The Dump is:
For posting comments that don’t get up at the Drum, and for having a pleasant, mirthful or enlightening off-topic discussion.
It’s not for personal abuse of other commenters.
Please do that somewhere else if you must.
Play nicely or piss off.
However, why doesn’t a poster add a link for us to read and comment on here, much quicker. Maybe we can do a bit more bagging here, not that I speak for the moderators, yet.
NB: Being tiresome and boring, racist, sexist or just plain creepy is not playing nicely.
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The Pig’s Arms exists because a dozen or so years ago our other favourite playpen – the ABC’s Unleashed blogsphere started to go off. Like a sack of prawn heads in the sun. Something had to be done.
Moderation was taking forever. Comments seemed to be rejected randomly – outrageous ones appeared and reasoned ones were pinged. When they released the Drum / Unleashed ….. things actually got worse !
So many pieces from professional writers appear with no obvious merit. And the moderation has become, to put it frankly, appalling.
As a former contributor and a commenter, I was deeply disappointed at the plummeting quality from our pre-eminent media empire. And I resented so many challenging or dare I say, witty or funny posts in which we’ve invested seconds of our precious time – getting the chop.
So here, for all our benefit – is an open slather blog. Copy and paste your best rejected comments here for posterity. Does not matter whether you’re posting on the Guardian, First Dog on the Moon or wherever else.
And sprinkle pointers to the Pig’s Arms amongst your comments. Let’s try to rescue some of the old faithful.
Cheers,
Emm.
Window Dresser's Arms, Pig & Whistle 
What The???
Hudson Godfrey :
23 Feb 2010 6:15:58pm
I think that if we take the view that what one Minister does somewhat haphazardly but with good intentions is so much worse than a total failure to act on behalf of the majority of them then government is paralysed and the point of what is wrong with them entirely missed!
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Which blog was it on, Bear? UL is ‘burning’ with global warming; all those long posts; are the commenters reading each other’s posts I sometimes wonder…
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On Kellie Tranters Climate Change Debate Blog,
Emmjay said 22 Feb 2010 or he would have said, had there not been a server error:
Kellie, “Climate” is merely a long range expectation. Weather is what we get day by day.
So if we expect it to be hot and it’s cold, or vice versa, it’s impossible to say whether our expectations are wrong or whether our measurements are wrong, misplaced or somehow invalid.
In my view “science” has not yet firmed up on what constitutes a climate. Some of the most famous deniers are not scientists, but merely goggle-eyed peers who inherited their titles from their dads and who get their first class airfares paid by big carbon. Others have PhDs in bogus areas of expertise irrelevant to “climate” proof – like mathematics and model-building.
The climate isn’t changing because my computer model says so ! Yeah, right.
The climate science paradigm is nebulous but it does appear to be forming slowly. There is no airtight consensus yet, merely a probability (and I think a high one) that climate change IS happening and that mankind is making it go faster than might be expected from a natural cycle.
There really is no debate. There are people who ask genuine questions about specific issues relating to climate – out of genuine curiosity.
There are flat earth close-minded morons, and there are fence sitters who enjoy a circus.
And the planet will do what the planet will do – independently from the deniers, the fence sitters and the genuinely curious, well-educated and independent thinkers alike.
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I can’t work it out..I’ve posted this 4 times— and been rebuffed. Yet groucho is allowed to call Garret an epileptic.
Is it because I am hinting that Rudd is a serial killer.
Anyway I am posting it here again just for the satisfaction!!!!!
\Posted on weekly wrap.
Rudd’s man Pete is out on his beat.
He’s coping the flack for his boss.
They’ve killed four before,
But I’m sure there’ll be more
As they treat the public like meat.
Chorus:
“How do we sleep when our roofs are burning?”
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Jules, the moderators are at best inconsistent. Some of my posts get up that are just big time rubbish and yet some of my serious ones never eventuate.
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1.We did need migrants. We don’t now.
2.We only take refugees to the detriment of families that have established themselves here already.
3.That’s because we are competing for resources and jobs and diluting our values (like it or not).
4. The pattern in Europe is that migrants work hard, expect less and form insular groups, based on religion, tribal culture and language.
5. The fact that they work hard means that they take over existing businesses and jobs. So to compete with that we must do the same. But we won’t will we?
