Friday, October 21, 2016

In which the pond settles back, pops the popcorn and enjoys the spectacle ...


It's on!

Forget the Trumpster, the new woman coming forward, the nasty lady and all the rest of that circus, the local reptiles have at last been given a godsend to see them through the Xmas holiday season ...

Endless columns, endless ruminations, up there with the glory days of Howard v. Peacock. Daily front page shock and horror ...


Guns blazing! 

But no one's yet worked out that the onion muncher is a notorious professional and expert liar?

Of course the pond immediately knew what was going to be the key issue, thanks to Fairfax.

Was it 'from', SMH style?


Or was it 'for', L'Age style?


Naturally the analysts were all over it in a frenzy ...



Easy enough to google, but it wasn't just the Fairfaxians and the Graudian trying to make trouble, stir the ants' nest with a stick, dig into the hive in search of sweet honey in their diabolical leftist way ...

The Terrorists were also at it, Colt revolvers at the ready ...


It will be noted that the metaphor du jour is gunslingers quick or slow on the draw, as the case may be. 

Which is appropriate, given that the onion muncher knows what sort of weapon to bring to a knife fight ...


Then there was the line-up of reptile stories feeding the duel at dawn frenzy ... front page, aiming and maiming and wounding and top of the digital page



Naturally, at times of trouble like this, the pond always turns to the bouffant one for guidance ...


Spectacular! Spectacle!


And after that the pond has arranged a number of other spectacles, as politics turns into a reality TV show about rivalries ...




Around this point the pond realised it had almost completely forgotten the point of the fuss, or what the bouffant one had to say about it ...


Gnashing and lashing! Cancer! Politics is a disease, now meet the cure ...


At this point, the pond must apologise for the complete lack of substance in all this posturing. But that's the nature of spectacles, circuses, the cinemah, and federal politics ...

All the pond can do is marvel at the bouffant one's adept use of the double negative ...

"... his claim that his office didn't know was undeniable."

Pure Shakespeare ...

Even if you flipped it, it still had the touch of magic about it ...

"... his claim that his office did know was deniable ...."

And now, as this is a Seinfeld blog in full TGIF nothing mode, and for those who want to revive fond memories of the glorious golden days, Dame Slap interviewed John Howard back in 2015 and the reptiles naturally presented a transcript of this momentous event ...

Back then the western was in temporary recess and it was The Bold and the Beautiful ...


Please, do not adjust your set. John Howard is played by that beautiful woman in the middle, while Andrew Peacock is played by the bold hipster with a beard ... and so, scene set, players dawdle on to stage ...


And now for a blog about nothing, it's time for a Rowe cartoon for the wrap-up, and as always, more Rowe here ...



Oh okay, how about a listicle? It's a handy guide to how things might play out over the silly season ...






5 comments:

  1. Hmmm. " marvel at the bouffant one's adept use of the double negative ..."

    Quite so, DP, and he's a serial offender. But what on earth did he mean by this: "It belied a lack of resolution, an overthinking of a simple political proposition and room for people to think he would horse trade on gun laws in the Senate"

    It "belied" - ie gave a false appearance of - "a lack of resolution etc." ? What does he - or was it just the NZ subby - mean ?

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    1. I'm interested in the room bit. A room for people to think about horse trading? It seems to me that 'horse trading' is what these men like to do. This heroism the bouffant one is banging on about is the idea that making a deal and doing over those who are not good at horse trading is the very thing that a good 'leader' does and those done over should not be crass enough to admit they got stiffed.

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    2. I think he means 'betrayed'

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    3. You know, having thought about it, you just could be right, Anony. Hmm, "betrayed", "belied" ... yep, they'd be easy for a reptile to confuse, wouldn't they.

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  2. Malware and Onion Muncher. It's a moving feast alright.

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