tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post2356960652506296625..comments2024-03-29T04:12:15.091+11:00Comments on loon pond: In which the pond partakes of a festive Caterist bonus ...Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-14770381864732584392017-12-18T15:10:20.623+11:002017-12-18T15:10:20.623+11:00Most relatively sane Australians couldnt of course...Most relatively sane Australians couldnt of course give a cross-eyed fart about Harold Holt, and yet the saturday edition of the reptilian rag featured four entire pages to his drowning. In the scale of things it was a very minor event in the scale of things. <br />How incredibly boring and completely irrelevant to anything that is happening in 2017-18.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-44608728301281325872017-12-18T14:05:30.917+11:002017-12-18T14:05:30.917+11:00Delightful chap, our historic Harry (though not ne...Delightful chap, our historic Harry (though not nearly as interesting as Dame Zara). But then in these dreadful days, for the Koolaid Wingnuts - if they acknowledge you at all - you have to be hero or villain; and since all of the villains are lefty socialists and communists, that means Harry must be a hero - or at least cloaked in the guise of one.<br /><br />But it does motivate me to consider the difference between "things that he actually did" versus "things that happened while he was there". So, did Treasurer Harry really, truly make the transition to decimal currency happen from start to finish, or did he just happen to "be there" when that transpired ?<br /><br />After all, as DP has noted, Menzies, like any dominant pride leader, prowled his territory ceaselessly, getting rid of any potential competitors and rivals. So what was Harry ? Someone on a par with Gorton or Billy Bigears ? And what would that claim amount to ?GrueBleennoreply@blogger.com