It will be remembered the pond had decided to ban the Speccie mob for their failure to deliver some new Giles or a fresh Flinty …what with the tedious arm-breaker simply not a good enough reason to reproduce what can be freely found on the intertubes, while Brownie too frequently resembles a Melbourne brown-out with a Leonski on the prowl …
And Donald McDonald scribbling about Lang Lang? Well, he's qualified, because if the pesky "Mc" is taken out of the name you get Donald Donald on Lang Lang ...
Luckily this Donald isn't needed, because the Speccie mob have come to heel - get around behind Speccie mob - and they didn't just deliver up Flinty, they made him the Friday feature and blessed him with a cartoon that had Lobbecke looking nervously over his shoulder at the threat posed by Anton, even if he had to rely on Sarah for the concept ...
Actually the pond can't begin to count the number of times it's heard Mackellar cited over the last few days, usually by climate science denialists reminding themselves that this is all just business as usual and don't you worry about that …
Of course there's a final line usually cited in these renditions, but at this point the Speccie mob inserted an ad, and the pond is too discreet to remind punters that the thoughts of Flinty might be had for a humble introductory bait and switch offer of six weeks for a buck … (get ready to pay 45 smackers for every 13 issues after that once you forget you gave them your credit card) …
So to the last line, and then it's on with the splendid Flinty vision ...
Now expert Flinty watchers will note that not even a hint or a whiff of climate science has entered the discussion thus far, and this is as it should be, because what's the point of being a denialist if the denial can't be full and complete?
You see, Flinty is in to big erections and that's what he's on about, and naturally he calls on the parrot, another devotee of big erections ...
Now before we get on to the parrot's splendid celebration of men of vision, the pond would like to remind reptile lovers of the parrot's supreme expertise in the matter of hydrology …
Yes, anyone wanting an expert in the scientific study of the movement, distribution and quality of water need look no further than the parrot ...
More at the ABC here, and what a splendid reminder that when it comes to hydrology and the vision thingie, absolutely no evidence is required …
And so to the vision thingie ...
Frankly the pond was blown away by the vision thingie, though it did wonder whether we might not be better off building pyramids, as the visionary Jack Beale proposed …
Good old Jack Beale … of course these days the Jack Beale lecture has featured or will feature deviants of the Bob Brown, Ian Chubb and David Suzuki kind …
The pond is leery of this trend. Like any good follower of Flinty, the pond prefers the sort of hydrological understanding and awareness that only the parrot can bring to environmental matters …
Meanwhile, on another planet …
Of course, once tasted, one Donald cartoon is never enough ...
And after a shout-out to the reptiles of Oz, what about the lizard people?
Ah, what a benificently benign way to end the working week: a puff of certified wiffle piffle from a waterbound Flinty.
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