Wednesday, February 07, 2018

In which the pond's business plan for a bright future relies on nattering "Ned" and Ming the merciless ...


In keeping with the reptiles, the pond has absolutely no business plan, but rather a consuming desire to bore the socks or stockings off any passing reader ... and so the moment nattering "Ned" turns up, all must give way.

The Devine might plead for the return of dinkum Aussie coal, oi, oi, oi; Dame Slap might bash heads together in the cause of freedom, but all must give way to the natterer ...

Who else  could urge Malware to let the past go, while simultaneously urging Malware to think like Ming the Merciless ...?


Now there's an interesting juxtaposition, thrown up by the google logarithms, and more of that anon, but first the pond must get down and begin to think like Ming ...


Actually, the pond couldn't imagine a greater irony than urging Malware to let the past go, while simultaneously thinking like Ming ... but never mind, the pond couldn't help noticing that line about "the conservative right, damaged in psychological terms, laments the demise of a social model based on the conventional family, orthodox Christian values ..."

Was that why the tabloid presentation thus ...

 

... became a portrait with suitable gravitas in the lizard Oz?


Ah, there's nothing like a little adultery in the morning, safely kept away from the light during the by-election by caring reptiles ...

And so back to the hand-wringing of nattering "Ned" ... though it's passing strange that he doesn't go back to Malware's real model ...


... what with all the talk of how the workers have never had it so good and it all trickles down and so what we need are company tax cuts, because it does all trickle down dammit, and they've never had it so good, the ungrateful swine ...


Oh dear sweet long absent lord, talk about missing the point ... "identifying firms, seat by seat" in the days of the broken, full to overflowing intertubes? - but luckily there's only one gobbet to go, and how sweet it is that the reptiles now attach thumb CVs to add to the portentous air ...


Yes, he's not only a tedious bore and a humbug, but - a critical proviso - he's a bore and a humbug with extensive experience in the art form ...

Well it would be wrong for the pond not to celebrate Ming, and how nice it is for the National Portrait Gallery to have on display a genuine Ming vase from the Les Tanner/Gus McLaren dynasty:


The full listing is here ... with this nice note "A staunch monarchist, he was invested as a Knight of the Thistle and succeeded Winston Churchill as Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports from 1965 to 1978. Menzies’s nickname, Ming, originated in the Scottish pronunciation of his name, Ming-ees, which Menzies preferred to the usual pronunciation, possibly because it was the way the Queen said his name. The nickname took on a new dimension when a newspaper columnist extended it to ‘Ming the Merciless’ after the Emperor in the Flash Gordon comic strip. ‘Fling out Ming’ subsequently became an election slogan ..."

Just so everyone knows how to pronounce Ming while supping on their parritch and a wee dram ...

'Fling out Malware' is probably not going to work either, perhaps all the pond can hope for is a 404 ...

And so to that other item the google logarithms threw up ...

By now sensible folk will have long abandoned the pond, so this is only for the stayers ... with Ming copping a good old serve ...


Indeed, indeed ...




And Keating hadn't finished ...


What's left? Well after a dose of nattering "Ned" and Ming the Merciless, it's always necessary to return to the real, present world, and what better way to do it than with a Pope cartoon, with more papal reality on view here ...



5 comments:

  1. Norty Niall: "...that great battle in the 1980s that led to the defeat of the communist states"

    What, has our Niall never heard of China ? When was China (and its so-called socialism) "defeated" ?

    As to Keating's point that, unlike cowardly Menzies and Australia, Churchill's Britain was ready to fight, well yes, but the Poms had Hurricanes and Spitfires, and we had Wirraways and Tiger Moths.

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    1. Well spotted G. Niall Ferguson’s “great battle in the 1980s”exists only in his febrile mind. Perhaps that’s why students have never heard of it. My only recollection of any action at that time was the Berlin Wall being attacked with sledge hammers.

      Also, his reductionist lumping together of communism and socialism is unforgiveable in any discussion of the major political movements of the twentieth century. But the world must always reduced to a graspable binary as far as the reptilian brain is concerned.

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    2. No, there really was a "great battle of the 1980s", Kez and it was fought almost entirely within that great inner space known as Reagan's Head.

      And it had nothing to do with Mikhail Gorbachev and the Russian people, of course. We know that because nobody ever mentions Gorbachev now and because the Russian people have all gone over to the Tsar of All The Russia, Vladimir Putin.

      It's a long term belief of mine that no matter where or when you look, there is always somebody who is actually trying to be civilised. In Russia in the 1980s it was a youngish Russian chap I saw interviewed on tv who said: "Now that we Russians are free to speak as we never have been before, what we really must learn to do is to listen."

      I still occasionally wonder what happened to him.

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  2. Me thinks that all of the anal retentive gasbags or goblins and orcs that infest the reptilian propaganda machine (Mordor) run by the dark lord Sauron should read the prophetic book The Great Transformation by Karl Polyani.

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