tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post5981077338702712857..comments2024-03-29T15:34:55.287+11:00Comments on loon pond: Day 12, and a splendid victory suggests a majestic budget triumph and DD are just around the corner ...Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger16125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-80589774502511624572016-04-03T08:08:19.736+10:002016-04-03T08:08:19.736+10:00Oh joy, a blast from a much loved past (that's...Oh joy, a blast from a much loved past (that's Oolid, not Baruch, of course).GrueBleennoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-34206645166495724582016-04-03T07:43:13.164+10:002016-04-03T07:43:13.164+10:00Attention drawn, and so cheap too. Must send one t...Attention drawn, and so cheap too. Must send one to the rellies in Tamworth.dorothy parkerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00816807935021738560noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-460389305723982742016-04-03T07:41:53.788+10:002016-04-03T07:41:53.788+10:00The pond must vote for GB here! Sheckley rulez!The pond must vote for GB here! Sheckley rulez!dorothy parkerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00816807935021738560noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-6020075720135026992016-04-03T07:40:40.471+10:002016-04-03T07:40:40.471+10:00Now you begin to understand GB, the way that devio...Now you begin to understand GB, the way that devious witch prepared an elaborate trap to ensnare not just the wall puncher but Malware too and possibly at least another 3 generations of Liberal leaders ... just as Obama not only created Donald Trump but the tea party, Marco Rubio, Ted Cruz, fornicating Republican governors and the whole damn GOP tribe ... as for the PPL, it was of course a post-hypnotic suggestion, of the kind that has marked the return of Daryl Somers to the Nine network ...dorothy parkerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00816807935021738560noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-16129835722441789222016-04-03T05:45:54.692+10:002016-04-03T05:45:54.692+10:00I now know why Andrew Bolt is such a confused wron...I now know why Andrew Bolt is such a confused wrong-headed little bunny. He has been reading Dutch Civil Law which appears to have been written by the Philosopher Baruch Spinoza. Here's a taste, this bit dealing with property law.<br /><br />"‘Things’ distinguish themselves from metaphysical, intangible objects, which can’t be seen or touched. An example of an intangible object is a story or an idea, that in itself is incorporeal, so that it can’t be touched, although it may express itself in a visible and touchable thing, like a book or a machine. The obligatory claim of a creditor against his debtor, derived from an obligation, is intangible as well."<br /><br />http://www.dutchcivillaw.com/content/dutchcivillaw011.htm<br /><br />Only to matched by the musings of Oolon Collufid.<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-58913444885402744842016-04-03T05:21:33.589+10:002016-04-03T05:21:33.589+10:00Talking about thunder carts and thunder boxes as w...Talking about thunder carts and thunder boxes as was our wont, I cannot help draw your esteemed attention DP to this amazing Australian invention. It's agile! It's innovative! And it's comfortable!<br /><br />http://www.2daloo.com/thunderbox.html<br /><br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-24303896148907857582016-04-03T04:58:52.997+10:002016-04-03T04:58:52.997+10:00Sussan Ley just opened her wallet in Parliament, a...Sussan Ley just opened her wallet in Parliament, and released a plague of moths.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-49675534386743442002016-04-02T20:30:13.688+11:002016-04-02T20:30:13.688+11:00Whew - thanks for your report on Kelly's rambl...Whew - thanks for your report on Kelly's ramblings, DP. Following a family wedding last weekend - and the accompanying alcohol consumption and political discussion - I was concerned that I was fast becoming the doddering, dribbling uncle of the clan (not least because I'm the oldest of my generation). After reading Kelly, though, I'm pleased to say that I've a long way to go before I achieve that level of senile discourse. "The election is shaping as a core conflict over values..." FFS!<br /><br />Give it up, Paul. You have no remaining shreds of dignity or credibility, but perhaps if you just shrink off into the shadows, nobody will really notice or care.