A Huge wave of excitement washed over the unwashed press gallery. The Big O is in town !
Only the Lonely, Dum Dum Dum Dum-dy doo-wha.
The Pig’s Arms rock critic – with a nose for news – Glen A 20, rang in today with the exciting news that the Big O is in town, scorching rumours that he hasn’t been amongst the quick for years.
Princess PowerFox – the president of Australia is eagerly awaiting her next instructions – after setting up a new US base in Darwin (and raising the hopes of all those US Marines who have grown tired of molesting the women of Okinawa), we look set to be told to export Uranus to Indira – but our correspondent is having a bet that there is no way Pakistan is getting a load because, you know, they’re dodgy and anyway they fix cricket games and that’s not cricket.
Fixing games IS cricket, but getting caught is more like getting caught doing cricket commentary and jumping out of hotel windows because you got very agitated and all those bastards mumbling “kiddie fiddler” can get well and truly sledged up deep middle off.
Let’s hope the PowerFox has more luck with setting up a base for the US Marines than she has had getting up a processing centre for asylum seekers.
Where was I….. oh yes the much delayed and much anticipated drop-by of the Fuhrer of the Free World. One can only imagine that having stitched up the oil middle east for democracy, the irony sands of the Pilbara and the gassy North West shelf will be the next to be liberated by the sons of Columbus.
From the Halls of Montezuma, to the shores of Tripoli
From the antarctic up to Alice,
We’ll be free, we’ll be free, we’ll be free.
Window Dresser's Arms, Pig & Whistle 
Still haven’t managed to sort out how to turn my notification thingo on in Windows Live Vectis Lad, but I’m working on it… Maybe I just press the ‘follow’ button on the wordpress toolbar and it notifies me via my email… I dunno…
I spent last night and the early hours of this morning setting up and exploring the ‘Live’ thingo as well as filling out my ‘profile’ thingo… but am still none the wiser. I also downloaded AVG’s ‘PC Tuneup and did many and various mystical things I don’t quite understand with it to my computer… which does now seem to have a bit more life in it though, after I’ve got rid of various junk files, defragged my registry as well as my hard drive and done brain surgery via chkdsk on my hard drive…
Ato, while I was waiting for the almost interminable ‘chkdsk’ prog to do its thing, I caught a wonderful prog on ABC2 called ‘Secrets of the Forbidden City’, which underlines the point I made some time ago about the most impressive of archictectural structures being ‘ugly’, regardless of their archictectural ‘beauty’ and impressiveness… although I was speaking of the Palace of Versailles at the time, the same is true of the Forbidden City… in spades! Maybe, if you’re lucky, Aunty2 will repeat it at some time in the near future at a more civilzed hour…
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Yes. Of course you need to have your mail on at the same time as you’re blogging. Then you can catch a reply from another piece.
And look at your email first. ‘BEFORE’ you go through the comments. Some you may glance at at, and decide ‘not’ to follow up. But you will have become aware of it…..If’n you want to go back later.
Plus of course the notion that you would go back several times to see if someone has replied to you, when you can see it on your email box, is simply stultifying.
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“Plus of course the notion that you would go back several times to see if someone has replied to you, when you can see it on your email box, is simply stultifying.”
Well… it gives me something to do when I get bored, Vectis Lad…
I dunno… seems to me just as quick to go through the comments… but I’ll try the ‘notification thingie’ and see if it’s any more efficient… You know I flit from blog to blog just like the elephant-bird:
“The elephant is a beautiful bird,
It flits from bough to bough;
It lays its eggs in a rhubarb tree,
And whistles like a cow:
Mooooooooooooo!”
I’ve just returned from acquiring the second quote I needed for a new reclining chair… both are for genuine “La-z-boys”… the first is for about $1,300 and the second is for about $1,760… so I think I can probably predict which one I’ll be getting… As it happens, though, I prefer the ‘cheaper’ one anyway (it’s actually on ‘sale’ at the Chairman on the Parade, so they’re probably normally of a similar price!) Both are real leather and very comfortable… so in a few more weeks I should be ‘sitting pretty’! And from this ‘Captain’s chair’ I should be able to crack the whip nicely when ordering my helper to do my housework! (Every cloud has a silver lining!)
I’m happy also to be able to let Peter, my neighbour, use my old recliner when he visits to watch movies with me; up til now he’s been using a garden chair with a couple of cushions thrown into it, poor bugger… He’ll be happy as a pig in muck, I reckon!
I think I’ve also managed to finally get through to my old friend on myspace… Have you ever heard of a band called ‘Three Chord Trick’? He was also with ‘Stray’, I believe, at one stage, and a band called ‘Tobruk’, who produced a couple of albums, but sales were ‘disappointing’… He’s the bassist for TCT now… Perhaps you’ve met him?
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I do believe that I have Stray on Vinyl, up at the lock up.Liked them. Gawd, haven’t even thought about them for yonks.
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I think Steve used to play bass for them too, Vectis Lad; if you can dig ’em out and transfer some of it onto mp3 and post it here, I wouldn’t mind hearing what they sound like… I never really heard ’em before… Although, now that I think about it I realise how old-fashioned I am… I could just go to their MySpace website and see if they have any samples there… Three Chord Trick have three of their songs up on their MySpace site, just in case you’re interested; not bad at all… sort of bluesey-rocky sorta stuff…
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Of course you can always deactivate the notifcation.
However If’n youse don’t have it on, how will you know that someone has replied to you from, say, 5 months ago? You ‘re surely not going to trawl, through every story every night??
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That’s true, Vectis Lad, but what are the chances of that? And even if someone does, how important would it be to hear a comment on a conversation that was essentially finished months ago?
Besides, I still haven’t quite figured the notification thingie out yet… Is it the ‘follow’ button on the wordpress toolbar? I’m a little reluctant to press it again, especially for the dot, ’cause I’m still getting notifications of new messages on the Dot, even though I’ve pressed the ‘unfollow’ button; and now there are two places that I’d have to delete all those notifications from… very tedious, IMHO…
I don’t mean to be recalcitrant, but it still seems like a lot of unnecessary tedium to me…
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Seems a waste with those big Os:
http://www.google.com.au/imgres?q=jane+hill+pictures&hl=en&sa=X&rlz=1C1CHNU_enAU375&biw=1280&bih=703&tbm=isch&prmd=imvnso&tbnid=7r7gZ1F6QGMewM:&imgrefurl=http://www.socialregister.co.uk/jane-hill/&docid=jDarKEJmh83jtM&imgurl=http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_eacB-M4BzwU/Szy7FX5aDMI/AAAAAAAAIU8/8wejFzxEWFE/s320/jane-hill-1.jpg&w=253&h=320&ei=CATETv7vEcqViAeVup3xDQ&zoom=1&iact=hc&vpx=848&vpy=135&dur=1280&hovh=253&hovw=200&tx=121&ty=151&sig=102385618587811697440&page=1&tbnh=164&tbnw=150&start=0&ndsp=18&ved=1t:429,r:4,s:0
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Now that’s what I CALL a pair of big ‘O’s, Vectis Lad!
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Asty in the local paper this week we had a photo of our member – Anthony Albanese being hugged by Dolly Parton – for overruling some dickhead bureaucrat who refused her buses from coming because they were too big for Australian roads. Well, it sounded like buses 🙂
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Ahhhh, the story there though, is, that she is a famous broadcaster in The UK, and is having a same sex civil union.
I thought that it mat titivate the Queer marriage supporters 😉
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As you say Vectis Lad, “Seems a waste with those big Os”
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Emmjay, how can I properly reply to your post if you’re not going to click the button which give you a ‘reply’ button under your post… as the boss, you really oughta know better!
As for Dolly Parton… yes, she does indeed have big buses… but anyone being hugged by her must beware those dagger-like talons she calls ‘fingernails’! They look bloody lethal to me!
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So THAT’s what that thing is ! Well, I NEVER !
