tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post7801242781956779862..comments2024-03-29T09:38:21.970+11:00Comments on loon pond: Ignore the distractions, focus on the Abbott corollary factor thingie ...Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-83104596782716294982015-12-07T22:38:16.755+11:002015-12-07T22:38:16.755+11:00As Anon says, the responses were predictable - jus...As Anon says, the responses were predictable - just what you'd expect in the current climate (sorry, I forgot momentarily that Islamophobia doesn't exist; The Oz says so). Such a fab concept this was. <br />I'm seeing peeps on social media tonight expressing their horror and disbelief that the bible actually contains such passages :)Mishhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15739039921358799040noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-60161285694384559202015-12-07T13:24:14.260+11:002015-12-07T13:24:14.260+11:00PS : Anony, I did enjoy your WW reference greatly...PS : Anony, I did enjoy your WW reference greatly; it's about on a par with (and could even have been part of) The Annual General Meeting of the Society for Putting Things on Top of Other Things.<br /><br />Absurdity always seriously outdoes corn, doesn't it.GrueBleennoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-41005652409840390752015-12-07T09:42:10.734+11:002015-12-07T09:42:10.734+11:00Oh no, not you too, DP. "The personality of ...Oh no, not you too, DP. "The personality of a paper clip" ? Oh dear, how ... ordinary.<br /><br />And all I was really trying to do was to show that, well, 'corny' is everywhere, and everywhere it is most eminently forgettable. I'll bet neither you, nor Anony, had ever made approving comments about 'The Eagle'. And why is that ?<br /><br />Now, try a little genuinely amusing corn from somebody you'd know very well, DP:<br /><br />Some primal termite knocked on wood <br /> And tasted it, and found it good! <br /> And that is why your Cousin May <br /> Fell through the parlor floor today. <br /><br />But then, for Nathanael West, I can forgive you much. :-)<br />GrueBleennoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-48888166588340009842015-12-07T07:22:46.724+11:002015-12-07T07:22:46.724+11:00:)³ That yarn is a pure delight...:)³ That yarn is a pure delight...dorothy parkerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00816807935021738560noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-10529988309993471612015-12-07T07:21:34.636+11:002015-12-07T07:21:34.636+11:00Everyone should have some Chandler in their life a...Everyone should have some Chandler in their life at some stage Anon. Each time the pond landed in LA, his line "A city with all the personality of a paper cup" came to mind.<br /><br />Also, if you haven't already, give Horace McCoy a go, and in a different vein Nathanael West ...dorothy parkerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00816807935021738560noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-79835000938271245792015-12-07T07:17:38.074+11:002015-12-07T07:17:38.074+11:00:)³ for that link:)³ for that linkdorothy parkerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00816807935021738560noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-30144830801543071302015-12-07T05:43:27.838+11:002015-12-07T05:43:27.838+11:00This is great. Some Dutch pranksters disguised th...This is great. Some Dutch pranksters disguised the Bible with the covers of the Koran and read out some of the bloodthirsty passages from the Old Testament and asked people what they thought - with predictable results. Bashing babies heads against rocks, murdering whole races for their beliefs, cutting up prostitutes into bits, destroying a city because of some homosexuals after the one good man had offered them his daughters to rape - just some of the passages of loving Christianity you will find in the good book.<br /><br />http://thenewdaily.com.au/news/2015/12/06/video-happens-bible-disguised-koran/<br /><br />As you will already know if you read the Sceptic's Bible or the Evil Bible.<br /><br />http://www.evilbible.com/Rape.htm<br /><br />Charming bunch these God botherers..<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-75589846843139360922015-12-06T18:08:28.677+11:002015-12-06T18:08:28.677+11:00Akker Dakket rhymes with Clacker
