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Yet another cancer column … made slightly unusual in the history of such pieces by the phrase “burning pig fat”.

Posted by Tim B. on 02/01/2008 at 11:39 AM
    1. “Which means this: as best as medical science is currently able to tell me – I’m cured.”

      Yay!

      I’m sure it won’t be long until you’re (not your) back to those Big Lunches with Expensive Wine.

      Posted by ErnieG on 2008 02 01 at 11:51 AM • permalink

 

    1. Fantastic news, Tim.

      Now get back to bed!

      Posted by Nilknarf Arbed on 2008 02 01 at 12:07 PM • permalink

 

    1. Bed be F***ed- he’s got pre-season training with Collingwood to worry about.

      Posted by Scott W on 2008 02 01 at 12:12 PM • permalink

 

    1. Cured is the favorite word for anyone who has ever heard the word cancer. Yay, Tim.

      Posted by Retread on 2008 02 01 at 12:19 PM • permalink

 

    1. Tim, may you be deprived of carcinogenic column-fuel all the days of your life. Per eundem Christum Dominum nostrum.

      Posted by C.L. on 2008 02 01 at 12:22 PM • permalink

 

    1. Next time someone wants a pound of your flesh, Tim, you can say you’ve already given.

      Glad it was so straightforward and uneventful.  I sympathize mightily with your hospital experiences.  Vampires and sadists live in hospitals, and there’s no way to satisfy them.

      Posted by RebeccaH on 2008 02 01 at 12:32 PM • permalink

 

    1. JOURNALIST NEEDS NEW MATERIAL
      Why Tim?  Ya missing a colon?Ba da boom.

      Thanks folks, I’ll be here all week and don’t forget to try the baby seal – it’s delicious.

      Posted by joe bagadonuts on 2008 02 01 at 12:38 PM • permalink

 

    1. Tim,

      So glad they got it all and you’ll soon be back to A-plus condition. Those physiotherapists may be tough but they know what they’re doing – ya gotta move after surgery. And I’m assuming/hoping that the plastic bag thing is temporary (sometimes it is, sometimes not).

      Posted by Dr Alice on 2008 02 01 at 01:03 PM • permalink

 

    1. Agnostic, eh?

      I just knew you were the commenter skeptic, or whatever the hell your nic was.

      How did it feel to get banned by Andrea?

      OH, don’t worry about the “bag”, I’ve had four of them. Three of them took all my money.

      The good news is, if this one thinks she can take all my money…HA! I have none.

      Posted by El Cid on 2008 02 01 at 01:06 PM • permalink

 

    1. Yea.

      Now get back to your primary reason for existence—annoying international head titlers!

      (BTW—I have evidence and I think a scientific consensus (of me) that head titling is a major cause of global warming.

      Posted by Room 237 on 2008 02 01 at 01:06 PM • permalink

 

    1. Tim Blair: Up, (more or less) Getting Around, Taking It To The Moonbats. What could be more perfect in this best of all possible worlds?

      Posted by paco on 2008 02 01 at 01:11 PM • permalink

 

    1. #7: Good one, Joe!

      Posted by paco on 2008 02 01 at 01:12 PM • permalink

 

    1. Super aspidem et basiliscum ambulabis, et conculcabis leonem et draconem.

      Thou shalt tread upon the asp and the basilisk, and thou shalt trample underfoot the lion and the dragon.

      Posted by paco on 2008 02 01 at 01:19 PM • permalink

 

    1. Not meaning to be flippant or anything… but after your latest escape I have a suggestion for some new material, Tim.

      Next week, perhaps we might see the said journalist wrapped tightly in cling wrap, bound in a straight jacket, padlocked in chains and submerged in a huge, glass Timquarium.

      No hurry. Catch your breath first.

      Posted by splice on 2008 02 01 at 01:23 PM • permalink

 

    1. Jumping over your age in double-decker buses on a motorcycle would work too.

      Posted by splice on 2008 02 01 at 01:23 PM • permalink

 

    1. …but they did actually get me out of bed and staggering towards the ward door on that first day.

      Amazing effort, Tim. Glad it’s all over and congratulations.

      Posted by JAFA on 2008 02 01 at 01:37 PM • permalink

 

    1. Tim, just be thankful that you weren’t hospitalized in San Francisco. Plastic bags of any sort are criminal. You have to bring your own. Conjures alot of really bad images, doesn’t it?

      Posted by Deborah Leigh on 2008 02 01 at 01:47 PM • permalink

 

    1. Truly a gut wrenching tale . Nobody can pooh-pooh you or bag you out after this . Carry on Tim. Underturd. Undeterred.

      Posted by Wacko on 2008 02 01 at 02:14 PM • permalink

 

    1. Not sure which was the best line in the column –

      A certain amount of strength is sapped by this and it’s just as debilitating whether you’re the burly type capable of tossing cabers or a sedentary journalist fellow who has just used an online dictionary to make sure cabers is spelt right.

