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NO APPEARANCE GANG ON THE MOVE
Having fled the Sydney Morning Herald, our beloved Men of No Appearance now turn up in the Daily Telegraph! Where won’t they appear next?
“Yesterday upon the stair / I met a man who wasn’t there. / He wasn’t there again today / I wish that man would go away.”
Posted by MentalFloss on 2006 10 31 at 07:43 PM • permalinkOver the years I have enjoyed a running correspondence with David Penberthy, editor of The Daily Telegraph.
He is a passionately anti PC man, has a great deal of commen sense and is fully aware of the growing problem in Sydney’s hot-spot Muslim suburbs.
I can only assume David has momentarily taken his eye off the ball on this occasion - I just don’t believe he is in the same league as the SMH when it comes to supressing key information in stories.
However, the paper today does go in pretty heavily in support of the Stern Climate Change Report. Again, normally The Tele can be trusted to think for itself on these sorts of issues. Even the Warren cartoon gets in on the act. The lack of balance is quite out of character.
As Janet Albrechtson says in today’s The Australian, “Every time we take our eye off the ball, the other side scores”. I certainly hope this is not the case at The Tele.
Glass House is gone? That’s certainly gotta be the best news story of the day.
Anyone that thinks Wil Anderson or Corrine Grant are funny has had a total humour bypass. Hughesy is OK, even if he is a Carlton supporter.
Posted by Jack Lacton on 2006 10 31 at 08:23 PM • permalink#9- If you think someone with obvious brain damage is amusing, you must check out the stand-up (or more like lie-down) at your nearest ICU.
I always thought it rather odd that GMH would use Hughes as the public face of a motor vehicle sales campaign, when he appears to have put his head through one too many windscreens.
Corinne Grant is the sort of airhead who laughs at her own farts.
Anderson thinks he’s controversial because he wears nail polish, and repeats lame anti-conservative diatribes badly disguised as gags to leftist idiots who laugh on cue.
I’ll miss the Glass House- there’s not much (except for George Fungus’ smug, smarmy, supercillious and self-rightous puss) that could get me in that much of a frothing rage.
Hughes funny? Oh, yeah. About as funny as avascular necrosis.
Posted by MentalFloss on 2006 10 31 at 08:54 PM • permalink#7, I was at uni at the same time as Pemberthy. At the time, he struck me as being very left wing (but then, you had to be a radical to survive in uni politics) so I have been pleasantly surprised at his attitude as the editor at the Tele. Let’s hope their reporting over the Stern report isn’t the first sign of backsliding.
Posted by Art Vandelay on 2006 10 31 at 09:15 PM • permalinkAre you sure there isn’t a team of ninja’s practising the ancient art of invisibility in Sydney?
The Glasshouse is funny in the same way a fire spreading from an orphanage to a children’s cancer ward is funny.
Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2006 10 31 at 09:50 PM • permalinkI’m more worried about this line from the NSW Police media release:
“ordering them to lay on the ground”.
Lay what? Eggs, cash from the till, a prayer mat?
#9 Agree Dave Hughes is genuinely funny. The other two? Corine Grant thinks pulling faces is high comedy. I saw a doco on a comedy festival in Montreal (I think) a few years back hosted by Wil Anderson. Some of the comedians were brilliant. It finished with Wil’s performance. It was embarrassing.
Posted by Ben Haslem on 2006 10 31 at 10:40 PM • permalink#16- saw the same; I’ve popped funnier things out my bot. He really is a twerp.
Can’t agree with the whole Hughes thing though- I believe he’s trying to be sardonic, but to me he sounds developmentally challenged. Maybe it’s a Victorian thing, as you seem to also like some real retards like Mick Molloy, Merrick and Rosso, Rove McManus, Sam Newman, Steve Bracks…...
Good I’ve found the Glasshouse thread
Corinne Grant has the same effect on me as fingernails on a blackboard, Mariah Carey singing, Bob Brown speaking, and seeing that Napisan ad
As for the real topic - it must surely just have been a glitch on the Tele’s part today
The Men of No Appearance will be gone tomorrow you’ll see - back to their real home at the SMH!
Posted by aussiemagpie on 2006 10 31 at 11:15 PM • permalinkI’d rate him as funny as going on a real bender and waking up to find you’ve converted to Islam.
And you’re about to make your first (and last) video clip for MTV.
The Youths of No Appearance (or any relation to a religion that rhymes with Shmuslims) are in this AP description of that bus firebombing that nearly killed that poor woman—whose nation of origin was mentioned. Go figure.
Posted by Meryl Yourish on 2006 11 01 at 01:08 AM • permalink#15
The Glasshouse is funny in the same way a fire spreading from an orphanage to a children’s cancer ward is funny.
Oh come on. That’s hilarious!
What’s not funny, is that Anderson has promised (threatened?) to “go out with all guns a’blazing” when he could have made all sorts of jokes about “throwing stones”. Wow, what a great audience!
The Glasshouse guestbook is a real eye-opener to the diehard ABC fan. All of this is some grand government conspiracy.
Presumably Bush was also responsible for Fonzie Jumping the Shark.
Aren’t the cast of “Glass House” men of no appearance :-)
Posted by Wimpy Canadian on 2006 11 01 at 09:06 AM • permalinkHeard Phil Curie [?] SMH Canberra Correspondent in Adelaide [filling for Tony Wright]. Twisted himself every way trying to justify The Glass House, which he admitted was pretty biased against Howard.
One telling comment: “Since the Government funds the ABC they seem to think they can influence it.”
It doesn’t ever occur to such types that Government funding should mean political BALANCE OVER TIME, or interference is quite appropriate
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I hope they show up at John Kerry’s next speech.