Promises, promises, but all the pond took away from the splash was that the Bolter is a supreme dog-as-supreme-accessory ponce. He wouldn't look out of place on King street, where dog posing and promenading and preening and pomposity is a daily ritual.
Meanwhile, he's moralising in his usual way at the Terror, and look, just below, the Terrorists keep on with their beloved Devine, who apparently has the job of saving the entire rag with click bait …
The pond was a little distracted, because sad to say, the Oreo of the day is well below par …
Of course it's piquant that the Oreo should be moralising, while there's the Bolter moralising about matters that the Terror did much to expose with their front page titillations about Barners …
But the pond had a sinking feeling because it sounded awfully like the Oreo had run out of puff, and resorted to the quaint device of listicles.
This was a trick that the magic water man resorted to late in his career … you know, ten reasons why magic water will cure you, or 20 insights Lord Monckton offers on climate cultists …
This sort of compilation is handy when preparing Xmas shopping lists, or summarising the past year's events, or at a pinch, predicting next year's events, but there's a very narrow season for them, and December-January is it …
Otherwise it just sounds like ploughing the same furrow …if the pond might borrow an insight from Arthur Fallowfield, who knew the answer always lay in the soil …or at least that there was some sort of lay involved …
It was everything the pond had feared. The Oreo gave the impression of running on empty, of having suffered burn out … opening with blather about Bill Leak, and then doing greatest hits and memories …
Even worse, the Oreo had probably intended to start out sounding like a succulent treat for the anti-PC libertarian brigade …
But instead had delivered a gluggy. indigestible reheated, rehashed pile of old dough …
But once you've started on a listicle in mad March hare month, there's no going back, and so the Oreo ploughed on with a sticky, dough-like humourlessness and grim persistence …
Tired routines, old mantras,and even the Bolter is bored with it, saying he's cutting back because there's only so much hate, fear and loathing one man can contribute to the world …
Is this all there is? Recycled Oreo dough?
Mao the dog, and Xi the pig?
The pond is deeply sorry. Here is a great mind overthrown, a mind once famous for having featured on the syllabi of astonishingly diverse universities … a mind apparently doing an Orson Welles and now gone in search of its rosebud …
Tony Abbott as the victim? Has the paranoid persecution complex descended into listicle madness?
There's actually nothing to say about any of it, except to observe that the Oreo doing humour is a reminder of why George Orwell is worth reading ...
Here's hoping for a speedy recovery, and the Oreo getting back to a rant in the here and now … but then things must be tough at the moment for Donald lovers rushing to find some form of distraction …
Luckily for the pond, David Rowe decided that Barners deserved one last tribute, with more Rowe always available here …
Bill Leak "sorely missed" she says? The Oreo says so many stupid things that it's usually enough for me to just chuckle and sigh and thank dog that loon pond presents her nonsense in such an amusing way, but this claim is just so bloody stupid that I have to comment.
ReplyDeleteUnfortunately there is nothing I can think of to say except FFS! How very pathetic.
Right on, Anony. Though this might be something that could be said: "Here is a great mind overthrown,".
DeleteYou gotta admit, DP, though Shanners is still No 1, the Oreo is pushing her real close.
"Sorely missed" by the colostomy bag brigade who still pay to read The Australian, perhaps. The rest of us either couldn't give a shit or are glad there's one less racist finger painter in the world.
ReplyDeleteThe Oreo has obviously been eating to many Oreos. Which is to say that she is suffering from the Grain Brain syndrome as described in the book with that title.
ReplyDeleteSpeaking of Shanners and yesterdays amusement re her advocating Biblical "literacy" a good place to start on such an exercise would be the book/cartoon titled Genesis Illustrated by R Crumb.