That's the sort of casting the pond loves - remember he played a morgue night shift employee in Night Shift!
And now to put another few corpses to work. The pond has had an old Dame Groan lying around, and what else to do but get it out before it gets too smelly …
Perhaps there should be a warm-up, because the reptiles have been fretting endlessly about energy and coal, oi, oi, oi, and all the rest of it …
Come on down Josh, explain the free market vs. the onion muncher's five year nationalisation plan ...
Oh dear, this is just the sort of talk to make Dame Groan snap ...
Dearie me, clearly Josh hadn't paid any attention to Dame Groan, who gave that dreadful ScoMo a dressing down the day before …
Really the insolence of the lad … not embracing coal, while pretending to do it?
Perhaps the pond shouldn't laugh. After all, the reptiles won't give up on their crusade until renewable energy is put back in its box, and everyone learns to love coal … and Dame Groan has long been on record explaining how all this pesky climate science is ideological …
Surely not. Surely at the very least, Dame Slap would be the monkey's aunt, unless there are things the pond doesn't know about?
Dame Groan can sense the reptile coal dream slipping away, and damned if she's going to take it ...
Look, the pond doesn't mind having a bob each way. ScoMo is an incorrigible suck, and the reptiles will keep berating the spineless, gormless mob of sucks until they realise the error of their ways and turn to the reptiles for enlightenment …and then dinkum clean Oz coal, oi, oi, oi, will step up to the plate and save the day, as any monkey's aunt could tell you at great length ...
Fortunately Pope provided similar hope and enlightenment this day in the matter of plastics, thanks to Erica Botz …with more helpful Pope here.
Judith Sloan has (or still does, I care not) served as Chairman on the board of Santos (big, mainly foreign owned gas company that is at the moment engaged in rorting the Australian gas markets.
ReplyDeleteplace "santos judith sloan" into google search.
first 3 results show a match of her name and Santos and her role in the company.
The 4th is a profile from The Australian which - surprise - chooses not to include her connection with Santos. The columnists at The Aus are so independent don't you think?
I'm more surprised that her column in The Aus does not emphasize the "important and growing need for more freedom in the gas markets, yada, yada", i.e. talking her her book.
Just kicking the Monash Forum dolts seems like an afterthought to me.
I do remember "Night Shift", DP, which launched one of the most up-and-down careers in recent history in the person of Michael Keaton.
ReplyDeleteBut (and apologies if I missed your joke) the still is from "Arrested Development", in which the Fonz plays Barry Zuckerkorn, the Bluth family's ferociously incompetent and amusingly deviant lawyer, who invariably makes their unending legal problems worse. Eventually, the Bluth's replaced Barry with Bob Loblaw (say it fast), played by Scott Baio (who played Fonzie's cousin Chachi) - "It's not the first time I've been brought in to replace Barry. I can do anything he can, and skew younger."
Dame Groan seems to have been very busy lately, too busy for the subbies to keep up with. I'm pretty sure the reference to "large gentailers" in the second splash should have been corrected to "large genitalia", given she is talking about a pack of...well, the Communications Act precludes...
Oh I dunno, FD; 'arrested development' seems kinda apropos to discussing reptiles. If, that is, you can persuade yourself there was ever any possible development to arrest.
DeleteAs to the 'genitalia', well I guess it's been a while since we celebrated some BSDs, but we all do remember the Salomon Bros glory days.