Friday, April 07, 2023

In which the pond is abandoned by the reptiles for Ēostre, and suggests herpetology students take an Ēostre break ...

 


The pond went to sleep last night with this stark, troubling reptile juxtaposition to hand and to eye...


 


A hearty dose of black bashing and mocking bigotry, and surprise at the result? 

Confusion and contradiction allegedly rule, when we all know that it's Judas wot done it?

The pond knew it would be better on the morrow, there would be a celebration of Ēostre, its spiritual significance, the spreading of the white civilisation balm, perhaps some talk of Thucydides and Cicero with the hole in the bucket man, and ...




Dammit, Ken and the quitting was still LIVE on the morrow, and the Judas hater glowered out at the pond, and there was bizarre blather about pardoning Trump by a """ Vivek...

But he was innocent, he wouldn't take the easy way out and accept a pardon. What would it do to the fund raising? 

And then there was that question of guilt. 

Even the pond knew that: After Ford left the White House in 1977, he privately justified his pardon of Nixon by carrying in his wallet a portion of the text of Burdick v. United States, a 1915 U.S. Supreme Court case where the dictum stated that a pardon carries an imputation of guilt and that its acceptance carries a confession of guilt. (wiki)

Sure the mango Mussolini was as guilty as hell warmed up, but the pond couldn't bear the thought of keeping Ēostre company with someone as stupid as Vivek ...

Good old Henry would be below the fold ...





Eek, the pond's Ēostre celebrations off to a terrible start. Re-heated petulant Peta, left over Jennings and Bromancer, the Mocker still braying bigotry ... and no bloody Henry.

The pond looked high and low for an Xian message and even scoured the front page of the tree killer edition for a clue ...




Nope,  the slack buggers hadn't even changed it from yesterday's rag and so the reptiles hadn't caught up with the news that Ken had left the playing field in protest ...

So this was Ēostre at the lizard Oz, bugger off, leave town and to hell with the mug punters that had forked over shekels to Chairman Rupert to stay up to date ... and it seems that talk of a Judas was so yesterday ...







Meanwhile, on another planet far from reptile la la land ...At least three senior Liberals pushed back against Indigenous voice opposition in shadow cabinet meeting, Exclusive: Simon Birmingham, Marise Payne and Paul Fletcher spoke out against plan as Julian Leeser proposed allowing MPs a free say

And what's this? Clarence Thomas faces impeachment calls after reports of undisclosed giftsAlexandria Ocasio-Cortez condemns ‘shocking corruption’ after ProPublica report details luxury items from top Republican donor.

Yes, it was all there in Clarence Thomas and the Billionaire, with lines such as For over 20 years, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas has been treated to luxury vacations by billionaire Republican donor Harlan Crow.

Images from Some Like It Hot flashed through the pond's mind ...

But the pond's supposed to enjoy a last supper of stale crackers with the slack lizard Oz crew?

Ah well, never mind, the pond accepts that at Ēostre time, herpetology students will take a break, abandon the pond, ruin its business model and run wild and free with a pagan goddess of their choice.

For those that still want something to study, here's a stale Killer cracker, and please, just for the record, note the date and time stamp ...





Desperate stuff. The pond never thought it would be caught saying that it yearned for some good old Freudian Killer fear of masks, and a dose of anti-vaxxing, but you could sense Killer sensing that he was just phoning it in, and there was only enough coins on hand for the STD charges to allow another gobbet ...

There was mouldy left over Jennings squawking away about AUKUS with an awk here and there...





And here was Killer ... as if recycling a press release was the answer ... or at least celebrating the poodle's new business model, what with all the pigs gathered at the trough ...




Dear sweet long absent lord, Killer quoting Jimbo in what used to be the Yarra socialist rag of the south? Has it come to this for Ēostre?

As for a bonus? The pond decided to turn bloody minded, because this was the tosh that the reptiles had borrowed from old Blighty, mother England, to fill up the pages ...





That looks terrible. A reptile attempt at whimsy with Keir showing off the fickle finger of fate ... and note the date and time stamp.

Yes, it was another bit of left over reheated stale hot X bun ...

Where was the fun?










But the pond had made its good Friday Ēostre bed, and perforce must lie in it ...






It was desperate stuff, and the reptiles knew it, and so they offered two very large snaps, which the pond shrank, it being better than shrinking kids in a movie ...








But take away the pics and what was left?

Perhaps a cartoon?








Nah, it's Ēostre, even the reptiles can't muster a decent dose of climate science denialism ... instead, whimsy of a Bertie Wooster kind is all the go ...







And that's how the pond will go this Ēostre, not with a bang but a whimper, and with a braying about the dying of the 'leet light ...








And so to a final gobbet but before it went there, the pond checked back in. No, the reptiles hadn't changed the front page of the tree killer edition, reminding the pond of the tradition of not killing trees on Xmas day and on Ēostre Friday, but yes, they had done an update of the top of the digital page ...





The bloody royals? That's the reptile answer to Ēostre? 


And look, down in the far right corner, there was a golden chance for some trans bashing gone begging ...

And what's this about Killer's alleged EXCLUSIVE only landing four minutes ago? Yes, that was the reason the pond asked students to note the date and time stamp ...

What a pack of lazy 'leet liars, what a bunch of slack arse reptile grifters...





What a waste. Ēostre as a time for both siderism Wooster waffle? And the hole in the bucket man passing over the chance to wax lyrical about Xianity!

From now on the pond will toss it's unbuttered Ēostre hot X bun in the air, and see what side it lands on ...

And now, having been abandoned by both the infallible Pope and the immortal Rowe, it's a hot chocolate for the pond, and a couple of cartoons to go ...






And in a desperate attempt to find an infallible Pope, this one popped up from the distant past, and it still seemed funny and relevant ... well at least relevant to one half of the conversation ...







5 comments:

  1. Thursday, and this Anony was in Perth heading for an early flight. The freeway was closed, Guildford was interesting and the Qantas flight was on time. Melbourne was wet and the Tullamarine slow. However, what a pleasure it was to read today that "petulant Peta (was) given her usual red card," yesterday. Thanks.

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  2. The elite are defined by legislation: if there is legislation applying to a class of people that requires them to do something, but there are no penalties prescribed, then that class is elite.

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  3. The times they are a-changin' so said somebody who might need just a teensy bit of being disconnected from his art. As this lady tried to do:
    https://youtu.be/1ST9TZBb9v8

    Anyway, went to a local cafe-lounge for large hot latte and fried chips, then next door to buy the Good Friday edition of the Melbourne Age, then off to another shopping centre for some gourmet cakes, and then home.

    None of which would have happened - or even been in any way legal - 50, 40, 30 maybe years ago. And there's a big AFL game on today, with proceeds going to the Children's Hospital Good Friday appeal which aims to raise more than 22 million dollars for Melbourne’s Royal Children’s Hospital.

    Yep, the times have already changed a lot, and they are a-changin' even more. Why, in a few more millennia, the human race might even become vaguely civilised.

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  4. From Amanda Marcotte at newsletters@salon.com "I’ve been mildly astonished at how many well-heeled pundits are tying themselves in knots over this, with their galaxy brain takes about how it’s somehow going to benefit Trump and/or hurt Biden. It’s a view that’s especially hard to square with how sad and tired Trump looked in the photos. Most Americans already hate him and this is not going to change their minds. Pundits are supposedly smart people, but they are getting wrapped around the axle simply because a second rate grifter is telling obvious lies about how happy he is about all this. "

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    1. ‘Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall’. Proverbs 16:18.

      Just thought I'd throw that in on Easter Friday.

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