Story by a Hairy Dog that lives at Emmjay’s Place
The too-familiar sound of a large black limo crushing the gravel in the Pig’s Arms carpark rang through the front bar and sent a chill up the spines of the assembled bludgers watching a re-run of Roman Polanski’s Chinatown (starring Jack Nicholson and Faye Dunaway).
There was the otherwise reassuring thunk-thunk of german steel as two of the behemoth’s doors slammed shut and a short, stout balding man in a dark grey suit strode across the forecourt and through the main door of the pub.
“All right” he announced to the punters – who were reluctant to accept a disruption at that crucial point when Polanski, doing a cameo of some minor punk, inserts his shiv into Jake Gittoes’ left nostril and does a little freelance plastic surgery.
“ALL RIGHT” the grey man repeated,”Where the fuck is Eddie ?”
Merv and the punters had been startled, not by the try-harding grand standing short, fat grey man, but by the geyser of claret that had sprung from Jack Nicholson’s nose when the stiletto did its worst. They were all taking a sympathy sip to calm their nerves and nobody had paid much attention to the short, fat, and (did I mention ?) grey man.
“I SAID …..”
“Yeah, we know what you said” said Hung, in his best DILLIGAF[1] impression.
“Do you know who I am ?” inquired the short, fat, balding grey man (SFBGM)
“Reuben F Scarf ?” guessed Hung.
“WHAT ?” said the SFBGM. “I said, Reuben F Scarf” said Hung. “The name on the inside pocket of your suit”.
A round of horse laughing circled the front bar, but the SFBGM wasn’t amongst the punters enjoying the leg pull.
“Look, mate, nobody gives a stuff who you are, but you’re still welcome in the Pig’s Arms” said Merv.
“This is Arturo Sinister Demons” said a swarthy chap redolent of dolmades and aged falafels, who had suddenly appeared and taken the SBFGM’s back.
“Will you guys save it for the commercial break?” said Hung. “Jack Nicholson’s just fished another one out of the reservoir”.
“Well, how about that !” said Voice. “Mr Sinister Demons knows a thing or two about the water game too”
“And he knows what it’s like to have a taste of IPECAC” added Merv, who had finally joined the dots.
“Unusual for Federal Senators to front IPECAC” added Voice. “And Assistant Treasurers”, said Hung. “Even more unusual to have a family tree that grows in the shade of Johnny the Rodent and has roots right across to Eddie O’Bad on the other side !”
Sinister Demons was not well pleased. He smashed his silver-handled cane on the bar and said “For the last time, where the fuck is Eddie ?”
“He’s moved in across the road next to Rosie’s Tattoo Emporium and House of Pain” said Merv. But before Sinister Demons could turn on his heel and bust through the front door, Merv added “But you won’t find him there”.
Demons stood about an inch and a half away from Merv and said through gnashing teeth “Well, WHERE will I find him ?”
“One of the Cook’s River Sea Scouts found him floating in the drink, face up this morning. That is, what was left of his face was up” Said Hung”.
“Make mine a pint” said Demons and shot a look around the bar like the cat that had just scored all the cream. “And a pink drink for Ian when he gets here”.
[1] DILLIGAF – do I look like I give a fuck
hph said:
The whole movie Star trek 3 is about the fact that the only ship Kirk really cares about is his relationship with Spock, but the entire original Star Trek series generally makes that point and demonstrates it again and again. That point is never challenged in any way by any of the original cast movies that followed – in fact they only added fuel to the fire by adding more Kirk/Spock titbits, while never once pretending to give either of the guys a serious female love interest.
In the new Star Trek movie, we are shown a rebooted Star Trek universe which is explicitly an alternate timeline universe, and nothing that happens there reflects at all on all of the Trek that went before. They cooked up a red-hot affair between Spock and Uhura, as if to try at this late stage to prove him to be firmly heterosexual – but in the same movie they felt the need to show older Spock warning his younger self to not miss his chance to build a relationship with Kirk – which is what you would expect Spock to do, if it’s the same old Spock we know.
In the new Star Trek movie, we are also offered this tantalizing and utterly classic Kirkian moment:
Uhura (to Kirk): “For a moment there I thought you were just a dumb hick who only has sex with farm animals.”
