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BlackIvory
13 years ago
Dear Professor Dr Mr FirstDog. Who is Belinda Gibney?
Dear FD. Your score
(1)For inventing Alan Bolt… -10,000 points.
(2)For NOT drawing the giant tapeworm… -100,000 points
{Demerits to be equally shared between cartoonist and editor.}
(3)For offering up Rebecca Gibney instead of Catriona Rowndtree as the sacrificial vestal virgin…. -1,000,000,000 points.
Your prize…..A month’s hard labour at the Bob Brown Memorial Daintree Logging festival.
zut alors
13 years ago
Firsty, the other greatest threat to the planet and This Once Great Nation is pig-ignorance. Read on…
My suburb is scheduled to get the NBN this year. Last week digging equipment, trucks, bobcats and traffic control staff suddenly invaded the street. Trying to skirt my around this confusion on a morning walk I approached one of the traffic control blokes and, in high anticipation, asked, “Is this the NBN!?”
He frowned and peered at me, “The WHAT…?”
“The National Broadband Network”, I enunciated clearly lest he was hard of hearing, “The N-B-N.”
“Naaah, it’s Telstra.”
That man votes.
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Dear Professor Dr Mr FirstDog. Who is Belinda Gibney?
Are you, perchance, referring to:
http://blogs.abc.net.au/canberra/2009/05/i-still-call-qu.html
Firstdog’s been reading the “Rooted” blog again :).
Uh-oh, my secret life as a giant tapeworm is over.
Dear FD. Your score
(1)For inventing Alan Bolt… -10,000 points.
(2)For NOT drawing the giant tapeworm… -100,000 points
{Demerits to be equally shared between cartoonist and editor.}
(3)For offering up Rebecca Gibney instead of Catriona Rowndtree as the sacrificial vestal virgin…. -1,000,000,000 points.
Your prize…..A month’s hard labour at the Bob Brown Memorial Daintree Logging festival.
Firsty, the other greatest threat to the planet and This Once Great Nation is pig-ignorance. Read on…
My suburb is scheduled to get the NBN this year. Last week digging equipment, trucks, bobcats and traffic control staff suddenly invaded the street. Trying to skirt my around this confusion on a morning walk I approached one of the traffic control blokes and, in high anticipation, asked, “Is this the NBN!?”
He frowned and peered at me, “The WHAT…?”
“The National Broadband Network”, I enunciated clearly lest he was hard of hearing, “The N-B-N.”
“Naaah, it’s Telstra.”
That man votes.