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Birthday frist
Birthday second, since I was Queensland Frist on Facebook! Happy birthday, and hope it’s a lovely one!
Happy Birthday for tomorrow, Anna! It’s only 10.30 in the West!
Maybe LP needs to run a birthday thread…all the best Anna, have a great day
Happy birthday everyone!
Yes Happy Birthday Anna!
Happy birthday Mark and Anna.
And you are not allowed to leave this blog and go to another so forget about that.
And further, I just love that last verse, don’t you? “Give back the ring to me, and i will set you free, go with him”.
I hate it when men ask for their rings back, cheapskates. And to think the Beatles thought it was okay to enshrine such stinginess in a song. I mean, how rich were they?
Anyway, Happy Birthday Anna, and sorry I can’t find any other song with Anna in it. Well I did, Siliverchair’s but that aint about anything to do wid you girl.
I am convinced to the bottom of my heart that it is not Mark’s birthday. Yet.
Well, okay, Casey.
Happy Birthday, Anna. Happy un-birthday, Mark.
I knew Alice in Wonderland would be useful one day.
Birthday Reminder
It’s your birthday, so don’t feel down;
Don’t think bad stuff and frown;
Your life should be filled with mirth;
Here’s a birthday poem I found on line, Anna.
Just look what you’ve done since your birth.
You started out really small,
Now you’re really filled out and tall.
In the beginning you would just cry,
Now you can laugh if you try.
You’ve done quite well since your start,
So as you grow older take heart;
Keep up the good work and don’t be a jerk;
Stay happy till you’re an old fart.
Testing my field entry. (I messed it up.
Bit like I messed up copying that poem, Anna. Anyway, the thought is there. I’m a computer incompetent sometimes.
@9 – Casey is quite correct. It’s Anna’s birthday, not mine! But thanks for the un-birthday wishes!
@ 8, Casey, doesn’t that give you the chance to throw it back at him! Preferably so it just misses and he has to grovel around to find it!
Thanks all! happy unbirthdays all round!
I don’t think I like this.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/jan/13/android-karenina-tolstoy-centenary-upgrade
Very hot in Perth this weekend so will be laying low. And pondering why Cafes play music so loud that patrons need to shout at each other, when you ask them to turn it down a tad they are astonished. Noise pollution is everywhere
I know there’s more than a dash of populism to the move, but can I just say how much I admire Obama for reclaiming the money spent on the GFC bailout via a levy on the banks. HAHAH! Respek!
Our so-called social democrats wouldn’t have the cojones for such a move.
Anyone have any suggestions on what one might do in Frankfurt being based there for 7 days in August? Any advice would be appreciated.
wpd (19). Eat frankfurters every meal. They must have the recipe right by now.
Oh, and don’t mention the War.
wpd, a visit to the Palmgarten would definitely be on my to do list, should I be so lucky.
WPD, I would try to see if it’s possible to see the old cellar place where the Beatles used to play. I tried googling it but only got a Beatles “museum” which looks like a tacky merchandising-orama. But if you asked people there they might be able to direct you to something more interesting (or ask people who know more about it than me, before you go!)
I don’t know whether you’re a fan or not, I’m not particularly, but would still find it interesting in a historical sense.
Action alert for music lovers in Melbourne!
From Facebook:
THE TOTE: Pay your respects
***NON-VIOLENT***
Location:
Time:6:00PM Sunday, January 17th
(I love the “non-violent” – I can’t imagine any of the usual suspects who loved the Tote using violence, and on whom, anyway?) But anyhow…
Some background.
I think you might be thinking of Hamburg, Helen – totes agree with you about the Tote. What a great music venue – such a shame.
The VIC govt has apparently laid some heavy liquor licenses on places staying open later than 1 am – even places like the Tote which have no record whatsoever of that resulting in problems.
The relevant factional non-entity of a Minister said “I do not resile from this dunderheaded stance”.
You’re absolutely right Lefty – I had my ground beef pattie confused with my pink rubbery sausage.
Paul Burns, I think Vronsky is an android. AK’s too thick.
Still shaking my head over the writer of Decorno, who apparently only knows three yummy recipes and is resolving to learn more this year. What’s astonishing is that the writer thinks it’s an achievement to follow a recipe for Boeuf Bourguignonne. And that one of the commenters succeeded in ruining one! Maybe they really do grow up on Twinkies over there.
Happy Birthday to Anna!
But Chookie, I totally covet that blue Le Creuset in the BB post.
Chookie,
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aw, I thought it was a greast domestic tragedy – the original that is.