Kirk (puckishly): “Well, not ONLY…”
It’s made clear enough that this reboot-Kirk isn’t a completely re-visioned Kirk. As usual, he doesn’t manage to establish a relationship with any woman, and instead spends the majority of his time bedevilling Spock. And it works. Spock is clearly, unequivocally, totally successfully bedevilled.
Who in all of the Star Trek universe, did Kirk *actually* love for years? FOR YEARS, through thick and thin? We all know the answer to that one, don’t we? We all know who Kirk really would lie, cheat, steal for, and sacrifice his career/reputation for AND whom Kirk actually loved for years, yes? Spock.
Isn’t it just too perfect that the feeling is 100% obviously, explicitly mutual? Spock is clearly crazy about Kirk, too.
Kirk and Spock’s relationship with each other is the primary love relationship for both of them. It spans decades, endures terrible trials, and defies even death. It’s love. MAD LOVE, baby. Kirk and Spock are madly in love with each other, and yes, it’s canon.
But didn’t Roddenberry deny that any of that was in there? What if he did? But no………
<>
There is also this:
<>
[From: Shatner: Where No Man…: The Authorized Biography of William Shatner (Chapter 7 – Page 145, 147-8)]
………. he didn’t.
If Roddenberry didn’t deny it, we shouldn’t, either. Besides, you don’t need a confession if you have enough evidence.
From: Proof Of Love, by Laura Goodwin
…………………………………………………………………
…and that brings us back to square one: Sinodinos 🙂
LikeLike
hph said:
Missing part between first
We [the interviewers] tell Gene [Roddenberry] something of our recent interview with Bill [Shatner] and Leonard [Nimoy] – touching on the Kirk-Spock relationship, and Nimoy’s feeling that Kirk was essential to Spock’s life:
“I know you’ve told us you designed that relationship as ‘Two halves which come together to make a whole’. Is that how you still see it?”
[Roddenberry]: “Oh yes. As I’ve said, I definitely designed it as a love relationship. I think that’s what we’re all about – love, the effort to reach out to each other. I think that’s a lovely thing. Also, dramatically, I designed Kirk and Spock to complete each other – and in fact, the Kirk, Spock McCoy triad to be the dramatic embodiment of the parts of one person: logic, emotion, and the balance between them. You cannot have an internal monologue on the screen, so that is a way of personifying it, getting it out where it can be seen – that internal debate which we all have within. AND I designed Kirk and Spock, as I told you, as dream images of myself, the two halves. But in terms of the characters, yes. That closeness… absolutely.”
missing part between second
“There’s a great deal of writing in the Star Trek movement which compares the relationship between Alexander and Hephaistion* to the relationship between Kirk and Spock – focusing on the closeness of the friendship, the feeling that they would die for one another…”
[Roddenberry]: “Yes, there’s certainly some of that – certainly with love overtones. Deep love. The only difference being, the Greek ideal – we never suggested in the series – physical love between the two. But it’s the – we certainly had the feeling that the affection was sufficient for that, if that were the particular style of the 23rd century. “
LikeLike
hph said:
first and second arrows (damn.. I’ll get it right next time!)
LikeLike
hph said:
Anything worth doing is worth doing for money. Never allow family to stand in the way of opportunity. Exploitation begins at home. Treat people in your debt like family … exploit them. Once you have their money … never give it back. A wealthy man can afford anything except a conscience. Never place friendship above profit.
A wise man can hear profit in the wind.
LikeLike
Googlhoover said:
What are you HPH, a Ferengi?
LikeLike
hph said:
No.
…
When Zarathustra arrived at the edge of the forest, he came upon a town. Many people had gathered there in the marketplace to see a tightrope walker who had promised a performance. The crowd, believing that Zarathustra was the ringmaster come to introduce the tightrope walker, gathered around to listen. And Zarathustra spoke to the people:
I teach you the Overman! Mankind is something to be overcome. What have you done to overcome mankind?
All beings so far have created something beyond themselves. Do you want to be the ebb of that great tide, and revert back to the beast rather than overcome mankind? What is the ape to a man? A laughing-stock, a thing of shame. And just so shall a man be to the Overman: a laughing-stock, a thing of shame. You have evolved from worm to man, but much within you is still worm. Once you were apes, yet even now man is more of an ape than any of the apes.
http://praxeology.net/zara.htm
…
and sometimes I’m a clown.