6. This government is drunk on mining revenue. The hundreds of thousands of civil servants and the paltry number of Zogs in the mining industry are the only people with any money. Interest rates should be 10% for them and 3% for us other poor b******s. Unfortunately we can’t afford to get rid of the State governments, or the battalions of civil servants, as the useless b******s couldn’t get real jobs!
7. We need migrants like we need a 20 year drought.
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This post ought to be left in the Spam trap together with all the yo-yo’s.
What drought; shower with the friend and save water! I’m not your friend anymore 🙂
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Posted on weekly wrap.
Rudd’s man Pete is out on his beat.
He’s coping the flack for his boss.
They’ve killed four before,
But I’m sure there’ll be more
As they treat the public like meat.
Chorus:
“How do we sleep when our roofs are burning?”
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H, hope you ain’t referring to me, not mine
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A bit early to be on the grog Hung?
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No, Hung, of course I’m not referring to you.. the only bit meant for you, is ‘yo,yo’
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I had a few glasses of shiraz last night but no none today so far.
I have decided that yo stands for “yielding oxygen” but I do it so that the article writer knows I have read their story and being a man of few words its an acknowledgment
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Donna K Babb,
Commenting on Ben Pobjie’s weekly wrap.
Benji, you’re a hoot.
With your prescient coverage, and the brilliant First Dog cartoons over at Crikey, I’d say the ABC can pretty comfortably close down its 24 hour news channel and sack 38 or 39 B grade “journalists” – sorry to be so Crabby.
PS – not enough death statistics this week. Try a bit harder for “funny but grim”.
Cheers, DK.
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Emm, your post is there.
I just wrote something about missing some humorous pieces amongst all the serious stuff during the week. We have to wait for Ben’s Friday assessment, in the past we had humorous pieces by Shadwell, Mike Jones and Sheridan Jobbins and that, I for one, am missing all that…
Something like that on the Pobjie blog.
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Here’s my reply
Gee Donna, I think you’ve been on the sauce and I don’t mean the garlic variety. Trouble for poor old Benny is he’s overexposed, you know like a flasher at the bus stop
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I just reposted my semi-limerick from above , as they blanked me. Lucky t was here and I could just copy and paste…Bom boomyo.
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Didn’t get up, what a shame
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A DR HOO post got up instead of mine.
They’re all commies at the ABC, of that I am convinced.
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They know the good doctor is a leftie
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Oh, they probably saw him with his pants down assuaging the moderator.
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lol, not my style AJ but thanks for the laugh
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I’ve just posted my limerick again. 33d time lucky???
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On Gerard’s latest blog I replied to mikey rat’s friendly post with a equally friendly post; it did not get up:
” That’s very nice Mikey. We must arrange to meet up in REAL life.”
Moderators must have thought that I was using UL as a dating agency!
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Mistress Helen, your little story about Tomo just does not wash. He took part in the Dakar rally, team ‘Stones Green Ginger’. He bought a blackmarket Harlot Davidson bike in Argentina. The outfit he wore was outrageous, black fishnet stockings and stilettos with a black leather top – imagine Cher “If I could turn back time” – get the picture. He survived for a few days eating roadkill when he got lost, guinea pig marinaded in green ginger wine. Once he got back on track, he realised he had to make up a lot of time lost, got booked for speeding, three times. The race is over, but no sign of Tomo, they are tracking his mobile use, and last time he used it, he was deep in the jungles of Costa Rica.
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Posted in Gregor’s Haiti Music Charity Blog
by Gopher A Beevor
gregor, welcome back !
OK, it was a whole piece when three sentences would have done, but your waffle is a welcome breath of stale air in an otherwise bland puddle of Unleashed articles.
While you were away, they’ve been publishing “product reviews” – otherwise known as infomercials for Apple. Incredible, I know, but see what happens when your back’s turned !
This piece rings pretty true and conceptually hits the mark, the jim and perhaps the bob if he’s in.
More of these please, g.
The return of the durian in a skip of boring blancmange.
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Here’s one I posted on Lynden rave about the seven ages of rock. Can’t see it getting up as I am basically calling him a poofter and aunty gets upset about non PC speaking
Lynden, I think you are on to something here. I mean most of your articles are trite rubbish. We should get the posters to say what their favorite band or song is. So mine is Steely Dan’s FM, great riff, a good beat and a sax solo as only the Dan can do. Pity the movie was a dud otherwise I think it would have been more popular.
Now looking at you Lynden I’d say the Pet Shop Boys perhaps?
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I have already told that Kylie Minogue is the ‘bestest’; now there’s a wrinkle- free face !
