Tim Blair

Could've been worse- he could've said "you're a bit of a porker, ain'tcha? Better give the chips a swerve, tubby, or you'll wind up looking like Kim Beasley".

There's a few more- "Phew! Don't get many of them to the pound!"

"Imagine that fartin' in your last bag of flour"

And on a milled grain theme- "Jeebus! You'd have to roll her in flour to find a wet spot."

"Any wrinkle above the knee, eh darlin"

Now you know why I'm not running for office.

I was vaguely bothered by the Kelly article in that I felt like I was reading a very masterful spin to correct Latham's incompetence in security. First we are reminded that Latham has values and philosophy and that this boy is going to stand up for us. We have got the minders Beazley and Rudd driving it. Then Kelly called it a convergence but noted that the Coalition had always been strong on the SE Asia region. So what is the coalition moving to. Looked more to me like a major flip for Latham and possibly laying the groundwork for a change on the Xmas thing.

Hey Habib, that humour will never get you elected in Fortitude Valley, but you'd be a shoo-in in Gympie.

Ahhhh, the old fat/pregnant lady faux pas. I love the classics.

WARNING. UNSAVOURY COMMENT FOLLOWS!
Habib,
How about
* A punch in the guts and ride the waves in.
* Looks like a stomach with a lady growing off the back

*** Disclaimer ***
I'm allowed to say that on account of I'm a fat bastard. Same as how wogs are allowed to say wog.

Habib,

It's like a moped: Fun to ride but you wouldn't want your mates to see you on one!

Re electability: I used to figure I'd blown it but between Bush's drinking and Clinton's lecher act, I might have half a chance!

It’s just a hunch, but I believe Latham will remain younger than Howard right throughout this entire campaign.

Well, if all of this time travel/Killian memo nonsense keeps up, we can't take anything for granted.

Just think, though: the highlight of the election run will be Mark Latham fading slowly out of the public view as he negates his own existence.

I used to have this dress called a "trapeze dress." (I have no idea why, it was entirely unsuited for activity on a trapeze, but mine is not to question the wisdom of fashion designers.) It was sort of triangle-shaped -- I can't really describe it, let's just say that it gave the illusion of me having more to my stomach and hips area than I had at the time. Well, I can't tell you the number of hapless people, men and women, who congratulated me on my impending due date.

As I recently had the opportunity to actually watch Margo speak on TV recently (here in WA), and apart from her inability to restrict her locution to her mouth (I have rarely come across any individual that spontaneously gives you a complimentary exhibition of sign language at the same time) I gained the impression she was typical for the media described in Bernard Goldberg's two books "Bias" and "Arrogance".

A relative told me that she reads the Guardian and thinks it is unbiassed, as are the Los Angeles Times and the NY Times, and knowning for whom she works, (Margo works for the same organisation), finally proved to me that Goldberg was correct. The leftwing media have an extremely narrow, restricted view of reality that the rest of us don't inhabit.

So Margo's inability to actually work out that impugning the Zionists as the puppet masters behind the US and Oz media is, apart from being wrong, is also anti-semitic only proves she only thinks with a few ideas.

She would be best described as a typical Goldbergian Media Type - left-wing, naive, generally stupid, but very glib and a case study in secular fundamentalism.

I learned the *very hard* way never to assume someone is pregnant just because they appear to be large in a certain area. There is no graceful way to recover when you make such a mistake.

The only way I'd assume someone were pregnant is if the woman went into labor in front of me. ONLY THEN would I feel safe assuming a pregnancy I had no prior knowledge of. (I upset a woman by assuming a pregnancy and she let me know how insulted she was.) I bet Howard will never make that mistake again either.

" The leftwing media have an extremely narrow, restricted view of reality that the rest of us don't inhabit."

It's amazing how narrow the leftwing media, and people, are and also how closed minded. Yet they can't see it. Far rightwing (I don't mean Conservatives or the 'religious right' ) people can also be just like the leftwing in terms of being narrow and closed minded.

I happen to be a combination of Liberal and Conservative on many issues. I have talked to people on both sides about issues. There are very reasonable people on both ends. It's the lunatic fringe on both ends who live in a different world from the rest of us. Unfortunately for the Liberals, the lunatic fringe of Lefties seems to have hijacked even the term Liberal.

It's the Lefties, not the true classic Liberals, and who dominate our media. They don't understand any worldview but their own and they want to force their views on the rest of us.

(Also by Liberal I mean the classic definition of Liberal. Not any political party.)

gaffe?

russia, a fortnight ago, scores of children dead

gaffe?

indonesia, five year old australian girl in intensive care, may not survive

gaffe?

madam, you're pregnant, congratulations!

gaffe?

That Margo quote is suspect - its too lucid.

One is tempted to check the kerning and superscripts, as it appears to have been generated at a homos sapiens level of evolution, rather than homo margo.

Or perhaps she finally succeeded in freeing the brains?

First rule in life is to never, ever, ever tell a woman you think she's pregnant unless a baby is coming out of her at that moment.
I learned that when I was 10. It's kept my foot out of my mouth on many occasions. Even if she is pregnant she won't like to hear that you can tell from her big belly.

The correct answer to the question ``Are you pregnant?'' when you're not, is a polite smile and a ``No, I'm just fat.'' Guaranteed to embarrass the asker far more than the askee.

Andrea, I remember trapeze dresses from the first time around (mid Sixties) - triangular, no waist, usually no sleeves, about as flattering as a circus tent no matter what your shape. Don't tell me someone's bring them back?

They were back briefly in the late eighties, or at least that's when I bought mine. I don't know what I was thinking.

I might be getting awful hopeful here but given the recent class warfare policies on schools and his announcement that he would be apologising to the "stolen generation" is it just possible that Mark Latham knows that he is unlikely to win and is appealing to the left base to make sure that at least the heartland/senate seats do not go Green?

> Bush is being used by the Jews. The Jews are the
> most evil men in the world.

I could not disagree with this quote more strongly!

After all, some of the evil Jews are women...

I'm a Zionist, and I'm out to getcha.
Out to getcha, out to getcha...

(If there isn't a song like that, there should be!!)

Nick Leys would have liked Howard to respond:
"Falling down on the job, are we, darlin? So, when are ya gunna pump out another Liberal voter? Listen, hon, do you your duty for the Party: just lie back and think of Oz".