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California vs Victoria! Blackwater vs Bracks water! Yes, fight fans, we’ve got ourselves a leftoid paranoia battle between American Crazy Randi Rhodes and Australian challenger Terrified Traceeee Hutchison. Who will claim the title of Dumbest Media Blonde of the Week? Show us what you got, Randi:

I started just doing Google searches to try and figure out. You know, arson, arson, it was like crazy trying to figure out why is that being downplayed? Why is that, you know, just a small part of the story? And you know, every time I look for it what comes up, believe it or not, is that Blackwater wants to move to San Diego and build this giant complex in San Diego right where most of the evacuations are taking place and you know.

Yes. And you know. Now over to Traceeee, who sees all manner of conspiracies emerging in Melbourne:

I’ve been mulling this over for a while. That and the increasingly large freighter ships coming out of China heavily laden with steel made from Australian iron ore. The kind of steel one imagines might be useful in making bloody big warships …

It just made me scratch my head and contemplate what on earth might be going on. And it made me ponder whether all this manoeuvring and attempted fast-tracking of the channel-deepening project had anything at all to do with getting things done within a certain time.

Randi:

It just spooks me, I can’t explain to you how creepy this whole thing is that you know, you’ve got these fires. Some of them are thought to be the work of arsonists and in the same breath you’ve got a community that’s on fire that just recently protested Blackwater West. Just recently said no to Blackwater and apparently you don’t do that.

Traceeee:

And it made me wonder why it looks like state Planning Minister Justin Madden is being pushed into approving the channel-deepening project …

Randi:

I mean, I don’t even know what to think. You know, nobody is saying Blackwater set the fires, that is nobody that doesn’t want their house burned down. Nobody is saying that, but it is all so bizarre that this is America and you have to sort of sit there and wonder …

The pair are almost inseparable at this point, trading blow for paranoid, evidence-free blow. Breaking the “wonder” deadlock, Traceeee now takes things to the next level:

And then it occurred to me that all of it put together had the creeping, yet unmistakable, odour of an unwanted paper mill in the Tamar Valley.

Can Randi match her? Can she counter Traceeee’s perfectly-deployed “and then it occurred to me” delirium? Oh, yes. Oh, yes, she can:

And then you find out that some of the guys that used to work for Blackwater are now in Schwarzenegger’s administration.

It’s all so creepy.

Clear win to Rhodes. Should the contest have gone to a tie-breaker, Randi’s vertebrae-snapping compassionate head tilt would still have seen her over the line.

*PLEDGE WEEK* Now in its final days! Kick in some dollars, Traceeee fans, and let’s see if the decision can be reversed.

UPDATE. Contrail:

A car rear ends another in heavy traffic on Sydney’s Parramatta Road, creating traffic chaos. One of the drivers involved is a small businessman who voted Liberal in 2004. On the other side of the world, in New York City, a dog barks savagely at a man in a dark suit and turquoise tie. The dog might have seen Kevin Rudd the night he went to a strip club because the dog was living in NYC at the time. In Afghanistan, a roadside bomb tears apart a bus, killing all on board. The bus is similar to one used by a mysterious Liberal candidate in a Victorian rural electorate. The candidate knows the local party branch chairman, who knows the state director of the Liberal party who talks regularly to the party’s federal director who in turn has links to the Prime Minister himself.

Is it just me and Traceeee or can others see the pattern?

Posted by Tim B. on 10/27/2007 at 09:36 AM
    1. Yeah, that’s right Ozzies! We bad! Stupidest shit, right here in the U!S!A! baby! USA!

      Posted by dean martin on 2007 10 27 at 10:06 AM • permalink

 

    1. Woho, a fine catch.

      Randi, there’s a good reason why nobody is saying Blackwater set the fires.

      Think about it. Not too hard mind you, your brain might fall into the vortex.

      Posted by Wimpy Canadian on 2007 10 27 at 10:10 AM • permalink

 

    1. When Traceeee says she’s been ‘mulling’, I’d be the last one to contradict her.

      Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2007 10 27 at 10:10 AM • permalink

 

    1. Traceee, the paper mill in the Tamar Valley is unwanted by who, precisely?

      Do these women need sex, or somtheing?

      Posted by Wimpy Canadian on 2007 10 27 at 10:13 AM • permalink

 

    1. Do these women need sex, or somtheing?

      Well, Traceeee‘s a two pot screamer if you’re offerin’ Wimpy.