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Priceless Hung.
As subtle as a brick through his windscreen. Thrown from a passing blue Zephyr ?
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Hung, it’s there, I’m suprised they put it on. Now I have to see Emmjay’s one was accepted…
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I had to stop Hadron from putting up a few rascally posts.
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I’m with you H
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And then there is the time that one wishes that one hadn’t been the last post. as it hangs around while the moderators have a smoko.
like ‘Dig Deep’!
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You are getting too deep there, Jules, I don’t want my posts smoke infused, so the moderators better not leave them out there to be smoked…
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Just come in from the deck Helvi, replete with home made pavlova, to find that that post has moved down at last.
But a religious fiend has made a remark underneath..
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Yes is a good band I really meant to say
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Here’s one that got ditched on the smoking blog…Bob Newhart
Milestones are never really recognised right away… it takes fifty or sixty years before people realise what an achievement it is. Take for instance… tobacco, it was discovered by Sir Walter Raleigh… and he sent it over to England from the colonies.
It seems to me, the uses of tobacco aren’t obvious right off the bat… and I imagine a phone conversation between Sir Walter Raleigh and the head of the ‘West Indies Company’ in England, explaining about this shipment of tobacco… would go something like this…
Telephone rings
Yeh?…
Who is it, Frank?…
Sir Walter Raleigh?…
Yeh?…
Yeh, put him on, will you!
Hey, Harry… you wanna pick up the extension?…
Yeh! it’s nutty Walter again!
Hi, Walter baby, how are you, guy? How’s everything going?…
Oh, things are fine here, Walt!…
Did we get the what?…
Oh!, the boat load of turkeys, yeh! They arrived fine Walt, as a matter of fact they’re still here, they’re wonderin’ all over London…
Well, y’see, that’s an American holiday, Walt!!!…
What you got for us this time, Walt, you got another winner for us?
Tob-acco… er, what’s tob-acco, Walt?…
It’s a kind of leaf, huh?…
And you bought eighty tonnes of it?!!…
Let me get this straight, Walt, you’ve bought eighty tonnes of leaves? This may come as a kind of a surprise to you Walt but come fall in England, we’re kinda upto our…
It isn’t that kind of leaf, huh?…
Oh!, what kind is it then… some special kind of food?…
Not exactly?…
Oh, it has a lot of different uses, like, what are some of the uses, Walt?…
Are you saying ‘snuff’, Walt?…
What’s snuff?…
You take a pinch of tobacco, ha! ha! ha!…
And you shove it up your nose. ha! ha! ha!…
and it makes you sneeze? ha! ha! ha!…
Yeh, I imagine it would, Walt! Hey, Goldenrod seems to do it pretty well over here!
It has other uses though, huh?…
You can chew it!…
Or put it in a pipe!…
Or you can shred it up…
And put it in a piece of paper. ha! ha! ha!…
And roll it up. ha ha ha…
Don’t tell me, Walt, don’t tell me. ha! ha! ha! you stick it in your ear, right? ha! ha! ha!…
Oh! between your lips!…
Then what do you do, Walt? ha! ha! ha!…
You set fire to it! ha! ha! ha!…
Then what do you do, Walt?…
Ha! ha! ha! You inhale the smoke, huh! ha! ha! ha!…
You know, Walt… it seems you can stand in front of your own fireplace and have the same thing going for you!
You see, Walt… we’ve been a little worried about you, y’know, ever since you put your cape down over that mud.
Y’see, Walt… I think you’re gonna have rather a tough time selling people on sticking burning leaves in their mouths…
It’s going very big over there, is it?…
What’s the matter, Walt?…
You spilt your what?…
Your coff-ee?.
What’s coffee, Walt?…
That’s a drink you make out of beans, huh? ha! ha! ha!…
That’s going over very big there, too, is it?…
A lot of people have a cup of coffee right after their first cigarette in the morning, huh?…
Is that what you call the burning leaves, Walt?… cigarettes?…
I tell you what, Walt!, why don’t you send us a boatload of those beans, too!
If you can talk people into putting those burning leaves in their mouths… they’ve gotta go for those beans, Walt!… right?
Listen, Walt… don’t call us… we’ll call you!…
G’bye!
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I used to really laugh at Bob Newhart. This is an alltime classic – in the manner of Abbott and Costello’s “Who’s on First” ?
Is Bob still amongst the quick ?
