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I’M IN UR SALONG …
… BEIN FRIST
Damn. Second. I hate being second.
THRID. Ah well, I had the glory last week.
I think it’s about time we invoked the great goddess JuliaZ in view of the forthcoming election. You know, just to make sure. She hasn’t failed us yet.
Rope in Buffy, Willow, and Xena just for good measure…
If Howard wins the election, I’m joining the Exclusive Brethren.
What’s their attitude to sauce? http://larvatusprodeo.net/2007/09/06/a-lurker-reports-from-the-apec-frontline/#comment-400678
Ahoy me hearties! International talk like a pirate day is just off the starboard bow!
Sorry Ginger, but ITTLAPD has been vectored by Talk Like a Pilot Day on May 19 http://www.talklikeapilot.org/ Oscar Kilo?
Oh, and apropos of nothing, listening to the rugby coverage tonight one of the panel referred to Paris as “the international city of cafes.” F*** the Louvre, Monmartre, Notre Dame, Versailles etc etc etc. Good grief, the idiocy of commercial television.
Oh, now we’re onto Villiers Bretonneux! Rugby and dead diggers! How can you go wrong?
Good. Casual mention of Gallipoli. And larrikins! Plus wallabies and emotion and humble and World Cup and giving your life for Australia and French love us and Sharkie’s doing a great job in the scrum.
Overwhelmed with tears. Can’t continue …
“ITTLAPD has been vectored by Talk Like a Pilot Day…”
Heh heh.
Okay that does it, now I’m starting International Talk Like A Pine-Nut Day.
‘Eh, prego! Mamma mia! That’s-a nice-a, spicy, a-pesto a-sauce-a…’
I want International Talk Like A New Yorker Day. Hey you! Brooklyn!
One of mates from New Jersey had a lot of fun trying to teach me to say, “Ya wanna piece of this!”.
Oh, and he also taught me, “I got your f#ckin’ _____ right here!”.
Any of you motherfu**ers move, and I’ll execute every last motherfu**ing one of you!
Back on the rugby: Green and gold! Wattle! Drought! More diggers! Apparently Montpeliere is mad keen for Aussies (pron: Strayans)!
I don’t know anything about rugby, but this team sounds like absolute rubbish.
They’re interviewing Strayans in Paris!
1. Whadja miss bout Straya?
2. Dja miss ya rum?
3. Where ya from mate?
4. Whadja miss bout Straya?
5. Whadja miss bout Straya?
6. Whadda French chicks think about Aussie blokes?
7. Whadja miss bout Straya?
No, I think they’ve nailed it. If Wallabies get nowhere it will probably be down to bad calls by the Refs.
Somebody has “spectacular hair” and there appears to be some lose association with a hamburger. Interesting…
Oh no! They’re leaving! And yet they promise us “hours and hours of more interesting World Cup television.”
I can’t wait.
Heh. Why are they showing this now? Kick off isn’t for another three hours. Methinks I have to get out of the office and to the pub very soon to get in the right mood for the game tonight.
Ahh, Bill Woods just mentioned that the Opening Ceremony will be on at 4am EST, which means it will be live in WA at 2am WST.
Well, I’m off in search of somewhere that serves Bundy and Coke. I’m afraid that might mean that I end up at a Walkabout pub and my coolness rating will take a hit.
Oh well mick & Frank, I think I was just liveblogging! It was great fun. Sorry I wasn’t doing it for the loss of the Weasles to PP earlier during AFL.
BTW Frank, sorry I haven’t contacted you. Working 7 days PW & not much time. If you’re anywhere near South Freo the Davilak would be useful on Fri, Sat, Sun after 5.00.
Not sure mick. It may have something to do with Gallipoli.
“Oh, and he also taught me, “I got your…”
Q: How many New Yorkers does it take to change a lightbulb?
A: What am I, a fuckin’ information booth?
jpz, that was really funny. I gotta go to bed. Night all.
CK,
I’ve almost choked to death laughing at that last joke.
I know you’ve been waiting - BERNICE DOES THE APEC RALLY!!!!
Sorry but it took me far too long to construct it over in Berniceland & i aint got no wish to do it all again. Just drag your sorry posteriors over. Vicarious protesting. Another quality community service from Bernice - who says I don’t care?
The commercial media has done the worst beat up of the APEC protests. The difference between Seven’s coverage and the actual rally could not be further.
Also there was nothing about how the police arrested two people on the blacklist for being ‘in the exclusion zone’ only releasing them afterwards without charge because they were forced to admit they weren’t in the zone. I wonder how many of the arrests they made today will just result in people being released without charge.
SBS at least did an even handed job.
Speaking of which, the Great Goddess Julia Z and Rockwiz are back on tonight!
Ch 9 Perth’s coverage was pretty much the same.
But what do you expect from CH Stokes (7) who’s a major donor to the LIberal Party 500 Club
APEC.. What a waste of money… bring on the reality check.
