Archives for the 'Oz' Category
Eye Gouge vs. Shark
Published on 12 May 2008 at 9:57 pm.
2 Comments.
Filed under Oz, sharks.
Plucky Aussie swimmer pokes a Great White in the eye and lives. The Australian:
Blair is Dead, Long Live Blair
Published on 12 May 2008 at 10:36 am.
2 Comments.
Filed under Oz, blogs.
Farewell to www.timblair.net Great Australian blog of which this one is a pale spinoff has shifted digs. Ignore the cruel remarks about selling out, Tim … I’m confident that great Australian-American entrepreneur, Rupert Murdoch, doesn’t needlessly toss around the manhole covers for blog duty.
Read ‘Blair is Dead, Long Live Blair’
Digger Down
Published on 28 Apr 2008 at 11:51 am.
2 Comments.
Filed under Oz, Afghanistan.
LCpl. Jason Marks, 4th Battalion (Commando), 27, dad of two, killed in Afghanistan. Several other diggers wounded but as usual, the Taliban apparently got the worst of it. Widow Cassandra Marks: ”All he ever wanted to do was join the army. He was the type of man who knew what he wanted, even from the age of 12. […]
Anzac Day
Published on 24 Apr 2008 at 11:48 pm.
1 Comment.
Filed under Oz, NZ.
Dawns shortly here, underway in Oz and NZ. A reprise post, with update, re the disaster and the national identity it helped define follows:
Quote of the Week
Published on 3 Apr 2008 at 7:07 am.
4 Comments.
Filed under Oz, moronocy.
Amphibian rights category, Queensland division:
Cowardly Tub
Published on 16 Mar 2008 at 8:34 pm.
7 Comments.
Filed under Oz.
Located. It’s the dastardly Nazi raider that was masquerading as a Dutch freighter when it sank HMAS Sydney with loss of all on board. An Oz govt-funded search seeking Sydney found the filthy schnitzel bucket 8,000 feet deep in the Indian Ocean off Western Australia. SMH.
Waltzing Mathilda vs. Gaia
Published on 9 Mar 2008 at 7:41 am.
No Comments.
Filed under Oz, warmglob, history, song.
A V-8 sings it. That and more musical news via Tim Blair.
In other important Australian news, archaeologists in Melbourne have found a hole in the ground and they think Ned Kelly’s in it, along with a bunch of other crims.
Read ