With talk of sandpaper all the go, and Micallef alone asking the only sensible question - why are Australians so inept when they cheat? - the pond decided to spend quality time with the reptiles brooding about the Ruskis …
This has been going on for some time - the Dictionary of Sydney celebrated colonial perils here, and what do you know, a truly terrible book on the notion, W. H. Walker's 1877 The Invasion has been uploaded here and garnered a spectacular 288 views.
The reptiles have been flung in to some confusion over the Ruskis, what with the Donald's obvious love of Vlad, and the bromancer's painful teenage infatuation with the Donald …
Should they love the friend of a friend, or should they maintain the old hate, baked into the Fort Denison genes?
Happily the love flourishes and endures and in consequence over the last few days, there has been an epic amount of coverage, and it behoves the pond to endure the coverage, in much the same way that some people like to spend five days watching grass grow in a game of cricket ...
On the one side, there was scepticism about the kiwis, and their outrageous stance …
No spies? Silly kiwis ...
Fortunately the Ruskis were up to their usual tricks on local turf … and the reptiles were utterly beguiled and charmed … and filled the digital ether to overflowing with their love of Logvinov …
So the pond's instincts were right! This is a scandal bigger even than the Australian cricket scandal … and worse, it was fake news ...
It was an epic performance, and the reptiles were entranced ...
And just to keep things bubbling along, it was time to drag in the Bishop and other matters, perhaps even the unnecessary cost of installing guns in Fort Denison...
Indeed, it's a bit like the conspiracy to do down the Donald in a deep state way, Vlad having absolutely no connection to any sort of deep state, not even a sensory deprivation tank ...
Oh no, not mocking the lizard Oz coverage, that will never do, there will be revenge in due course, but not until the pond gets into the fourth day of play ...
But all good things must end … though unlike the Australian team, Loginov got into the fifth day ...
The reptiles thought it was all so funny that Loggie deserved the full Jimbo treatment as a bit of high comedy ...
The reptiles kept exuding the love, as Jimbo recycled Loggie's greatest hits ...
And then it was Paulie's turn to recycle Loggie … because once the reptiles get a taste for it, they can't stop biting ...
Paulie did a sort of satirical piece, a natural cross-over for a national security editor, but he felt for Loggie, he truly did ...
Was there no-one in reptile land who after this extensive coverage - and the pond has only extracted the highlights - who would stand tall alongside the Ruskis and Loggie and Vlad, and throw in as a bonus, a deep love of the Chinese dictatorship?
The pond is so glad that someone in the stalls shouted out that question, because there's just time to unleash the Sexton ...
And there you have it … "supposed attempts to interfere in the domestic politics of other countries", as if the Ruskis aren't doing it, and the United States isn't doing it, and the Chinese aren't doing it, and in our very own humble way, occasionally Australia tries to get out the sandpaper …
But never mind, no complaining, it's all good, and those Ukrainians had it coming, because who wouldn't rather live under Vlad or perhaps Xi.
The pond is inclined to take it personally, since a harmless blog like this might led to a knock on the door in certain countries, but it's all good for the Sexton ...
Sober reflection? So that's what they call pandering and forelock-tugging these days?
So there it was, a bit like Robert Mitchum, with "love" engraved on one set of fingers, and "hate" on the other hand ...
By the end of it all, the pond felt the need for a cartoon or three …
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