LikeLike
Googlhoover said:
You’re my kind of Ubermensch and you’d make a fine Ferengi.
Sinodinos on the other hand is simply ein untermensch, though it has to be said it does appear that he’s boned up on the Rules Of Acquisition.
LikeLike
gerard oosterman said:
And at times long gone, the Overman’s exultations became too much for some and they went East, far East somewhere near Debrovnik and started a family in huts and humble thatched abodes spread below old Elms and ancient Oaks. They were named the Oostman’s tribe and some of those became the Batavieren and settled west again in Low Lands subject to floods and general mayhem and that’s where and how the Oostermans came about.
A tribe of questioning and querulous people, given to warring and non acceptance of vague truths steeped in Anglo Saxons love of lore and dormant lies. From Overman to Oosterman. It’s all there in history .
LikeLike
Voice said:
Did you remember to turn off the gas ?!? Stop the plane! 🙂 🙂
LikeLike
Voice said:
It’s too late now – relax. The teenager’s not likely to use the stove and excess gas will escape out the doors he leaves open. 🙂
LikeLike
gerard oosterman said:
In case we think we are being swamped by refugees, here some sobering figures.
Malta last year received, on average, the highest number of asylum-seekers compared to its national population, a report by the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) shows. Malta received 20.2 applicants per 1,000 inhabitants. Sweden ranked second (19.2 applicants per 1,000 inhabitants), followed by Liechtenstein (17.3 applicants per 1,000 inhabitants), Luxembourg (11.9 applicants per 1,000 inhabitants), and Switzerland (11.5 applicants per 1,000 inhabitants).
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20140322/local/unhcr-malta-last-year-received-highest-number-of-asylum-seekers-compared-to-national-population.511699
Put that together with Sinodinos and the other bunch of dithering infantile idiots governing us we truly must do something or end up a lost nation in an ocean of xenophobic flotsam.
LikeLike
Jayell said:
I grew up in a time when all Englishmen considered Australians to be swindlers and gamblers; able to roll a (hand made) cigarette with one hand. I thought that the greatest swindler was Australian, however now find that he was Austrian: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-smoothest-con-man-that-ever-lived-29861908/?no-ist
Accumulating money, seems a human trait (in lieu of nuts), however, worrying about it seems to bring tremendous anxiety too.
It seems obvious that Sinodinos, was trying to accumulate money, so I don’t think that he will survive to be exonerated. His career is over.
There are types in this world that fret and fret, over other people’s money. Who has it; how can one get it; what it should be used for – and where can it be directed to. They are usually the most treacherously reproving types, caring not one jot about family or friends. They have nasty minds, tirelessly and insidiously bickering about other people’s deeds and wealth.Never doing anything – yet complaining about everything.
Another trait of a good con artist, is: Never appear bored – show nothing but interest in your victim…………………..Keep using smileys, as a pretence at being virtuous.
LikeLike
hph said:
He is either threatening a certain person with a bullet or sending out a Masonic SOS.
LikeLike
Googlhoover said:
Its another of those moral vs ethical questions. Sinodinos. Leaving aside any allegations or actual proof relating to actual criminal corruption, of which there is none at this time, Well certainly none on the public record; there remains the question of his actions in accepting an AWH board position that paid $200K and only required attendance at 4 meetings a year.
This decision is morally neutral but is certainly ethically questionable in that Sinidinos never exercised his duty of care to the shareholders that the money he was receiving, (an amount at odds with what other board members thought was appropriate), was in keeping with shareholder expectations and in accord with those amounts paid to other directors and board members.
In short he grabbed the money and ran.
Further; does anyone actually believe that Sinodinos was not expected to curry favour with and open Liberal doors for AWH and the small unrepresentative elite at its head. Remember AWH was a company that started out as a Not For Profit and only became the troublesome corporate entity it is today after that elite turned the company on its head.
Like I said at the outset, it appears that nothing illegal has gone on but almost everything to do with that company and the behaviour of certain directors and board members is ethically questionable. Maybe we’ll get the Metherill outcome. No actual corruption found but rather behaviour likely to contribute to a culture where corruption can thrive.
And wasn’t that the way Eddie liked things?
