Tim Blair

Interesting point... though you could say the same of every Prime Minister. The whingers are silent for the first Prime Ministerial term, then during the second term, they start grumbling about this or that policy.
By the time the third term rolls around, they have got all steamed up and will state, without batting an eyelid, that 'this is the worst prime minister in Australia's history' or 'this is the worst government in Australia's history'.
At least, that's the way it looks to me sometimes...

With enemies like these, who needs friends?

Hey you got a good mention in boday's Herald-Sun by Andrew Bolt. "(O)ne of our best internet bloggers".

Um, and todays as well...

In what possible universe is David Flint not a member of the "élite" class?

You better get your head and your ass wired together or I will take a giant shit on you.

So Philip Adams is to John Howard as Alastair Campbell is to Tony Blair. Let's put together a new Cabinet:

Foreign Affairs: John Pilger
Defence: Noam Chomsky
Treasury: Kenneth Davidson
Immigration & Multicultural and Indigenous Affairs: Robert Manne
Attorney General: Slater & Gordon (outsourced)
Employment & Workplace Relations: Martin Kingham
Family & Community Services: Justice Sir Michael Kirby
More please.

Top answer, Ram! Go to the head of the class!

It's a hardball world, son. We've got to try to keep our heads until this peace craze blows over.

I am touched by your concern for David Flint and your learned defence of same.

Don't you love your country?

What country is that? "David Flint"?

I think I was trying to suggest something about the duality of man, sir.

So how about getting with the program? Why don't you jump on the team and come on in for the big win?

Agreed. Whatever demeans the country of David Flint demeans me.

What is "the big win"? Is that when you "take a giant shit on" me? I haven't confounded shit with gold since my (mostly successful) toilet training.

Son, all I've ever asked of my Marines is for them to obey my orders as they would the word of God. We are here to help the Vietnamese because inside of every gook there is an American trying to get out.

Chuck Fraser in with that lot and you have a pack of jealous, sad, pathetic losers. Go J.H., you good thing!

I don't remember David Flint in *Full Metal Jacket*. Perhaps he was only an extra.

Now answer my question or you'll be standing tall before the man.

Are you sure you weren't looking for imdb.com?

In an ideal world, every person who used the phrase "go, you good thing" would be dragged to the nearest wall and shot (in the case of Chris Handy, with multiple bullets).

What's that supposed to be, some kind of sick joke?

ilibcc, shouldn't that be Dame Michael Kirby ?

I wish I had some of Ram's drugs. All I've got is Coopers draught.

The duality of man. The Jungian thing, sir.

What is it with pesky dead bastards and these message pages? First a long deceased singer from Akka Dakka, now the message board is being haunted by Jed Clampett.
These buggers seem to be like socialist theory; dead, but too stupid to just lie there and rot.

You better get your head and your ass wired together or I will take a giant shit on you.

Ram's got it going on! Mouse over the address on his messages for the secret coded comment! It's almost like being in the Scouts!

On the subject of the Phat Phuck and his coterie of jabbering jackanapes, if they didn't exist, who would we have to rail against and poke fun at?
We would have to go back to leading worthwhile lives.

Yeah. Well spotted, Buddy Ebsen.

All my posts were from this ONE scene in "Full Metal Jacket"...

The greatest single movie scene ever...

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Colonel: Marine, what is that button on your body armor?

Sergeant Joker: A peace symbol, sir.

Colonel: Where'd you get it?

Joker: I don't remember, sir.

Colonel: What is that you've got written on your helmet?

Joker: 'Born To Kill,' sir.

Colonel: You write 'Born To Kill' on your helmet and you wear a peace button. What's that supposed to be, some kind of sick joke?

Joker: No, sir.

Colonel: What is it supposed to mean?

Joker: I don't know, sir.

Colonel: You don't know very much, do ya?

Joker: No, sir.

Colonel: You better get your head and your ass wired together or I will take a giant shit on you.

Joker: Yes, sir.

Colonel: Now answer my question or you'll be standing tall before the man.

Joker: I think I was trying to suggest something about the duality of man, sir.

Colonel: The what?

Joker: The duality of man. The Jungian thing, sir.

Colonel: Who's side are you on, son?

Joker: Our side, sir.

Colonel: Don't you love your country?

Joker: Yes, sir.

Colonel: So how about getting with the program? Why don't you jump on the team and come on in for the big win?

Joker: Yes, sir.

Colonel: Son, all I've ever asked of my Marines is for them to obey my orders as they would the word of God. We are here to help the Vietnamese because inside of every gook there is an American trying to get out. It's a hardball world, son. We've got to try to keep our heads until this peace craze blows over. (salutes)

Joker: (salutes) Aye aye, sir.

How many posts up did I mention this film? See if you can count them.

>> "How many posts up did I mention this film? See if you can count them."

How many EXTRA posts did I make before I decided to let it be known to all? See if you can count them.

How many posts did I make before you understood the joke? See if you can count them.

How many reasons can you give for me to have IMMEDIATELY congratulated you for working it out? See if you can count them.

Strangely, it took me a little minute to work out that I was talking to a chatbot rather than a real person.