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Here’s a small thread I got involved with on the blog My (stereotyped) School by Maclaren Wall
Monica
02 Feb 2010 6:57:45pm
The world is flat, like our heads.
DocMercury :
02 Feb 2010 11:58:28pm
A place to put the tinny.
Lurch, Herman Munster or Dr Frankenstein’s creature?
atomou :
04 Feb 2010 1:47:34pm
The elephant man.
Algernon :
06 Feb 2010 9:33:18am
Cousin It.
atomou :
07 Feb 2010 12:30:16pm
Did he have a flat head?
My last reply was “Who would know under all that hair” I’m at a loss as to why that would be culled.
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H, I’ve responded to your question about tomokatu on the Art and Porn page but they didn’t put it up and I suppose that’s understandable though it’s nothing that tomo didn’t admit at one stage.
You’ve asked “Where is Tomokatu when we need him most :)”
and I know it was in jest. My answer was also in jest and it went something like this:
“By now he’s probably well enough to watch his porn.”
Nothing he wouldn’t accept as fact and I thought it was quite apropos to the topic.
🙂
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ato, things were getting a bit over- heated, so i thought a couple light-hearted replies might cool tempers down somewhat…
Tried to watch The Silent Wittness, it’s gone to the dogs; I liked it when the lovely Irish Amanda Burton was there.
The French exihibition tomorrow better not disappoint me!
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H, Thanks for the heads-up on Silent Witness. This must be what, the fourth or fifth season ? I think the third season of a TV series often smells like dead fish on day 3.
As for Amanda Burton, I found her character frustratingly frustrating. As tight and puckered as a cat’s bottom. I spent most of the viewing time hoping she’d have a stiff drink, loosen up and go and get a fella, a Sheila or even a personal home entertainment device for girls.
IO Voice a review of the Paris in Canberra exhibition, but I think I’ve gone past it. I’m sure you won’t be disappointed – maybe you might write us a few hundred words.
Cheers,
Emm.
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Hello Everyone,
Today is the first time for ages that I’ve checked unleashed and Pigs Arms for any mention of Tomokatu. I wanted to see if there was an appropriate place to post a progress report. Thank you atomou for the break in the traffic. 🙂
Indeed, he is well enough to be watching porn – he now has a laptop for use in the hospital but has elected to be offline for the moment. A nurse lent him ‘Rome’, a series that, according to Tomokatu, had some explicit sex scenes and a lot of violence. Not quite porn, but a suitable substitute considering his surroundings.
Maybe I should ask him whether he’d like me to bring more entertaining material from his personal collection rather than offering my Wallace & Gromit DVDs.
Meanwhile – progress. Right now he has bright purple casts sporting glittery stars, an eye of horus, circles, lightning zaps and random blobs. All done tastefully in glitter paint – just the thing that a hospital laundry loves to remove from bedding. I was expecting someone on staff to stop us spreading all this glitter, but everyone who dropped by during the process thought it was a great idea.
As well as drawing attention to himself with bright purple and glitter legs AND having a laptop – he’s also using a bright pink rhinestone studded mouse. His home mouse didn’t connect to the laptop and he’d given me this flashy mouse for Christmas – so I’ve lent it to him! Pink, Purple, Glitter – is this the image you’d built up of Tomokatu?
OK – on to more serious things – Monday 15 February will find his ‘not quite so badly broken’ ankle released from plaster so the medics can see how well it has healed. The other ankle needs to be kept in plaster until the middle of March. Oooo!!!
By then he may have decided to invest in some wireless broadband for the laptop!
So far there has been no date set for his release into the world.
They’ve put the dear man on a weight reduction diet, and while he’s happy with the hospital food – he does miss the essentials of life – garlic, chilli, herbs, spices….and real coffee.
If there’s an appropriate spot to mention his progress on the Unleashed site, I’d be pleased if someone could do that.
Cheery waving to everyone,
Mistress Hell-en
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I see that Kim Beazley is in the same ward.
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Tell the Big Cat that Shintaro would be up walking by now 🙂
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It doesn’t look as if they’ll post my response to ant’s little rant but, unfortunately I haven’t made a copy of it and, alas, one can seldom remember a spontaneous work of Literature but I reckon -well I reckon, I do- that it was a great response.
Oddly enough I like most of what that lady says but I think the “darling” bit got to her. I won’t try and remember what I said, lest they do publish it but I can understand if they don’t want to encourage a drawn out bun fight. I was quite humorous, though… even though she was being dreadfully ageist!
