more easily decieved east coast brethren.
Posted by The_Wizard_of_WOZ on 2008 02 21 at 01:47 AM • permalink
BTW, can anyone else think of another Australian political figure who publicly consumes their own secretions? The only other one I can thibk of is Rex Pilbeam (former mayor and state member for Rockhampton), who thought his nose goblins were haute cuisine and also used to rely on the scratch n’ sniff method to determine if he’d followed-through.
#158, Habib, COB? CUB I presume you mean. What can I say, we win here too. BHP, Rio and their ilk pay us types a fair bit more than any east coast tradie I’ve ever heard of.
I know a bloke employed as a Trade Assistant who clears $2300 a week AFTER TAX.
Our CUB’s dont drive SS’s, they drive GTS’s.
Posted by The_Wizard_of_WOZ on 2008 02 21 at 02:16 AM • permalink
- I hereby declare this thread open,
(for which Tim will probably eviscerate me and compare me to stackja1945 – but maybe my donation to Andrea will save me!), and suggest we all throw into the ring a few ideas to keep the ball rolling.
The Guano Interim Report came out today, and can be summarised as: Panic!!!!
Media types responded by saying (again) let’s cancel the Tax Cuts, and blow it on climate change instead. Genii at work.
Watch my scripts: 1. Climate Change was an electoral convenience, and 2. Saying “Me Too” to the tax cuts was an electoral convenience too, and should be punishable by insisting that they proceed as promised, not by some fudge in “super” or “Housing Affordability” or, worse “Compensation for the slow sorry”.
I wait with no held breath for the MSM to actually criticise the new Federal Government from somewhere other than the extreme left. They have found an acceptable displacement activity in bashing the incompetent NSW State Govt instead. Pity they didn’t do it before the last election.
- How refreshing it will be when Julia Gillard admits to something which is not the result of “eleven years of neglect by the Coalition Government”. To hear her trotting this line out in reference to poor literacy skills amongst school children was a bit rich.
The Teachers Federation and the ALP are jointly culpable for the parlous state of government funded education across Australia. Like the ABC, this area is proving to be “culturally hardened” and not quickly reformed. It has to be admitted that we are all vulnerable to the modern disease of “laisse faire” disciplining of our kids – the students.
- #163
About the Guano report (yeah, it’s Batshit!), I heard a little more about it on the news on the way home.FAAAARRRRK! The sky is falling!Exactly how long did it take this conjourer to gather all this deeply researched information, rich in all points of view? He’s harvested the “science” I hear.
And how much did this shyster fill his coffers with to come to this carefully resarched conclusion?
I wait with no held breath for the MSM to actually criticise the new Federal Government from somewhere other than the extreme left. They have found an acceptable displacement activity in bashing the incompetent NSW State Govt instead. Pity they didn’t do it before the last election.
And they’re still belting JWH whenever they get a chance to.
Howard will be remain a left-wing boogie man until they realise that Labor’s hatred of JWH isn’t matched by the public (precedent Ronald Reagan.) In fact, as the economy starts to unravel around Labor for reasons both within and beyond its control, Howard’s stature will grow. All he has to do is refuse to respond to the snipping. The public will eventually remember him as a dignified statesman who presided over a period of unprecedented prosperity and lifted the nation’s international standing. Everything else will be forgotten because Rudd will have removed all those issues that lead to Howard’s defeat.
That’s where keating has got it so wrong. His never-ending justification of unpopular policies only serves to remind people why he was dumped.
Can’t believe this site hasn’t covered this story yet. A good reminder of why Downer continues to be viewed with some affection in the general community, and dealing with a theme that is close to all of our hearts – LUNCH!
Cheers and thanks to the crew of the USS Lake Erie. A great job. No apologies!
167. Nice points, I had thought Howard might do better responding to a few of his detractors. However as you say, 3 years of Krudd neglect will be more than enogh legacy for him.
Posted by thefrollickingmole on 2008 02 21 at 04:29 AM • permalink
“On reflection I think I was better off having lunch with Greg Sheridan, the foreign editor of The Australian, than I was listening to Julia Gillard’s ranting and raging and party political point-scoring.”
Definitely better off with a full tummy from lunch with Greg Sheridan than with bleeding ears from Gargle.
I used the Danes myself, something about a hoard of manic vikings leaping off the longboats and beating the snot out of the ‘Religion of Peace’ put a smile on my dial for some time.
I did it with the Spanish. “Andalucia, this, Mohammedens!”