      – or –

      I’m cured.

      Actually, that’s a no-brainer.

      Posted by Dave S. on 2008 02 01 at 02:16 PM • permalink

 

    1. “I was host to a visibly evil egg-size tumour – the medical equivalent of a global Green government living in my arse.”

      Best line of the decade. So far.

      Posted by Harry Bergeron on 2008 02 01 at 02:28 PM • permalink

 

    1. You realize that you’re in for a long, long bout of intestine jokes, don’t you, Tim?  That’s what you get for needing surgery in the first place.

      Even so, the frightening bit is over, and your family, friends, online friends, etc. are all happy and relieved.  Oh, and here:

      *headslap for scaring us*

      Posted by RebeccaH on 2008 02 01 at 03:43 PM • permalink

 

    1. Peter Garrett better back off on that ban-plastic-bags campaign of his.

      Got your Plastic Auxiliary Colon Offsets right here! Remember: With Paco medical products, you’ll never get any onya.

      Posted by paco on 2008 02 01 at 03:43 PM • permalink

 

    1. Peter Garrett better back off on that ban-plastic-bags campaign of his.

      But, but, but – what’s wrong with a paper bag?  Surely they can do the job just as well?  You need to think of the dolphins.

      As for your surgeon, Prof Newstead.  Boy, doing his job must take a lot of guts.

      Boom boom.

      Posted by mr creosote on 2008 02 01 at 03:59 PM • permalink

 

    1. “I was host to a visibly evil egg-size tumour – the medical equivalent of a global Green government living in my arse.”

      I’d steal that, but I might get the same problem.

      Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2008 02 01 at 04:08 PM • permalink

 

    1. Oh, Tim.

      I wanted to make a some kind of joke about it, but it sounds too horrific.

      So happy everything’s worked out and that you’re back with us again.

      Posted by ann j on 2008 02 01 at 04:19 PM • permalink

 

    1. Hey, I lost five pounds this month, too. You don’t hear me bellyaching. And I had to give up snack cakes. You took the easy route, you lazy bastard.

      Posted by Dave S. on 2008 02 01 at 04:23 PM • permalink

 

    1. produce letter from parents excusing Tim from physical activity

      She wouldn’t, you know. Give you the note.

      “It’s good for you…”

      I dunno, I’d give Garrett the bag… contents first.

      Posted by kae on 2008 02 01 at 05:03 PM • permalink

 

    1. #21
      *headslap for scaring us*

      Ha!

      Is that a smack up-side the head?

      You’re in fine form, RebeccaH.

      Shit, you lot are funny.

      Posted by kae on 2008 02 01 at 05:13 PM • permalink

 

    1. All ya’ll have a good weekend and see you Wednesday.

      Elizabeth
      Imperial Keeper

      Posted by Elizabeth Imperial Keeper on 2008 02 01 at 05:15 PM • permalink

 

    1. #26 Dave S.: Good work! If you’re going to be traveling through Mississippi anytime soon, looks like you won’t have to bag a lunch.

      Posted by paco on 2008 02 01 at 05:30 PM • permalink

 

    1. You should give the bag a name – Kevin sounds good.

      Posted by Contrail on 2008 02 01 at 05:51 PM • permalink

 

    1. Yay!  Cured is a good word – an excellent word in fact.  It’s one that applies to me and skin cancer over 20 years ago.  Feels good to hear it, doesn’t it.

      Posted by Teresa on 2008 02 01 at 06:00 PM • permalink

 

    1. Tis said that when America sneezes, Australia catches a cold. Tim gets sick – and look what happens to The Bulletin. Spooky.

      Bryan Ferry is reputed to have one of those plastic thingummies, which just goes to show it is all rather glamorous.

      BTW, given that Tim’s column was actually about Tim, I wonder if he managed to beat Traceee with the personal pronoun count this week? Tough ask.

      Posted by Margos Maid on 2008 02 01 at 06:25 PM • permalink

 

    1. Having spent a bit of time with them over the years, I can tell you, Physiotherapists are just people who weren’t quite cruel enough to become dentists.

      Posted by Harry Buttle on 2008 02 01 at 06:27 PM • permalink

 

    1. Best news I’ve heard in a very long time, Tim.

      Several bottles of shiraz being opened right now in your honor.

      Posted by Mr. Bingley on 2008 02 01 at 06:37 PM • permalink

 

    1. You got yourself gutted like a fish and survived to share the experience.

      Well done, Mr. Tim.

      Posted by Grimmy on 2008 02 01 at 06:39 PM • permalink

 

    1. OT

      Check out the headline on the SMH webpage about “Retarded women…”

      A shocking story, sure enough, but especially charming use of language to describe people with Downs Syndrome.

      Posted by Margos Maid on 2008 02 01 at 06:43 PM • permalink

 

    1. #37 No sooner mentioned and they changed it to “disabled”…

      Posted by Margos Maid on 2008 02 01 at 06:44 PM • permalink

 

    1. Tim, I love it that you are able to write such a humerous article so soon after your illness.

      Both my wife and I are pleased that you are well.

