As requested, the lizard Oz farewell to Anna, with bonus FAFO from the WSJ ...

 

As a correspondent expressed an interest in reading how the reptiles decided to treat a recently departed member of the extended clan.

There are other obits in other places, but this is how the hive mind saw off one of a string of spouses, it being said that the Emeritus Chairman so loved the sanctity of 'death do us part' marriage that he's tried it five times...

Enough already, let us farewell #@:

The pond will withhold any commentary. 

The tone is pretty clear, and people will be pleased to read that Anna didn't much like Australia, preferring the freedumb of the disunited States, no doubt a great relief to the emeritus chairman, who sold off his citizenship for a mess of Wall St pottage.

The piece was littered with snaps, which the pond has downsized ...

That's because it really is quite a long eulogy that's been put together by Jamie in a most sensitive and caring way ...

Then came two snaps suggesting fame by association, though perhaps hanging with Hawkie and with Diana isn't the most optimistic presentation of the joys of failed marriages...

Patience, there are still two gobbets to go, and two more snaps, with that reveal of disdain for down under about to come ...

Uh huh ...

And so mercifully to the final gobbet ...

The pond trusts this placates its corespondent, and regrets that it had to be relegated to a late Sunday arvo post, wherein the correspondent might well miss it ...

As for being judged for what you do, the pond couldn't help but throw in more signs that the Emeritus Chairman has gone the full FAFO, courtesy the WSJ ...

Not just one ... but here the pond must pause for a message from a man that the emeritus chairman did so much to help, and still helps on a daily basis via Faux Noise ...

That doesn't sound like what the WSJ was hoping for, but that's the art of FAFO...

You can celebrate the man, then put on a mocking mask, as the WSJ did in this one, presented here in two grabs...

And so ends the late arvo bonus, and so to end with more celebrations of life in the disunited States, with nutlickers never far from view ....