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It’s criminal really T2. That’s another thing that I have against Gay Marriage. Al those wasted knockers!! 😉
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Gay marriage won’t make them any more, nor any less wasted, Vectis Lad… It would merely be a recognition of a reality that IS, and which will not change, whether you like it or not…
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Emmjay, you’ve dunnit again! I don’t suppose you’re trying to ‘teach me a lesson’ are you… if so I have to say that there’s no real parallel between your refusal to turn on the ‘reply’ button, and my reluctance to turn on the ‘notification’, as turning on the reply button would not cause you any inconvenience…
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Love the Big ‘O’, especially his work with the Traveling Wilburys… and I like the Stones’ ‘Lady Jane’… but who is this ‘Barry Mann’ dude? Never heard of him! Without having played it yet, I’m guessing that his ‘Bomp’ song is about ‘putting the bomp in the bomp-shoo-womp-shoo-womp…
Presidential visit? He just wants to make sure that ‘Airstrip 2’ (or is it ‘Airstrip 3’?) is still available in case there’s a war brewing between the USA and its greatest creditor, should the former decide to default on its debts to the latter… in which case I’m sure both protagonists will want to fight their war anywhere but on their own respective ‘home grounds’… just like the USA and the USSR had more or less tacitly agreed to do with Europe if the balloon went up during the Cold War and it became hot…
Obama looks and sounds like a nice guy and he makes some very pretty speeches, but the long and short of it is that he’s really just another puppet of the neo-Cons… Who can trust him?
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It, was a song, more from my era than yours T2.
I just put it in because of the mild onomatopoeia : Obama.
It also goes well with Ramadan 🙂
Neo-con? He’s a democrat. All those slogans and nonsensical labels are inane, in my view.
There’s no such thing as a person…Everybody’s an imitator of something, dying from the moment they’re born. Except for the “right”. The innovatiors: the job creators 🙂
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I’d heard of the song, Vectis Lad, I was just blissfully unaware of who was responsible for it!
Ramadan? As in ‘ramadan-a-ding-dong’? I see…
He may call himself a democrat; that doesn’t stop him being a puppet of the neo-Cons… they’re the ones who are still running the show behind the scenes… the president is simply a figurehead; a ‘front-man’…
No such thing as a person? So we’re all just ‘imitation people’? Androids, eh? That would explain a lot… but I don’t see why the ‘right’ are the exception to this rather silly rule…
As for the right being the ‘innovators’… this is hardly credible… they are reactionaries of the worst sort… Take rock’n’roll, for example… the most innovative and lucrative style of music to emerge over the last century: and it emerged out of a mixture of the music made by the poorest of the poor: negro slaves and their ‘blues’ mixed with ‘country’ music such as ‘bluegrass’ which also comes from the poorest section of the white Appalachian community. If the right are ‘job-creators’ it is only because they have hoarded all the wealth for themselves for centuries and so are the only people (or should I say ‘androids’?) who are in a position to ‘create jobs’ in order exploit (in the worst sense of the word) the creativity of the ‘left’… the poor and working classes.
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Obama is here on a toilet break. Australia is famous for its wide brown dunny and so he came to check it out; and while he’s doing so, he might as well, lock the dunny up for another century or so with contracts to sell it their war junk; and to have his decrees written up on our parliament walls, like Luther had his papal dispensations nailed on the front doors of his churches. The decree says, “you’re either with us or you’re against us,” first written up some fifty years ago but recently given some airing by Obama’s predecessor.
It’s all there is to America. Military hardware. Military poisons. Weapons of mass destruction. That’s the whole sum of its industry. Everything else, including its banking, is subsidised. Junk that kills. It’s all they’ve got to sell.
And the dunny is happy to behave like a stool receptacle.
America doesn’t trade. It doesn’t buy. It takes. Anything it wants: land for bases, land for resources. Takes all it wants when it wants. And then leaves.
America protects its dunnies around the world for as long as the dunnies serve the requisite purpose. Then america leaves and forgets about these now useless dunnies.
