The pond has very few skills, but when it comes to having a rare ability for curatorial discernment regarding the Speccie mob, the pond must modestly claim a kind of greatness …
You see, your rank amateur curator would probably rush off to read the arm breaker - one of the great losers of political history - pontificating about great leaders, perhaps on the basis that it takes a dropkick boofhead loser to celebrate another dropkick loser as a winner, but that's falling for the obvious ploy, a simple feint designed to distract and to fool …
Your skilled, professional curator, surveying this Friday's summary of Speccie delights, would immediately spot an entry by gorgeous George and know that this was the obvious - indeed the only read - for a joyous TGIF …
One hesitates to say it, but one immediately sensed that one would be entranced by the inner humbug turning into a spectacular butterfly humbug on the Speccie pages …
Oh indeed, one does sense it, one does … and oh indeed, one was, one was ...
One was immediately delighted. Anyone who thought one had made a mistake by avoiding the arm breaker knew at once that one had been correct …
One knew it was time to rush in a cartoon from the Graudian to celebrate, knowing that others might find more here, but one could delight in this one here and now …
After one had had its first hit, one immediately became aware that one toke would not suffice, so one took a deep breath and then inhaled again …
One danced with delight at the way gorgeous George so perfectly conformed to stereotype, and for a nanosecond, one mourned the great loss to Australian politics when he decided to do his Dick Whittington …
… but enough of fairy tales - that cat looks as if it's seen a ghost or gorgeous George - because gorgeous George is living the dream, and one writhes in ecstatic delight with him at the news that he has become a teenage celebrity, unwonted as this might be…
One was so delighted that one felt the need to save any stray reader the onerous burden of behaving in a slightly embarrassed manner like a teenage boy buying a naughty magazine, and instead one felt the desire to reward readers of this most august blog with the trendy pics …
Perhaps some might find it tragic that gorgeous George was just a warm prop getting in the way of a snap, but one was consumed with delight, and couldn't wait to read on ...
One was filled with bonhomous bonhomie, and feeling faintly cherubic, and one knew at once it was time for another cartoon …
Of course as a voracious consumer of ancient political history, one was drawn back to the days of gorgeous George's greatest deeds …
One was vastly relieved to see the Speccie mob in that list, but then one realised that one was also a voracious consumer of gorgeous George's witticisms and drollery ...
One permitted oneself a modest smile at this sparkling awareness of popular culture, sure to engender a sense of bonhomous bonhomie in lunchtime readers, though perhaps the poor old Poms relying on the NHS weren't feeling so amused …
But one senses that all good things must come to a close, and one shed a tear as one came to the final par ...
Indeed, indeed, and with one final cartoon, one was off, and up itself so far that one found all light and meaning had been blocked, and one had learned to embrace Georgian meaninglessness, as the cartoon had required …
The long lost lord save the Queen and the Poms, and how lucky they are to have gorgeous George living amongst them, and displaying his delightful, enormous capacity for pompous humbug … and what a worthy replacement for Lord Downer he makes ...
Ah, DP; what a magnificently chosen side-dish to accompany one's luncheon! How one now feels like regurgitating said meal......
ReplyDeleteDorothy you sure can pick em.
ReplyDeleteFirstly How did the labor party fall for such a wanker as the arm breaker.
But when we end up with ambassadors like Downer and Brandis and the liberal party have the gall to send them to represent Australia. And we hear so much about people on social welfare how they are costing so much but not a whisper about these parasites that live off handouts from the public purse.The war monger little Jonny has highest spending habits of any past Prime Minister as he ages he gets more like the rat that he is.
Re Labor and the armbruster, ww: have you ruled out stupidity ?
Delete"...the arm breaker - one of the great losers of political history "
ReplyDeleteAre you sure about that DP ? I'd kinda reckon you'd have to have had some greatness to lose in the first place, and I just can't recall Latham ever having any. I still haven't been able to even open that appalling book of his ...
But then: "...it takes a dropkick boofhead loser to celebrate another dropkick loser as a winner" and I see that we are truly as one.
"The long lost lord save the Queen and the Poms, and how lucky they are to have gorgeous George living amongst them...… and what a worthy replacement for Lord Downer he makes ..."
Ah, DP, you are so very right ! Georgeous George is just such a perfect example of everything that ensured that the Poms would lose their empire and that we Aussies would never acquire one (with the possible exception of imperially lording it over the Timor Lestians regarding the plundering of their natural respurces. Oh, we really showed our royal origins there. What a pity it's the only time we'll ever be able to)
Somehow the style of the article and the sight of an ageing wanker in morning dress reminded me of Four Weddings and a Funeral - "He was head of my house. Buggered me senseless." Oh, the pomp and ceremony!
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