tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post8240304045951302060..comments2024-03-29T06:12:04.668+11:00Comments on loon pond: Goodbye to some of that ...Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger17125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-81812773998603721472018-07-21T03:20:23.396+10:002018-07-21T03:20:23.396+10:00Oh dear, Anony, I called up another tab to watch H...Oh dear, Anony, I called up another tab to watch Hiatt, and at the side, Youtube threw this one up too:<br /><br />https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSF89swJ9IU<br /><br />Arlo Guthrie (and Pete Seeger) after all these years.GrueBleennoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-65233867047758266392018-07-20T21:15:11.628+10:002018-07-20T21:15:11.628+10:00Happy anniversary DP. Jesus,that was a fast 10 yea...Happy anniversary DP. Jesus,that was a fast 10 years. As one who has been a daily consumer over 9 years of what I consider the best blog in the land, I can understand the desire to cut back on Loon wrangling, particularly as the reptiles actually seem to be rapidly approaching the rapture state.<br /><br />I've cut back on comments of late as my tablet only accommodates comments via Opera and the book keeper says I can't afford a new laptop, plus I'm just an old tech numpty. <br /><br />Your output is a bloody marvel that helps maintain a bit of sanity in the age of idiocy and language abuse...your a gem, as are your regular contributors.<br /><br />The idiot at no.15.<br />https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tT3x9cHIj5I<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-7585098572550363162018-07-20T18:18:32.109+10:002018-07-20T18:18:32.109+10:00Jarijari said...
Well done Dorothy. 10 years picki...Jarijari said...<br />Well done Dorothy. 10 years picking over what's left of a rotting corpse is a tough gig. Here's a Firefox add-on that works well on the likes of the NYT, WSJ, The Times, the New Yorker and The Economist, as well as the wretched old bastard's other shameless rags:<br />https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/anti-paywall/Jarijarihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18111807275156784855noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-11728946454833724202018-07-20T18:10:28.061+10:002018-07-20T18:10:28.061+10:00Happy anniversary and sad selfish regrets that you...Happy anniversary and sad selfish regrets that you will be cutting back, of what has been a fabulous and entertaining mission you have had.<br /><br /><br />Still, who am I to complain? I did enjoy many of our early banters, most notably my recollections of the Rev KF Kitto in Adelaide and his mission, as President of The Lord's Day Observance Society to prevent people enjoying themselves in the Adelaide Parklands on a Sunday. Somehow it seemed a more innocent occupation than what the Angry Sydney Anglicans or Lyle Shelton were trying to thrust on us.<br /><br /><br />But time moves on for all of us. I have triumphed over Lymphoma last year and recovery has been fine, apart from, at my age of 76, losing some of my stamina to keep up with all your posts. Often I've found myself wanting to comment but outside the 2-day limit normally allowed. But I am grateful for your energy and determination to address the most dangerous threat there has been to reasoned thought of the public. GrueBleen, Diddy and others have filled that gap that I might've left in any event. <br /><br /><br />But it has been a wonderful service you have given, not least because you have managed to remain humorous for so long when many such as me might have despaired. We are still in a dark place, but I have some hopes that we may improve over time.<br /><br /><br />Thanks for helping us retain our sanity by observing the insanity and vanity of so many others.Gorgeous Dunnyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10540625260311418333noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-45151631727243966082018-07-20T15:13:57.070+10:002018-07-20T15:13:57.070+10:00Thanks from me as well. I am always amazed at your...Thanks from me as well. I am always amazed at your output. Your comments are invariably cogent and readable whereas the source material is often near unintelligible. I struggle to make sense out of even the carefully selected gobbets let along read the original dross. <br /><br />Anyway, once a day is fine by me.<br /><br />Incidentally, I have been getting a bit of a laugh of late from hyperbole surrounding politics. Consider Trump "Our relations with Russia have never been worse". Trump was definitely around in 1962? Remember "drop and cover". Or Nigel Farage "the biggest insult to a sitting US president ever". Well, Nigel wasn't around when British troops burnt the White House.<br /><br /><br />Befuddledhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16201490489888639207noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-38844499789028430482018-07-20T14:39:15.454+10:002018-07-20T14:39:15.454+10:00thank you zoot, and the pond is a traditionalist, ...thank you zoot, and the pond is a traditionalist, but takes no position on Bex v. Vincents - since both helped an uncle die of kidney failure - and so accepts your offer, and will settle for chairman Mao's belief that tea was the best way to clean your teeth:<br /><br />Mao never bathed or even washed his hands or face. Dr. Li says that during the day his bodyguards went into the room and wiped his body, his hands and his face with hot towels. He never brushed his teeth, which Dr. Li says were coated with a green patina. Mao's habit, shared by many peasants in China, was to wash his mouth in the morning with tea and then to eat the tea leaves. When, once, Dr. Li suggested to him that he should use a toothbrush, Mao's reply was, "A tiger never brushes his teeth."<br /><br />https://www.nytimes.com/1994/10/02/world/the-tyrant-mao-as-told-by-his-doctor.htmldorothy parkerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00816807935021738560noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-11150285020945977352018-07-20T14:33:01.303+10:002018-07-20T14:33:01.303+10:00thanks DW, and in the hope of making you blush for...thanks DW, and in the hope of making you blush for your kind attendance at the pond's herpetarium, take my response to GB and apply it to your good self!dorothy parkerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00816807935021738560noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-62767592223338839952018-07-20T14:03:11.206+10:002018-07-20T14:03:11.206+10:00Psst that's " a cup of tea, a Bex and a g...Psst that's "<i> a cup of tea, <b>a Bex</b> and a good lie down</i>", Anony. Otherwise known as "<i>Bex (and other APC products such as Vincent's) powders were particularly seen as the housewife's drug of choice in the 1950s and 1960s</i>".<br /><br />And our DP is nothing if not a traditionalist. :-)GrueBleennoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-91682052551484925262018-07-20T13:24:08.225+10:002018-07-20T13:24:08.225+10:00Ten years of selfless sacrifice should be celebrat...Ten years of selfless sacrifice should be celebrated. I'm sure you have something appropriate organised (even if it's no more than a cup of tea and a nice lie down).<br />Your efforts are deeply appreciated. Thank you, thank you, thank you.<br /><br />zootAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-11734858823571323902018-07-20T12:55:38.677+10:002018-07-20T12:55:38.677+10:00Oh (blush) my pleasure entirely, DP.