I reckon Dickens’s Tale of Two Cities with French Vampires let loose in London would do it for me. (that’s why French revolutionaries invented the guillotine.
R-rated DVD’s like Mad Max & Robocop now to be placed in the soft porn section of video stores & retailers thanks to the religious extremists in South Australia:
http://www.news.com.au/adelaidenow/story/0,22606,26596559-5006301,00.html
Only 12 Kiwis turned up to see Prince William.
The Monarchy – as relevant as ever!
Helen@28 we picked up a Le Creuset 1 foot wide frying pan in the op shop for 8 dollars. I could not believe our luck. We have just about used it every day since.
If only we could afford that blue dutch oven. Even 70′s orange would be more than ok.
JdeM @ 30,
That’s plain insanity. Who is responsible for putting these fools in to the SA Parliament? (Mind you NSW can’t complain. We have Fred Nile and his mob of bigots.)
Paul @ 33,
Obviously I agree with you but I’m not sure when that Family First nut got in but this stuff needs to be passed by the government and so clearly the SA Labor party is at fault here. Although our far-right Attorney-General Michael Atkinson (comment #63) wants everyone to share in the spoils. I find it hard to believe the Greens would vote for a piece of extreme religious legislation like this.
“The new law was supported by everyone in Parliament: Family First, Labor, Liberal, Greens, Xenophonites. No-one spoke against it. Contrary to comment 23 of 33, other States have this law, so the franchisors don’t have any difficulty with it, having adapted easily in the other jurisdictions. Comment 16 of 33 “Nazi-Australia” must have grown up in blissful ignorance of history or what it is like to live under National Socialism or some other totalitarian regime.
Posted by: Michael Atkinson of Croydon 2:34pm today”
The irony lost on General Atkinson (he makes Stephen Conroy look like a Libertarian) is that under his rule & that of perhaps the most right-wing Labor party in our recent history is that civil liberties continue to be eroded.
Even though I’m traditionally a Labor supporter I really don’t know what to do about this shameful mob. The state election is just two months away (might explain why the Libs rolled over on this if true) and I’m seriously thinking about casting a donkey vote. The Liberal party here are terrible and are struggling financially to stay alive (not that I’d vote for them) and the Greens vote will just go back to Rann & Atkinson.
I’d love to send an email to Atkinson and give him a serve for passing rubbish like this & the St Clair park fiasco (nice reserve in the western suburbs being sold to developers and us plebs will be getting a new park behind it on what happens to be contaminated land from being an old factory site) but the guy is well known for his anti-democratic/intimadotry tactics.
If you make a derogatory comment about him in print or email he takes you to court asking for thousands of dollars to settle plus gets henchmen to sit out front of your home and photograph the place and one lady even had the thugs photographing her around town. I sent him an email a few years ago about him banning a DVD and ripping it off of the shelves here (SA is the only state that can ban movies within it’s own borders) and he said he wouldn’t reply unless I gave him my full name and address (for supposed verification purposes) so wise to his tactics I did not. He’s been known to turn up on people’s front doors, ring whenever he likes and has been banned from a popular shock jock’s radio show here too.
Atkinson is best known as the only AG refusing to sign federal legislation to allow R rated video games, thus only MA rated video games can be sold in Australia. He is so hated by video gamers nation wide that some Victorian guy from a gamers association is setting up a party and coming over here to run against him in his seat at the March election.
JdM @ 34,
Unbelieveable. And I thought Fred Nile was bad. Well, good luck in your campaigns. (Why on earth did they make this troglydite AG?)
Kosky: jumped or pushed?
It seems when Prince William is in Sydney Kristina Keneally is holding a harbourside function where the menu is prawn sandwiches. (One can only hope its not a stinking hot day, just in case he gets a case of food poisoning.)
I happen to really like Keneally; pity the ALP put her in a few years too late. But her erstwhile countrymen did say some pretty nasty things about his however mangreats it is grandfather/uncle/whatever George III.
Those prawn sandwiches really worry me.
Hhm, hate to say something nasty about someone with an illness in the family, but Kosky really was useless.
Paul, I expect some boring commentary shite about “prawn sanwiches being a sign of the more modern royalty”. Cucumber sandwiches having bitten the dust.
joe2,
I, OTOH, suspect a Republican plot, the said Republicans hope they’ll go off just a little bit in the Sydney summer, but not enough that Willy will notice. So a little while after he’s munched into them …
For Dags.
On a mission from God, the US military carries weapons with secret biblical messages…
It would be scary if it was true, and it is…!!!
http://guttertrash.wordpress.com/2010/01/19/us-military-carrying-spiritually-transformed-weapons-of-christ/