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On Ellis’ piece, I mean.
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Pleased to report that they did post my response to the ant. Took ’em a little while but it’s up there.
Happy now, so I can get back to work with a less coiled bowel!
A lovely day in Melbourne and our carpenter friend has (always) a great smile on his face. Old school, nothing is impossible, can do, no probs, my pleasure, wanna pray with me?
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Great Cities have Great Streets
Father O’Way
Zzzzzzz, Zzzzzzzz, oops soory rob1966, what you were saying was so interesting I nodded off to sleep
Unlikely to get up
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It got up, unbelievable
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You didn’t come up with a street name for our king, in that blog. Hads was wondering.
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How about Rodent Lane?
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But I reckon the prize for the most inane and boring piece goes to whatsername with her “stunt date” piffle.
Talk about a nolife!
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Yes, I twigged with the dates sending me to the toilet
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On David Horton’s Blog about Green Hatred – just for you, ‘mou – from Carrie Mia O’Way
“No, Semen Des, we’re honest decent folk who’ve been f*cked around by tradies who rarely show up; never on time, and then bust tiles, scratch floors and generally subtract value at a prodigious rate.
Why wouldn’t we jump a plane to Patagonia ? Probably we’re just looking for a hot shower, a dunny that works or a bit of air-conditioning on a hot day.”
Two can play at ‘mistaken’ intent, oblique response and antagonistic insolence.
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Yea, I read that, emmjo! Loved it!
It’s a wonder it got up… so to speak!
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I meant to add that I wanted to praise you for that post and I had begun to do so but then I stopped because I had sworn a mortal oath that I’d never have anything to do with semenhead again.
May my blood curdle in my veins if ever I respond to that imbecile… seajay is also getting on my noives!
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Does that make you Sandy and Belinda’s daughter?
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Has anyone else noticed that if you post on unleashed and someone replies to that post, if you post again in that thread it doesn’t always get up? So in other words you don’t always get right of reply.
Is that wrong? Do they do it to make a point that they want? Is Unleashed becoming an ugly monster?
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Obviously not Hung
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Unleashed was always an ugly monster; but everyone to their own taste.
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Yes your worship
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The economy is so bad, if the bank returns your check marked “insufficient funds’, you call and ask them if they meant you, or them
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The economy is so bad that Exxon-Mobile have laid off 25 congressmen.
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Nice quips, Jayell.
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Hehe!
The economy is so bad, Julia Gizzard has asked me to rent her a room. I said, “no, bugger off. Sleep with one of your princy pals!”
Gorrrrd, I never thought I’d be so anti-labor though it’d be a cold day in hell when I vote for the Libs and their pre-enlightenment ghosts!
Go Bob, go!
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The economy is so bad ..I got a pre-declined credit card in the mail..!!
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The economy is so bad that McDonalds is bringing out a quarter ouncer.
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The economy is so bad, I’ve just cut and pasted the first five words!
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The economy is so bad, parents in Toorak are firing their Nannies and learning their children’s names. Boom boom!
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th econy is boo
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The economy is so bad, CEOs are now playing miniature golf.
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…mini golf in their pockets
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Seems like quite a handicap, ‘mou.
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It is when the club is diminutive as well, emmjo!
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Amanda says,
” I just had a call from a Charity asking me to donate some of my clothes to the starving people throughout the world.
I told them to F*** off!!
Anybody who fits into my clothes isn’t starving!! “
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The economy is so bad the Libs have asked Barmy B Joyce to fix it.
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Aaaaah! Out of the mouths of babes.
Two articles that I have read recently highlight how Joyce is connecting with the man in the street, whereas Rudd seems to be coming across as some sort of snobby academic know-it-all.
Pointing out that we are dishing out some 4 million, or is it 4 billion of our borrowed money on foreign aid, will resonate with the Occer in the street–and will only garner plus points for Barnaby (Rudge?)
Rudd is going to be on the back foot if he doesn’t start talking to the electorate in English!
I don’t know what Rudd’s on about half the time.
The only guarantee is that it will be a repetition of the day before’s clich`e
BTW Has anyone noticed Julia’s “star morphing”, since her paramour has been practising his tonsorial extravaganzas
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The economy’s so bad that when I ordered a burger at Macs, they asked me if I could afford fries with it!!
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That’s hilarious Jules.
I noticed that too. Do you think it’s the colour, or the way he’s straightened it and put a couple of streaks in it?