He really is a fu...Akker Dakket rhymes with Clacker<br />He really is a fucking whacker.Dave Chttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08613111054135459691noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-87219155414162022202015-12-06T17:07:26.324+11:002015-12-06T17:07:26.324+11:00GB- I'm not really trying to compare Chandler ...GB- I'm not really trying to compare Chandler with the likes of Tennyson, but poetic language will out. And originality and gripping dialogue along with plot twists and a tortured hero make for good story telling. OK it's not classic literature, but Chandler was an educated man and a clever writer and admired by the likes of Auden, Waugh and Fleming. <br /><br />For my pennysworth, a great composer knows when to use a great melody, and a great writer knows how to use a riveting plot. Of course that's not all there is too it. Even the greatest sometimes produce crap. Case in point Wordsworth's The Thorn which contains the immortal lines...<br /><br />"I've measured it from side to side,<br />'Tis four feet tall and three feet wide."<br /><br />WW - the McGonagle of the Lake district!<br /><br />Sometimes corny is good fun (eg. The Knight's Tale which stars Chaucer losing all his clothes at gambling, and the jousting crowd singing 'we are the champions.' Shakespeare did corny (eg. Polonius, Bottom etc)<br /><br />But I think Chandler is better than corny, he transcends this to produce some great writing.<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-61956892599536462242015-12-06T16:35:18.757+11:002015-12-06T16:35:18.757+11:00Well I do like nothing better than an invitation t...Well I do like nothing better than an invitation to crawl all over the backside of the topic, so here's my tuppence worth:<br /><br />When a lot younger, I, along with the rest of the Matric class (yes, it was that long ago), was invited to deeply consider a 6 line effort by a certain Alfred Lord Tennyson, to wit: "The Eagle"<br /><br />He clasps the crag with crooked hands;<br />Close to the sun in lonely lands,<br />Ringed with the azure world, he stands. <br /><br />The wrinkled sea beneath him crawls;<br />He watches from his mountain walls, <br />And like a thunderbolt he falls.<br /><br />So ok, Anony, tell me how Raymond the Chandler compares with Tennyson: does corny compete ?<br />GrueBleennoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-76309883771100053192015-12-06T15:38:51.314+11:002015-12-06T15:38:51.314+11:00Just discovering Chandler - the novels, not the fi...Just discovering Chandler - the novels, not the films. God his pithy short descriptions are good and have spawned a myriad copy-cats.<br /><br />"He was as inconspicuous as a tarantula on a wedding cake."<br />"The voice was dragged out of her throat like a sick man getting out of bed."<br />"A couple of frayed lamps with once gaudy shades that were now as gay as superannuated streetwalkers"<br />"Suspicion crawled all over her face like a kitten, but not so playfully".<br /><br />He's good. Corny but good.<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-88297238729602024272015-12-06T14:57:30.587+11:002015-12-06T14:57:30.587+11:00Credlin's insensitive bawling at indigeneous l...Credlin's insensitive bawling at indigeneous leaders.<br /><br />"Look at me when I'm talking to you!"<br /><br />http://www.theage.com.au/national/empowered-communities-project-stalled-since-turnbull-took-over-from-abbott-20151203-glf7m6<br /><br />And is the wall puncher still in a ménage à trois with Madame Lash and 'he's just a naughty boy' Brian?<br /><br />http://www.afr.com/brand/rear-window/tony-abbott-staying-at-peta-credlins-canberra-apartment-20151115-gkzgjz<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-23226850657465495462015-12-06T13:45:11.635+11:002015-12-06T13:45:11.635+11:00"...please don't worry about Akker Dakker..."...please don't worry about Akker Dakker's spine"<br /><br />I read in the Hair-oiled Scum today that there's 50,000 hospital admissions per annum in Australia for sporting related injuries, and apparently a significant component is older guys (middle aged and older) trying to "recapture" their (imagined) younger sporting prowess to show off for the kids. Well, Ack Dack is about the right age (65) and he has two kids, so, in the matter of worrying about his spine, we can hope, can't we.<br /><br />[Psst. I wonder if there'll be a campaign to charge sports players (50,000 hospital admissions per annum !) extra for their health insurance, just like they want to charge us 'obese' folks.]GrueBleennoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-22727309125484479882015-12-06T09:07:14.391+11:002015-12-06T09:07:14.391+11:00The Daily Telegraph reported last week:
FRAUD Squ...The Daily Telegraph reported last week:<br /><br />FRAUD Squad detectives have reopened the investigation into cartoonist Larry Pickering and his involvement in a sports trading company called Cohen Strachan Investments that collapsed owing millions.<br /><br />Queensland Police are going back over the original files and are understood to have quizzed the 72-year-old political satirist at his Gold Coast home last week.<br /><br />Pickering helped set up CSI, a sports arbitrage company selling software to punters guaranteeing big returns from supposedly sure bets.<br /><br />The company went bust leaving more than 100 investors without their life savings, valued at millions of dollars. <br /><br />http://kangaroocourtofaustralia.com/2015/12/06/larry-pickering-known-fraudster-and-thief-is-looking-at-jail-time-with-smoking-gun-evidence/Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com