LikeLike
hph said:
Moral, immoral, amoral, ethical or unethical. This is a private company. Business as usual. Nothing is surprising there.
To me, what is more important is this: Where does this company get that money from? .. Thin Air???
LikeLike
helvityni said:
hph, all too depressing, and there’s seems to be no light at the end of this tunnel….
If it’s not Sinodinos it’s something else, asylum seekers being killed, education neglected….not enough taxes been paid…and so on…
LikeLike
hph said:
There is a light at the end of the tunnel, Helvi. As someone has replied to the question of what he thought about French Revolution, “It’s too early to say.”
But it’s never too late. The fuse is burning. 🙂
LikeLike
gerard oosterman said:
They get that money from us. (you and me)
LikeLike
hph said:
Exactly Gerard.
Public —> Private—> The people are getting shafted.
LikeLike
Googlhoover said:
http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/australian-water-holdings-what-you-need-to-know-20140320-3545r.html
This is abrief background. Like I said ethically corrupt.
LikeLike
gerard oosterman said:
As crook as Rookwood. And this Government dares to question the morals of refugees. That sinister triumphant smile of Morrison commenting on a refugee who angrily stated ” you wonder how 9/11 happened”, look what you are doing?. Morrison quick as a flash demonising refugees even more.
LikeLike
hph said:
G,
Ethics :: moral principles that govern a person’s behaviour or the conducting of an activity
Eddie and Sinodinos are thieves. Just common thieves crooks swindlers plunderers cheats. They stole money that belongs to the citizens of NSW. Eddie and Sinodinos do not have moral principles. This is not the problem.
The problem is the *system*
LikeLike
helvityni said:
hph, what amazes me is how smooth and wrinkle- free Sinner-Dinos’ face is, that can also be said about Brandis of the Free Bookcases. I have many metres of shelves as well, but I have paid for them all.
No money worries, no wrinkles ?
LikeLike
hph said:
Sinner-Dinos was mommy’s little boy. His mommy did everything for him. He was a pampered spoiled little boy who didn’t experience hardship as he was growing up. With that clear, smooth, glowing tight skin he will have many big, burly banjo-playing friends if he ever ends up in prison.
LikeLike
hph said:
and Eddie will light candles in the prison chapel, for him
LikeLike
Voice said:
I’ll give you my 2 cents worth of tech advice, Big M. You’ve probably heard it all already so forgive me.
– Take ALL your chargers. Mobile, camera, tablets, etc. etc.
– Take a European to Australian power converter plug or buy one at the airport when you arrive.
– Take a normal Australian double plug. Then you can use both tablets off the mains simultaneously or whatever.
– Take a few high capacity USB sticks for your photos and use one as backup.
– Dump your photos to your tablet every evening or so, view them, delete most of them and save the remainder to the USB. The delete part assumes you are normal and take many photos of everything in the hope one will be any good. If you wait until you get home the task will be overwhelming and it’s a nice way to finish the day if you view them together.
Sorry there’s no joke in there.
LikeLike
Big M said:
Thanks, Voice, we each have a charger with two usb outputs, one has a pass through socket and filter/surge protector, so they can piggy back. I think the surge protector/filter is bullshit…transformers and switch mode power supplies act as filters, anyway!
Spare old digital camera, with it’s own charger. Two continental type adapters. Electric kettle (no kitchen sink!). Spare USB drives (one is a 32 gb ‘stealth’ drive). Good advice re: photos. We don’t want 20000 pics to wade through when we get home!
Pity one can’t do a ‘tastogram for food ‘n’ wine!
LikeLike
Jayell said:
Don’t forget your swagbag, billy tin and camp oven 😉
LikeLike
algernon1 said:
And the whole sheep to go with it ;-p
LikeLike
Big M said:
Don’t mention them, Mrs M will want all of that in my bag!!
LikeLike
Voice said:
Electric kettle. Heck! But it will fit in the business class luggage allowance I suppose. And your wife can smuggle you back alcoholic beverages and portions of edible food in flight. Good quality teabags? In France those culinary heathens had Instant Tea granules in a jar.
LikeLike
Voice said:
And a doctor’s note for pain killers and declare them. I am doing my mother hen thing. Habit.
LikeLike
Big M said:
We don’t have a doctors note for pain killers, but do have one for the shitload of stuff Mrs M takes to stay alive.