      Posted by Ash_ on 2007 10 27 at 10:21 AM • permalink

 

    1. I started just doing Google searches to try and figure out.

      Somehow I don’t believe that she did any research during these Google searches. Randi, when doing a Google search, don’t attach the “site:http//www.dailykos.com/” at the end, ok?

      Posted by Ash_ on 2007 10 27 at 10:24 AM • permalink

 

    1. #4. Wimpy, I reckon that would be a yes to both.

      Posted by Nilknarf Arbed on 2007 10 27 at 10:24 AM • permalink

 

    1. And you know, every time I look for it what comes up, believe it or not, is that Blackwater wants to move to San Diego and build this giant complex in San Diego right where most of the evacuations are taking place and you know.

      Too bad for Randi that Google turns out to be available to everybody, because I just did some googling on my own using various combinations of the words “arson”, “California”, “fires”, “San Diego”, and I didn’t notice any reference to Blackwater at all. On the other hand, if you google “arson” and “Blackwater”, you do get some hits: all of them, apparently, stemming from Randi Rhodes’ paranoiac speculation.

      Ahhhh . . . the smell of fresh b.s. in the morning . . .

      Posted by paco on 2007 10 27 at 10:28 AM • permalink

 

    1. If either of them are held to account for their insane ramblings, will their defence be “Fake but Accurate”?

      Posted by Ash_ on 2007 10 27 at 10:31 AM • permalink

 

    1. For those who haven’t been keeping up with Randi’s adventures in dumbness

      Posted by paco on 2007 10 27 at 10:35 AM • permalink

 

    1. Call me a one eyed jingoistic nationalist if you like but our girl Traceeee is much sillier.

      Rhodes story is plain stupid , a million miles from being credible but at least it kind of hangs together in an evil corporate/government conspiracy narrative sense.

      Even by the low standards of conspiracy theorists, Traceeee’s story does’nt make any sense.

      If Traceeee were writing a JFK conspiracy, at this standard, she would have placed the second gunman on a grassy knoll in Honolulu.

      Posted by eeniemeenie on 2007 10 27 at 10:42 AM • permalink

 

    1. Not too hard mind you, your brain might fall into the vortex.

      What brain, W.C.?

      Call me a one eyed jingoistic nationalist if you like

      OK, eeniemeenie, you’re a one eyed jingoistic nationalist!  ;-P

      ‘Cuz while Traceeeee is sillier, Randi is clearly nuttier.  I have spoken.

      Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2007 10 27 at 10:57 AM • permalink

 

    1. #11 Wronwright! Eeniemeenie knows about Agent Makaha!!

      Posted by paco on 2007 10 27 at 10:59 AM • permalink

 

    1. Wake up you fools! Don’t you recognize that this is a vast conspiracy to bring doom to Ozland and the Excited States?I know a cover-up when I smell one.

      Posted by Mystery Meat on 2007 10 27 at 11:12 AM • permalink

 

    1. Speaking of pledge week, I still want to know where to send my inheritance without using PayPal. You have my e-mail address; please use it.

      Posted by Gary from Jersey on 2007 10 27 at 11:21 AM • permalink

 

    1. You know, nobody is saying Blackwater set the fires, that is nobody that doesn’t want their house burned down.

      Gosh, I hope Blackwater can sue for that.

      Posted by m on 2007 10 27 at 11:22 AM • permalink

 

    1. Aw, Jaysus, Randi, have another Bloody Mary and sit down…

      Posted by richard mcenroe on 2007 10 27 at 11:23 AM • permalink

 

    1. Randi must’ve hit her head really hard…
      .(OK, so it’s not original, but on the money)

      Posted by Spiny Norman on 2007 10 27 at 11:54 AM • permalink

 

    1. To be honest, we now know what Randi’s problem is; so what’s Traceeee‘s excuse?

      Posted by Spiny Norman on 2007 10 27 at 12:03 PM • permalink

 

    1. U S A!!

      U S A!!

      U S A!!

      We Bad! We Bad!

      Yeah, losers, we’ve got the best dingbat training camps in the world!

      Posted by rinardman on 2007 10 27 at 12:19 PM • permalink

 

    1. rinardman, does drug assisted dingbattiness count?

      Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2007 10 27 at 12:22 PM • permalink

 

    1. Even better, TRJS.

      From Rhodes’ bio at Wikipedia: She proclaims herself to be a stickler for facts, and also claims to hold to many of the basic tenets of journalism ethics and standards such as corroboration, attribution and truthfulness.

