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Last updated on July 27th, 2017 at 01:03 pm
Former Greens candidate Thom Lyons is threatening to sue Tex at Whacking Day:
My lawyer says I’ll own the guys house when we’re done with him.
I’m no lawyer, but this doesn’t seem a likely outcome. Hit the Tex link and links within to review Thom’s, er, case.
- Tex is in a battle of wits where his opponent unilaterally disarmed some time ago.
Most entertaining. You really can’t make this stuff up.
One additional amusement: on the Greens site, it states that Thom Lyons
also spent 5 years in Los Alamos, New Mexico (81-85) which is the home of the Los Alamos National Laboratory, centre for American alternate energy research.
Los Alamos is perhaps a bit better known (at least by people who, you know, read stuff like History) as the place where they developed the A-bomb. Most of the “alternate energy research” conducted at the Los Alamos National Laboratory involves some fairly energetic events otherwise known as H-Bomb Detonations.
- *I’d be interested to see what he’s planning on launching a suit over- defamation? Libel?
Re-publishing statements made in the public domain don’t come under either; breach of copyright? There’s no watermark on the image and is obviously in the public domain, (and probably on Google images) so not much chance their either.
Gratuitous abuse? Not really actionable except as an assault, but pole-smoking cumstain seems a fair statement of fact rather than a threat or abuse.
Going by the literacy level and degree of dementia, is Tex sure that Thommo isn’t one of manic Margo’s many multiple personalities?
*based on the memories of civil law subjects when in 2nd year of an incomplete LLB in 1978, so quite likely to be completely wrong, especially seeing as large amounts of strong drink have pretty well soaked that particular part of the medulla.
- Weren’t the greens the ones claiming their rights were being trampled when Tasmanian timber concern Gunns sued them for libel?
Freedom of speech for greens. But not those who opose them.
Posted by niobium2000 on 11/04 at 12:20 AM • permalink
- Alternate energy source? As in burning cities for fuel instead of the other way around?Posted by richard mcenroe on 11/04 at 12:36 AM • permalink
- C’mon everyone you’re all being too hard on Thom.
It’s a credit to this great country that someone can be a semi-literate moron and believe he has a chance to attain high office.
Good on you Thom, I say – everyone should have a dream (although you might want to make yours a little more realistic).
— Nora
PS Thom’s rants remind me of an abusive letter I got from a heartsick teenager who was upset when I pointed out in a story that Prince’s movie Under The Cherry Moon was crap which is why it was making its TV debut in a graveyard slot.
Ah, those were the days – when someone had to put pen to paper…
Posted by The Thin Man Returns on 11/04 at 12:36 AM • permalink
- Must be like being attacked by a rabid sheep. Root causes of this mans problems can be seen below as taken from his website.
With over 10 years of university studies and 2 Bachelor’s Degrees with work on a third plus work on a Masters Degree, he is one of the most highly educated Greens and potentially a great asset to the State Government.
Posted by thefrollickingmole on 11/04 at 12:47 AM • permalink
- With over 10 years of university studies and 2 Bachelor’s Degrees with work on a third plus work on a Masters Degree, he is one of the most highly educated Greens and potentially a great asset to the State Government.
really. This educated genius argued that:
– Cuba allows opposition parties and has free elections
– Saddam Hussein was freely elected
– supply and demand have nothing to do with price
– there was no such person as Che Guevara
– no plane hit the pentagon on 9/11A great mind the Greens have here….
- Lionel Hutz must be the lawyer.
Not only will I prove Tex guilty, I’ll also prove him innocent of being NOT guilty…
Posted by Quentin George on 11/04 at 01:13 AM • permalink
- I love what he said about Narre Warren South, which is one of the largest growth corridors in Melbourne – previously being paddocks that are now new housing estates for young families:
“This once beautiful area is under serious developer threat. Growth should be stopped immediately until all new houses are designed that are fully GREEN, energy conservative and generating, and built to at least an R-30 insulation rating.”
Maybe we should all be living in energy inefficient inner-city period housing in Carlton or Fitzroy?
- I would have thought you’d be a big fan of Thom’s, Tim, as he’s a man after your own heart. After all, according to his website he’s a big fan of skydiving… that is, burning up vast amounts of heavily refined fossil fuel in the pursuit of personal thrills in an expensive and extremely wasteful leisure activity.
Compared to that, your cheap thrills hooning about in overpowered cars looks positively earth-nurturing.
Posted by blandwagon on 11/04 at 02:44 AM • permalink
- This would be hilarious if it ever got up in court:
LAWYER:
Mr Tex, I’m going to read out a quote from your blog now:I think poor Thom is a few cans short of a six-pack. Just check out this non-sequiter rant in response to my invitation that his lawyers to e-mail me …
Let me draw your attention to the phrase, ‘a few cans short of a six-pack’. What did you mean by that?
TEX:
I meant that he was a few cans short of a six-pack.LAWYER:
Mr Tex, the Macquarie Dictionary defines the phrase ‘a few cans short of a six-pack’ as ‘being feeble-minded, stupid, addled, or confused’. In applying this description to Mr Lyons, is this what you meant?TEX:
I meant that he was a few cans short of a six-pack.LAWYER:
No further questions, your honour.Not that I want it to get to that. The results would be hilarious, though …
- C’mon Nora, you hypocritically tell everyone else to go easy on Thom, yet say –
It’s a credit to this great country that someone can be a semi-literate moron and believe he has a chance to attain high office.