I thought instant tea came and went in the 70s??
LikeLike
Voice said:
Fortunately I missed it. I’d never seen it until 21st century France.
LikeLike
Jayell said:
BREAKING NEWS: http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/queensland/labor-questions-how-200000-donation-went-to-rudds-electorate-account-20140320-355z5.html
LikeLike
Jayell said:
Surely it can’t be true?
Bill Shorten, should come clean and tell us what he knows about it.
LikeLike
Panna Cotta said:
If he can take his butt-plug out you mean, JL?
Bwahahahah.
LikeLike
helvityni said:
Ugly, that’s all I can say to you.
LikeLike
Jayell said:
I’m not sure whether your supporting Rudd’s $200,000. or criticising it?
Which is it?
LikeLike
helvityni said:
I don’t know who you are talking to, I’m referring to Pannacotta’s language use. Why would I be writing about Rudd?
LikeLike
Jayell said:
Why would you be writing about Rudd?
Because of this:
BREAKING NEWS: http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/queensland/labor-questions-how-200000-donation-went-to-rudds-electorate-account-20140320-355z5.html
What do you think, now that you know what the subject is?
LikeLike
helvityni said:
Emmjay’s story is about Sinodinos, Rudd’s gone. I’m not interested what Queensland papers have to say about anything, I don’t enter Campbell Newman territory, I leave that Bjelke Petersen country for you to worry about.
LikeLike
Jayell said:
It’s Fairfax. it’s on all of their sites it’s bi big news. he’s the guy that opened the Kamps – remember?
You wrote about, ‘No Country for Old men’.
That’s nothing to do with the subject either.
Mind you, I do understand. it’s embarrassing to have to discuss anything about Rudd.
Or Shorten. he’s even worse, don’t you think?
LikeLike
sea monster said:
One might argue the story is about corruption generally. Or that it provokes thoughts about corruption generally.
And then might wonder why people are all over some corruption and strangely silent, evasive or even forgiving on other corruption. Poor old Craig Thomson…
Of course that last paragraph might also describe Jules’ behavior. Of course he will tell us again he’s merely reflecting the behavior of his opponents.
Do they really have a problem with corruption or are they cynically using it to score party points?
John Howard is also gone, by the way. I take it we shall never mention him again either.
LikeLike
Voice said:
But he is, SM. Julian I mean. As a spectator “tit for tat” often has a similar effect to tat times 2. But I can empathise – if you have problems doing that ask Southern Cross Tattoo.
LikeLike
sea monster said:
Kudos to you. 5 long years my blogging has been centered on pointing out inconsistencies and hypocrisy. Never once has anyone thought to turn the tables on me. I’m quite prepared to admit I’m no superman and probably am just as afflicted as my fellows.
In fact I’m frustrated people don’t point them out. I’m blind too them and would like them revealed to me.
LikeLike
Jayell said:
Can I just ask, did you use double o in the word to (too), to throw grard off the scent , that you are really Voice.
I just bring it up because I am pedantic and, like an elephant never forget…He wrote an article in which he (with helvi’s concurrence) deduced that you were Voice, because your syntax and phraseology were the same, however you put intentional mistakes in.
My brother is a barrister, so maybe it (getting to the bottom of things) runs in the family.
Voice has never made a spelling mistake in 6 years!
LikeLike
Voice said:
If YOU are really me, JL, then nèe Mendez was a beauty. You even fooled ME into thinking you couldn’t be me.
P.S. I nearly fell over laughing again. I didn’t look at the photo and haven’t touched a drop today, so it must just be your comedic flair.
LikeLike
Voice said:
To SM, I had thought of it as an appeal for understanding rather than pointing out inconsistency. Oh well. You are the most introspective blogger I have ever communicated with.
LikeLike
Hung One On said:
Brilliant Mikey. After a hard night at the factory it certainly made my day.
LikeLike
Therese Trouserzoff said:
Thanks, Hung. I was hoping you’d warm to your part in the story !
LikeLike
helvityni said:
Hey Hung, have you seen Polanski’s Chinatown, a top movie, like all Polanski’s…
If you have not seen it, please do. I have seen it twice, it was equally absorbing on the second viewing,as was No Country For Old Men by the Coen brothers.