      But…she is flexible, when it’s called for.

      Posted by rinardman on 2007 10 27 at 12:34 PM • permalink

 

    1. It’s all those bloody marys.

      Posted by rightwingprof on 2007 10 27 at 12:34 PM • permalink

 

    1. Traceeeee has a basic grasp of sentence structure, whereas.  Randi, doesn’t seem.  To know where to end a sentence.

      Posted by AnnNY on 2007 10 27 at 12:38 PM • permalink

 

    1. #5, Ash_,

      I regretted asking for translation of Oz slang last time (I think it was for “flouncy pillow biter”),  but what’s a “two pot screamer”?

      Posted by reese on 2007 10 27 at 12:39 PM • permalink

 

    1. #25 Reese, this one is harmless.

      A two pot screamer is someone who’s drunk after only a couple of drinks.

      Posted by Ash_ on 2007 10 27 at 12:44 PM • permalink

 

    1. Some sort of prize must go to Randi for her extreme use of “like” and “you know”.

      Like, you know what I’m talking about, you know?

      Posted by Merlin on 2007 10 27 at 12:45 PM • permalink

 

    1. Thanks, Ash_.  Nobody said it has to make sense.

      Posted by reese on 2007 10 27 at 12:55 PM • permalink

 

    1. No worries Reese. Two pot screamers are the best to play rounds at the pub with. If you’re smart enough to shout the drinks last, you end up paying for only your own.

      Posted by Ash_ on 2007 10 27 at 01:04 PM • permalink

 

    1. I’m an avid fan of the Stars and Stripes, but this is clearly a tie.  Hats off to you my Aussie friends.  You’ve got crazies equal to our own.

      Posted by blogagog on 2007 10 27 at 01:05 PM • permalink

 

    1. Can I take this opportunity to request that the great nation of Australia learn to spell words like “manoeuvring”, “odour”, “colour” as God intended?  i.e. in American English?

      😉 j/k

      Posted by blogagog on 2007 10 27 at 01:09 PM • permalink

 

    1. When you down a fifth of vodka before your radio show, who knows what “revelations” will come out of your mouth?

      Posted by Redd on 2007 10 27 at 01:22 PM • permalink

 

    1. Blackwater is the new Halliburton.

      Posted by Jim Treacher on 2007 10 27 at 01:33 PM • permalink

 

    1. Well, whaddaya know, Ash_.  This site tranlsates all that.  A screamer is a party lover, a two pot screamer is as you said, a ‘pot’ being a 285 ml glass, whatever a ml is.  Anyway, it all makes sense now.

      Seppos (just learned that word too) use the word ‘screamer’ to describe women who are, um, enthusiastic during sex.

      Posted by reese on 2007 10 27 at 01:33 PM • permalink

 

    1. He he he. Reese, if you’re out with the right type of girl, ie, a two pot screamer, it’s very possible she’ll be the Seppo version of a screamer as well.

      But you didn’t hear that from me, ok?

      Posted by Ash_ on 2007 10 27 at 01:37 PM • permalink

 

    1. Re: Pledgeweek

      USD coming your way.  I hope you spend some of it frivolously.

      Posted by debo.v2 on 2007 10 27 at 01:42 PM • permalink

 

    1. Thanks for the tip, Ash_.  (Don’t worry, men have known this for eons.)

      You see my initial confusion now, in your response #5 to #4 Wimpy Canadian.

      Posted by reese on 2007 10 27 at 01:46 PM • permalink

 

    1. I do indeed Reese. Tim needs to put the donations towards a Seppo-Strine Dictionary feature on here.

      Posted by Ash_ on 2007 10 27 at 01:56 PM • permalink

 

    1. Oh Ash_ #29!  A ‘shout’ is a turn to buy a round, not what screamers do.  Now that makes sense too.

      Posted by reese on 2007 10 27 at 02:21 PM • permalink

 

    1. Your education is progressing well Reese.

      It just occurred to me that if you’d come to Australia and visited a pub, we could have convinced you to shout drinks at least once before you caught on to what we meant. A lost opportunity…

      Posted by Ash_ on 2007 10 27 at 02:33 PM • permalink

 

    1. It’s Rhandi all the way down.

      Remember, my pledge drive never ends. You can always contribute to the cause!