How do you know he’s a semi-literate moron? How do you know he is in his naturual state at all? Especially when you take into account that he is a member of the Greens, after all. And in the true tradition of the Australian Greens, he may have over-drank his bong water (perhaps in frustration, after losing his last bud) before conveying his emotions to Tex.
- You guys are arseholes. Didn’t your parents tell you it’s not nice to make fun of the mentally disabled?Posted by James Waterton on 11/04 at 03:11 AM • permalink
- Unless you’ve really dealt with a Green, you have no idea of the disconnect. I had to explain an commonplace technical process to one (a rather attractive woman, as it happens), who had her Ph.D., and who literally could not keep the simplest instruction in her head, for more than about 15 seconds. Again and again, we went over the same steps. It was trying to teach a goldfish to program a VCR. She was a Greens Senate candidate.
With over 10 years of university studies and 2 Bachelor’s Degrees with work on a third plus work on a Masters Degree, he is one of the most highly educated Greens and potentially a great asset to the State Government
It took him 10 years to get two Bachelor’s? He really must have been busting his ass with that 3 credit hour per semester load. Perhaps I should cut him a little slack, seeing how he recovering from all of that vicious “combat” he endured behind his camera. And as an AF airman, he was sure to be in the thick off it, dodging all of those incoming aircraft, terrifying formations of inbound/outbound soldiers, merciless forklift drivers. Considering the horrendous amounts of hashish he undoubtedly was forced to smoke simply to cope with the trauma, its no wonder he’s pacing himself.Poor Thom. He’s one of those unfortunate people who form foamy white crap on the sides of their mouths when they rant. Another sad legacy from back in the “Nam”.
Pole-smoking cumstain. Pretty much says it all. What a fuckstick.
- Thom Llyons, Mark Latham and Barnaby joyce should start their own Party.Posted by Susan Norton on 11/04 at 04:05 AM • permalink
- “This once beautiful area is under serious developer threat…
Beautiful? Only if you believe run-down former sheep and cattle pastures are beautiful. Narre Warren South, a solid hour’s drive down the Monash (a car park at peak hours) makes even Werribee look attractive. Real Kath and Kim territory.
he’s a big fan of skydiving…
Skydiving: a bogan ‘sport’. Definition of bogan sport: one that you can pick up in an afternoon and that requires no skill or training whatsoever.
Posted by walterplinge on 11/04 at 04:14 AM • permalink
- I just had a look at the photo of Thom. My God – it’s a Phillip Adams clone!Posted by walterplinge on 11/04 at 04:18 AM • permalink
- What half-competent lawyer would tell a client that he will be getting the defendant’s house in a defamation claim? Defamation used to be a bit of a license to print money, but those days are long gone, and these days there is barely a riskier area of litigation.
What that lawyer should also point out to Thommy/Thommo is this: the litigation caper uses up a lot of resources (eg forests of paper, energy costs, etc).
Or is Thommo one of these guys who wants to save the planet by EVERYONE ELSE cutting down – but not him?
Posted by Flying Giraffe on 11/04 at 05:06 AM • permalink
- #22
How do you know he’s a semi-literate moron?
I read his posts 😉— Nora
Posted by The Thin Man Returns on 11/04 at 07:29 AM • permalink
- So Lyons
spent 5 years in Los Alamos, New Mexico (81-85) which is the home of the Los Alamos National Laboratory, centre for American alternate energy research.
Notice that he doesn’t claim that he worked at the lab, only that he lived in the same town. I’ve lived near some pretty impressive places myself over the years. It never occurred to me to add that to my resume.
- I had to explain an commonplace technical process to one (a rather attractive woman, as it happens), who had her Ph.D., and who literally could not keep the simplest instruction in her head, for more than about 15 seconds.
Unfortunately, I’ve found this to be true of most of the Ph.D.s I’ve met.
I love the Internet. You get the best laughs out of it.
- Isn’t Thom a bit old for those childish temper tantrums? If I hadn’t been following this hilarious feud (more accurately, Tex’s rattling the LLL monkey cage) at Whacking Day, I’d swear some 20-year-old political science student had name-jacked him. What a blockhead.Posted by Spiny Norman on 11/04 at 12:14 PM • permalink
- Nearly as good as the greens helper at the last election near my poling station.
Big banner saying “green not greed”, sitting in a new mercedies, with the air con on and door open handing out leaflets.
Mentaly challenged….Posted by thefrollickingmole on 11/04 at 05:34 PM • permalink
- Wasnt there an R&B band called ‘Thom Lyons and The Three Degrees’?Posted by Deo Vindice on 11/04 at 07:16 PM • permalink
- i had been saving those caps that you just used up mr sortelli! now i can’t show my anger and indignation properly!!!11!!Posted by Deo Vindice on 11/04 at 11:37 PM • permalink
- Someone should tell that addled Thom-fool that once he’s in a hole to stop digging.
Oh gaaawd what a dope.
Posted by Spiny Norman on 11/05 at 12:19 AM • permalink
YOUR LAKE A FATULENT DOG AT A PANTY
You know, Sortelli, the more I look at that, the more it looks a like a possible successor to “ALL YOUR BASE… “
Maybe not.
:^P
Posted by Spiny Norman on 11/05 at 01:23 AM • permalink
- Just on holidays in Tasmania at the moment and had a laugh watching the State Government commercials on television introducing the new shool reports emphasising ‘learnings’. Are these the same as ‘walkings’ and ‘talkings’. Not surprised seeing as this is the state that elects Bob Brown to the Senate over and over again.
- Hehe! Check Whacking Day again. Thom is issuing more threats at Tex.Posted by James Waterton on 11/05 at 11:13 AM • permalink
And he’s got a combover!