In which the pond tries its hand at sniping, wrecking and undermining ...

Ryan gone and war by tweet, how's the stunning victory man handling it?

Oh dear … haven't the reptiles learned yet that the best way to communicate with the Donald on policy matters is to send someone off to Fox and Friends?

Never mind, if we must, but the pond will consider this strictly an entree ...

Uh huh, well the Pope knows where that's coming from, and more Pope here …

And so to the main meal, which the pond admits has all the substance of a meringue, or perhaps a rock cake …

You see, the pond has been noticing in recent times the way that the reptiles keep on keeping on with the onion muncher.

Somehow it sticks in the noggin and suggests that a leadership change will be on before Xmas …

See this yarn …

Uh huh … a few things to note in this story by a member of the Kelly gang: the unsniping, unwrecking onion muncher's call of Malware being a tricky dick is kept in the text, but the entire point of the yarn is to give space to the venting onion muncher's sniping and wrecking ...

Now fast forward a day, and Malware being a tricky Dick gets into the header ...

What do Clennell and Brown add to the original story by that member of the Kelly gang?

Not much, it's just the same yarn rehashed and reworked, in a way that keeps alive the notion that Malware is a tricky dick ...

This is how it goes with the lizard Oz. The moment that Malware called the reptiles false and untrue, his goose was heading off to the oven …

The story was yet another variant arising from the curious reptile mindset, which loves to invite in South African farmers while at the same time demanding that immigration be curbed …all the better if it has an Enid Blytonish "secret seven" angle to it ...

There's the clue. Within four short pars, the reptile yarn managed to link the immigration intake to the Barners' Xmas deadline …any excuse for a beat-up these days, and is it any wonder that the onion muncher remains top of the pond's page?

Of course Malware, in his usual way, didn't help matters by sounding like the complete prat he is ...

Meanwhile, that other member of the Kelly gang had gone back to special pleading … because there's too many migrants, unless they're of the right kind ...

So why the ongoing fuss?

Well the reptiles helpfully provide a graphic pointing out the political advantages ...

Imagine if the greenies had been so naked and bold about the advantages of shipping in certain kinds of migrants to help them in their cause, you know, seals for South Melbourne, whales to Werribee ...

The reptiles would have erupted in a raging fury, but this time their generous hearts melt with yearning ...

And so it goes … just another few days in the company of crusading reptiles, sniping and wrecking and undermining and backbiting …

The pond can barely remember where it began …

Oh that's right …