Day 37, and Gary Johns says there's no soup for you ...

Now that the world has gone French again, the pond feels the time is right to celebrate the way the ideas boom, and pissoirs - vespasiennes if you will - go together ...

And the mention of pissoirs and ideas booms suddenly made the pond think of Gary Johns ... who can say why, the pond's mind works in strange ways ...

And luckily there was Gary Johns doing his thing for the reptiles this very day ...

Now the good news is that Gary Johns has finally abandoned the pretence, the nonsense, of signing himself off as a former minister in a Labor government.

Genghis Khan might have, at one point in his life, lived in poverty, surviving primarily on wild fruits and ox carcasses and marmots, but of course that was only so he could emerge triumphant and shout to the world "fuck you Jack, I'm alright and youse can all get fucked ..."

Let us now enjoy angry old man Gary Johns having a shouting fit worthy of Genghis ...

Now at reptile headquarters this passes both as satirical writing of the first water and elegant, sharp, incisive policy formulation... especially as the sorry saga of the subs can be so elegantly elided over ... so that the focus might remain on the insolent, indolent bludgers who insist on ruining the entire capitalist system ...

Yes, it's another great outing from Gazza, a man who specialises in great openings ... and naturally it brought to the pond's mind yet another great example of Gazza's generous, sensitive way way of dealing with the world.

Watch out Genghis, you're facing a serious contender, a major player, one who knows the right way to hand out the soup ...

Indeed, indeed. Gas would be cheaper ...