our quote this week is from a reader: My linguist-builder friend Hugo swears this to be true …. heard first at Bunnings:
“We have deranged them” – we don’t stock/carry those any more
Now down to business.
Our first post of the week was also our very first sports post, from the Washington Post about a competitor in the Winter Olympics where, in elite sport nutrition is so important “Chocolate. Onion rings. Chips. We were chilling really hard. Then we fell asleep watching ‘Fight Club.’ Getting stoked, you know?” is how Sage Kotsenburg, UDS Gold Medalist prepared for his big day
This was followed by Tarquin O’Flaherty talking of the rise of ‘bogey-men’, from fascists to communists to Muslims. ” All this has served to do is provide American armament manufacturing with almost a hundred years of non-stop production.” He wrote in a piece title ‘Beef Huddled”.
Simon Jenkins for The Guardian apologises in advance to the Germans: ‘Germany, I apologise for this sickening avalanche of first world war worship. The festival of self-congratulation will be the British at their worst, and there are still years to endure. A tragedy for both our nations’. And Australia is outspending Britain in celebrations! a tragedy for Australia too, I fear.
Tarquin O’Flaherty returned taking up the cudgels in Man as Machine positing “If the new money had no sophistication, no education and no style it at least had the money to rectify these deficiencies.” This series is becoming a superb primer for today’s Politics 101
Friday saw a response to our posts regarding the re-arranging of history -The HMS Bismark(sic)!! as example – of last Wednesday and Thursday from our dispatchee who offered this from his father’s anecdotes: Amongst what the Germans had taken over when they invaded the Netherlands was the Pander factory…..
Our Dispatchee returned on Saturday with a chilling post. Napoleon is alleged to have said this: “Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence”. This post is as relevant today as it was when first published in 2010.
And Ira Maine rounded of the week with another Poetry Sunday gem. “Ogden Nash, as you can see, concerns himself with the great decisions that men are faced with every day of their lives; the advantages of procrastination, particularly with regard to household chores, the prepoceros rhinoceros, children’s partys and the disadvantages of kids in batches, being in the dog house, and, from his home in America, Mr Nash offers this advice regarding a particular Australian marsupial”
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Cheers
Cecil Poole