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Webdiary is open for business, minus retiree Margo. Check out the ad they’re currently running.

Posted by Tim B. on 12/14/2005 at 05:11 PM
  1. You…..have…...to…...be…...kidding…..its moments like these one needs a lot more than just a mintie….

    Posted by Louis on 2005 12 14 at 06:39 PM • permalink

  2. Yeesh.  That would make me want to read, for sure… Well, no, that would make me want to run screaming.

    Posted by RebeccaH on 2005 12 14 at 06:41 PM • permalink

  3. AAAAIIIIIIIIEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!

    Looks like a creature of legend from this part of America......after serious facial removal surgery.

    Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2005 12 14 at 06:45 PM • permalink

  4. Sorry, that should be “... facial HAIR removal surgery…”

    Although maybe the original is appropriate as well…..

    Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2005 12 14 at 06:46 PM • permalink

  5. O/T does anyone remember Spek

    well he has now made his own blog

    http://spek1.blogspot.com/

    Something tells me he may not like me, and that this could lead to fun in the future given his last cameo

    Posted by Mospact on 2005 12 14 at 07:12 PM • permalink

  6. THE HORROR
    THE HORROR

    Posted by ausdiplomad on 2005 12 14 at 07:23 PM • permalink

  7. I can see where Margo get her looks from, ... Hey maybe we should put Margo’s mum, and Margo for that matter on hot or not. Let the people decide, that’s what democracy is all about ... right? …

    Posted by Mospact on 2005 12 14 at 07:31 PM • permalink

  8. It’s really sweet in a “Whatever Happened to Baby Jane” sort of way.

    Posted by jgm on 2005 12 14 at 07:36 PM • permalink

  9. I’m stunned. Margolia has morphed into the Oceania Institute of Nepotism.

    And if someone can get a comment through, tell them the cult worship thing will go on much better if she would bathe and brush out that stringy hair. A bit of digital blur wouldn’t hurt either.

    Come on, do it for Mum. She’s picking up the tab for the hot water and lights anyway.

    Posted by HelenW on 2005 12 14 at 07:37 PM • permalink

  10. #5: How appropriate that spek has chosen the same colour template as the Iraq War Wrong spoof blog.

    I just love his intro: “I’m pretty new to letter writing…” Why am I reminded of clueless college kids getting their first internet connection and proceeding to infest Usenet, circa 1992?

    Posted by PW on 2005 12 14 at 07:42 PM • permalink


  11. “That ain’t no woman! It’s a man, man!”

    Posted by joe bagadonuts on 2005 12 14 at 07:57 PM • permalink

  12. #10

    i’ve set up a new section on “the attention brick” called “pet moonbats” and spek is the 1st . i can’t wait for his future posts.

    i sence alot of fun

    Posted by Mospact on 2005 12 14 at 07:58 PM • permalink

  13. #12
    Well if you’re going to keep one as a pet, Mospact, you’d better make sure you keep it fed and clean up after him.

    After all a pet is for life, not just for Christmas.

    ;-)

    —Nora

    Posted by The Thin Man Returns on 2005 12 14 at 08:34 PM • permalink

  14. #13 lol, ... do i have to feed him? (thinks to self) i wonder what moon bats eat?

    Maybe he could be more of a pinata. i don’t mind cleaning up after those.

    I mean i wouldn’t want to have to spend a night in the woods because i tried to dispose of him.

    Posted by Mospact on 2005 12 14 at 08:43 PM • permalink

  15. #14 Well, you know how Andrea has a big sign up that says “Do Not Feed The Trolls”? When you have your own pet moonbat, you need to feed them regularly - so keep up with what you were doing earlier this week.

    But if you have to get rid of him, make sure you do it humanely or give him to a good home.

    DO NOT, under any circumstances, try to flush him down the toilet.

    —Nora

    Posted by The Thin Man Returns on 2005 12 14 at 08:49 PM • permalink

  16. #15 thanks Nora, except now i have this strange image of spek sliding clockwise around the toilet bowl.

    Also have we decided yet whether a slug to the head is a human death? ....

    Posted by Mospact on 2005 12 14 at 09:01 PM • permalink

  17. #15 Nora & 14 Mospact - that’s right, don’t get them wet, and whatever you do, don’t feed them after midnight…...

    Posted by SezaGeoff on 2005 12 14 at 09:01 PM • permalink

  18. Well, I for one think it’s very nice that Margo and Hamish’s mom purchased an advertisement to wish them well.  A very sweet thing to do.