Yes it’s Miss World for pollies. Tenuous link.
thrashed by the pies, tell me it aint so, pa
& you can liveblog any weasel loss CK..including next week’s….
go cats…..sheesh.
Oh yes jo, the forthcoming Weasel humiliation at the hands of Collingwood should be excellent fun!
CK - i’ll have regained my sense of historical proportion (ie. swans not winning) by next week and will look forward to barracking with eddie’s lot….fair dinkum bogans taking down uppity bogans (perth being uppity bogan HQ, in my book).
i’ve got my daughter’s soccer grand final at some unholy hour tomorrow morning…so until then, fab freo fan…i say again - go the handbaggers.
…….and cousins’ will have required alot of ice last night… some of it on his hammy.
Default position for Dockers supporters in case of inevitable 3rd quarter choke is, of course, South Melbourne. Well anybody who can beat the other team here, really.
Uppity bogan doesn’t quite capture it. Think of a team supported by Alexander Downer were he to live in Perth.
CK,
Kerry Stokes is a supporter of John Howard and a member of the Liberal Party 500 Club, CH 7 Perth sponsor the West Coast Weasels - if the Weasels get knocked down by Eddie Everywhere’s mob, will this be an omen of the Election result ?
Also, I compare Ben Cousins to Downer, both dimwitted fools.
Love it Frank. The omens are everywhere!
I look forward to the front-page story, centre-spread, and several sports pages at the back of Teh Waste telling us how the Pies achieved their magnificent victory. Same as today’s PP coverage, actually.
Nah, they’ll blame it on JIm McGinty for leading Neale Fong astray…., or even Alanah for stuffing the trains taking the Weasel Fans to Subi Oval along with Kobelkie for not allowing Subi Oval to be redevolped - in short it’s the State Govt’s Fault
re-thinking geelong…i was in melbourne for their 92/94 defeats at the hands of the weasels. maybe i should be putting money on the roos tomorrow..
wot.. there are *idiot children of the rural aristocracy in perth? i would have thought lang hancock’s evil spawn is closer to the mark.
*PJK on Dolly.
oi!
Can we start a ‘Chiller Green’ appreciation society?
From an article in to today’s Age:
“The term “larrikin”, first popularised in Melbourne around 1870, originally referred to groups of cocky, irreverent, working-class men. Chiller Green, the archetypal larrikin of Edward Dyson’s Fact’ry ‘Ands (1906), is admired by his workmates because he respects no one, including the boss. Chiller could easily be said to be conducting, like the Chasers, a war on everything.”
We need more of ‘em.
And BTW - we forgot the ‘forgeddabudit’ New Joisey speak…
Oh, and CARNA PIES!!!! What an absolutely glorious win over the scum from my home town. The local TV broadcast was delayed by about a quarter so listened to the call on ABC Radio and watched the delayed broadcast - talk about time shifting.
All the way this year boys…though with the usual Pies Fans qualifications of ‘if we don’t choke. stumble, wobble, if Nate’s hammies stay intact etc etc ad infinitum…
And here in Yuendumu the TWO local Magpies teams playing in the Finals in Alice Springs today will continue their usual September marches to glory…see and for REAL footballs with NO bogans…
WTF?
An Wet Toast bashing thread on LP? YAY!!!
I lent a mate my projector for Friday’s game and his 30th birthday party, then had to pretend to be upset when his team got beaten. The urge to sing that godawful Power song was nearly irresistible.
Go Dockers! [
next yearthe year after thatsomewhere, over the rainbow.Bob G - any idea if that’s going to be on TV again? In Melbourne?
FDB - no idea - I missed the original broadcasts on the ABC’s Message Stick on the box but have a copy from Warlpiri Media, who should/may be able to sell you a copy (see link at previous post)…otherwise petition the ABC to replay it during mainstream viewing time…I didn’t see any promos for it - one reason I missed it on the box
APEC….$180 million in security…..to watch this!
I watched in disgust as a 92 year old man was forced (after consultation by himself and his family with the police for them to allow him through their line) to walk up approximately 15 stairs into the park, down a steep grass slope and then to be helped down off the park wall by his family just so he could exit the park. This enabled him to be just metres from where he originally was!
Nielsen/Herald poll has been leaked, at the smh:
Liberal doses of ratsack that keep piling up–what a joy to behold. As Lenore Nicklin said on Insiders this morning, this is no joke by potential voters, it’s deadly serious.
(And too late for Howard to step down, as it should be, we need and crave public humiliation of Team Rodent!)
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Careful Peter. Any discussion of politics on this thread and Kim The Merciless will be down on you like a ton of bricks.
Or, in her absence, I’ll do it with just a bit of brick dust! Peter, please post the (uplifting and toast-worthy) result of the Nielsen poll to the election open thread!
When Howard leaves the top job in a few weeks time, will he convert to Catholicism like Blair?
One last kick from the corpse of the current government.
Abdel Bari Atwan banned from visiting Australia. He had been invited to Brisbane.
http://www.brisbanewritersfestival.com.au/2007/files/pdf/InternationalBios.pdf