      Posted by mythusmage on 2007 10 27 at 02:37 PM • permalink

 

    1. …whatever a ml is.

      It’s a “milliliter”, in the metric system.  285 ml comes to 9.6 US fluid ounces, so “two pots” in Australia is roughly two beers in the US.

      And a “two pot screamer” sure can’t hold their booze!  Well named, Oz!

      Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2007 10 27 at 03:32 PM • permalink

 

    1. Jiminy whistles, you can almost hear the bubblegum snapping when you read Randi’s writing.  She makes ditzy blondes sound like rocket scientists.  Sorry, Australia, I think we’ve got you beat in the airhead sweepstakes.

      Posted by RebeccaH on 2007 10 27 at 04:08 PM • permalink

 

    1. Indeed, #40, Ash_.  I visited Fremantle ca. 1985.  For all the ‘shouting’ going on, I can’t seem to remember the lingo I learned.

      TRJS #41, thanks for the info.  You’re no James Taranto (last item):

      Vacationing in Jerusalem last week, we went to rent a car. Well, it turns out that Israel is one of the countries that still use the metric system, as we discovered when the young lady at the Hertz office told us that our rental rate included 250 kilometers a day.

      “How many miles is that?” we asked.

      “I really don’t know,” she said.

      Here is someone who has lived all her life in a country that uses the metric system, and she still doesn’t know how far 250 kilometers is! This proves beyond all doubt how confusing the metric system is.

      Posted by reese on 2007 10 27 at 04:18 PM • permalink

 

    1. #2

      Think about it. Not too hard mind you, your brain might fall into the vortex.

      Too late. With an open mind and all that head-tilting…

      Posted by kae on 2007 10 27 at 04:36 PM • permalink

 

    1. #25 Reese

      A pot is a measurement of beer.

      Posted by kae on 2007 10 27 at 04:43 PM • permalink

 

    1. I’d tell you how many oz exactly, but google is down.

      Maybe that’s Randi’s excuse?

      Posted by kae on 2007 10 27 at 04:44 PM • permalink

 

    1. Thanks Kae.  I’ve been researching this all day (if you know what I mean).

      Posted by reese on 2007 10 27 at 05:04 PM • permalink

 

    1. To: RWDB command
      Subject: Operation harpoon a dolphinGiven the searing investigative talents arrayed against us I am seeking advice on whether to proceed with tip-top-ultra-black-need to know only, operation harpoon a dolphin.
      Thats the one where we were going to make a giant set of propellers run by whales and dolphins on treadmills to propel Australia out of its territorial waters and bump up against the Californian coast where Blackwater could annex it.
      Given that Traceee has rumbled the propeller delivery and now ms Rhodes has found the blackwater links what are we to do?

      Yours in grovelling obseqiousness , thefrollickingmole.

      Posted by thefrollickingmole on 2007 10 27 at 06:05 PM • permalink

 

    1. Blackwater and Gov Shwartzy should set every lawyer they can lay their hands on to take that bent bint to court and have every penny she ever earned removed from her possession. Then take every penny she’s ever liable to earn as well.

      Posted by Grimmy on 2007 10 27 at 06:30 PM • permalink

 

    1. That contest between the two moronites reminded me of Bulbous Bouffant for some reason.

      Posted by Grimmy on 2007 10 27 at 06:36 PM • permalink

 

    1. #48
      Excellent, Reese. That’s the only way to learn more, especially about weights and measures.

      Posted by kae on 2007 10 27 at 06:36 PM • permalink

 

    1. A car rear ends another in heavy traffic on Sydney’s Parramatta Road, creating traffic chaos. One of the drivers involved is a small businessman who voted Liberal in 2004. On the other side of the world, in New York City, a dog barks savagely at a man in a dark suit and turquoise tie. The dog might have seen Kevin Rudd the night he went to a strip club because the dog was living in NYC at the time. In Afghanistan, a roadside bomb tears apart a bus, killing all on board. The bus is similar to one used by a mysterious Liberal candidate in a Victorian rural electorate. The candidate knows the local party branch chairman, who knows the state director of the Liberal party who talks regularly to the party’s federal director who in turn has links to the Prime Minister himself.

      Is it just me and Traceeee or can others see the pattern?

      Posted by Contrail on 2007 10 27 at 07:50 PM • permalink

 

    1. Hey, don’t diss the International System of weights and measures (aka the metric system) or you’ll make the French cry.  It is much easier to make calculations in that system than in the English system, since it is based on powers of ten.  It was expressly designed for people who require the use of their fingers as an analogue computational instrument in order to successfully calculate when confronted with mathematical problems.

