Friday, May 18, 2018

In which, confronted by Henry seeking solace and the Swiss bank account man sounding silly, the pond turned to the lizard Oz news ...


The pond will get around to the Speccie mob later in the day, but this morning the reptiles are transfixed by the parrot, offering his thoughts on rugby union and continuing his assorted defamations from the witness box …


It takes considerable skill to continue to defame and defy successive commissions of inquiry, but there you go, that's the parrot ...


No doubt the reptiles will keep leaking out the news, but it put the pond in reptile news mode, and why not - these were the opinion pieces at the top of the digital page this day …



There you go, the Swiss bank account man coming up with the stupidest argument of all on section 44, and if that's the best they've got, then any referendum is doomed …

The pond doesn't want to plug Ancestry, which uses the old bait and switch notion of a "basic" free service as a way of cranking up to a premium of a hundred a year, or double that, and the notion of handing over a DNA sample strikes then pond as unwise, but here's a thought - how expensive is it to ask your mother and/or father about your family history? And if necessary then doing a little basic paperwork … and if you can't manage any of that, why delude yourself into thinking you might know how to open a Swiss bank account?

And oh Henry, Henry, the pond had no idea the hole in the bucket was so deep, that your miserable, pathetic life required that kind of solace …

And so it was back to the reptile news, and the lizards were agog at spotting a heresy …



Surely this can't be allowed to stand. Surely one of the lizard Oz's many expert climate scientists will be on hand to refute this heresy, as deviant  as counting the Gospel of Thomas in the New Testament (the pond flung that in because everyone knows that climate science is merely a religion) …

Oh there was one brave defiant soul amongst the lefterati twitterers who knew the truth …


Ah, a reader from the Dame Slap school above the faraway tree, aware that the black helicopters are calling and the UN is shortly to introduce world government. 

Mercifully, the actual heretical text was a bit shorter than the doubting Thomas …


Oh who will sing the song of joy for dinkum clean Oz coal, oi, oi, oi?

And so to more news, and this time the pond for a nanosecond imagined that the bromancer had taken some form of overdose. 

In recent times, the bromancer has been scribbling furiously in praise of the Donald and his policies, and yet this sounded ominous …


Well if nothing else, that gave the pond a chance to interrupt proceedings with a Rowe cartoon …



As usual, there's more Rowe here, and the actual heresy was brief, and it turns out, came from The Times … another example of the reptiles down under breaching the paywall to pleasure the pond …



Oh dear, waiter, hold that prize built on dynamite, and bring a cartoon to the table ...


For once the leftist twitterati came alive for the reptiles … with some true believers still wanting to believe in MAGA, apparently not realising what it meant …


And so to the wittering and twittering on the lizard Oz account ...


Oh dear, that debate's worth another cartoon ...


Put it another way …



And now with everyone having had their share of cartoons and heresy, what follows is purely for specialists … because the pond intends to reprint everything about the trial that the reptiles let slip outside the paywall … and this was the earlier report yesterday on proceedings …


As the matter is before the court, the pond can't really comment, except to admire the chutzpah of the witness ...


But if the pond can't comment, it can surely interrupt proceedings with a cartoon …


And so after the two bund policy, back to the proceedings ...


The only question is whether the pond should open a book on the result … apparently people can bet on anything these days …


And so to a final gobbet ...


With a bit of luck, there'll be more to come, especially when the Caterists get their time in the sun … meanwhile …



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