In which the pond enjoys a late afternoon Oreo, because it's never too late to bite into an Oreo ...

The pond only harks back to Mike Carlton here because - some distance down that tweet - a kindly soul EJB - blessed with the wondrous tag silly cat running -  the pond has always thought of itself as a silly cat running - put up a link to the pond, and so the pond achieved perhaps one or two degrees of separation from the acerbic Carlton ...

And then thanks to Michael Pascoe's tweet, embedded in the chain, the pond went off to down memory lane to about me ...

And why does that matter?

Well you see, after all the mockery and ridicule, it will be noted that the line about the Oreo's Australian university status no longer appears at about.me, but instead has been discreetly edited out, airbrushed like a Playboy photo ...

But the pond hastens to reassure punters that it's still the same smart cookie beloved and celebrated by the pond ...

And lo, just as the pond has returned, so has the Oreo.

Yes, all this was by way of reassuring stray punters that the pond hadn't forgotten that Monday is Oreo day ... but don't the pleasures longest delayed taste the best when finally consumed, or perhaps belatedly consummated?

Strange, the definition seems simple enough ... and the Oreo seems to be exhibiting strong signs of it ... not for her a wide ranging variety of flavours, just your standard mass produced fast food Oreo ...

...though how to pronounce xenophobia could take hours of discussion ...

And here for the argument and a sample pronunciation ... even if it's not the way the pond would say it, because amongst many pedantic matters, the pond refuses to acknowledge that "zee" exists ... and not even Oscar the Grouch could persuade it otherwise ...

Ah Oscar and the Oreo, as one with the messaging ...

Never mind, it's back to the Oreo for a final burst of xenophobia ...

Now the pond has done its duty and paid attention to the Oreo, but if it might be so bold, could it offer a few editorial suggestions, along the same lines as made that talk of being amongst the ten top university minds mysteriously disappear ...

Most migrants and refugees make fine citizens, and even some members of the reptile commentariat, though sadly only some. Let's face it, it was Australia's gain and America's loss when Rupert decided to abandon his Australian citizenship for a brazen pot of Fox News gold ...
The story of modern Australia is a migrant story, no matter how many Greens councils try to deny it by banning Australia Day, or members of the reptile commentariat insist it’s been a total disaster that puts all our lives at risk, or refuse to acknowledge that the day was once celebrated all over the shop, and is a moveable feast and that if there was to be a proper federal Australia Day, it should be on the 1st January, when the Commonwealth came into being, but we all know how we feel about doubling up on a holyday, as opposed to spreading them out, though we've spread the day out before to all kinds of odd days, as this meme suggests... 

But the balance between mass migration and social harmony is a delicate one. It is put at risk by ratbag ideologues of the Oreo kind who demonise Islamics, persecute minorities and pursue a fanatical closed-border policy without assessing the consequences. 
The unelected scribblers staffing the Murdoch rags risk have continued to serve their chairman in a bid to ensure his going endless acquisition of wealth, while determined to limit the wealth of others. If the emergence of a bigoted population prone to Foxian hysteria has come as shock, with the Donald the ultimate tragic consequence - though can climate science and Brexit be far behind? - it is because the scribblers are so far removed from the people they claim to serve, which might help explain their circulation and revenue problems. 
The bulging register of mindless references to Godwin’s Law-breaking thought crimes that every fuckwitted dimwit leads with can only be balanced by the silly stupids who routinely open their columns with references to Orwell and Brave New World, when that brave old socialist would have been appalled to see the likes of an Oreo quoting him ...
Somehow these loons think that wearing wondrous un-PC badges shields them from the intolerable hysteria they have cultivated in a dissenting minority of crazed white supremacists, isolationist nationalists and neo-Nazis. 
But shouting xenophobia at bigots won’t stop their terrorism. Fox News continues, though it’s been outflanked by other even more extreme forms of ratbaggery, and the reptiles of Oz now look on at their capacity for creative destruction, and wonder how it’s all come to this. 
Well their ongoing cultivation of the extreme right won’t protect the free world from those determined to make us unfree, like Daesh and the Chairman and the Oreo, who shout that closed borders is freedom, and who, to an uncomfortable degree, spread about exactly the same kind of hatred and bigotry and unwillingness to just live and let live and get on with enjoying life as fundamentalists everywhere do ....

And with that bit of re-writing done, it's time for a Rowe, evoking an Oreo hero ... with more Rowe here ...

On the other hand, the pond could just have put up that meme to be found on the Carlton tweet and not bothered with anything else ...