      Posted by Michael Lonie on 2007 10 27 at 07:59 PM • permalink

 

    1. thefrollickingmole—Go to plan B, the ginormous frikkin sails.  That way we can say it’s a green solution and they’ll be helpless to stop us.

      (Oh, and don’t worry, the sails and their masts will kill hundreds of thousands of birds so we can still pull VRWC cred)

      Posted by richard mcenroe on 2007 10 27 at 08:00 PM • permalink

 

    1. Pssst! Reese, I have grave fears that you may have staggered (steamed?) away from Fremantle before you became aware of the traps involved in Oz drinking rules.
      My Oz colleagues here seem to be reluctant to enlighten you. No doubt they are planning to take full advantage of your lack of knowledge the next time you visit our fair shores.
      When we gather at a bar for a few quiet ones, we often drink in groups.Let’s start with an example group of five sober drinkers.
      Someone in the group volunteers to “shout” (pay for) the first “round” of five drinks.
      Running tabs is not customary, and the drinks are paid for in cash across the bar as they are poured.
      When the fastest drinker approaches the end of his first drink, it’s time for someone to volunteer to shout the second round. The second round must be ready to drink before anybody’s glass is empty.
      (It’s the law in Oz that every drink must be served in a fresh glass — no refills. It’s something to do with hygiene, but is probably the quickest way of spreading disease known to science.)
      This process is repeated until all five members of the group have shouted, then drinker #1 starts it all over again.
      It is a capital offence to leave the premises while you still owe a shout. This is one of the few crimes in Australia where the death penalty still prevails.
      This means that, if you join a drinking group of 5, you must drink a minimum of five drinks followed by multiples of five. It’s not possible to have, say, 7 drinks.
      You must also be prepared to drink your 5, 10, 15… drinks at the same speed as the fastest drinker in the group.
      If it’s time for your shout and there are empty glasses on the bar, all conversation will stop and you will find that all eyes are on you.
      The system generally works well but sometimes falls into chaos as the party progresses.
      For an autographed copy of my excellent publication, A Survivor’s Guide to Shouting in Oz send me $20 (AUD or USD, there is little difference in value these days) preferably in used bank notes. I guarantee that you will save the cost of this informative book by just reading Chapter 1, The Importance of Timing, Arrivals and Departures, When to volunteer for your first shout.

      Posted by Skeeter on 2007 10 27 at 08:09 PM • permalink

 

    1. $54
      Michael.
      Isn’t counting on the fingers digital?

      Posted by kae on 2007 10 27 at 08:09 PM • permalink

 

    1. Arrgh, skeeter, you’re gonna be in trouble now…
      !!! Italics spill. Italics spill in the Randi/Traceeeeee aisle. Clean up required. !!!

      Posted by kae on 2007 10 27 at 08:12 PM • permalink

 

    1. Skeeeeeeeeeeeeeeter!

      Anyhoodles, Randi Rhodes is the left-wing version of Michael Savage, right down to the accent.

      Posted by Dave S. on 2007 10 27 at 08:17 PM • permalink

 

    1. Shit! How did that happen? Sorry Andrea. I swear it didn’t show in perview.

      Posted by Skeeter on 2007 10 27 at 08:19 PM • permalink

 

    1. Help me someone. What’s the time in Florida?

      Posted by Skeeter on 2007 10 27 at 08:30 PM • permalink

 

    1. I have a gadget.

      10:30am Sydney = Almost 5pm NYC.

      Posted by kae on 2007 10 27 at 08:34 PM • permalink

 

    1. um, almost 5pm, yesterday.

      Posted by kae on 2007 10 27 at 08:35 PM • permalink

 

    1. No disrespect here, Mr. Lonie.  I’m a big ‘powers of ten’ fan as a physics guy, but I like to ask for ‘pints’ (and now ‘pots’) over so many ml.  Seems there’s this Pom pub owner or bananna dealer got in trouble over this.  Screw that!

      ~~~~

      I think Traceeeeeeee wins because of the AUS/USA population handicap.  Your per capita moonbattery is on the order of that of California, but California only contains about 1/10 (a deci-) of the US population.  Therefore her weighting is higher.  Kind of like how Australia’s influence on pop music since Olivia and Garett and all those ‘80s bands was disproportional.

