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Last updated on August 9th, 2017 at 07:51 am

Margo Kingston, back in August:

I bet a colleague $100 bucks today that Howard would retire by December 31. He talks the talk alright, but the talk is a lie.

Funny how things turn out, isn’t it? Howard is still in power, but Margo has retired. She talked the talk alright, but the talk was a lie!

Posted by Tim B. on 01/02/2006 at 07:07 AM

Whats $100 bucks in Margo’s currency doubloons i imagine, the emphasis being on the last syllable.
Greg Sheridan had a decent scathing comment about the Margit’s foolishness in saturdays’ Australian.
Posted by Nic on 2006 01 02 at 08:35 AM • permalink

Er Tim for one moment I thought you meant she was coming in from the cold in August.
Posted by crash on 2006 01 02 at 10:16 AM • permalink

Aunty’s Dy-nasties tonight was Communists big day out.Aaron family lovingly(after Dad’s funeral)relives the halcyon life of reds down under.Schmalzy sweet and villainizing Asio and its earlier incarnations,wistful and nostalgic and simply longing for the Revolution that never arrived in OZ.No mention wharf strikes holding up the troops in ww2 either.
When I said “they are as bad as Hicks”,my mate said “well the Fascists were worse.”
Yeah and the Commos were the fascists’ allies during the war until the Germans attacked Russia.The Commos knew when to change sides….
Posted by crash on 2006 01 02 at 10:26 AM • permalink

It might have been $10 or $1000, what with spelling.
Posted by rhhardin on 2006 01 02 at 11:50 AM • permalink

Margo Kingston – the gift that keeps on giving.
Posted by kcom on 2006 01 02 at 12:09 PM • permalink

Margo lied, people died laughing.
Posted by Latino on 2006 01 02 at 12:29 PM • permalink

She may have thought that retire means to change the wheels on your car.
Posted by Ross on 2006 01 02 at 12:49 PM • permalink

I’m sorry, your internet license should be taken away if you say both “$” and “bucks” in regards to a single amount of money.
Posted by Mike G on 2006 01 02 at 12:49 PM • permalink

What a silly bunt.
Posted by Spiny Norman on 2006 01 02 at 01:06 PM • permalink

$100 bucks? She bet 100 bucks or $100. Otherwise she bet “One hundred dollars bucks” which makes about as much sense as anything else she writes or says.
Posted by Andrew on 2006 01 02 at 03:42 PM • permalink

Oops, sorry MikeG, beat me to the point.
Posted by Andrew on 2006 01 02 at 03:43 PM • permalink

What I want to know is, did she pay up? And how many more sucker bets did she make? And was this illegal betting activity the REAL reason for Web Diary’s collapse?
Posted by paco on 2006 01 02 at 03:47 PM • permalink

She wasn’t really betting 100 dollars, she was betting one share in Webdiary Ltd….
Posted by PW on 2006 01 02 at 03:47 PM • permalink

She misspelt “bucks”
Posted by rog2 on 2006 01 02 at 04:13 PM • permalink

Why would Howard even contemplate retiring if he’s fully supported by “the fundamentalist Zionist lobby” which “controls politics and the media in the US and Australia”?
Makes no sense, Margo.
Posted by SoCalJustice on 2006 01 02 at 04:49 PM • permalink

Actually, since Margo obviously never understood the first thing about money, working for a living, or retirement, her sentence structure is just about perfect.
Posted by RebeccaH on 2006 01 02 at 04:50 PM • permalink

An aberration in otherwise flawless judgement.
Posted by captain on 2006 01 02 at 08:17 PM • permalink

#3 “the Fascists were worse.”
Crash, I reckon that would depend on whether one were crushed under a fascist jackboot or a communist jackboot.
Posted by larrikin on 2006 01 02 at 08:24 PM • permalink

I agree, Larrikin, the Fascists were much more stylish than the Communists (and thankfully much more inept).
Posted by Steve Skubinna on 2006 01 02 at 09:47 PM • permalink

Did/does anyone ever read her or Whatsiname Phillup Addams?
I tried once or twice but nearly strained my jaw muscles through yawning.
I found them tiresome bores.
Posted by waussie on 2006 01 03 at 01:17 AM • permalink