    But I do also wonder if Margo has one, just one decent photo to post.  It might go a long way to lending a bit of credibility to the blog, even though Margo has left it.  Doesn’t she have a nice high school senior class picture?  A prom picture?  A strip of zany snap shots from the $3 for three photos booth at the mall? 

    In 46 years on earth she doesn’t have one good photo?

    Posted by wronwright on 2005 12 14 at 09:03 PM • permalink

  19. so one has told me yet what moon bats eat?...

    Posted by Mospact on 2005 12 14 at 09:05 PM • permalink

  20. I just went to spek’s blog and read Nick and Nora’s comment.  They had a photo above it.  The photo was of William Powell and Myrna Loy.

    They’ve used that photo before, I believe at the fake Margo blog.  I always thought that was them.  Quite a dashing looking couple.  Quite debonair.

    I can be an absolute dunderhead sometimes.

    (I also thought arbed nilknarf was possibly an Arabic name).

    Posted by wronwright on 2005 12 14 at 09:09 PM • permalink

  21. Oh Moonbats. That’s easy. They absolutely love to consume bullshit.

    But you gotta feed them the pure stuff - unadulterated by facts or even factoids.

    Posted by monkeyfan on 2005 12 14 at 09:14 PM • permalink

  22. i just did a google image serch of Margolia and this is what i found... there is something not quite right about this or this

    but she does look better as a man

    back to my sugestion of putting margolia on hot or not. we could do some sort of experiment, listing her simultaneously as a man and a woman, and see which one gets a higher score on, my money is Man

    Posted by Mospact on 2005 12 14 at 09:20 PM • permalink

  23. #21 ROFL

    Posted by Mospact on 2005 12 14 at 09:21 PM • permalink

  24. #20 The photo was of William Powell and Myrna Loy.

    No, wronwright, it’s Nicky and I - the similarity is striking though.

    ;-)

    —Nora

    Posted by The Thin Man Returns on 2005 12 14 at 09:26 PM • permalink

  25. Horrific internet imagery is covered by the new anti-terror laws. I hope. I sincerely hope. Pretty please pretty please PLEASE GOD MAKE IT SO! hope.

    Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2005 12 14 at 09:43 PM • permalink

  26. O/T I posted today on the Herald Sun’s site (Link here) is an article by Prof Rob Watts (head of the social science program at RMIT). Watts says when referring to the an opening to the debate in which he acknowledged the traditional custodians of the land he was just complying with the “law of the land”.

    What law?

    Posted by lingus4 on 2005 12 14 at 10:08 PM • permalink

  27. I think this would make a nicer image for the front page.

    Posted by Dan Lewis on 2005 12 14 at 10:34 PM • permalink

  28. I now understand what the opposite of porn is.

    Posted by captain on 2005 12 14 at 10:40 PM • permalink

  29. #22. Put up a warning first! Lucky for my keyboard I don’t drink coffee!

    Posted by Nilknarf Arbed on 2005 12 14 at 10:49 PM • permalink

  30. Yuk! When too much information is just too much ..... What a bleeping mess.

    Posted by Gravelly on 2005 12 14 at 11:03 PM • permalink

  31. I think in fairness, the ad is for appearance and placement purposes- so new advertisers (there will be those right?) can see where the ad will be… right?

    Why did Crikey work and Webdiary fail: discuss :P

    MUI

    Posted by MUI on 2005 12 14 at 11:09 PM • permalink

  32. O/T spek has put up a new post,

    For some time now the Lebanese in Sydney have suffered heavy handed policing similar to that applied to Aboriginal people in country towns throughout the state - not only has this not achieved anything except making these communities feel under siege but has also increased the level of resentment leading to further boisterous behavior in public places and continued the cycles of division in the community.

    needless to say i object,

    i left a good comment on his page , worth a read especially in relation to his attempt to link with the aboriginal comunity.

    Posted by Mospact on 2005 12 14 at 11:11 PM • permalink

  33. #32—Cripes, every time I decide that the moonbats couldn’t possibly depart further from reality, they prove me wrong.

    Posted by Evil Pundit on 2005 12 14 at 11:25 PM • permalink

  34. Webdiary contributor Richard Tonkin thinks Halliburton is pulling the strings again:

    “Twelve hundred paratroopers are being moved to Adelaide.  The paratroopers, currently based at Holsworthy in NSW (where they’re building new barracks)  are being moved to Adelaide to form the Second Mechanised Battalion. The First Mechanised Battalion is at the other end of the Halliburton-controlled railway line in Darwin…Jesus Wept.  How many pieces of the jigsaw do we need?”

