In which petulant Peta explains to the pond scientific fact, or not ...

The Terror, thank the long absent lord, is as reliable as a broken clock or the information guide in a WB cartoon ...

Faced with the usual abundance of riches, the pond decided to go petulant Peta, on the principle that prunes and nattering negativity are a boon to regularity ...

Oh wait, the pond has seen this movie before, but it's always a goodie ... please excuse the pond while it gets some popcorn ...

Ah, that's better, no, nope, no we can't, not now or ever, so there, sucks boo ...

Now the great thing about having seen a movie before, is that all the lines can be recited as the picture unfolds, as if at a midnight Rocky Horror screening ...

Oh just look at the bludgers ... why don't they do something useful, like scribble a rant for the Terror

Now there are many lines in that gobbet that are adorable, but the pick for the pond wasn't the usual guff about how little harm Australia does - dinkum Aussie coal for the world, oi, oi, oi - it was that immortal scientific line, "Scientific fact or not."

Apply this argument with Einstein or Newton any time you like. Sure, Prof, you might say that for every piece of stupidity in the Terror, there should be an equal and opposite reaction,  but don't go all scientific on the pond. After all, scientific fact or not ...

And so to the next gobbet, which will be illustrated with a snap of diabolical monster ...

It's about climate change?

Oh come on prof, scientific fact or not ...

Shocking ... but as for those well-heeled greenies, cruising around in their Prius, stirring resentment at how lucky and filthy rich they are, how shocking is that?

Oh everyone had great fun with that one (the rest of the AFR story is easily googled), with those damned greenies reminding Cory of the need for battery power - the dear sweet lad having recently ranted about the uselessness of giant uneconomic batteries ...

Indeed, indeed, more here, and thank the long absent lord that Cory is the very last person to admit that solar panels are the answer to his growing energy needs.

Talk about scientific fact ... or not ...

And now, scientific fact or not, it's on to the next, and sadly, the last, gobbet of petulant Peta...

Now never mind the way the petulant Peta parrots the onion muncher ... that's what petulant parrots do, it's in their nature, and no point worrying about it ...

But that last line is a ripper worthy of note.

Scientific fact or not, she has the hubris to mention fast broadband?

Actually that's just one of a tidy set of quotes compiled here ...

Yep, scientific fact or not, thanks to petulant Peta and the onion muncher, the country has powered up to really fast broadband ...

More painful reading here ...

The pond would have liked to have gone on, but encountered a system error ...

Instead, the pond got nostalgic for the good old days, thanks to Pope, with newer, but no fresher papal insights available here ...