Son, we live in a world that has walls, and those walls have to be guarded by men with guns. Who's gonna do it? You? You, Buddy Ebsen?

It's nice outside, why don't you two go out in the sunshine?

David Flint and I are on barricade shift this evening. Hoping for clear weather.

See, this thread remind sme why I am addicted to this bloody blog. I always got a chuckle out of yer old gig, Tim, but since you got the active comments rolling, it's become the funniest thing on the circuit.Who needs standup?

I would rather you just said "thank you" and went on your way. Otherwise I suggest you pick up a weapon and stand a post. Either way, I don't give a damn what you think you are entitled to.

That's the problem- a lot of the punters on the string are incapable of standing up.

A few good Men.

YOu missed the best part:

"We use words like honor, code, loyalty. We use them as the backbone of a life spent defending something we believe in. You use them as a punchline. I have neither the time nor the inclination to explain myself to a man who rises and sleeps under the blanket of the very freedom that I provide and then questions the manner in which I provide it"

"Clemenceau said war was too important to be left to the generals. When he said that... he might have been right. But today, war is too important to be left to politicians. They have neither the time, the training, nor the inclination for strategic thought. I can no longer sit back and allow Communist infiltration, Communist indoctrination, Communist subversion and the international Communist conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids."  

Big Ramifications that is contagious.

And ZsaZsa you are not my sister! You are my lover! Don't worry what Mum and Dad say! What do parents know about anything?

Oops I just checked a few other posts and realised that is your actual address.

Um.

Oh, don't worry.

>> "YOu missed the best part:"

Best part schmest part.

You don't want the truth because, deep down in places you don't talk about at parties, you want me on that wall, you need me on that wall.

I never minded this part. This is from A Few Good Men, isn't it?:

Oh...Oh god...Ooo Oh God...Oh...Oh...Oh...Oh God...Oh yeah right there
Oh! Oh...Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes...Oh...Oh...Yes Yes Yes....Oh...Yes Yes Yes
Yes Yes Yes...Oh...Oh... Oh... Oh God Oh... Oh... Huh...

(Sally finishes, looks at Harry and smiles. Harry looks back, looking a
little uneasy)

I know this is OT but I got one of those cool letters from John Howard too. All the way to Beaverton, Oregon from the PM's office. It was very cool, especially since I had long since forgotten the (quite good, if I may say so) email I sent his way during the too-long period Australia was the only nation with its shit together enough to stand proud with us.

/emotional tone

I love you guys, I really, really do.

/emotional tone

"Family & Community Services: Justice Sir Michael Kirby"
What have you got against Kirby? As a person who has had to read a lot of his cases, i can tell you i think he is the country's best judge, and he is currently quite conservative (as opposed to his earlier years as a reformist). Explain yourself.

But if this is because he is gay, shut the hell up. On your logic maybe we should never have a black treasurer because he would steal all the money?

Yeah, a real conservative- that's why he awarded those hillbillies a poultice for having a healthy child.
I don't know what Fatty Callinan was on, though;
If they were entitled to anything, at most it should have been for pain and suffering during the preganancy and the cost of a termination- if they didn't want the kid, they could have had an abortion. I couldn't care less if Kirby enjoyed frottage with fish- he is a pillock on the bench.

Yes I'm very surprised and disappointed about Sir Ian Callinan also. But as he's not gay, I am unable to lampoon him, based on Rohan's logic.

I'm lobbying to have Antonin Scalia brought out on a permanent exchange program with one of ours.

I accept Ms Devine's (sounds a tag drag queen) central argument. Even as a bit of a leftie feminut I feel inclined to join the Liberals every time someone of the ilk of that law bloke (Julian Burnside is that his name?) and his Mrs open their yap about how crap Australia is. However, is she implying that right-wing commentators in this country are brave, imaginative types with a close connection to what 'the people' think?. Piers "Folkhero" Akerman - fighting for justice, truth and the Australian way. I think not.

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she's right there- it's possible that Burnside QC is in fact a bigger twat than Kirby J. but at least the whiny git (and his vaccuum-headed clothes-horse of a wife for that matter) aren't on the High Court bench.

I just lost all trust in Darlene- I popped over to her site, and she thinks Peter Beattie is "cool".
Certainly in comparison to the best of the incompetent cretins on his front bench, Beattie stands out like a pillar of light; unfortunately, this is like finding the only leper with a partially functional limb in a lazerette stocked to the gunnells with limbless sufferers of Hansens disease. Beattie has made a lot of us consider rescuing Joh Bjelke Petersen from his maximum security twilight home- his regime might have been corrupt fascists, but at least they weren't sanctimonious as well.
Petey-poo wouldn't be cool in you gave him a liquid nitrogen enema.

A while ago, I came up with a hypothetical 'crap coalition' of people who I never wanted to see in government. They were:

P.M. - Natasha Stott Despoja
Treasurer - Bob Brown
Foreign affairs minister - Osama bin Laden (in the interests of cultural sensitivity, and all that)
Minister for Families - Fred Nile
Minister for Media - Josef Goebbels
Minister for Education - Stan Zemanek

Fred Nile would be good.