    Why sure, it all fits!

    Posted by slammer on 2005 12 14 at 11:26 PM • permalink

  35. #34: Halliburton-controlled railway line in Darwin = true! lol

    Posted by Lucky Nutsacks on 2005 12 14 at 11:34 PM • permalink

  36. #28
    Captain, What a classic.
    Only aggressive cosmetic surgery could cure that, even then she’d probably be referred to a proctologist.

    Posted by Hank Reardon on 2005 12 14 at 11:35 PM • permalink

  37. Real_Jeffs, the face removal is the better of the two. Because, after all, what is a face if you can’t look at it without having a shout at the carpet?

    Mospact, since spek was kind enough to give us such a great time on Tim’s blog, we probably should return the compliment. How about the first one banned by spek gets a prize? (Hmm. What would an appropriate prize be for getting banned by spek?)

    Posted by ekw on 2005 12 14 at 11:35 PM • permalink

  38. #37 ekw,

    sounds like fun, but who needs a prise when you have that war fuzzy feeling that you only get from baiting the left.

    Also i compleatly agree with face removal, it’s the only way to go for margo, ... unless she got a face transplant

    Maybe she could sell her story and make some cash for “webdiary Mark2”. the real question here is what type of face would suit her?.... suggestions please

    Posted by Mospact on 2005 12 14 at 11:48 PM • permalink

  39. sorry really bad rushed grammer, all this talk of margo is making me spell like her

    Posted by Mospact on 2005 12 14 at 11:49 PM • permalink

  40. I hope this isn’t going too far (*sniggers*).

    Margo and mum, can you do better?

    Posted by HC44 on 2005 12 15 at 12:17 AM • permalink

  41. HC44 ROFL that deserves some kind of award, that is F*%$ing brilliant

    Posted by Mospact on 2005 12 15 at 12:22 AM • permalink

  42. Mos

    Was it your comment which was removed from spek’s blog?

    Andrea, I promise not to pollute Tim’s blog with spektalk. It’s just fun to find him and see the new stage he has set for us to come visit.

    Posted by ekw on 2005 12 15 at 12:29 AM • permalink

  43. Now we know where Margo got her good looks . . .

    Posted by Oafish and Infantile on 2005 12 15 at 12:34 AM • permalink

  44. I took a look at spek’s blog.  Boring.

    Posted by RebeccaH on 2005 12 15 at 12:37 AM • permalink

  45. #42 ekw

    Naa I think he’s got them there still, but in his second post he refers to one of my pieces with a little contempt. That and the fact I called him a
    champagne socialist.

    Posted by Mospact on 2005 12 15 at 12:39 AM • permalink

  46. spek doesn’t deserve champagne, he is just programed to respond with the same old retoric every time about muslims being repressed by police and such, ... he is one of those “well you started it” kind of guys

    Posted by Mospact on 2005 12 15 at 12:42 AM • permalink

  47. Well, at least spek seems to’ve taken my apostrophe lesson to heart.

    Posted by Achillea on 2005 12 15 at 01:18 AM • permalink

  48. ok guys you have to check out this thread,

    i’m having some fun with my pet now, read his BS proposal that rap music is the main problem along with unfair policing of Young Lebanese hoons

    I can speak from experience to say that I have seen during the past year ordinary people being pulled over and searched by the police just because they look Lebanese in areas like Bankstown, this creates
    resentment and does not solve the underlying problems which despite claims to contrary stem not from the Islamic background of these people but rather from their embrace of a rap and gangster culture.

    i would encourage others to jump on the band wagon for ensuing hilarity as spek defends himself

    Posted by Mospact on 2005 12 15 at 01:36 AM • permalink

  49. opps sorry try this

    Posted by Mospact on 2005 12 15 at 01:47 AM • permalink

  50. If I was that ugly,  I would hate everyone also. Especially John Howard,  who, remarkably,  is even better looking. Perhaps Margo should go to France for a face transplant.  She could take anything that came her way,  given the odds are it would be a great improvement.  Her Webdiary would also be a big hit in France,  just like Jar Jar Binks from Star Wars episode 1 was. Those French,  love everything,  except of course those who saved their asses in both world wars,  which they lost miserably.

    Posted by beche on 2005 12 15 at 02:10 AM • permalink

  51. Has Hamish gone back to driving taxis yet? Or has he sent his mom out instead?

    Interesting to see - on a more serious note - that Webdiary without Margo is just the same as Webdiary with Margo. What did she do exactly?