LikeLike
Hung One On said:
Is Chinatown a movie about a town in China? Hmm, don’t think so
LikeLike
helvityni said:
Just referring to Emmjay’s story about you watching Chinatown.
LikeLike
Jayell said:
Sydney Dinos should stand down and lose his pay.
That’s my unequivocal view.
LikeLike
sandshoe said:
I was only now reading about the latest. It’s a drain eh Australia really hasn’t got time for.
LikeLike
algernon1 said:
I do Like a DILLIGAF, know someone who put that on his business cards. Used to attend WOFTAM meetings. Thinking about that so did I this week.
LikeLike
Therese Trouserzoff said:
I had to look it up, Algy. Priceless….. Waste Of Fucking Time and Money 🙂 Ooooh – look at the new WordPress deluxe emoticons …… 😉
LikeLike
Big M said:
Years ago, at work, it was decreed that everyone needed to be a member of a committee in order to make some sort of contribution (as if saving lives isn’t a contribution already). I told them that I was a member of the IBTC, the Iddy, Bitty, Tiity Committee. Didn’t go down real well!
LikeLike
algernon1 said:
That could go down well when meeting people in Italy, Big. Tell ’em your a member of the IBTC. You could say we discuss things of a WOFTAM nature, play wank word bingo and that DILLIGAF.
You need to make sure they don’t over fuel the plane though (you’re not flying Malaysian), That happened to me yesterday. Have a safe journey, hope Mrs Big and yourself have a great time.
LikeLike
Big M said:
Thanks for the good wishes, Algy, will endeavour to stay in touch via the Wide World Interwebnet-thingy.
We could be cheapskates, and convert it into a study tour, visiting hospitals to report back to the IBTC committe, but I’m WOFTAMed.
I flew to Coffs harbour last week. On landing, the pilot asked how the flight was (actually it was pretty magical, waxing gibbous moon over the clouds)? I replied that it was waaayyy better than Malaysian Air. He didn’t think it was THAT funny.
LikeLike
Jayell said:
All the best for your travels.
Most hotels and public places, have WiFi, so you can log in free if you have an iPad, or a Lenovo 8″ Windows 8 Tablet.
LikeLike
Big M said:
Thanks, JL, Mrs M has an iPad, I have a Sony Xperia tablet, between us we hope to maintain contact with all of our beloved in Orstrayah.
Are you still travelling to Italy in April?
LikeLike
Voice said:
WTF FOR? Let them all look after themselves and you don’t want to know what the teenager is doing it will only wreck your holiday. 🙂
LikeLike
Big M said:
I agree, Voice….f#$%ing teenagers!
LikeLike
gerard oosterman said:
Have a nice holiday Big M, and if time permits have a look at the knocking shop in Pompeii. All the erotic artworks have been restored. Very uplifting experience.
LikeLike
Jayell said:
We are going to England in June. We will be in Venice & Rome, in July.
LikeLike
Big M said:
Thanks, GO, I’m always on the lookout for uplifting art.
JL are you still trying track down protestants??
LikeLike
Jayell said:
I’m flying with Emirates, BTW, Big. Who are you flying with?
We get Emirates points and somehow they can be used(partly) with Qantas. I’m not sure how.
However, the flight to London was about $400 each cheaper, at the time.
The airlines make you pay in advance now, of course. One used to be able to pay a deposit.
So they have had our money since last October.
STILL, it did mean that we could choose our seats free. Qantas wanted a few shekles to that two. Which adds up when there are two of you and changing aircraft ect.
LikeLike
Jayell said:
I think that you are referring to Michaleangelo.
You really should look it up when you are there. The theory is that later in life he rebelled against the Cardinals and that it shows in his later work.
LikeLike
Jayell said:
he questioned their motives and ideals. OHe actually painted some stuff showing angels where they wante images of themselves as being munificant.
He also changed a sculpture to look a different way. He was influenced by objectivity (sin)(and Martin Luther) and real acts, rather than the silly ideas that the cardinals should be glorified for deeds they had done with the powerful church’s money.
LikeLike
Hung One On said:
You left out CRAFT – Can’t Remember a Fucking Thing
LikeLike
Big M said:
Singapore Air. They’ve had our dough since November. Mrs M is travelling business class, as her back is essentially f%^&ed, and I’m Cattle Class. Will vigorously agitate for an upgrade at every opportunity! I don’t know who gets points, and where they go!
