In which the reptiles limp into summer, and all that's left is the chance to stage a reptile war ...

 

The reptiles are winding down into the silly season - though to be fair, every month is silly season at the lizard Oz - and this weekend will see the last of the pond for the year, and meanwhile, already there are some notable figures that have gone AWOL ...

Yes, it's been a good two weeks since the pond has felt the need to red card petulant Peta, limping into summer somewhere else than the lizard Oz and now officially AWOL from the far right perch in the digital edition ... 

And in her place? News of bloody lobsters ...

Passing by the ABC story - always a willing victim of the potent Jewish lobby - the reptiles led off with energy stories and the pond was astonished to see a little note, an actual attempt at reporting below the main fear and loathing thrust of the digital edition ...

You might expect at least one of those hot links would have led to the report ... but they were, in the usual reptile bubble/hive mind way, links to reptile inhouse stories, like that old one by cackling Claire ...

If you wanted to get to the actual report, you had to head off to the CSIRO here ... but just the headlines were certain to send the reptiles into a summer frenzy ...

Shocking, now with new, improved costings, and still giving SMRs a hard time ...?

Well, it'll give the reptiles endless fodder for the silly season ...

Meanwhile, the pond is growing increasingly irritated by the silly mining ads now infesting YouTube ...

While in the search for light relief, here's another ...

What else was missing from the top of the reptile digital edition? 

Well both WaPo and the NY Times had that story involving the mango Mussolini at the top of their digital pages ...

The pond isn't worried, the deeply corrupt SCOTUS will take care of business ...

Good old Clarence,  but you'd think the reptiles might at least have noticed the fuss ...

The pond is sure it's going to be a good Xmas and new year, thanks to Faux Noise and the Chairman Emeritus ...

Sad to say, other grand and amusing stories also went missing from the lizard Oz ... here's just a couple of teaser trailers ...

What was left after all this?

Not much ... the lizard Oz editorialist still obsessed with the Lehrmann matter, nothing new to see there.

And the pond has always regarded Dimitri as a reptile second stringer hack and substitute player, so the season is right for him, and though the pond was mildly astonished at the notion that the fush and chups folk would warm to an Australian Labor-led federal government, the only amusement to hand left to the pond was to bung on a war of the reptiles...

The pond could have done this by indulging in one of its infamous cut and pastes but decided to play fair ...

First a heretic Prof, who for some bizarre reason, turned up near the top of the digital edition...

Shocking stuff, where's the bro when he's desperately needed?

Somebody needs to give this Prof a damned good, hard spanking ... how did he even get in the lizard Oz, spouting this sort of guff ...

But, billy goat prof butt, there's never been a war the reptiles haven't liked ...

The temptation to start the cut and paste here was strong, but the reptiles distracted the pond with a flurry of snaps ...

Stripped of terrifying shots, the Prof's piece was pretty thin gruel on the ground ...

What's this? No time for gunboat diplomacy, and blather about keeping Australian fuel safe and sound, where it's needed, in the US?

Heresy after heresy unfolded in front of the pond's disbelieving eyes ...

Sheesh, it was a relief to get to the final gobbet. What with the war on China by Xmas a fast-fading hope, a reptile dream, a noble bromancer vision,  couldn't we at least start a stoush with Iran?

The old Singapore routine? Luckily good old Shoe was standing by to put the quisling, lick-spittle fellow travelling Prof in his place.

Good old Shoe might not be the bromancer in peak fury, but there's never been a war the reptiles haven't loved, and good old Shoe was on hand to do the AWOL bro's work ...

Exactly. That put the Prof in his place. It's important to keep fuel flowing to safe storage in the US, just in case of an emergency and there's a need to break the glass.

Sock it to him, good old Shoe ...

Ah, the war in Gaza, the ethnic cleansing, the collective punishment, still going down ... the ceasefire vote delayed yet again, though you'll have to head off to the Graudian ... or to Al Jazeera, with the body count topping 20k, and who knows who many more in the rubble, along with what was once a fine gulag ...

Who wouldn't be roused to get involved with the killing fields.

Meanwhile, good old Shoe was helped out by the reptiles graphic department with shots of a villain and a GOP hero ...

Warning, in the middle of a war, the pond is inclined to use irony laced with sarcasm ... and now it should be obvious why the pond was tempted to put the warring good old Shoe up against the Prof ...

Valiant Seychelles ... but what will the bro make of this talk of having the Indo-Pacific as a priority? Surely we can head off for a romp in what the English call the middle east?

You know how the lizard Oz armchair generals love actual warfighting ... (yes, it's a reptile word fav) ...

Yippee, maybe not this Xmas, but we must be ready for a war with China by next Xmas. There's never been a war the reptiles haven't loved and wanted to be part of ...

Meanwhile, there was another item already forgotten by the reptiles, and barely noted in passing when it went down ... but for a reminder, you'll need the infallible Pope ...

And while in the Xmas spirit here's another ...

Not to distract from the message, but the pond hasn't thought of Ron Cobb since he directed a terrible 1992 comedy Garbo, unseen by all ...but in the spirt of the season, here's the reference...