This ALP (beginning with Hawke and Beazley) has said to America, in no uncertain terms, “All the way with America!” and Yes, we will! We will provide you with a dunny and we will feel honoured to do so!” and “Our vast brown land is yours for the taking. Build whatever you like upon it, take whatever you like from it! It is yours. We are too stupid to look after it. We need big brothers like you to take care of it. To turn it like your land.” and we are one of your satrapies. Look, our heads are bowed down, our culture is nothing more than a pale imitation of your culture, our voice sounds very much like yours, our films, our TV, our theatre, our art, our music, has all emerged from your junk yards,” and “we are your inferiors,” and “bless us America for we have sinned and doubted you once or twice -but you made sure the sinners were given the chop!”
Amen!
If anyone is going to win by a landslide in 2013, then, yes, I’d rather it’d be Julia but -shit, only because there’s simply no alternative. That’s how desperate we are!
Though, my suspicion is that by then, it’ll be Shorten. Son-in-law of our queen’s rep.
What’s Julia done again?
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http://www.abc.net.au/news/2011-11-17/barack-obama-to-address-australian-parliament/3676150?WT.svl=news0
Lets here what he has to say first.
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During his time as AWU National Secretary, Shorten was the interim chief executive of the Australian Netball Players Association (ANPA), following an alliance between the AWU and ANPA in 2005. Shorten also served on the advisory board of the Australian Cricketers’ Association.
Hah!
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You forgot “baby killers”.
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I don’t think either Julia or Shorten have actually killed any babies, Voice; not yet!
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The BBC footage of this is hilarious.
As the President descends the steps from the aircraft
No doubt there’ll be a nice embrace down the steps to meet Prime Minister Gillard, just watch this! You’ll see how close they are in their body language … they ARE known to share a joke …
President greets Governor General with multiple handshakes (their first meeting?)
This is Quintin Bryce the Attorney (sic) General first of all in the yellow …
Ritual kissing of Gillard (peck each cheek) and she touches his arm a couple times
Look at the touching there! That doesn’t happen all the time that you manhandle in a sense the President of the United States …
Pres shakes hands and exchanges hugs with the man next in line who also touches his arm
… but it’s absolutely natural between these two [still babbling on about Gillard], they do get along well, a lot of common ground on plicy issues, aided and abetted by a warm personal relationship …
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Nothing hilarious, Obama and Gillard seem to be getting on very well, accept the fact, and don’t worry about what BBC is reporting., what’s your own take on things?
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Humour’s a personal thing Helvi and I always take the view that explanations don’t make it funny for those for whom it wasn’t already.
My take on what things?
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Ask BBC.
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Helvi, that was necessarily curt. Voice was just recounting a BBC take on it.
There’s always a funny side to everything. And Obama, loves a wink & a nudge ;)± ± ±.
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“necessarily curt”, exactly so.
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Well, you should have recognised that I made a typo–and left it at that.
I don’t know why you have to argue with Voice all the time over trivia. Fair enough if’n it’s politics, or opposite points of view in a discussion, but you seem to be angry every time she says something. Even something as innocuous as The BBC, episode–harmless–surely?
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Well, that doesn’t exactly move the conversation forward.
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Helvi, I think you and I are the odd ones out here.
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Viv, if the other Piglets would welcome Abbott as their leader, then I’m happy to be the odd one out…the choice is between Julia and Abbott. No one is perfect but Abbott is still the LESS perfect….
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One of these days, Helvi, you’ll be able to, “actually”, say what Abbooot can do to harm you–or the country.
Apart from the fact that he is married with three stunning, well adjusted daughters, and he doesn’t rubber stamp all of Gillard’s whims (for that is what they are). what is wrong with him…”in your opinion”.
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Well, Abbott doesn’t agree with anything the other side says or does. That’s how Carbon tax got through and on-shore processing of asylum seekers. The bad things that Abbot not only can do, but will….. Start with WorkChoices, mining tax removal, unprotecting environmental treasures, defunding welfare initiative. Look at the terrifi shape Health was in courtesy of when Abbott was the minister – canning abortion by drugs…… Every kind of fucking flat earth dopey action….. Retard does -as retard is….
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Sorry. Question mark there?
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Oh! So, that’s what Helvi, was worried about. Why didn’t she say so?