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-26576523994065611552016-04-02T15:55:03.223+11:002016-04-02T15:55:03.223+11:00Abbott turning right-wing politics into comedy? Bl...Abbott turning right-wing politics into comedy? Blame the lefties.<br />The party's decision to have a not-a-complete-moron mouthing the same (or sillier) policies? Blame the lefties.<br />The rise of nutjobs like Trump (or teh Cories, if it comes to that)? The fault of the lefties.<br /><br />"You're very clever young man, but it's no use. It's lefties all the way down..."FrankDnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-83356171161148756212016-04-02T15:21:04.963+11:002016-04-02T15:21:04.963+11:00Yes, DP, it warms the cockles of the heart to see ...Yes, DP, it warms the cockles of the heart to see you elevate the grand master of the shaggy dog story into our common discourse.AuldBrixtoniannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-55979127999695884442016-04-02T15:12:37.467+11:002016-04-02T15:12:37.467+11:00It's all graveyard humour, then ? Dunno, mate....It's all graveyard humour, then ? Dunno, mate. The only thing Heinlein ever said that made sense to me was his definition of love: "Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own."<br /><br />And the only readable thing he ever wrote was 'All You Zombies'.<br /><br />The rest was just juvenile libertarian mumbo-jumbo.GrueBleennoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-41084609678257649432016-04-02T12:00:18.901+11:002016-04-02T12:00:18.901+11:00I'll see your Sheckley and raise you with a He...I'll see your Sheckley and raise you with a Heinlen.<br /><br />“I've found out why people laugh. They laugh because it hurts so much . . . because it's the only thing that'll make it stop hurting.” Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-41136871850391713902016-04-02T12:00:12.707+11:002016-04-02T12:00:12.707+11:00Bandar people!
Never mind, imagine the tumult if G...Bandar people!<br />Never mind, imagine the tumult if Gillard or Rudd had been dissed by COAG. Ol' Kelly would've bust a gut.<br />Anyway, back to the Skull Cave.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08158673564017581517noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-87484688292994017712016-04-02T11:21:44.632+11:002016-04-02T11:21:44.632+11:00Verbatim.
"Tesla's iPhone moment: $10b o...Verbatim.<br /><br />"Tesla's iPhone moment: $10b orders<br /><br />More than 180,000 electric cars sold in within the first 24 hours, with customers lining up.<br /><br />We have reached peak stupid<br /><br />Comment: Passenger's photo with plain hijacker shows the selfie has become our default response."<br /><br />Maybe Fairfax is regretting outsourcing their subbis to the kiwis.<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-14896321786454484272016-04-02T10:14:32.375+11:002016-04-02T10:14:32.375+11:00"The pond appreciates the solitary company of..."The pond appreciates the solitary company of the single reader that made it to this point."<br /><br />Yay, DP ! I'm still with you (I may be obsessive-compulsive, but I'm also loyal to my compulsions).<br /> <br />Anyway, I was wondering whatever happened to that wonderful 'gold standard' Paid Parental Leave scheme that Juliar also whispered down the sock for Abbott to spruik. It obviously took several extra parsecs (tm Star Wars) to get here so I guess that's why it was so late.<br /><br />But I really have to rearrange my thinking about Lefties: they are obviously wonderfully skilled at 20-dimensional chess. There's Obama who has magically destroyed the Wingnut agenda, destabilized the GOP and shredded Ronnie Raygun's wonderful legacy, and all by simply creating Donald Trump.<br /><br />And then there's Juliar, setting a fatal trap in place for the Libs by promising lots of expenditure that they sincerely promised to match. Stunning ... why isn't she still PM ?GrueBleennoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-19485939704539680942016-04-02T08:34:47.253+11:002016-04-02T08:34:47.253+11:00Robert Sheckley! It's not often that I get to ...Robert Sheckley! It's not often that I get to start the day with a reference to one of the great satirical SF writers of the 20th Century - thanks, DP. Were he still around, I wonder what he would make of the current world and potentially-President Trump?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com