Sheesh, don't blame the pond if you fell for the trolling.
It was all the fault of a perverted, deviant pond reader.
It turns out that the pigeon was named after Usain Bolt, and not the Bolter, as you can read in Buzzed pigeons doped with cocaine, painkillers in Belgium bird racing scandal.
Back in the day, the pigeon Bolt was a real goer - Is Bolt the world's most expensive bird? Europe's fastest pigeon bought by Chinese millionaire for whopping £300,000.
The Bolter might also be an expensive bird - who knows how much network Ten pays him to deliver pathetic ratings and ruin their Sunday schedule - and he too gets a buzz, but it's from drinking red wine and listening to mournful operas, possibly while indulging in bouts of self-pity ...
Why was Puccini so unkind to Baron Scarpia? Did Puccini have something against law and order? What's wrong with Campbell Newman? What's wrong with making men wear pink?
Was Puccini a warmist?
Speaking of warmists, to wrap up Friday - TGIF - the pond would like to give a wag of the finger and a tug of the forelock to the Canberra Times for publishing Long bow to blame NSW fires on man-made global warming.
Strangely, magically, and right on cue it turns out that Tony Abbott is right about everything - or so this enthusiastic piece suggests, more craven and obliging and sycophantic than even Greg "Wikipedia" Hunt, and that's saying a lot, considering Greg "bushfires have been around for millions and squillions of years" Hunt's recent form.
The Times (Canberra, not London or New York) presents the author, one John McLean, with this tag:
John McLean is the author of three peer-reviewed papers on climate and was an expert reviewer for the IPCC's latest climate report.
For a different perspective, readers might like to go here to see this.
Is this the very same John McLean?
Click to enlarge, have fun checking the arguments against the piece in the Canberra Times, and follow the links for other insights.
It would have been useful for the Canberra Times to inform its readership as to whether this John McLean is the very same John McLean who was a member of the Australian Climate Science Coalition, and who attracted attention in pieces such as The Year After McLean - A Review of 2011 Global Temperatures.
Others have asked questions about McLean, as you can read in Show me the credentials!!!!
Is this the John McLean who hangs around with the likes of Bob Carter and gets himself published in Quadrant, and moans about censorship, and so on and so forth?
The question the Canberra Times editorial team then might ask is whether they've covered all the bases with the way they've presented this piece, its author and his credentials.
Disingenuous, moi?
Do they find any irony at all in running it online not far from David Pope's cartoon for the day?
Speaking of pigeons, as we were, did Pope persuade the CT editor to model for his drawing? You know, the one with his head in the sand and his bum in the air?
Who knows.
More Pope here, and what a dab hand he is at likenesses ...
Aw Dorothy - it was a great opportunity for endless irony. I confess that I am that 'perverted deviant reader'.
ReplyDeleteYou must admit that Bolt the pigeon is a Christmas present from Doctor Who himself.
And speaking of Puccini, why not mention the best?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zu5TkdcZA-M
We live in an age where the simple-minded, untalented and banal people are exalted. They are raised even higher if they are vicious, bullying and vengeful. They can reach giddy heights if they can turn truth into untruth. They are everywhere.
ReplyDeleteNot the old expert reviewer for the IPCC bollocks. It sounds impressive but all it means is that he asked to see the draft report.
ReplyDeleteOooh - can we do Dastardly and Muttley jokes? Can we? Can we? Please?
ReplyDeletehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSnzOOtHfDo
The good news is that the headline will attract the attention of the Google crawl-bots without giving the details. So you could have a sensation on your hands DP.
ReplyDeleteThe only people who can read the pond, Anon, are by definition perverted and deviant, given that the pond is proudly perverted and deviant.
ReplyDeleteJust as, if you read the reptiles at the lizard Oz, you're a wanker. Not that we've got anything against masturbation, just wankers who don't know they're wanking ...
But I'll double down your Puccini with
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3lPxwct2sk
Classic Bolter. How he must feel for Scarpia ...
And yes Anon you can do any sort of joke you like, though we'd prefer Daffy Duck or Duckman ...