Wow, is every else playing Medieval Total War for the same reason? To solve terrorism, a few centuries earlier…
Posted by Quentin George on 2008 02 21 at 05:54 AM • permalink
#172 Probably- I had the day off today and spent much of it in Medieval II Total War driving the Moors out of Spain with English armies.
Very satisfying.
Posted by eeniemeenie on 2008 02 21 at 06:07 AM • permalink
#171 does anyone else find it strange that while the ALP is busy trampling parliamentary traditions underfoot ( sitting days without question time, disallowing supplementary questions from the opposition, answering questions without notice by reading pre-scripted speeches complete with “spontaneous” witticisms etc) that what exercises our valiant media is Alexander Downer’s lunch?
Posted by eeniemeenie on 2008 02 21 at 06:18 AM • permalink
- #163
At #91 I half-start or is that up-start, now what happens to this comment. I am losing count. I am like Dirty Harry Callahan:I know what you’re thinking. Did he make six commentss or only five? Well, to tell you the truth, in all this excitement I kind of lost track.
Like your Nauruan noun for whatisname.
Posted by stackja1945 on 2008 02 21 at 06:29 AM • permalink
- #176
Labor like to follow the Secord script.
MSM also follow the Secord script.
They did with Carr in NSW before Secord moved to KRudd.Posted by stackja1945 on 2008 02 21 at 06:38 AM • permalink
- Greek capital Banks, cars torched in wave of attacks
Police said no one had yet claimed responsibility.Posted by stackja1945 on 2008 02 21 at 07:16 AM • permalink
Probably NSFW?
The site owner lives in the US he’s getting a visit from the FBI at the least. A few years in a prison hospital and a lifetime on the sex offenders list is very likely. More like NEBtBoHO (Not Enough Brains to Breathe on His Own).
Posted by mythusmage on 2008 02 21 at 07:52 AM • permalink
- Posted by eeniemeenie on 2008 02 21 at 08:05 AM • permalink
- Seeing we’re waaay off reservation…
…Cuba is not a bag example of extensive resure of materials, recycling and energy conservation. Cuba is a MODEL of how to live peacefully with your enviroment, not a ‘distaster’.
Who knew ecosocialism has all the answers?
(Pity about the spleling.)
Found via the bad place.
I’ve just watched a spokesman for the Australian Liberal Party apologize for being against the Kyoto Protocol and apologize for standing against a consensus of idiots who want to shut down Australia and hand its industrial base over to non-Kyoto countries like Indonesia, India and China.
Amazingly as this spokesman pirouetted across the screen, reducing carbon emissions by 60% and reducing Australia power consumption by a third will help stabilize the atmosphere at 450 parts per million of CO2. Never mind the poor bastards who will die of heatstroke and dehydration, unable to afford to run their aircon and fridge at the same time.
It was the saddest excuse for a performance by an Australian Liberal since…well since yesterday when Dr Charisma Bypass capitulated on Workplace Choices (although I’m still curious to know what that was all about – maybe check Wikipedia) and would not oppose their scrapping.
I hope Tim is on hand to profusely apologize for the “stolen principles” of the Australian Liberal Party.
#37; Julia? Who is that lady?
Posted by dean martin on 2008 02 21 at 09:39 AM • permalink
#190- I think you may have been imbibing too freely of mind-altering comestibles.
Okay, I was standing in line for a Potbelly sandwich when I thought to myself “this would make a good Monty Python skit”. That made me think of John Cleese and Michael Palin. And then Dudley Moore. From there I thought of Dudley’s fine performance in Crocodile Dundee. Then I thought “no, that wasn’t Dudley, it was Paul Hogan”. He’s Australian. A bogan as they say.
But was Crocodile Dundee a bogan? Or was he something else?
Just curious and since Tim isn’t posting, I thought I might ask.
Posted by wronwright on 2008 02 21 at 12:41 PM • permalink
The trouble is, it doesn’t have a cigarette lighter.
More “awareness raising”: LIGHTS OUT FOR GAIA!
http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/environment/2008-02-19-cities-lightsoff_N.htm
- #165
Tony Blair paid for the (external) Stern Report cos he didn’t like his own Dept’s report … say no more?Robert Shapiro warns of the dangers of emissions trading schemes vs carbon tax:There’s enormous potential for cheating, and in particular by corrupt autocratic governments. The notion that, look, it’s hard enough in a democratic and transparent system to not have permits be distributed or taxes imposed without special preferences for powerful industries. In Germany, for example, recently the German government exempted coal production from the European trading system. Well, that’s a rather large greenhouse gas producer that they…well, it was political pressure. Imagine what Vladimir Putin would do with this. Imagine what the Chinese government would do with this. Imagine what Sudan and Iran would do with this.