      Posted by reese on 2007 10 27 at 08:35 PM • permalink

 

    1. I think New York city is on the same time as Florida.

      Posted by kae on 2007 10 27 at 08:35 PM • permalink

 

    1. Unless they have daylight saving, I think you’d subtract an hour for that.

      Posted by kae on 2007 10 27 at 08:36 PM • permalink

 

    1. Sorry, not being Australian and all, and having nothing but contempt for the metric system, but I seem to have missed Traceeeee’s logic bus.

      Okay, I get the deep channel, the steel for major warships (although I believe the new LHDs are going to be constructed in Spain so somebody better redirect all that steel), the obvious connection to China, but she lost me at the paper mill.

      At least Randi tells you up front who’s behind it all.

      Posted by Steve Skubinna on 2007 10 27 at 08:36 PM • permalink

 

    1. Thanks, Skeeter.  ‘Playing rounds’ is all clear now!

      Staggered and, yes, steamed away.  Perceptive of Cold War history you are.

      Posted by reese on 2007 10 27 at 08:44 PM • permalink

 

    1. I love how Traceee is unable to state any opinion straight out without telling us about her thinking process first.

      Posted by Margos Maid on 2007 10 27 at 08:48 PM • permalink

 

    1. #69
      I think it’s to prove that she thinks.Somehow it falls short of that purpose.

      Posted by kae on 2007 10 27 at 08:58 PM • permalink

 

    1. The Grand Unifying Theory
      of All Things Liberal:
      A paranoid liberal skank
      Climbed up on a barstool and drank.
      When later she found
      Her face on the ground
      She knew she had George Bush to thank.

      Posted by lyle on 2007 10 27 at 08:59 PM • permalink

 

    1. Wow, Skeeter.  Parity between AUD and USD?  When I was there it was about 2:1 I think.  Seems I’ve got a leftover pile of paper and coins here somewhere (let’s see—Pilapina pisos, Singapore bucks, Macau, Hong Kong bucks, Thai bhats, Paki rupees…) A-ha!  A 1984 Australian dollar with QEII on one side and ‘roos/wallabies on the other.  Worth double what I paid for it.  Slow but successful investment.  It’s on the way for your guidebook—surely a better investment.

      Posted by reese on 2007 10 27 at 09:03 PM • permalink

 

    1. #72
      Hang on to it, Reese. If it’s in good condition it might be worth more – we got rid of $1 and $2 notes years ago. Take it to a neumisma newmi* coin collector and see.*can’t be bothered looking up how to spell it. Doing a Sheil.

      Posted by kae on 2007 10 27 at 09:07 PM • permalink

 

    1. #32 Redd

      When you down a fifth of vodka before your radio show, who knows what “revelations” will come out of your mouth?

      I have it on the good authority of an ex-ABC journalist that one of our high-profile presenters always goes live to air fortified with copious amounts of Scotch. If he anticipates a difficult interview, he increases the amount of fortification. My source claimed that a full bottle was used by the presenter before he interviewed his own boss live on air.

      Disclaimer: Nobody should construe from the above that I have disclosed the name of the network or the presenter involved. Interested parties should just carefully watch all presenters on all networks to see if you can work out which one I have written about.

      Posted by Skeeter on 2007 10 27 at 09:23 PM • permalink

 

    1. Oh, shoot, Kae.  It’s actually a coin, not a note, about the size of our new Sacajawehhjaahh* dollar.

      Pro’ly have some paper around here, too.  But I’ll hang onto them all.  Worth more to me and mine as mementos.  I’ll pay Skeeter in Italic credits.

      Will look up ‘doing a scheil’ momentarily.

      Posted by reese on 2007 10 27 at 09:26 PM • permalink

 

    1. What I meant to say in my post was

      If the note is in good nick…

      just another lesson in strine.

      I don’t know if “doing a sheil” has been defined yet.

      It could as well be doing a Margork or any number of spelling/typing challenged “journalists” herein mentioned.

      Posted by kae on 2007 10 27 at 09:31 PM • permalink

 

    1. #73 I think the word you are groping for, kae, is numismatistician … or something.

      Posted by blogstrop on 2007 10 27 at 09:31 PM • permalink

 

    1. #77
      Yeah, blogstrop, that’s what I said.Coin collector.