      And such a quick way to lose weight… it’ not a way I want to do it.

      Posted by wanglese on 2008 02 01 at 06:47 PM • permalink

 

    1. Your ex tumour has now been offered a job with Media Watch.

      Posted by Howzat on 2008 02 01 at 06:51 PM • permalink

 

    1. Best. Column. Ever.

      Posted by Jack Lacton on 2008 02 01 at 07:18 PM • permalink

 

    1. Blair is back, Oakes joins Blair now Gates hotmail says you who to yahoo. Where are we going?
      As we read Internet access in India improved Friday as international service providers shifted their Internet traffic to cables under the Pacific Ocean to bypass two undersea cables damaged earlier this week. The two cables deep under the Mediterranean Sea snapped on Wednesday, disrupting service since then across a swath of Asia and the Middle East.

      Posted by stackja1945 on 2008 02 01 at 07:24 PM • permalink

 

    1. With five pounds of malignancy removed, will Tim be only 97% as entertaining now?

      Posted by Dave S. on 2008 02 01 at 07:31 PM • permalink

 

    1. burning pig fat..droooolll….

      Posted by Pickles on 2008 02 01 at 07:40 PM • permalink

 

    1. Good column Tim. Especially for a man in your delicate condition.
      It’s great to have you back.

      Posted by greene on 2008 02 01 at 07:40 PM • permalink

 

    1. Don’t mean to butt in, but here’s the colorectal surgeon song:

      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_N0w2rORwSc

      Posted by kiwinews on 2008 02 01 at 07:43 PM • permalink

 

    1. Did any one hear the story of the thief who snatched a plastic bag full of dog residue from the owner walking the dog? Urban [not Keith] myth maybe but good story. Like a bag full of KRudd, who is supposedly peeling mandarins.

      Posted by stackja1945 on 2008 02 01 at 07:57 PM • permalink

 

    1. Will your colleagues call you ‘semi colon’?

      Jokes aside, you are a legend Tim. Being the same age, your story gave me a real shock. I will pay more attention as to whether or not I should see a Doctor instead of not wanting to appear a ‘wus’.

      I’m glad Im not buying groceries from the good Professor. Something egg sized involved 2.5 kilos in the end. He must have had his hand on the scales at the time.

      Posted by Nic on 2008 02 01 at 07:58 PM • permalink

 

    1. #37, Margos, horrifying indeed.  If anyone needed confirmation of the moral vacuum that is radical Islam, that article reveals it.

      Posted by RebeccaH on 2008 02 01 at 07:59 PM • permalink

 

    1. #46, kiwi, kick-ass link!  Really.

      Posted by RebeccaH on 2008 02 01 at 08:04 PM • permalink

 

    1. #38
      They’re having a hard time keeping up with the PC league in the Antipodes, ain’t it ‘otherwise abled’ nowadays?Good news Tim, MM will prolly be pleased that you’re back to massaging your column …

      Posted by egg_ on 2008 02 01 at 08:05 PM • permalink

 

    1. You write so well when in pain. I hope your improvement is rapid. Very best wishes.

      If Garrett bans the plastic you may be able to get one of those nice green bags from Woolworths. ‘And what have you got in there today Mr Blair’

      Posted by mehaul on 2008 02 01 at 08:15 PM • permalink

 

    1. No nodes involved out of 30 sampled.  News doesn’t get much better than that.

      Despite everything you are one very fortunate fellow!

      I’m very pleased for you and all your family.

      Posted by Janice on 2008 02 01 at 08:16 PM • permalink

 

    1. Thank heaven for Nadia!

      “Are you sick?”

      Posted by kae on 2008 02 01 at 08:18 PM • permalink

 

    1. ” – the medical equivalent of a global Green government living in my arse.”

      He ain’t called Bob Brown for nothing.

      Posted by Dminor on 2008 02 01 at 08:34 PM • permalink

 

    1. Good column, Tim. The talking helicopter made me chuckle out loud (“COL” I guess in internet speak), and the final line gave me a big smile, and a buzz that lasted long after I’d finished reading.

      Posted by daddy dave on 2008 02 01 at 08:37 PM • permalink

 

    1. I am happy today. Tim is cured.

      Posted by MentalFloss on 2008 02 01 at 08:54 PM • permalink

 

    1. Well done that team.  Advances in medical science are among western civilization’s greatest achievements.

      Fantastic result, Tim.

      Posted by Olrence on 2008 02 01 at 09:16 PM • permalink

 

    1. OT, but inspirational all the same.

      Some ‘dirtbag’ in Polk County Florida who got pulled over in a routine traffic stop ended up ‘executing’ the deputy who stopped him. The deputy was shot eight times, including once behind his right ear at close range.
      Another deputy was wounded and a police dog killed.  A statewide manhunt ensued.
      The low-life was found hiding in a wooded area with his gun. SWAT team officers fired and hit the guy 68 times.
      Now here’s the kicker:
      Naturally, the media asked why they shot him 68 times. Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd, told the Orlando Sentinel:

      ‘That’s all the bullets we had!’
      (Talk about an all time classic answer!!!)