If a developing country was able to overstate its initial emissions and consequently show great progress, they could then have permits to sell to everyone else, and it becomes a source of hard currency. Under Kyoto, if everyone had participated in Kyoto as written, because of the 1990 base year that created a windfall for Russia, Russia could have been expected to earn $40 billion a year in hard currency selling excess permits. I really don’t think that the home owners and the drivers in Australia and the US should be helping to finance the despotic regime of Vladimir Putin.
When is Tim’s mum going to get him out of the bath?
Posted by mr creosote on 2008 02 21 at 03:19 PM • permalink
Do I have a deal for you, OZ, or what?
FOX News Poll: Obama Has Slim Edge Over McCain, Half Would Never Vote for Clinton
We have John Howard…but he’s makin’ to much money now…on the Speaker’s gig.
Should they above happen, God forbid…we trade one Hussein, for one Ear Wax.
Unfortunately the above just may happen. A Hussein and his wife, that just did find out, how proud she is of the U.S.
#169, Rich, Cheers and beers (once back in port) for the crew of CG-70. Glad to hear all the goodies inside didnt fall into the hands of evil (no not Wron). But I hope some nice bits make it to ground near my place, I know an old fella with a few bits of Skylab.
They dont look like much until you realise what they actually are. I was in high school physics before it finally clicked, and I’ve known this bloke since I was just a rugrat.
#194, Wron, Technically no, Mick Dundee was not a bogan. He was a bushie. Most bogans, particularly Habib’s kind, wouldn’t be seen dead wearing a real hat. They also dont go bush too often, unless checking on their ‘crop’ on the outskirts of a national park.
Bogans recognise and in some cases fear bushies. Some bloke whose been playing with horses and cows since he could walk tends to do rather well in a bar fight in the big smoke.
His choice of vehicle is also non-bogan as its pretty hard to rice up an old 4 wheel drive. However, while uncommon, many of us prefer sleepers ( ‘Sleeper (car)’-link issues ), myself included. Nothing beats the look on some porsche wankers face when he gets left behind by a rusty 20+ year old commodore. And I’ve seen a few. Or a new SS full of twits for that matter.
Leather clothes are a no-no unless you’re some kind of bogan/poof hybrid. Excluding boots naturally.
BTW the Rambo knife is a joke. If you’re in serious salty country, you’d be a million times better off with a short barreled rifle of .308 or higher. But you’d want to be a good shot, you really dont want to piss off a hungry salty.
They’re faster over the first 10 meters than a race horse. People aren’t…
Posted by The_Wizard_of_WOZ on 2008 02 21 at 04:00 PM • permalink
#210, Mojo, See what I mean about the .308? All them lil’ .223 bullets will do is piss it off. Unless of course it happens to be semi/full auto, somewhat rare in OZ. And even then it took a full hour to die.
Also I’d be a bit suprised if the 30 round mags haven’t arrived in PNG yet. Their police are much better armed than ours.
Posted by The_Wizard_of_WOZ on 2008 02 21 at 04:36 PM • permalink
#196 Paco: It may not have a cigarette lighter, but the name is appropriate. Perhaps an even more appropo name would have been “For People With Way Too Much Money”.
Posted by Deborah Leigh on 2008 02 21 at 05:23 PM • permalink
- #211 Hi Pogs
I read somewhere a looooong time ago that a man NEVER asks a woman to marry him unless he’s quite sure she’ll say yes.
I wonder if they’d talked about it before he sprang the question?
It was my Birthday. We’d had a big blue. I was asked at Sizzler, and then I wasn’t really asked. Set the tone for the marriage. So many things I missed that I should have noticed.
It’s unfortunate that he got knocked back, but it’s better there than at the church, or after!
#196 Is that what they do in shop now? Wow! Have times really changed!
Where do you put the surfboard, cuz that thing can’t even hold a wet suit….
Posted by Deborah Leigh on 2008 02 21 at 05:25 PM • permalink
having looked at the video, I think it’s likely the subject of marriage came up at sometime, but the guy was probably more into the idea than she was.
I believe she did the right thing. Placing her in that position is simply trying to force her to accept his proposal.
She did let him down gently instead of freaking out and hurling abuse at him.
