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LET ME HEAR YOU SAY AGE

Age editor Andrew Jaspan is a river to his people:

At some point during last Friday’s party, Jaspan also tried to rev the journalists into corporate enthusiasm by shouting: “Come on, everyone, let me hear you say AGE”, a request that met with a rather muted response.

What a surprise. Click over to Andrew Landeryou for terrifying party pictures.

Posted by Tim B. on 12/22/2006 at 06:52 PM
  1. several football chants of my acquaintance come to mind here….

    Age chug-a-lug-a…
    Age chug-a-lug-a…

    Jaspan, Jaspan show us ya legs
    show us ya legs
    show us ya legs
    Jaspan Jaspan show us ya legs
    a yard above the knees…

    sounds like the Age is on the up

    Posted by JonathanH on 2006 12 22 at 07:06 PM • permalink

  2. Oh gawd, I didn’t get past this passage:

    ELTON John’s significant other, David Furnish, enjoyed his tour of Australia but he wasn’t impressed with the resulting newspaper reports. In a diary column he wrote for The Spectator magazine, Furnish seems peeved that instead of lauding John’s generous £100,000 ($250,000) donation for Australian AIDS initiatives, British newspapers concentrated on his unfortunate vomiting episode at his Brisbane concert, with headlines such as “Elton’s Chunder Down Under”.

    I can just see the rumours starting.

    Posted by wronwright on 2006 12 22 at 07:14 PM • permalink

  3. DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS!

    Posted by Brian Tiemann on 2006 12 22 at 07:15 PM • permalink

  4. Why was he born a journ-a-list
    Why was he born at all?

    For he’s a jolly short felll-ow
    And so say all of us!

    Posted by Dminor on 2006 12 22 at 07:17 PM • permalink

  5. ‘one more time for the files comrades….’

    but the staff are as unenthustiastic about the spencer street soviet as the general public

    the rivers of gold are drying up faster than the Murray

    time for some perestroika and a lot more demokratizatia

    Posted by eeniemeenie on 2006 12 22 at 07:29 PM • permalink

  6. This Age is my Age
    This Age is your Age
    From the paper waste-age
    To the verbal sewer-age
    With a leftard mess-age
    Not worth the post-age
    This Age belongs to you and me…

    Posted by JonathanH on 2006 12 22 at 07:46 PM • permalink

  7. Why was the Age having a Christmas party at all? I thought they were all atheists.  I agree the pictures were quite horrifying.

    Posted by archie wedderspoon on 2006 12 22 at 07:48 PM • permalink

  8. Let me hear you say Age!

    Crickets chirping..

    Someone coughs in the background….

    Posted by sparrow on 2006 12 22 at 07:50 PM • permalink

  9. Other great Age Party starters.

    Age-a-Doo (Agadoo).

    Age-a-doo doo doo
    Push Socialism for Lefties
    Age-a-doo doo doo
    Chardonnay and latte please
    To the left, to the left
    jump up and down hysterically
    come and dance every night until David Hicks is free.

    Posted by Dan Lewis on 2006 12 22 at 08:00 PM • permalink

  10. He completely misread the audience.  Leftistes are as far from demonstrable patriotism and ra-ra enthusiasm as you can get.  May as well have asked them to sing Advance Australia Fair…

    Posted by anthony_r on 2006 12 22 at 08:04 PM • permalink

  11. Can anyone say David Brent?

    Posted by DaneF on 2006 12 22 at 08:09 PM • permalink

  12. Throw the rag in the air, like you just don’t care.

    Posted by slammer on 2006 12 22 at 08:31 PM • permalink

  13. And get cited for littering by some greenie? Nah.

    Posted by Andrea Harris, Administrator on 2006 12 22 at 08:39 PM • permalink

  14. That’s Andrew Jaspan?  He’s a right jolly little gnome, isn’t he?

    Posted by RebeccaH on 2006 12 22 at 09:00 PM • permalink

  15. #11 - Excellent observation.

    Posted by Dan Lewis on 2006 12 22 at 09:07 PM • permalink

  16. Why was the Age having a Christmas party at all? I thought they were all atheists.

    Hey, I’m an atheist and Christmas is my favourite time of the year. Not letting you lot hog all the presents and slaughtered animal gorging…

    Posted by hayesy on 2006 12 22 at 09:21 PM • permalink

  17. #6 Coach

    A genius with lyrics!

    Posted by kae on 2006 12 22 at 10:14 PM • permalink

  18. er

    lyrical genius?