      Posted by Olrence on 2008 02 01 at 09:26 PM • permalink

 

    1. O/T (you started it, Paco} In case anyone’s wondering,  this is how we communicate with each other.

      Posted by RebeccaH on 2008 02 01 at 09:30 PM • permalink

 

    1. Another great column and even better news. Well done to all involved.

      Posted by Polly on 2008 02 01 at 09:34 PM • permalink

 

    1. What’s the worst thing about a colostomy bag?
      Finding matching belt and shoes.
      /old joke. Couldn’t resist.

      Posted by Merlin on 2008 02 01 at 09:41 PM • permalink

 

    1. Tim, the next time some leftie says that you’re full of sh*t, just throw that bag at him and say, “No, I’m not, and here’s the proof!”

      Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2008 02 01 at 10:03 PM • permalink

 

    1. Another webpage

      Fighters from all over Australia will step into the ring and take on the bream of the Ametuer boxing world from the Ukraine.

      Our glasshouse is stoned again.

      Posted by stackja1945 on 2008 02 01 at 10:23 PM • permalink

 

    1. #64: Ar! The Ozzies’ll kick their bass!

      Posted by paco on 2008 02 01 at 10:27 PM • permalink

 

    1. Since we’re way off topic, I’ve found archival footage of Detective Paco in action.

      Posted by Nilknarf Arbed on 2008 02 01 at 10:31 PM • permalink

 

    1. What about the col(on)atteral damage?- the millions of innocent tumour cells killed and the multi-millions made homeless by your war on cancer?

      Where’s the proof that said tumour had any plans to invade neighbouring regions?

      IMHO, neocon Tim only started this war to boost the profits of big medicine. It’s not even as if the tumour had tried to kill his Daddy.

      Kofi Annan must be deeply concerned.

      Posted by eeniemeenie on 2008 02 01 at 10:38 PM • permalink

 

    1. #66: Ah, see there? A distinguished lineage!

      Posted by paco on 2008 02 01 at 10:40 PM • permalink

 

    1. For cleaning out the cobwebs or other things.
      BRISBANE reports: CYCLONE GENE MOVING SOUTH ABOUT 03 KNOTS. CYCLONE WEAKENING. EXPECT WINDS OVER 33 KNOTS WITHIN 180 MILES OF CENTRE IN THE SOUTHERN SEMICIRCLE AND WITHIN 120 MILES OF CENTRE ELSEWHERE.
      Chart shows NZ is south of GENE.

      Posted by stackja1945 on 2008 02 01 at 10:41 PM • permalink

 

    1. NSW Fair Trading Minister Linda Burney has called the incident, where an elderly woman loses thousands to shonky tradesmen, the lowest of the low, and says people should always use licensed trades people to insure they don’t get ripped off.

      Since Linda Burney is NSW’s first indigenous MP, can we expect an apology for her inaction? Will she be $orry?

      Posted by stackja1945 on 2008 02 01 at 10:50 PM • permalink

 

    1. 66 we go O/T as soon as his Timship packs his bags leaves the building. We are a restless lot.

      Posted by stackja1945 on 2008 02 01 at 10:53 PM • permalink

 

    1. 64 Webpage now reads:

      Fighters from all over Australia will step into the ring and take on the cream of the ametuer boxing world from the Ukraine.

      Only half stoned now.

      Posted by stackja1945 on 2008 02 01 at 10:59 PM • permalink

 

    1. #64 tee hee sounds like the new girl on the local rag here. There’s a couple of groaners in this article. Shouldn’t someone be correcting her?

      Posted by kae on 2008 02 01 at 11:20 PM • permalink

 

    1. OT, just a reminder that the Canberra meeting of the Blair Brethren is on next Saturday.  Email Pogria or me for details and confirm attendance.

      Posted by craigo on 2008 02 01 at 11:26 PM • permalink

 

    1. #73 Kae, they were sole mates – maybe they shared a shoe size? heh heh.

      Posted by Latino on 2008 02 01 at 11:37 PM • permalink

 

    1. Eenie Meenie, you have to work on the slogans. Somehow “No blood for shit” just doesn’t ring.  “No shit, blood” sounds like a ghetto affirmation.  And it’s not a “tumor” it’s “undocumented tissue”.

      Posted by kiwinews on 2008 02 01 at 11:38 PM • permalink

 

    1. 73 kae, I try to remember to spell check. Do not know about kids today.

      As Paul Lynde used to sing, “Why can’t they be like we were / Perfect in every way / Oh, what’s the matter with kids today?