#196 Now to tie nicely into the theme of the original thread….somebody needs to apologize for that, that, er, that thing. I refuse to reference that as a automobile! So many trees, so many toxic chemicals! Oh, the tragedy!
Can you get it in mahogany and cherry?
Posted by Deborah Leigh on 2008 02 21 at 05:33 PM • permalink
#211 Poor guy! Too bad the Rocket’s coach didn’t get after the player who was laughing! What an idiot!
Posted by Deborah Leigh on 2008 02 21 at 05:39 PM • permalink
for the less well heeled
Posted by eeniemeenie on 2008 02 21 at 05:42 PM • permalink
#226 oaky dokey (worst pun ever)
Posted by eeniemeenie on 2008 02 21 at 06:15 PM • permalink
Paco—looks like a Performance Auto of Coniferous Origin to me…
Lyle —
Meta-musings are
meta-mucil for the brain
Soothing an idea’s passage
While leaving less stain.Posted by richard mcenroe on 2008 02 21 at 10:10 PM • permalink
Paco—Good thing that car can do 240. I don’t think beavers swim that fast.
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2008 02 21 at 10:12 PM • permalink
Sorry – laughing too hard to apologise.
Posted by carpefraise on 2008 02 21 at 11:37 PM • permalink
#140, … simply by making the same men march past Matthews several times…
Is this where Hanna Barbera picked up their famous money-saving cartoon background technique?
Or did Castro get it from them?Posted by carpefraise on 2008 02 21 at 11:45 PM • permalink
#157…that’s HORDE of manic vikings…
Don’t want readers to be distracted by their own arms waving in distress at your grammatical irregularities?
Download the Phrasing Alteration and Calibration Option onto your toolbar and type happily ever after.
Posted by carpefraise on 2008 02 21 at 11:54 PM • permalink
#239, Carpe, D’oh, my bad. My grammatical skills deteriorate when I’ve been drinking and playing dice most of the night.
BTW, that chinese dice game with the cups is loads of fun.
Posted by The_Wizard_of_WOZ on 2008 02 22 at 02:39 AM • permalink
#240, don’t take me too seriously, but I do notice the hoard/horde mistakes EVERYWHERE.
Not exactly deadly, but it does make me go AIEEE! on occasion.
Posted by carpefraise on 2008 02 22 at 08:29 AM • permalink
I didn’t see Richard apologise to a single frog. The tree’s a start I suppose.
As for Leunig, the childlike incomprehension which worked so well for him early in his cartooning career doesn’t translate well to political comment.
Posted by Michaels Duck on 2008 02 22 at 03:39 PM • permalink
#241, Carpe, What can I say, I’d like a Scandinavian Harem.
Sue me.
Posted by The_Wizard_of_WOZ on 2008 02 22 at 04:30 PM • permalink
#242 I didn’t see Richard apologise to a single frog. The tree’s a start I suppose.
Tree frog….
Posted by Deborah Leigh on 2008 02 22 at 07:34 PM • permalink
Sensible Swim… I didn’t apologize to the only frog I found because you can’t apologize with your mouth full… them’s good eatin’.
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2008 02 22 at 09:24 PM • permalink
- #241
But if he had some Vikings in reserve, then they would constitute a hoard.CheersPosted by J.M. Heinrichs on 2008 02 23 at 12:40 AM • permalink
- If every day is Sorry Day, then I’m not too late to say I’m sorry about Mr Tim having the Cancer. It’s not good, the Cancer. I had some advanced metastatic melanoma myownself, back in ‘97, with an exciting (in a bad way) reccurance in ‘99, and y’know what? I didn’t care for it, that’s what.
And if I’m late to try to stammer out what a cool and funny and informative and exciting (in a good way) website you’ve been running here for lo, these years, well, I’m sorry about that too.
Stoop Davey DavePosted by formerly Huck Foley on 2008 02 24 at 12:34 AM • permalink
BTW: ever notice how Wron’s “enemies” have a funny way of vanishing?
Boy howdy! What, y’thought I was on vacation or sump’n?
Posted by formerly Huck Foley on 2008 02 24 at 01:41 AM • permalink
#243 Hey, whatever keeps you happy and off the streets!! Go it, young ‘un!
Just save some of that energy for the lovelorn amongst us…*innocent look to the stars*
Posted by carpefraise on 2008 02 24 at 03:23 AM • permalink
We apologize for the yojimbo, in advance, this morning.
/pre-emptive apology (in) continuous operation