I find the whole Protestant movement quite interesting. Imagine you could be hung (sorry Hung), drawn and quartered for saying that you didn’t believe in transubstantiation, or thought that commoners should read the bible?
I get the impression that many artists were badly treated by the church (Leonardo was incarcerated for being gay), so often placed little hints in their artwork, the pope’s face as a demon, and so on.
LikeLike
gerard oosterman said:
Give Mrs Big M G&H best wishes. I hope they’ll let you get a business seat with her as well.
LikeLike
Big M said:
Well, he’s not welcome in the Gentleman’s Bar, even if the bastard shouts!
LikeLike
Voice said:
Big, this is Sydney. It’s not HOW you got your money, it’s HOW MUCH. If he’s guilty as (potentially) charged he’s potentially loaded. They’ll be invading the bar to swarm all over him.
LikeLike
Voice said:
Lawyers first.
LikeLike
Big M said:
Grubby land deals in the gentleman’s convenience, packets of reddies under the table, hushed conversations with members of the legal profession…..
LikeLike
Therese Trouserzoff said:
Hi Big. You’re up early – or late, as the case may be !
LikeLike
Big M said:
Up early. Plenty of insomnia in the last few months. Think it’s shift work related. Love your piece on Snotty Donuts!
LikeLike
Voice said:
The night shift should put you directly onto Italy time! Buon viaggio.
LikeLike
helvityni said:
Big M, what about The Ladies Lounge?
LikeLike
Big M said:
Dunno, if you Ladies are impressed by fat bellies and fat wallets, well go ahead.
LikeLike
Hung One On said:
Well I got the fat belly part down pat, the fat wallet bit I am working on.
LikeLike
Voice said:
Sinnerdemons perhaps?
Yes, it was crying out for another Eddie O’Bad episode.
The point of the cheap suit escapes me. If this guy’s a corrupt wheeler dealer it won’t be so he can buy cheap suits. He’d be in something Italian and wool – that’s what aspirational crooks wear in the movies anyway.
LikeLike
gerard oosterman said:
I’ll try and let it sink in and mature a bit. For me it has a lot of cricket about it. I think Vivienne is right. It needs a good shiraz. We just had flat head fillets perfectly cooked with spuds and a delicious tom relish made by H from our own tomatoes. A totally comprehensible meal.
LikeLike
helvityni said:
I enjoyed this one… a Reuben F Scarf suit, pretty priceless, for Sin-o-dinos…
LikeLike
sandshoe said:
Who’s gonna pay the rent on Eddie’s place if the identity was guessed right by that Seascout what fished him out. Things is tough.
LikeLike
Therese Trouserzoff said:
Eddie has / had a whole tribe of falafel-munching shonk merchants, a deal will be done, no doubt ….. probably taxpayers or rate payers, will cover the rent and quite a few other expenses, ‘Shoe 🙂
LikeLike
sandshoe said:
Ought never have given him the contract on the place, Emmjay. Those lawyers weren’t to know. 😉
LikeLike
vivienne29 said:
It’s good. Too clever in parts – will need another read to get it to sink it. Of course just because Eddie was Labor doesn’t mean he was really Labor. Sid Snotis is at least guilty of gross incompetence as a Director and a Chairman.
LikeLike
vivienne29 said:
Doesn’t read the minutes of meetings.
LikeLike
Sea Monster said:
Well I’ve been tying to convince you that Labor is full of people who aren’t really Labor. careerists who see public service as an investment strategy.
LikeLike
Sea Monster said:
…and of course people who loath and detest actual workers.
LikeLike
vivienne29 said:
No you haven’t actually but I beat you to it ages ago with remarks about Richo and Ferguson.
LikeLike
sea monster said:
Well the efforts been there. Seems my executions been a bit off.
LikeLike
sandshoe said:
You’re in form, Emmjay. I don’t understand barely a word of it but it’s upbeat and good like excellent poetry with good wine.
LikeLike
Therese Trouserzoff said:
Thank you ‘Shoe. It’s been brewing for a while, but mundane things like paid work and domestic industry have kept the piece right up the back of the brain near the garden shed.
LikeLike