    Posted by kae on 2006 12 22 at 10:14 PM • permalink

  19. #14 RebeccaH

    *SNAP!*

    Posted by kae on 2006 12 22 at 10:16 PM • permalink

  20. Checked out the party pictures. Jaspan looks like he’s having a James Cagney, “I made it Ma! Top of the world!” moment.

    Posted by paco on 2006 12 22 at 10:43 PM • permalink

  21. Knowing how y’all furrin deevils talk funny, surely he meant ague?

    Posted by Grimmy on 2006 12 22 at 11:17 PM • permalink

  22. Now fuckin comrades
    youshoul
    d shart fuckin chantin
    up the fuckin age
    did ya hear what i said you fuckin commo bashtards
    up the fuckin age up the fuckin age
    ya buncha fuckin pishpots
    ya all a buncha fuckin unemployable bashtarrrds
    and fuckin sheason greatingss now fuck off
    and print this fuckin out in fuckin hard fuckin copy ya bashards

    Posted by Bonmot on 2006 12 22 at 11:43 PM • permalink

  23. Good thing they refused his chanting request…it probably would have come out like a very long “H”, and everybody would have been even more confused than usual at that paper.

    Posted by PW on 2006 12 22 at 11:55 PM • permalink

  24. Elton’s lover pissed off that we’re more worried about the Yellow Wiggle than Elton’s big donation to AIDS. Obviously HIS cause is more important than ours.

    Posted by AlburyShifton on 2006 12 23 at 12:28 AM • permalink

  25. Oops! Should have been posted in the right thread.

    #6 Catchy lyrics; I’ll be singing that from now on!

    Posted by AlburyShifton on 2006 12 23 at 01:08 AM • permalink

  26. The fool! Lefties won’t chant unless a giant puppet head is present!

    Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2006 12 23 at 01:12 AM • permalink

  27. “I was, I have to say, shocked by Andrew Jaspan’s use of The Age word, if I can put it like that, which I just thought was coarse and very ill-thought through and I think demeans the man and is one of the reasons why people are slightly sceptical of his motives and everything else.

    Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2006 12 23 at 01:16 AM • permalink

  28. #26 The Andrew Jaspan Blues

    my Lefties won’t chant
    my Lefties won’t rock’n'roll…
    my Lefties won’t chant
    my Lefties won’t rock’n'roll
    Need a puppet head to satisfah mah soul….

    Posted by JonathanH on 2006 12 23 at 01:37 AM • permalink

  29. #25 #17 cheers. I am barely computer literate but glad I can contribute to this fantastic blog. Given me lots of laughs & filled in a few leaky holes in my ship of knowledge.

    Merry Xmas

    Posted by JonathanH on 2006 12 23 at 01:44 AM • permalink

  30. #25 #17 cheers. I am barely computer literate but glad I can contribute to this fantastic blog.

    It was great! - and made all the better by the fact that this Aussie actually knew the song you’d been inspired by!

    Posted by AlburyShifton on 2006 12 23 at 06:46 AM • permalink

  31. You put the Left bit in,
    You leave the Right bit out,
    You do the Age-ey page-ey
    And you stuff it all for nout.

    Posted by blogstrop on 2006 12 23 at 06:56 AM • permalink

  32. When the beer is in the Jaspan gut
    And Reporters adorn the bars
    Then Silence will greet the editor
    And all will pile into cars

    This is the dawning of the AGE of hilarious
    AGE of Hilarious
    Hilarious
    Hilarious

    Posted by AlburyShifton on 2006 12 23 at 07:49 AM • permalink

  33. Don’t tell my heart, my AGEy rAGEy heart

    Posted by AlburyShifton on 2006 12 23 at 08:00 AM • permalink

  34. An old cricket chant…

    ‘Jaspan is the captain of the ship (of the ship)
    The ship is a tanker…
    And Jaspan is a wanker!
    Yeah, Jaspan is the captain of the ship!!! (of the ship!!!)’

    Posted by bad templar on 2006 12 23 at 09:31 PM • permalink

  35. #6, that was inspired.

    #15, thanks for the David Brent dance video.  For a pudgy guy he got some pretty good high-kicks in there.  And I thought he was one of the more normal-looking people in that shot - who was the gal wearing Martian antennae on her head, and the blonde who was just about popping out of her red dress?

    Posted by Sonetka's Mom on 2006 12 23 at 10:36 PM • permalink

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