    Posted by Hanyu on 2005 12 15 at 02:28 AM • permalink

  52. Hmmm, now we find out the deep seated psychological angst that has driven Magrok’s apparent masculinity quest. The poor thing only wants some fatherly acceptance.

    Posted by HC44 on 2005 12 15 at 02:50 AM • permalink

  53. C’mon guys, lay off Margrok’s mum.  Have a bit of respect, after all, who among us wouldn’t do absolutely anything for their kids?  Even to the extent of lending support to crack-brained projects?  Fair go, you jokers!

    Posted by Olrence on 2005 12 15 at 02:55 AM • permalink

  54. I was going to say that one’s a silly old bat and the other’s Margo’s mum.

    Seriously, I think we should lay off Margo’s mum, after all, the fugly genes may well have come from her male parental figure’s gene pool. You cant blame her mum for going into bat for the bat, so to speak.

    Posted by Nic on 2005 12 15 at 03:04 AM • permalink

  55. I think the site looks like a shrine; a kind of site of remembrance.

    Mums are special people and we should be nice to them because we all give them grief.

    Tried to watch the Watts/Bolt debate but my internet access is up the creek. Acknowledging indigenous ownership is not only factually incorrect, it’s racist. While one type of racist might claim that all aboriginals are drunks, another might claim that they are all good and have a special relationship to the planet. Both views are harmful and wrong.

    Posted by Major Anya on 2005 12 15 at 03:36 AM • permalink

  56. #40 Yes it is going too far-we’ve all got Mums…
    Re Spek “stems from their embrace of rap and gangster culture..”.
    Our ABC spent 10 minutes this evening promoting just such a new show on “Community Television Channel 31”.
    This show will be dedicated to rap music and the host said “we will also show rap’s romantic and softer sid”.“Seeing the two examples he played were definitely not either-one featuring the line “and cop cars proceed with another plan”...
    Couldn’t distinguish most of the words -you obviously need a trained ear-but the cd was titled WHO AM I.
    ABC presenter Russell Woolfe “do they talk about CURRENT AFFAIRS?”—unique description of gangsta rap. “Oh very much” says prospective tv host. “What sort of thing?”-
    “well like not having much money..”
    There’ll be vox pops and fashion -we’re keeping it all very light hearted”.
    We’re trying to attract new listeners.”
    ABC presenter “so the web site’s at (names it),the date and time it commences.
    They talk about Daz (presenter knows him) and say he sets the beat for LEILA, who works in the ABC cafeteria.Apparently she’s gorgeous..Prospective host then asks loudly about any listener who is a prospective sponsor and then aunty presenter advertises where prospective host works at a Fremantle hotel and what night….

    Posted by crash on 2005 12 15 at 05:44 AM • permalink

  57. pimf -that’s side…

    Posted by crash on 2005 12 15 at 05:46 AM • permalink

  58. #55 - I was at the 2005 RMIT graduation ceremony last night. That started off with thanks to the traditional ‘owners’ of the land (under Telstra Dome!) and a longish didgeridoo piece.  Deakin’s graduation in October also started with thanks to the local (long dead) tribe. Twee, really.

    Actually they’re careful not to acknowledge aboriginal ‘ownership’. The acknowledgement is of aboriginal ‘custodianship’ of the land. That just make it worse - having a bet each way.

    Posted by walterplinge on 2005 12 15 at 05:47 AM • permalink

  59. Actually walterplinge, I have a relative who is an amateur historian. When his inner-trendy suburb wrote published the history of the area they ‘had’ to have the first chapter devoted to TOI (the ‘original’ inhabitants). As it turned out, no dusky tribes ever lived in the area, preferring instead to ‘transit’ through it in search of better lodgings. The facts didn’t stop the local council from turning nothing into 20 odd pages!

    Posted by Nic on 2005 12 15 at 06:09 AM • permalink

  60. Mospact, please be gentle with Spek, its new to the blogging world and we wouldn’t want you to lose your new pet/toy before you had time to really enjoy it.

    Posted by Renate on 2005 12 15 at 06:26 AM • permalink

  61. John Safran from SBS took the piss royally out of the “We gratefully acknowledge Aborigines as the traditional owners of this land” crowd a couple of years back.

    He went around inner Melbourne suburbs like Fitzroy to houses with “We gratefully acknowledge Aborigines as the traditional owners of this land” signs (or words to that effect), and got an aboriginal guy to knock at the door and say “I’m home, where’s my room” (or words to that effect).