      This was a lyric from the 1960 musical Bye Bye Birdie. Yes I am that old.

      Posted by stackja1945 on 2008 02 01 at 11:40 PM • permalink

 

    1. Yeah Latino, and the bit about

      anecdotes which resembled the larrkin… were paramount

      She wrote a reasonable piece in the same issue about attending a clairvoyant’s “show” at the local club and how she is still a skeptic. I think there are only about three reporters/writers on the local rag.

      They need to expand their horizons.

      And get a proof reader.

      Posted by kae on 2008 02 01 at 11:41 PM • permalink

 

    1. “Blair Brethren” Exclusive?
      Labor will be $orry.

      Posted by stackja1945 on 2008 02 01 at 11:42 PM • permalink

 

    1. #77
      Spell check’s fine, but you need to know all the different spellings of different meaning but same sounding words.Best I ever saw, and I’ve mentioned it many times, was an HUGE headline on the front of the QT, Ipswich’s newspaper, in reference to a father who was very upset to see that his toddler’s grave had been desecrated with toys and so on stolen. The headline read (in type as huge as it can be on the front page…)

      “I BALLED MY EYES OUT”

      now that’s some session, but I think he meant bawled.

      I wish I had the headline thingies of that story that they used to put in the little cages outside the newsagents.

      Priceless.

      Posted by kae on 2008 02 01 at 11:45 PM • permalink

 

    1. Oh, um, hey.

      Isn’t the cure for inflation recession?

      Someone should have a whisper in Kevvie’s shell-pink ear.

      Posted by kae on 2008 02 01 at 11:53 PM • permalink

 

    1. We had a charming old crusty chap with a colostomy bag living in Northampton. My Aunty was with a mob who would go around and cook and assist him in his home, rather than he have to go to an old peoples home or special needs housing.

      He wasnt the cleanest of chaps and you know how some people put out plastic bottles of water to stop dogs crapping on their lawns?
      Well this bloke went one better, he used to just pitch his old colostomy bags off the verandah out the front into his yard.
      Every day..
      All year…

      The final straw came when some of the carers started to find the bags in the sink and worst of all in his fridge.
      He was then sent off to the home.

      Nadia will stick you in a home if you do that Tim!! So dont.

      Posted by thefrollickingmole on 2008 02 02 at 12:00 AM • permalink

 

    1. 80 kae, I was taught read for meaning. For example: The principal’s principal principle there at the concert was to see school kids behaved as their parents watched.

      Posted by stackja1945 on 2008 02 02 at 12:03 AM • permalink

 

    1. #83 Stack
      I mostly just know the right word… usually. I do, however, have relapses. Or is that prolapses? No, I’m not a pro journalist, so if I cock up my written English lingo it’s not a prolapse…
      I was 2 in 60, I don’t remember too much about Bye Bye Birdie, but I have heard that song.

      Posted by kae on 2008 02 02 at 12:09 AM • permalink

 

    1. I never use spell check. Makes one lazy.

      Posted by Latino on 2008 02 02 at 12:11 AM • permalink

 

    1. Hmmm, new material …

      Apparently, the Sea Shepherds (dunno if they see the irony in their title) will increase their Southern Ocean fleet to two so that they can rotate them in a constant vigil on the eeevil Japanese whalers.

      Perhaps, if the Shepherds can toss buteric acid at the whalers, the whalers can throw colostomy bags in return?

      Posted by egg_ on 2008 02 02 at 12:11 AM • permalink

 

    1. 84 kae a pro journalist once knew better but today they get edukated at univercity and well now we read the resalt.

      Posted by stackja1945 on 2008 02 02 at 12:12 AM • permalink

 

    1. “A certain amount of strength is sapped by this and it’s just as debilitating whether you’re the burly type capable of tossing cabers or a sedentary journalist fellow who has just used an online dictionary to make sure cabers is spelt right.”

      That’s normal.

      You get over it.

      I know.

      Posted by McAnzac on 2008 02 02 at 12:14 AM • permalink

 

    1. #86 Egg…

      Whales have colostomy bags?

      Who knew!

      (Well, there you go, save the whales, don’t ban plastic bags!)

      (I’m sure there’s something gross in whales that they can toss down on the protesters… gall bladders?…)

      Posted by kae on 2008 02 02 at 12:14 AM • permalink

 

    1. 85 Or should that be:
      I neva use spel chek. Makes one lazi.

      Posted by stackja1945 on 2008 02 02 at 12:22 AM • permalink

 

    1. #89 Kae

      Hehe, now that would be a colossal colostomy bag …

      Posted by egg_ on 2008 02 02 at 12:26 AM • permalink

 

    1. #90
      For SpellCzech, try babelfish?

      Posted by egg_ on 2008 02 02 at 12:31 AM • permalink

 

    1. 91 Google says bladder of a fin whale holds 5.5 gallons.

