The pond woke up to some joyous news this day ...
Finally, the reptiles have got around to strengthening their paywall, and as a result, the easy access the pond has been forced to endure has gone ...
No doubt the new blocking will be unblocked by challenged geeks in goodly time, but this is Australia Day, and all the reptiles had on offer was SloMo blathering on about how good it all is, and Dame Slap getting agitated about the pesky, difficult blacks.
The pond had already thought of taking the day off, and this sealed the deal.
It's too early in the morning for the pond to worry about being blocked, or to attempt to do something about it. Instead, the pond has decided to take the day off, and might well go on hiatus for a while, indefinitely or forever.
It goes without saying that the pond would rather tear out both eyes than toss the Chairman and son a shekel, but the pond will say it anyway. If the reptiles are unhappy with the pond insisting that people pay attention to them, the pond is extremely content to ignore them. The joke had long ago worn thin, and the pond had long ago grown tired of only having reptiles for company.
On the upside, this means that the reptiles have retreated further inside the castle, even deeper into their paranoia, and will spend their days more closely inspecting each other's navels.
The pond regards this as something of a personal triumph ... though no doubt there were many others who took the easy route to check out the daily loonery on parade ...
Meanwhile, the soft paywall at the Nine papers continues, which is why the pond insists that readers don't go away empty handed, but instead take a Wilcox with them ...
So the reptiles refused to be invaded on Invasion Day. Typical !
ReplyDeleteBut, butt, DP: "...and might well go on hiatus for a while, indefinitely or forever." What would I do with my days ? How will I find all those wondrous cartoons ? But then, as they say:
"I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, not the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all."
And there's no escaping that.
In the meantime, a little bit late, but:
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https://youtu.be/iHvKNgAuYVo
And just forever:
https://youtu.be/0y9PwWwsWoA
GB - thank you for those links. I had forgotten how many of the lines from Green Christmas' had become part of our cool conversation in my undergrad. days. Also reminded me of 'Elderly Man River', which has particular poignancy now that I apparently fall (walk?) into that demographic, at least for sections of the broadcast media.
ReplyDeleteI do have some Freberg amongst my CD collection, but I confess to having not listened to anything of his for years ... well, for decades really. But he surely did have a fine sense for cultural 'vernacular', didn't he.
ReplyDeleteBut oh my, Hugo Winterhalter !
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And a little light relief just for you, Chad:
https://youtu.be/qxYpQ-jMe44