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ANOTHER CORRECTION
At least this time it wasn’t my fault:
Hi Tim,
As flattered as I was to be included in your quotes of the year, I should point out that I didn’t actually write the line about the “unprecedented attack by two aircraft”. It was written by Robin Oliver in his review of The Falling Man. The mistake is entirely the Herald’s. Robin’s byline dropped off the end of the original review so the website attributed it to me, as it appeared on the same page as my previews.
Cheers,
Greg Hassall
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I miss all the good stuff :/
It’s a conspiracy, I tells yeh!!Have you learned nothing from, Mike Hudson? The facts matter, Mr Blair, no matter how much it suits your point of view to ignore them.
Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2006 12 19 at 09:20 PM • permalinkThey then all enjoyed a night of Viennese opera and dined on strudel while wearing lederhosen.
Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2006 12 19 at 09:26 PM • permalink1.618 - Dumping Tim Blair for me, would be like dumping Jayne Mansfield for Paris Hilton. It’s a step down in class kid.
Paco however…
Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2006 12 19 at 09:45 PM • permalinkTim—drop the last “/” from your link to fix it.
Excellent selection of quotes! Nice being reminded of so many self-centered and/or ignorant fools out there. Mostly on the left, but not entirely.
My money on this for the best quote of the year:
“Keep away from the Australian women or else you will end up in prisons.” – Uganda’s sports director to his country’s athletes
But I’d be equally happy if this won:
“What a great country. Why isn’t it in the G8 and a permanent member of the Security Council?” – visiting US-based journalist Mark Steyn hails Australia
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2006 12 19 at 09:57 PM • permalinkPaco-regarding #7, I finished the Biggins books.
They were pretty good-very funny in places-but Prohaska was not an Aubrey or Hornblower (though few are).
The best part was in “The Two-Headed Eagle” when they were going to use a mixed Austrian and Hungarian firing squad to execute a man (so that the honor of each nation was satisfied) and they had to try and figure out how to give the order to fire without insulting either nation, so they decided to use French (really, I know it sounds macabre, but it is hilariously funny in the book and it ends well).
Thanks for the tip.
“Keep away from the Australian women or else you will end up in prisons.” –
Uganda’s sports director to his country’s athletesShow me a man in one of Australia’s prisons who wouldn’t agree with this statement.
Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2006 12 19 at 10:03 PM • permalink#10- we used to but we’ve traded them in for forks
if crocodile dundee were made today the mugger would pull a fruit fork on hoges
hoges would reply ‘thats not a fork’ whipping the pitchfork out from behind his back ‘you’re forked sunshine’
Posted by eeniemeenie on 2006 12 19 at 10:17 PM • permalink#17 - Yeah, I swore I was never going to drink again on 1/1/2006. I’d cut n’ run from that statement by about midday.
Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2006 12 19 at 10:34 PM • permalinkSchwarzenegger is Austrian? Where’d he get that weird accent from then?
Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2006 12 19 at 10:38 PM • permalink#19 is it my surfing lederhosen that gave me away?
Posted by eeniemeenie on 2006 12 19 at 11:18 PM • permalinkO/T jokes of the year….my favourite for 2006 (the more so for being raised a Kiwi) would have to be:
An eskimo takes a few weeks off and holidays in the South Island of New Zealand. Breaks down in the middle of nowhere. Passing farmer stops, has a look at his car.
‘You’ve blown a seal, mate,’ the farmer says eventually.
‘So what?’ the eskimo shoots back. ‘You fuck sheep.’Hohoho
#12: Oh, no, dear fellow! Mrs. Paco is broadminded, but not as broadminded as that. I wouldn’t dream of interfering. As they say, “May the best man win.” You’re the winner. I, regretfully, resume my place among the other losers among the lowing herd.
#14: I’m glad you liked the books, 91B30. Personally, one of my favorite scenes was the near-terminal episode of flatulence aboard the U-Boat.
#17:So, did any right-wingers make silly comments this year?
Do you mean well-known ones, or people like me who are unknown outside the precincts of Tim Blair’s Comment Academy? I assume you mean the former. Good question. But I’ve essentially given up reading newspapers and magazines, and the only television I watch is : (a) old movies, and (b) medical shows (Mrs. Paco is fond of those things; nothing like forking a big mouthful of mashed potatoes up to your gob at dinner right about the time they wheel some fellow into the emergency room with a tree branch through his neck). Where was I? Oh, yes; I’m a little out of touch with many of your better known political columnists and commenters these days, so I don’t know what kind of floaters may have been made by righties.
#13: then you’ll need a Russian woman to get you out.
#23 ROTFL! Finally, a good multicultural joke.
Posted by andycanuck on 2006 12 20 at 12:43 AM • permalink#14 91B30 that sounds like something Tom Sharpe would write. If you’ve not read any of his, you’re in for a treat. His books set in South Africa (Riotous Assembly and Indecent Exposure) keep me in hysterics every time I read them.
They are usually pretty easy to find, too.
handy info herePosted by Nilknarf Arbed on 2006 12 20 at 01:11 AM • permalinkMiranda Divide will never post again if this keeps up.
Journalistic integrity and boredom versus typical MSM slackness and vapid comments bordering on the inane.
God, what a decision….....
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2006 12 20 at 01:16 AM • permalinkCoach (#23) I am so stealing that joke. Ripper.
Local pub is having a “Kiwi Night” next week. (DB, guitars, beer garden rugby, etc)
I will be wearing my swiftest Nike running shoes.
Posted by Pedro the Ignorant on 2006 12 20 at 05:41 AM • permalinkOn the subject of SMH and corrections, this plonker is still proudly displaying his prestigious blog award with the name of his nation mis-spelled.
Posted by Margos Maid on 2006 12 20 at 06:31 AM • permalink
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