      Posted by stackja1945 on 2008 02 02 at 12:32 AM • permalink

 

    1. 92 or http://www.google.com/translate

      Posted by stackja1945 on 2008 02 02 at 12:35 AM • permalink

 

    1. Now we have
      AFP to question whaling activists

      Posted by stackja1945 on 2008 02 02 at 12:38 AM • permalink

 

    1. #95 – shouldn’t that be grill whaling activists?

      Posted by mr creosote on 2008 02 02 at 12:50 AM • permalink

 

    1. Now we have: China Chinalco and US aluminium producer Alcoa buys Rio stake, threatens BHP plan.

      Posted by stackja1945 on 2008 02 02 at 12:51 AM • permalink

 

    1. 96 gridiron? US football?

      Posted by stackja1945 on 2008 02 02 at 12:53 AM • permalink

 

    1. #93
      That’d really tell ‘em to piss off!

      Posted by kae on 2008 02 02 at 12:57 AM • permalink

 

    1. #95

      Whales will die while we are away, unfortunately.

      Hmm. Do you think the whales care about those “barbs” in the Steve Irwin?

      Posted by kae on 2008 02 02 at 12:59 AM • permalink

 

    1. 100 The “barb” in Steve Irwin, made its point.

      Posted by stackja1945 on 2008 02 02 at 01:03 AM • permalink

 

    1. #96
      Natural born krillers …Save the krill! Save the krill!

      Posted by egg_ on 2008 02 02 at 01:08 AM • permalink

 

    1. 102 Shrimp boats is a-coming their sails are in sight. Sounds like a song.

      Posted by stackja1945 on 2008 02 02 at 01:13 AM • permalink

 

    1. #99
      Greenpiss to the rescue …

      Posted by egg_ on 2008 02 02 at 01:16 AM • permalink

 

    1. 104 Green around the gills?

      Posted by stackja1945 on 2008 02 02 at 01:19 AM • permalink

 

    1. Meanwhile in Africa the noble savage:

      At least nine people were killed in western Kenya yesterday
      in revenge attacks over the shooting of an opposition MP, officials said yesterday, despite a call from the UN secretary general, Ban Ki-moon, for an end to the violence.

      Posted by stackja1945 on 2008 02 02 at 01:26 AM • permalink

 

    1. And

      A new botnet distributing male sexual enhancement pills spam has overtaken the notorious Storm worm botnet as the ‘largest single source of the world’s spam’, security vendor Marshal has warned.

      Maybe the Japanese could eat Spam not whale meat?

      Posted by stackja1945 on 2008 02 02 at 01:30 AM • permalink

 

    1. Oh, the humour on this thread!

      It krills me!

      Posted by mr creosote on 2008 02 02 at 01:42 AM • permalink

 

    1. 108 Or as said by Dr. Edward Morbius:

        In times long past, this planet was the home of a mighty, noble race of beings who called themselves the Krell.

      Posted by stackja1945 on 2008 02 02 at 01:56 AM • permalink

 

    1. #106 Annan’s peace mission must still be running.

      Nairobi, recently.

      Annan: Hello, I have come to bring peace between the Kenyan people.
      PM Mwai Kibaki: Hello, Kofi, it’s all over. We will form a government of national unity, won’t we Raila.
      Opposition leader Raila Odinga: That’s correct. We have overcome all our differences.
      Annan: So no problems with forming a government in partnership with a poofter pedophile with no testicles, Mwai?
      Odinga: Eh?
      Annan: Ludicrous claim anyway, Raila. If you were a poofter pedophile with no testicles how could you be fucking Mwai’s wife and daughter? Suppose the girl’s 15. Fucking two monkeys, you said. (looking at Kibaki) Raila calls Kikuyu people monkeys. Most amusing.
      Kibaki: Monkeys? I will hunt you and all your people down and slaughter them like the pigs they are. Kenya will be free of its sub-human tribes.
      Odinga: Sub-humans? We should have helped the British wipe out the Kikuyu when we had the chance. This is war, bloody war.

      Later, as Annan heads back to the airport, he reports in at the UN.
      Annan: It all went well. I used the same diplomacy that brought peace to Rwanda in 1994. Are you sure? 500,000 killed. Nobody mentioned that to me.

      Posted by Contrail on 2008 02 02 at 02:08 AM • permalink

 

    1. If you Google “burning pig fat” you are referred to his Timship. http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,22049,23143876-5001031,00.html
      /
      He has the power.

      Posted by stackja1945 on 2008 02 02 at 02:09 AM • permalink

 

    1. 110 Kofi, tea or biscuits?

      Posted by stackja1945 on 2008 02 02 at 02:16 AM • permalink

 

    1. At our ABC there are worries about the Scarlet Alliance and charged sex worker won’t get fair trial.
      Where is the Smallpox Alliance?

      Posted by stackja1945 on 2008 02 02 at 02:27 AM • permalink

 

    1. O/T:

      Thought y’all foreign devils might enjoy a bit of a laugh.
      Retired Special Forces man gets tried by jury of his peers.