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Well partly yeh; but I think the clincher is the knife.
Watch out Kevvie ‘Halloween Pumpkin’ face!
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Look Jules,
I know that you’re trying to be sensible, but don’t you think that you should leave commenting on Barnaby to that refreshingly vivacious Marieke, over at The Drum?
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In case anyone is wondering, I’ll never respond to any of Sea of Mendez’ posts. He’s such a vicious little-minded moron who scrunches up everything you say, that all one does when responding to him, is wasting precious brain cells.
A moron of the highest order, talking through the bums of the US and Israel.
Never again!
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There there atomou, you shouldn’t let an imposter rile you.
I have been called ignorant…….and even a……….POM !
He is very argumentative, but quite knowledgeable.
He told me once, years ago, that he has a fairly mundane office job, that he took because he got married and had to curtail his studies. Maybe he has a chip.
Or maybe he is not what he seems?? Ho hum.
This seems to have livened up now. I’ll have to get my finger out!
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You can disagree with people but if they are not reasonable, the best thing is to walk away from them. Some of them just want to have the last word, they want feel that they are the winner in this dicussion or rather an argument.
Of course there are also people who calmly and intelligently disscuss issues without ever getting agressive and nasty, like Hudson for example. He was fantastic on one of those Israel/Palestine blogs.
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Yes, I sometimes wonder whether he and his ilk are really that cretinous, or just AAA grade shit stirrers. True – responding is such a waste of time….. unless you stir them back… see my post upstairs here on David Horton’s Green Hate blog.
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Definitely a cretin, emmjo! Constantly shifting the goal posts, moving the argument, misunderstanding the issue… I mean, it’s like talking to a talking brick!
Jules, if that guy is knowledgeable about anything it’d be about the bums of America and Israel. Certainly knows all the slogans. What on earth were his studies about, cultivating snot in a brain? He would have excelled in that one -and breaking people’s… nerves!
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The things I’ve said to Sea Mendez that didn’t get a look in! Yet his crap -far more obnoxious and insulting than mine- did. Mendez’s head is full of prawns left too long in the sun. Stinky, stupid and puke inducing!
I shall never reply to him again.
I’ve written some nice, even politically correct stuff, in response to granny, too and they didn’t get a go either. Yet other posts that I found quite stupid against her did get in.
I think there are many moderators who don’t have the same views -or they’re probably trying to do the idiotic thing of balancing viewpoints so they just get an equal number of both sides. How do they explain the Lib onslaught of opinions re Abbott’s moronic bullshit about virginity being a precious gift?
Crappola by the page load!
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ato, I just gave your post on the education blog ten out of ten. Perhaps it will be seen as being too nice and they will not publish it.
I took one look at Abbott and I left, the photo says enough about Abbott: it’s all about him, not about the daughters.
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Thanks H!
I have not joined the Abbott Admiration Club either. He is a frightening creature that needs to be contained not given unlimited power, or any power at all. It’s that sort of creature that starts up religious wars.
These are the sorts of creatures that kept women bleeding in pain in the back yards of butchers and will continue doing it for ever if they are not publicly crucified just as they have crucified innocent people.
I don’t want a priest in my parliament, I want an intelligent, free thinking parliamentarian. These sort of vermin should receive the punishment they handed out to people from other religions or denominations; after all, that’s the era they’re trying to drag us into!
I don’t believe in capital punishment but if re-education doesn’t work, then perhaps the rack and the pulling out of nails might. Show them the etymology of their views!
Now THAT’S one post that’d be crumbled int the trash bin!
Thanks, Emmjo!
Thanks H!
Thank goodness for the Piggery Pub!
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Not even Father O’Way?
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HOO, I don’t think poppa is a true initiate.
I see neither dress nor collar on the man, nor do I see a funny, popey hat and scepter, so I’ve no probs with poppa (who’s mostly oway with the fairies… any way!)
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So does mean I still have to go to work on Monday?
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You have the god’s ear in your hand, HOOPLA (that’s what I was looking for: hoopla!) so you whisper in it whatever excuse you like. “Atomou told me,” “the dog ate my T-bone,” “There’ll never be another You,” say anything you like when you like…
I always keep Mondays for praying, anyhoo!
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I am too ashamed to put some of Hadron’s pass-overs on here.
But let me say this. I test them with some outrageous tripe—and they print it.
It has me in guffaws.
Say something sensible and they don’t??