      Posted by kae on 2007 10 27 at 09:34 PM • permalink

 

    1. I wouldn’t know a renmimbie from a bi-lingua franca, myself.

      Posted by blogstrop on 2007 10 27 at 09:34 PM • permalink

 

    1. #72 Reese. Not quite parity but close. It’s been hovering around 90c lately.
      I used to visit the USA at a time when an AUD would buy you $1.28 ‘Murrican.
      Spent a lot of time in Sears as I stocked up on Craftsman tools to take home to Oz. (Spent even more time and $s in Lefty O’Doul’s bar on Geary).
      Kae, do you know what mint-condition GB £1 notes are worth. I have a few left over from the time when I was a traveller in aluminium tubing.

      Posted by Skeeter on 2007 10 27 at 09:39 PM • permalink

 

    1. #74 An Attempted Reconstruction
      Presenter: Shir … can I call you Boshy? Lishen, Boshy … I alluz wanned t’ashk you how you got sho fuggen rish? Tell ush abart it while I jush lie down …. oh, my head!

      Posted by blogstrop on 2007 10 27 at 09:42 PM • permalink

 

    1. Skeets
      I dunno, you’ll have to find out from a newmis numisc coin collector.start here, Scoots.

      Posted by kae on 2007 10 27 at 09:44 PM • permalink

 

    1. Geeze. I just realised that Lefty’s might now be inhabited by a different class of people. Please be assured that in the 1970s we were all normal, …if you know what I mean. Not that there is anything wrong with, you know, present day San Franciscans or…

      Posted by Skeeter on 2007 10 27 at 09:46 PM • permalink

 

    1. Good gawd, Skeeter!  Is O’Douls that bar on Geary in San Francisco with the shamrock sign?  A mall w/ a Sears just down the street?  If so, we may have passed in the night (lighten up, people: Not everyone in SF is flouncy pillow biter).

      Posted by reese on 2007 10 27 at 09:55 PM • permalink

 

    1. Skeeter: Florida is on Eastern Standard Time except for the westernmost part of the panhandle, which is on Central Time. I’ll fix the italics.

      Posted by Andrea Harris, Administrator on 2007 10 27 at 09:57 PM • permalink

 

    1. #3 swinishcapitalist, when you ‘mull’ ale, you stick a redhot poker into it.  Perhaps Traceeeeee sticks a redhot poker into her nose or ear or some other orifice when she attempts to convince us that she can ‘think’.

      Posted by JorgXMcKie on 2007 10 27 at 10:03 PM • permalink

 

    1. #85 Thanks Mistress A. Cheque’s in the mail.

      Posted by Skeeter on 2007 10 27 at 10:05 PM • permalink

 

    1. Well, at least you hold-out anti-metric Seppos are in good company!

      Posted by Kaboom on 2007 10 27 at 10:08 PM • permalink

 

    1. Regarding ‘flouncy pillow biters,’ I must say, “NTTAWWT

      Posted by reese on 2007 10 27 at 10:09 PM • permalink

 

    1. #84 Yep Reese, that’s the one. 333 Geary.
      And Lordy-lordy! according to my internet thingy it’s still there, largely unchanged after all these years.
      Just watching the commercial and it looks like even the menu is the same.

      Posted by Skeeter on 2007 10 27 at 10:10 PM • permalink

 

    1. There is no frickin way a leftward Australian could out-crazy a left coast American.  No way.

      You Australians are in the minor leagues of moonbattery compared to our looney tunes.

      (wronwright holds a small American flag)

      Posted by wronwright on 2007 10 27 at 10:20 PM • permalink

 

    1. Ummmmm – just back to Traceeee’s article for a while, I wouldn’t “presume” that the hulls will necessarily be loaded onto a bigger ship.  How would you get them off without sinking the carrier ship?  Why not just tow the bastards to Australia?

      Surely some of youse lot would know how these things are actually done?

      TFK

      Posted by TFK on 2007 10 27 at 10:31 PM • permalink

 

    1. Ummmm yeah, sorry, there TFK.

      Posted by reese on 2007 10 27 at 10:47 PM • permalink

 

    1. TFK, smaller hulls actually can be moved using a carrier that submerges enough to get the hull on the deck.  This is how the USS Cole was moved from Yemen to repair docks in the US.

      But I don’t think there are a lot of those carriers in service, it’s pretty specialized work, and they ought to be fairly obvious.  Maybe the mariners here can elaborate.

      Besides, it sounds simpler just to tow the hulls.

      Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2007 10 27 at 11:51 PM • permalink

 

    1. 91. wronwright

      I didn’t want to do this but you’ve forced my hand

      If you get through more than one of his articles your a freak.

      His artworks are pretty special as well. I was going to set the nob up for ridicule by seeing what he charged for a booking, how he wanted to get here (fist class id assume) etc, but his reply smacked of desperation so I didn’t have the heart to lead him on.

      Posted by thefrollickingmole on 2007 10 28 at 01:03 AM • permalink

 

    1. #95
      I just woke up from a nap.Frollicking, the purpetrator of that site surely is still sucking on the whoopee weed. What a disgrace at his age. And he’s a left-waltzing idiot.

      Posted by kae on 2007 10 28 at 01:23 AM • permalink

 

    1. kae
      He got famous off a trial in England for obscenity and it was all downhill from there.

      Posted by thefrollickingmole on 2007 10 28 at 01:25 AM • permalink

 

    1. Frollicking, that trial, was it in the 60s? or early 70s, I remember it. Wasn’t he one of those responsible for Honi Soir Soit(Sydney U Mag)?

      I always thought that when you’re scraping the bottom of the barrel the only way is up.
      He’s disproved that.

      Posted by kae on 2007 10 28 at 01:31 AM • permalink

 

    1. #92

      What was the name of that pommie destroyer that crashed onto the rocks down this way a few years ago?  It had to be taken home on a floating dock.  There must be a few of them around.  I’m sure one can be booked now, given that the hulls won’t be ready for about 3 years from now.

      As for using lots of steel in the building of a warship, I thought they were mostly aluminium these days (or aluminum for our yank friends).  Maybe a swabbie can enlighten us on this?

      Does anyone know the size of the largest container ship that will currently fit into Melbourne?  I looked a bunch up yesterday, and they draw 14-17m of water, whereas the new LHDs have a draught of 7m.

      I think Traceeeeeeeeeee has NFI about how small these things are in comparison to a bulk carrier or a container ship.

      Posted by mr creosote on 2007 10 28 at 02:21 AM • permalink

 

    1. #98,

      When you’ve scrapped through the bottom of the barrel there’s always the earth beneath.

      IOW, when you’ve run out of wood, the barrel is empty.

      Posted by mythusmage on 2007 10 28 at 02:28 AM • permalink

 

    1. Perhaps when you’ve scraped the bottom of the barrell you don’t notice the splinters are a sign to stop?

      Posted by kae on 2007 10 28 at 02:31 AM • permalink

 

    1. Cue theme from “The Twilight Zone”

      Posted by Max on 2007 10 28 at 02:44 AM • permalink

 

    1. #99 – I’d bet on the hulls being towed, they’re much larger than typical loads carried by a flo/flo (float on/float off) heavy lift ship.

      As for steel vs. aluminum, the latter was in vogue during the ‘60s and ‘70s for superstructures due to weight considerations, but after the Falklands War many navies reevaluated it and returned to steel for all major structural components.  The USN never built hulls from the lighter metal, although I believe the RN’s Amazon class frigates were all aluminum.

      The LHA that was my first ship in the USN (very like the new LHDs but somewhat larger) was steel from keel to flight deck, and the island was aluminum.  She was designed in the mid ‘70s when aluminum was still cool.  The successor ships in the USN are all steel – and incidentally the islands are lower and skinnier to keep down weight.

      Incidentally, concerning the spelling – Humphrey Davy first identified the metal in 1808 and named it “aluminum.”  But nooooo, that wasn’t good enough for you guys, oh no, it didn’t sound pompous and prissy enough so it had to be “aluminium.”  Just like you guys have to say “aeroplanes.”  Which sounds funny when spoken in a John Cleese voice but otherwise is just lame.

      But hey, you guys all had to get all sloppy with the French and go metric.  I swear, you’re all like “Oh thank you, Mister French guy, for inventing this new system!  Now we can join the Efrickin’U and be like all the other Euro-wienies!”

      Posted by Steve Skubinna on 2007 10 28 at 07:33 AM • permalink

 

    1. California has a population of 36,000,000 – Australia is more like 20M which is closer to NY at 19M.  Since Randi Rhodes broadcasts out of NYC, then NY wins.

      Posted by AnnNY on 2007 10 28 at 08:04 AM • permalink

 

  1. #57 Kae, I’m stealing that! 🙂

    Posted by carpefraise on 2007 10 28 at 09:08 AM • permalink