      The charges were:
      1. Failure to save tax payers the cost of a jury trail for a thief.
      2. Using substandard caliber weapon on said thief.

      Posted by Grimmy on 2008 02 02 at 02:40 AM • permalink

 

    1. Sure, today it’s just a colostomy bag.

      Tomorrow, Labor’s gonna need new candidates…

      Posted by richard mcenroe on 2008 02 02 at 02:42 AM • permalink

 

    1. #114 That’s a great story Grimmy. I read it a few days ago, and I still laugh when I think about it.

      Tim, excellent article! Full of snickering.

      Posted by Ash_ on 2008 02 02 at 03:33 AM • permalink

 

    1. #37,38
      MM the evil bastards who used them are retarded and will be judged by God.

      Posted by blogstrop on 2008 02 02 at 03:55 AM • permalink

 

    1. #95
      The ‘Oceanic Viking’ – Nordic nation, Norway, being a current whaling nation – a veritable sea of irony …

      Posted by egg_ on 2008 02 02 at 04:44 AM • permalink

 

    1. Oh, stop bagging the Cetacean Reserve Area Protectors …

      Posted by egg_ on 2008 02 02 at 04:54 AM • permalink

 

    1. 119 The Greeks have a word for it Ketos sea-monster, sound like Loch Nessie. So should not the Cetacean Reserve Area Protectors be over in Scotland?

      Posted by stackja1945 on 2008 02 02 at 04:58 AM • permalink

 

    1. 117, Hicks is retarded, and he is a hero of OBL, go figure.

      Posted by stackja1945 on 2008 02 02 at 05:00 AM • permalink

 

    1. #113. 250 contacts. I must live in a cocoon.

      I assume his clients are a mix of male and female.

      Is this good or bad or is the fact he’s in Canberra make him another public service.

      Posted by mehaul on 2008 02 02 at 05:04 AM • permalink

 

    1. 122 We read

      Today, Typhoid Mary is a generic term for a carrier of a dangerous disease who is a danger to the public because they refuse to take appropriate precautions.

      Meanwhile in Sydney NSW Health a measles acute viral disease outbreak creates a flurry. Seems to be a double standard as usual.

      Posted by stackja1945 on 2008 02 02 at 05:21 AM • permalink

 

    1. #113; Go Cocks! Bad bad bad but what the hell the world’s going this way anyway.

      Posted by dean martin on 2008 02 02 at 05:22 AM • permalink

 

    1. #115

      Sure, today it’s just a colostomy bag.

      Tomorrow, Labor’s gonna need new candidates…

      Was that a “spot the difference” test?

      I just can’t see any difference. They’re both full of shit.

      Posted by kae on 2008 02 02 at 05:24 AM • permalink

 

    1. OK, well maybe the colostomy bag is only half full.

      Posted by kae on 2008 02 02 at 05:46 AM • permalink

 

    1. Is it just me, or is it wrong to sue the landlord if your toddler falls out a second storey window?

      The argument appears to be that the windows should have security screens so that kids can’t fall out.

      Many, many people have lived in units (flats, apartments) and their kids haven’t fallen out of windows. Perhaps it’s because of the careful placement of furniture?

      Posted by kae on 2008 02 02 at 05:56 AM • permalink

 

    1. #120
      But beware the Cetacean Reserve Area Protectors’ Buteric Acid Generation System …

      Posted by egg_ on 2008 02 02 at 06:06 AM • permalink

 

    1. Has anyone noticed News Ltd blocking access to things like Bolt or Sheridan? Are they making this stuff “pay only”?

      Posted by blogstrop on 2008 02 02 at 06:13 AM • permalink

 

    1. Tim, I’ll be watching your use of colon and semi-colon. I’ll be forgiving of the occasional dash.
      Great column!

      Posted by blogstrop on 2008 02 02 at 06:17 AM • permalink

 

    1. Blogstrop, I was looking at Bolt thisafternoon and I couldn’t get into the second pages and then I couldn’t get into any of Bolt at all.
      I thought it was just a server problem.
      I tend not to think it’s censorship or what you said…
      But I suppose anything’s possible.

      Posted by kae on 2008 02 02 at 06:18 AM • permalink

 

    1. #123. I’m sorry for the cynicism but this blog brings out the best in me. I was exposed to FACS Family and Community Services in a Capital City of Australia (Adelaide) for 2 and a bit years and saw the absolutely useless non productive loss of squillions of tax dollars to feel good, let’s have lots of meetings and I want to do the chalkboard kind of people.

      But the saddest thing was going to the homes in the suburbs that housed the wayward kids and see them without discipline (purely for PC reasons) and hope. I’m sure some 12 years later that 99% of those children are in jail. FACS – should be an acronym for FUCKED AND COLLECTIVELY STUPID.