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Box being ticked!
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Here’s one I rit thinking it would never get up and it did
Father O’Way :
05 Dec 2009 11:31:13pm
Yes I went into a Woman’s Club once, they said is that a budgie in your speedos? No I said its my penis
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This is a little story just for you, HOO:
I was teaching at a very poor school once, as an extra -that is, the regular teacher of the class was absent so I was told to take it. The teacher had rung in and said I should just let them do a “hang the butcher” exercise.
So that’s what I said to the kids. It turns out that’s all they’ve been doing all year for their English! (Like I said, a “poor” school). Anyhow, at first I controlled my laughter with the spelling mistakes of those who did the dashes and the hangman but then I completely lost it – I means spun out, fell on the floor, couldn’t stop laughing when this boy (Year 9s I think) was on the blackboard and had six dashes there. Eventually some kids got to the letter p, then to e and to s but they just couldn’t get the word completed. So the butcher was hanged. I burst out into laughter when the kid wrote out with enormous pride, the word “peenus.” I was laughing and laughing and I’m still laughing now but what made it a nervous and uncontrollable laughter for me was the fact that the other kids didn’t think it was that funny hat one of their number couldn’t spell “penis” correctly. They couldn’t work me out. It just added that edginess to my laughter and made it uncontrollable.
Peenus!
An absolute gem. Will never ever forget that one.
Yet I have so many simply scrumptious stories from my teaching years! An infinite number of them in infinite colours and variety!
Loved the bloody occupation! Hated lots of Principals and nearly bashed a few parents but loved the job. Constant, exhilarating, exhausting and if you looked at it from the right angle, damned rewarding!
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Goog laugh ato 🙂
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Well said old chap, what an amazing quip hear hear, spot on, touche, you’re a genius, your mother would be proud, great insight, splendid wit, me too, rather, brilliantly said, keep it up won’t you, well done, you are a hero, you are the genuine article, guffaw guffaw, blah blah blah
Remember this one JL?
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The Apple of the World’s Eye,
Jason Wilson 27 Jan
Armin Despair:
What ? Another technology review ? Have I inadvertently logged into Choice AGAIN ?
What is it over here ? Some desperate ABC attempt to appear hip, cool and with it ? Have we abandoned the “no advertising” position these days ?
Mate, this penetrating piece sadly offers quite a lot of what one finds in so many other information sources – a failure in the “so-what” test.
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Put the prawn heads inside the hubcaps of The Drum editor’s car when he is in the men’s or at the Rose Tattoo’s parlor, getting some light hand relief.
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I walked away from the shouting woman on the fatty show, because I was going to say something sharp to her, and no doubt it would not have seen the day light…
I have not been inspired to write much since the Drum, so there has not been anything to delete.
Why is Annabelle such a star ? I prefer the Redhead!
Hung’s reply to me did not appear!
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I am more inspired by Warrigal’s dead and half buried utes than the Drum…
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I agree with your view of Annabelle Crabb. Do you remember the other ABC staffer who was arguing that Twitter was worth the time of day – quoting Annabelle’s Twitter log ?
It was crap, pure and simple, and I wonder why she’s so famous too.
Being bright and vivacious is good, but is having a cute curly hairdo and looking attractive good enough ?
My, Mr Cranky’s out and about today !
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Me and My Kindle, Mia Freedman, 25 Jan.
Comment Hiram Holliday.
Mia, a writer and editor with your experience can do better than shamelessly use a trojan technology review piece to flog her book.
This is a product placement within another product placement.
The ABC can do a lot better than is currently the case with the Drum / Unleashed.
Perhaps something funny, witty, prescient, contentious, even entertaining would be good.
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Emmjay, you must have seen it, your Hiram is there now…
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Yeah, amazing, H. Only took 5 hours to get modded.
However the one that shot Jonathan Green right between the eyes – about his sycophantic Apple suck-up – Nearer my iPad to thee” –
“This is a total disgrace.
An ABC editor flagrantly promoting a product.
It’s a sackable offence.
And the next few typed words are heading to the Minister’s Office.
Then Steve Conroy can give you the f**king drum.”
Not surprisingly didn’t get a guernsey.
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Well said old chap, what an amazing quip hear hear, spot on, touche, you’re a genius, your mother would be proud, great insight, splendid wit, me too, rather, brilliantly said,, keep it up won’t you, well done, you are a hero, you are the genuine article, guffaw guffaw, blah blah blah
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