The pond has decided that it's deeply tired of the whining and wailing offered by the dog botherer's barking on a Saturday, and so it has reserved a late arvo slot where the noise will least disturb the neighbours ... though to be fair, when it comes to knowing about fraudulent hypocrisy, the assistant to Lord Downer in the matter of Iraq is an expert of the first water ...
The obvious point to make is that the more the dog botherer piles on the independents, the more obvious is the naked, all-devouring fear, but rather than joining in the pile-on, the pond would like to point out an alternative pleasure, arising as they do from an expert Captain's Pick ...
Splendid stuff, and even a lizard Oz reptile agitated, and so the pond could return to the ranting dog botherer with a smile on face ...
Indeed, indeed, though the pond would like to add a coda to that interstitial yarn ...
Say what? Talk about musical chairs and dropping the car keys into a bowl in an ice storm. By golly they do things differently in Warringah ...
And now back to the dog botherer, still ranting away ...
Yes, the more the dog botherer shouts and rails and cries to the heavens, the more desperate he sounds, along with the mug shots offered by the reptiles as evidence for the dog botherer's alarums ... that hankie in the pocket is a dead giveaway ...
By golly if the pond hadn't seen our Gracie go rogue earlier in the day, the pond might have wondered why the dog botherer was getting so wound up ... but wound up he is ... in full conspiracy mode, at high throttle ...
That's the dog botherer's idea of a joke? What a weirdo ... here, have a penguin and moo with pleasure ...
This is more the pond's idea of humour in play ... with the full yarn here ... and please forgive the pond for picking the yarn up at the end, with just the punchline ...
Yes, it's got absolutely nothing to do with the dog botherer or the independents or anything down under, except for our love of penguin suits ...
The pond just needed a break from the extremely tiresome dog botherer, a snowflake blathering on in a snowstorm, but now with just one gobbet of blather to go ...
"Mind you"?
Mind you, that makes the dog botherer sound like a character in a soap of the Coronation Street kind ...
"Mind you, they're so slow in that surgery, they could have me waiting all day but you will manage," the soap favourite remarked before running off.
Mind you, there's a quote for everything soap on the full to overflowing intertubes ... (and that's probably the first and last time the pond will ever link to the Express).
And now to the pond's ultimate heresy. The pond hates waste, and is there any greater waste imaginable than wasting a good Kudelka on the dog botherer? Well the Saturday Paper is already out and about, so what better way than to wrap up the late arvo slot?
How many "quiet Australians" do we think that Doggy Bov's loud and stinky flatus will bring to vote for $loMo ? How many people read him in the Murdoch press or watch/listen to him on Sky News After Dark ?
ReplyDeleteBut I am amused by his constant repetition of the theme that 'they are not independents because they won't tell us which party they are already committed to'. Now I'm sure all us quiet Australians remember that when Gillard was elected, she had a long, hard time to negotiate with the independents (Windsor, Oakeshott, Wilkie) before she got their agreement:
"In the weeks immediately following the election there was frenzied activity as both major parties sought to secure agreements with the independents and minor party MPs that would deliver the voting support on the floor of the House required for either major party to form and maintain government. Negotiations took place over 17 days, largely in the public spotlight. "
https://www.aph.gov.au/About_Parliament/Parliamentary_Departments/Parliamentary_Library/pubs/rp/rp1314/GillardGovernment
But then, we couldn't expect a retarded reptile to understand that the negotiations come after the election when the composition of the houses is known and serious commitments can be sensibly made, could we.
‘But it is the Constitution and our system of government that is committed to a binary arrangement - government or opposition.’
ReplyDeleteI worked with a few lawyers on a couple of aspects of the Constitution. They had studied law extensively, and worked in positions like Crown Solicitors, but I see now that all their book learning is of no significance compared to the Bovverer’s instinctive grasp of that document. Oh, if only we had been able to draw on his wisdom, and capacity for making snap decisions, how quickly we might have sorted out what became the Offshore Constitutional Settlement.
No doubt the Bov. thought for a few moments of making it even simpler - rather than ‘government or opposition’, we could have been told that it comes down to ‘government - the people that Rupert picks - and those of no account whatever.’
There could be scope for some interesting interpretation of the provision that ‘After the first general election, no Minister of State shall hold office for a longer period than three months unless he is or becomes a senator or member of the House of Representatives.’ So - take your pick of ‘presenters’ from Sky News to be presented to His Excellency to be sworn in as Prime Minister. Some long-serving senator is tapped on the shoulder to step down, and the new recruit replaces $loMo, but safe in the senate, away from those baying oiks on the wrong side of the Speaker (who is recognised in the Constitution).
Yes, I did have a pleasant red with my meal - why do you ask?
Well give us all the vital info then: vineyard and vintner, variety, year and any extra quirks that might be memorable.
DeleteSt Hallett Blackwell Shiraz, 2010. Might be just a tad past its absolute best, but I have no more bottles to compare it with, and suspect it is now above my usual 'price point'. I do have a glass of left, which might help me through Ms Ton-yee-nee's piece of Clayton's 'identity politics'
DeleteAh yes, a Barossa drop for a born 'crow-eater'. I tend to go more for a Tahbilk (at about half the price per bottle as your St Hallett) with maybe a Morris muscat for later).
DeleteGood choices GB. The Tahbilk reds tend to be overlooked against their Marsanne - our nearest Murphy stocks plenty of the Marsanne, but rarely their reds. I guess it is all down to 'marketing'. Also good to see Morris in there with other makers in producing classic muscats again. Classic 'Ton-yee-nee' is a taste yet to be acquired ;-)
DeleteYou obviously don't have a Dan Murphy nearby:
Deletehttps://www.danmurphys.com.au/product/DM_20279/tahbilk-shiraz
Now all I want is a pub with draft Asahi Black since the Half Moon Bay stopped. The best I've got now is Miyako Japanese in Southgate which has it in bottles. Still goes well with a Curry Tonkatsu Pork Don, though.