      Posted by mehaul on 2008 02 02 at 06:25 AM • permalink

 

    1. Re: those evil bastards – this comment from Powerline:
      ” Presumably atrocities like this one will only harden the determination of Iraqis to exterminate the remnants of al Qaeda in Iraq and other terrorist groups. Maybe it will even drive waterboarding out of the news for a day or two.”

      Posted by blogstrop on 2008 02 02 at 06:43 AM • permalink

 

    1. Kae- still the same “you are not authorised”.
      Creepy!

      Posted by blogstrop on 2008 02 02 at 06:45 AM • permalink

 

    1. 132 Nanny state needs dismantling. But now we have $orry state in Canberra. One day families will win and nanny state will disappear.

      Posted by stackja1945 on 2008 02 02 at 07:02 AM • permalink

 

    1. Kae/Blogstrop. I have never had problems logging onto Bolt. But have also just now, struck the ‘not authorised – need to log on’ insignia.

      Have Boltas superiors decided to cash in on his success?

      Who owns Tim?

      Posted by mehaul on 2008 02 02 at 07:02 AM • permalink

 

    1. #136 I dont think Tim has sold out.  I would be very disappointed if he did

      Posted by Killaette on 2008 02 02 at 07:06 AM • permalink

 

    1. #135. I wish I had 10% of your optimism. I really believe we are in for many many long years of darkness. Just look at the institutionalized nature of Labor Governments at State and Federal levels, the ineptness of the conservative opposition at State and Federal levels, the fact we now have more bureaucrats than we have free enterprise workers (who’s paying the bills??), the stupidity of the last election, the institutionalization of sports, the politicisation of education, the lack of political interest and naivete by the average person and you get a disappointing overview. Please tell me I’m wrong.

      Posted by mehaul on 2008 02 02 at 07:11 AM • permalink

 

    1. Off topic, but a tiresomely familiar tale.
      Another not-so-true ‘true story’?

      Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2008 02 02 at 07:12 AM • permalink

 

    1. #137 Killaette. Just hypothesising. IF Bolta’s superiors are cashing in on his success.

      Posted by mehaul on 2008 02 02 at 07:19 AM • permalink

 

    1. #136 I think they’re just having server issues. Some of the pages over there are all screwy too.

      Posted by Ash_ on 2008 02 02 at 07:25 AM • permalink

 

    1. #140 I know that I was being facious sorry

      Posted by Killaette on 2008 02 02 at 07:31 AM • permalink

 

    1. #127 Kae, if the tenant has such an issue with security screens, they shouldn’t have moved into the place.

      Re the toddler falling out, the little tacker’s parent should have been keeping a closer watch.

      Posted by Nilknarf Arbed on 2008 02 02 at 07:33 AM • permalink

 

    1. #142 ooops cant spell that was meant to be facetious

      Posted by Killaette on 2008 02 02 at 07:37 AM • permalink

 

    1. #143
      Good. I’m glad it’s not just me.Clapton’s son fell out a window and died. He wrote a song about the child. Do you think these morons didn’t get the message? Or are they just thick about safety and kids and common sense.

      Oh, wait. Common sense, the most uncommon commodity these days. That’s why we have to waste a small fortune on OH&S crap on silly stuff that should be common sense.

      Posted by kae on 2008 02 02 at 07:38 AM • permalink

 

    1. #123 Stackja, I notice in your link to the story about measles:

      “People who haven’t been immunised, especially those living in western Sydney, and anyone who attended the emergency department during that period, need to be particularly vigilant as they may have come into contact with the disease.

      Am I the only person who equated people from western Sydney who hadn’t been immunised with tales of poison bananas?

      Posted by Nilknarf Arbed on 2008 02 02 at 07:46 AM • permalink

 

    1. I see now you are done with spilling your guts you are back to splitting sides.

      Cured.  Great to read that word Tim.

      Posted by saint on 2008 02 02 at 08:07 AM • permalink

 

    1. 146 “western Sydney” is a different world, diseases run rampant, but it is not pc to say so.

      Posted by stackja1945 on 2008 02 02 at 05:42 PM • permalink

 

    1. Procedure summary…

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      Posted by Henry boy on 2008 02 02 at 06:38 PM • permalink

 

    1. Blogstrop
      Just reading Piers’ column on Mateship and Iemma.
      Just commented and it seems the formatting has gone haywire…It’s a similar pattern to what happened yesterday when Bolt’s blog went off the air, haven’t looked at it today, though.

      I should really, really be doing other stuff…

      Posted by kae on 2008 02 02 at 07:12 PM • permalink

 

    1. Blogstrop
      I refreshed the page and the formatting is still haywire – the indents for replies are gone.
      I’ll give up soon, and it was interesting reading, too.

      Posted by kae on 2008 02 02 at 07:14 PM • permalink

 

  1. Be well.  And listen to James Brown’s “Papa’s Got a Brand New Bag” every chance you get.  Huuh!  Good God, y’all!

    Posted by Carl H on 2008 02 03 at 03:09 PM • permalink