Talk of fools - especially when it comes from a man many consider a prime fool - immediately sends the pond off to Proverbs 26 for some wise advice ...
It takes some fair sort of fool, wise in his own conceit, to end up, courtesy of mouth, in this sort of joust ...
Whenever the pond reads the Caterists now, it wonders if there's a legal action in it ... or whether it's just the braying of a donkey, or a dog returning, pace Proverbs, to its vomit, for a dose of the usual anti-climate science, anti-green vitriol ... scattered about in blunderbuss, or shotgun manner, in the hope of hitting the side of a barn door ...
The good news, if we're to trust the rustics at The Chronicle here, is that the Caterists got tidied up, along with that tidying up of The Spectator ...
It seems fools and their money are soon parted, but the pond heeds the injunction not to answer a fool according to his folly, lest thou end up sounding like a Caterist ...
Oh heck, all that talk of subsidies not growing on trees, and paying for the folly, and grabbing a share of the fixed pie, and so on and so forth, how could the pond resist?
Yes, it's time for the ritual that routinely gives the pond enormous satisfaction. Don't laugh, you're paying for that folly too ...
And now for a final word from the heavily subsidised, even though subsidies don't grow on trees ...
Will the Caterists ever give up their taste for government subsidy? Possibly when the whales return to the Menzies Research Centre ...
And now to ease the taste of the bitter pill swallowed by taxpayers, here's a papal blessing, with more papal insights here ... go on, give the Pope a click, as he explores the dilemmas of fools on a regular basis ...
Goosebumps Cater: "... until the whales return to Lake Burley Griffin ..."
ReplyDeleteNow there's a vision splendid, surely. But of course, as Nicky knows quite well, the whales never left: that thing which Canberrans fool tourists by calling the 'Captain Cook Fountain' is actually a periodic concerted blow by the Burley Griffin whales. Of course Cater knows that, as he incontrovertibly knows many other things which he graciously reveals to us dumbkins from time to time. Like how Grantham floods happen.