But yes, tim...Oh (blush) my pleasure entirely, DP.<br /><br />But yes, times change, and people change, sometimes in harmony, but often not. So I do hope your "other things to do" work out well; and if they don't, or you get bored, or the reptiles really get up your nose or whatever, your appreciative audience will still be here, delighting in your company.GrueBleennoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-46086616971165774882018-07-20T11:43:14.145+10:002018-07-20T11:43:14.145+10:00Hi Dorothy,
Happy Birthday for your Blog and than...Hi Dorothy,<br /><br />Happy Birthday for your Blog and thank you for all your hard work. I must admit to some disappointment that our reptile diet is to be curtailed but it will at least keep us leaner and hungrier for more.<br /><br />DiddyWrote Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-69772530230523969832018-07-20T11:00:55.117+10:002018-07-20T11:00:55.117+10:00Would that it were the pond's birthday Anon, b...Would that it were the pond's birthday Anon, but as the pond holds to the Humpty Dumpty rule, this is another day in the 364 days of unbirthday celebrations the pond schedules each year.dorothy parkerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00816807935021738560noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-45361985270360372742018-07-20T10:59:48.870+10:002018-07-20T10:59:48.870+10:00Thanks WW, the pond claims no credit, the reptiles...Thanks WW, the pond claims no credit, the reptiles do it pretty much by themselves. As for the lies, the pond is sadly no Hercules or Sisyphus …there's too much shit in the stables and rocks rolling down hills for anyone to handle.dorothy parkerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00816807935021738560noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-31524405373978172652018-07-20T10:57:53.246+10:002018-07-20T10:57:53.246+10:00Thanks GB and thanks for your many comments over t...Thanks GB and thanks for your many comments over the years, happily reminding the pond that sanity and intelligence does exist in pockets around the land.<br /><br />I've actually got other things to do and the reptiles started to get in the way. Better just to cull the beasts down to a manageable level. The weekends will be the biggest challenge - who could resist the full flowering of Trumpism in the likes of Henry?dorothy parkerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00816807935021738560noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-80305861814955177262018-07-20T10:48:02.599+10:002018-07-20T10:48:02.599+10:00A decade of contribution DP. ( and is today a birt...A decade of contribution DP. ( and is today a birthday for you as well ??? )Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-44087615338595375072018-07-20T09:33:16.767+10:002018-07-20T09:33:16.767+10:00Hi Dorothy
We do appreciate how hard you have wor...Hi Dorothy <br />We do appreciate how hard you have worked to bring us the facts and truth of the Murdochracy lies.werewolfhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10022796219540658064noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-38405008853416000752018-07-20T09:17:02.602+10:002018-07-20T09:17:02.602+10:00Ah, DP, "all flesh is grass" so they say...Ah, DP, "all flesh is grass" so they say. I came to loonpond after you'd finished with the Duffles (though I have read some of your 'back numbers') and gone 'global reptile', and I've greatly enjoyed every day of it. I can but hope that sometimes the reptiles will yet again raise your ire sufficently to get an occasional impassioned 'second swipe' on a day. But just one per day is way better than none ... though what will I do with all the free time each day that I'll now have ?<br /><br />Anyway, on with the circus:<br /><br />Dear Henry: "<i>Ultimately, what matters is whether a working relationship is restored between the two countries </i>[USA and Russia], <i>as Trump has sought to do</i>."<br /><br />Errr, when exactly did the USA and Russia (or the USSR as it was better known) ever have a "working relationship" to restore ? Very briefly between Reagan and Gorbachev perhaps ? For a brief time during and shortly after WWII perhaps (Yalta anyone ?).<br /><br />But never mind, Henry, Russia still transports astronauts - including Americans - up to the International Space Station (that Trump wants to "privatise") and they don't fly spy planes over each other's territory and Russia's reclamation of Crimea didn't start WWIII ... so really, even without Trump the USA and Russia have about as good a "working relationship" as is necessary.GrueBleennoreply@blogger.com