In which the pond abandons its back to basics Tuesday to make a few silly points with a cricket tragic ...

Eek, Xians under attack ... the barbarians are at the gates ... teh gays are on the move ...

Thank the long absent lord, the long-suffering Xians have never done anything to teh gays, except cast them into an eternity of hellfire and torment ... and given them a taste of what that might be like by making their lives 'interesting' on their journey through this world ...

Every so often, the pond wonders what it would be like to be Sauron, aka the Chairman, looking on his work each day from afar ...

There's the 18C triumph ...

There's the ongoing tributes to St. Bill ...

Not that there's anything racist about that.

There's the impending disaster, this time with RG doing his duty and sticking in the coal-clad boot  ...

There's the good old bouffant one, doing a standard Bill bashing piece ...

And then there's the weak-kneed oscillating fan, also offering hope for Malware ...

The move is on ... the oscillating fan and the Bolter are one ...

It seems almost perverse that the pond should spurn all these temptations and delights, and turn to the lesser Murdochians, the tabloid Terrorists, but as always, these reptiles know how to splash ...

It's usually up to get off my lawn aged reptiles of the Mark Latham kind to shout shout 'lock 'em up' or 'make it illegal', but Sarrah shows that double 'r' is an indication of mental toughness ...

Yes, and if they ignore that legal requirement, why lock the hussies up ... because as everyone knows ...

The pond can never resist a chance to swell the Godwin's Law swear jar coffers, and then there was that other splash, by a cricket tragic ...

Why, you ask, should the pond waste quality time on a cricket tragic who is likely to make silly points which only lead to silly gullies?

Well, half the charm of silly point makers is that at some point the silly point that was previously made has to be retracted, so that it might be replaced by new silly points ...

It seems the cricket tragic's brief flirtation with Hansonism is no more, and the love of the onion muncher has been supplanted by faint hopes for Malware ... yes, she is coming on side with the Bolter and the oscillating fan, and soon the pond might have a third eleven to give the hippies a thrashing at Camperdown Park ...

Suddenly we're back in the sensible centre, which is a silly point to make if you've been off in toad land being beguiled by the red head ...

Now the pond has cut most of the illustrations that were inserted by the Terrorists to bulk up the piece, but it felt the need to leave that one in to show the desperate situation Australia faces ... thank the long absent lord, 18C revisions will enable the reptiles to put them in their place. Oh look at them, the rampaging, parading zombies ...

As for the onion muncher? Well it seems even a cricket tragic must at some point burn the bails and distribute the ashes ...

But while the onion muncher's ashes are in a tiny urn on the mantelpiece, there's no reason to abandon his wonderful policies ... remember the Marxists! Beware anyone preaching tolerance and encouragement of gays and TGs and SSM ...

Oh goody, a mention of the Donald, a chance to run a meme ...

And then, the cricket tragic reveals what she really thinks of Malware and his chances ...

So Hanson was a no go, and a no show, and the onion muncher is a failure but his policies should be maintained, and Malware might be the best hope, but we live in interesting times ...

Well, the pond promised silly points leading to silly gullies, and a tremendous capacity for double speak and double think, which brings to mind the latest Rowe, with more Rowe to be found here ...

And now, to wrap things up, an important message from the reptiles of Oz ...

The pond always finds it hard to imagine anyone who actually reads the Oz editorialist ... but for what it's worth, there's many a wank that doesn't have a happy ending ...

And there you go ... it comes in the final par, the irony that the pond needs in its daily diet ...

"This newspaper has always supported immigration and plurality ..."

Now it's on with the wog bashing and the Islamic bashing and the right to call the blacks plurry lazy bludgers addicted to free tea, sugar and flour ...

Is there a Leak in the house?

Oh sure, he or she will have the guidance of St Bill, but the reptiles urgently need a new cartoonist so that the business of demonising the newly arrived and the different might continue apace, while the editorialist goes on blindly ignoring what the rag actually prints ... because that's the reptile way.

How else to deplore the impact of climate change, as assessed by climate scientists, and then routinely run pieces mocking the science and denying the impact of climate change?

That double-arsed Trump by Rowe serves as a fine metaphor for the reptiles ...

In the meantime, the pond must revert to another Rowe, as noted, with more Rowe to be found here ...