Is that true Helvi? Abbooot is conspiring to bring back work choices and stop a tax that we don’t have anyway?
The health system in Queensland under The ALP is atrocious. Bring on the Libs.
Abortion? Hardly the stuff of International Intrigue. I don’t know anything about it.
I can’t see anything to be terrified of. Just a change of government and a few jobs shuffled.
But for me, the very idea that you can solve the world pollution, by taxing 10million Ozzies, yet be the “Pusher Man”, is mind-boggling stupid. it can only have come from Brown, Bob.
Give me Barnaby Joyce over that queer any day.
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And the other thing that gives me the shits, is the ALP trying to blame the newspapers, for the countries mismanagement. Murdoch supported Rudd. Now The ALP are on the run, through there own fault, they’re trying to blame everyone else.
Tim should whack em in to line, with Brown Bob’s handbag. Wong’s child for next ALP leader?
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Settle down, VL, I have just sent you some Reindeer roast with Cloudberries…
We are going out to dinner with our Anglo/Norwegian friend and I don’t want to spoil my appetite by discussing Abbott’s unsuitability to be our PM.
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Lady J has, of course, already done the deed and the throne has been made clear. There remain only the red spots.
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What is all this ‘Lady J’ stuff Ato. Give her a break. It was the usual official welcoming and it was done with less of the crap we came to expect from that shit Howard. I was not embarrassed. Our GG looked terrific too. Just lucky it was not raining as it is here.
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Viv, maybe Ato would prefer Lord Abbott.
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Sorry, have done it again; it’s H not G.
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H, why must it be that I’d prefer Abbott if I can’t stand our servile disposition towards the thugs of the US?
Viv, I suppose I expected far more from Julia than I got. Silly me, I once had this romantic notion that there are politicians out there with, not only intelligence but also a certain breadth of moral campus. Well, this bunch of men and women that calls itself the Labor Party does so under false pretences -in my unhumble opinion, of course!
From the moment she shouted “Assange is a criminal” to the moment she declared the “Timor Solution” and then the “Malaysia solution” I felt nothing but sadness for the paucity of true thinkers this country must endure in its halls of power. I see her as just another moral conservative, another close-fisted, ham-fisted puppet of the Washington-Pentagon-Wall St complex.
Religion is still up there with the elite and subsidised as do all the other elites. Private schools also. Issues such as same sex marriage, euthanasia, the republic, work choices… same old, same old. Howard with a skirt -and maybe a decimal point more in the IQ gradient.
Sorry but, I feel that time and again, the ALP has betrayed its people. At least the Libs get what they ask for.
She was right about one thing: The Labor Party has lost its way.
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Yes, I am G.
H is the pretty one.
What’s the betting that Gillard will win by a landslide in 2013?
Look what she has achieved so far, leading the world in doing something about the climate and ciggies.It was so nice with Abbott gone,no arguing and endless no’s. Soon, we will see him again on the telly amongs tomatoes or shovelling sand, desperate to be seen as as an alternative;alternative in what?
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Leading the world. Ho ho ho. You must have been at the Dutch Courage.
This tax is a dud. Imagine New Zealand cutting down on eating local fish, yet exporting all it can catch. Gerrit?
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There was an Old Man with a beard,
Who said ‘It is just as I feared! –
Two Owls and a Hen,
Four Larks and a Wren,
Have all built their nests in my beard!’ EL
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A man who was always clean-shaven
Went fishing from the rocks at North Haven
Thinking he’d hooked a salmon
His mate shouted, “Cam on
Mate; I think that you’re just bloody ravin’!”
(‘Cam’ being an Ozzie pronunciation of ‘come’, of course!)
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Free as a slave can be! Yeae!
But have the rumours -and the snake- been scorched or scotch’d?
The sons of Columbus pop up on every feast on the planet like endless shades of Banquo.
“What, will the line stretch out to the crack of doom?”
Poor O’Beth!
We have nothing to fear but the bounding pop ups from Wall St, Mms!
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Lady J looks almost as deliriously o-manic as when Lady O’Prah paid us a visit.
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