in which the pond does time with petulant Peta, and is forced to splash on some Devine parfume to cool her down ...

Forgive the pond, it just wanted to send a cheerio to the rellies ... thank the long absent lord they weren't distracted by this sort of tweet ...

Not that it's going to be easy for Gina's boy ... the natives are restless and the reptiles were on the case ...

And today even as Malware and Barners partied like it was 1999, the reptiles tried to bring the mood down ...

Now they bring up Bennelong, and exhume Godwin Grech like a mouldy old bone long buried in the backyard?

But this was nothing in the end, because today Petulant Peta turned up the volume to 11, beyond the peevish and the pouting, beyond the querulous and the caviling and the complaining, beyond the sullen, the testy, the irritable, the fractious and the fretful, beyond the snappish, sour and sulky, beyond the uptight, wasphish and fault-finding fretful displeased, beyond the grouchy and grumbling, and into the valley of the downright cranky ... like a Tamworth red bellied black in the noon day heat, with country music cascading across the Peel ...like Steele Rudd's Cranky Jack, as played by Fred Kerry with some fair subtlety ...

Yes, it's possible to see the resemblance in the snap illustrating Peta's petulant column ...

Sorry, Malware, Peta, cranky Jack, it's easy for the pond to get confused.

Now while every sensible and decent member of the Murdochian commentariat is at the moment having a go at Sam the Man - Miranda the Devine and Akker Dakker amongst them, and with good old Flinty at the Speccie joining in the hunt for the 8,000 suckers helping pay for the legal action - petulant Peta had to turn up and spoil the fun...

Reading that hysterical outburst, it's possible think that petulant Peta's crisis is finally at breaking point, with her hero the onion muncher conspicuously silent after losing out on SSM to his daughters, his sister and the nation ...

But the pond can empathise ... it can see where Petulant Peta is coming from ...

Now can we have a snap of the hero Nat of the hour?

All the pond can do is coo, and sigh and encourage. The more the NBN man is reviled, the more content the pond feels ...

Now can we have a snap of the socialist, glowering and glum in his infamy ...

There's nothing like the bitterness of a loser to work like a charm on the pond ... and that bit of black knight rhetoric invoked the fondest of pond memories for the old Monthy Python sketch ...

"We need to lose big, so we hit rock bottom and acknowledge the self-inflicted harm we've wrought on ourselves and our country. And then we must rebuild but by God, a clean out is required .."

Might the pond humbly suggest that if a clean out is all the go, the onion muncher should be shuffled along first ... and then we can get on with Malware ...

Never mind, there speaks the sort of thinking of the purified, crazed fanatic, insisting that everyone else should be just as pure. Cleansing, born again, the phoenix from the ashes, all the usual stuff of the mentally deluded, and the fundamentalist incapable of compromise ...

The whole piece seemed fiendishly clever and cunning, a way of making even Miranda the Devine, with her mocking of fundamentalist delcons, seem like a centrist ...

Uh huh, but it's impossible to imagine the pond's distress and concern when it realised that, as a result of all news and opinion in Murdoch la la land now coming from the inner city 'leet barista friendly Surry Hills, hapless toads were being exposed to the Devine virus ...

"Any old patsy" is perhaps a cruel way to refer to Petulant Peta, but the pond will take it in the intended Xmas spirit, and splash on a little more Devine ...

That's better, and after the parfume, a few more words ...

Of course, of course ... why didn't the pond think of it. Malware as a follower of Nietzsche....

No better still, Malware as a prime example of Nietzsche's superman, beyond man, hyper human Übermensch ...

The pond was almost sold, and then it took another look back, and saw the photo the reptiles had chosen to illustrate the Devine ...

If that's the Übermensch, we're doomed ...