    Needless to say, there was much spluttering and indignation.

    John subsequently put a downloadable sign on his website which read “We gratefully acknowledge Aborigines as the traditional owners of this land (sorta)”.

    Posted by Oafish and Infantile on 2005 12 15 at 06:39 AM • permalink

  62. The mango is a luscious fruit with an eyecatching blush, a heavenly aroma and abundant nectar that begs to be laid bare and consumed totally with abandoned lip smacking gusto.

    For the want of a simple vertical stroke Margo may well envy Mango.

    Posted by rog on 2005 12 15 at 06:39 AM • permalink

  63. #31

    I think in fairness, the ad is for appearance and placement purposes- so new advertisers (there will be those right?) can see where the ad will be… right?

    Well, for that purpose they could have used Google ads, just as they did for the slot on the right-hand side of the page. I think they simply didn’t want to admit that nobody bought a real ad in time for their big relaunch (snicker).

    So when are we going to see the first real ad? And who’s going to be the poor sucker? Inquiring minds want to know…

    Posted by PW on 2005 12 15 at 01:20 PM • permalink

  64. PW, I really think Halliburton should buy an ad.  A really, really big ad, with big red letters.  Just so’s, you know, Webdiary’s huge readership will notice.

    Posted by RebeccaH on 2005 12 15 at 05:21 PM • permalink

  65. Come on chaps. Lift your game. Denigrating a person for their appearance is just not cricket. Don’t you know. What.

    Some of the nastier comments are making a few of us uncomfortable.

    Posted by Happy John on 2005 12 15 at 06:37 PM • permalink

  66. Mospact

    I don’t think you’ll change Spek’s mind.

    Posted by kae on 2005 12 15 at 08:29 PM • permalink

  67. #66 lol, yeah i know, you can vary rearly change another persons mind in maters of political debate, human being are just to dam stubborn. But maybe just maybe we can reform spek, he just needs to learn the hipocracy of the left.

    Posted by Mospact on 2005 12 15 at 09:32 PM • permalink

  68. #65: Happy John’s right, you know. We should criticize Webdiary’s ideas, not its bad taste in posting a picture of Grendl and his mother right before their last tag-team match with Beowulf. We ort to have more Klass than that.

    Posted by paco on 2005 12 15 at 11:22 PM • permalink

  69. But….but.. we are SUPPOSED to be oafish and infantile!

    It’s the law.

    Posted by Pedro the Ignorant on 2005 12 16 at 12:51 AM • permalink

  70. Well, I for one learned something from the add.

    I will seek never to develope a twenty year meth-habit.

    Or at least look like I have.

    Sorry Happy.

    Couldnt help myself dont you know.

    Posted by Thomas on 2005 12 16 at 02:14 AM • permalink

  71. making a few of us uncomfortable

    Is that why I keep shifting in my chair and scratching my butt? I was wonderin’.

    Posted by ekw on 2005 12 16 at 02:46 AM • permalink

  72. Wow.

    And all this time I was wondering what you guys were talking about, since I hadn’t installed the Flash plugin on Firefox when I built my new computer.

    Now I’m wishing I hadn’t installed it.

    Posted by david on 2005 12 16 at 02:58 AM • permalink

  73. A club for Margo, described in The Telegraph (UK) today:

    “Ugly People of the World Unite”, is the unofficial motto of the Ugly Club, which has 270 members….We’re tired of the idea that you have to be beautiful to get on in life, that beauty equals social power, and beautiful people earn more and get promoted quicker,” Mr Gasper, 41, said… According to the Ugly Club’s seven-point manifesto “it is unfair that the world is dominated by beautiful people”.

    Conclusion: Webdiary failed because it didn’t have a looker on the masthead. In Margo’s case ego trumped commonsense and people were turned off. I make sure my photo appears nowhere on my commercial website for the same reason.

    Posted by walterplinge on 2005 12 16 at 03:46 AM • permalink

  74. Handsome is as handsome does.
    Regardez sbs site which has a pretty picture of 1 protester and two banners (witness to torture) “outside Guantanamo Bay Detention Centre..”
    Long article about “setbacks to David Hicks’ chances of being extradited to U.K.,comments by his Australian lawyer…and you get the distinct impression that they are attempting to influence public opinion and engender sympathy for their David.
    Also site says 180 U.N. Peacekeepers and four helicopters expelled from Eritrea.

    Posted by crash on 2005 12 16 at 10:04 AM • permalink

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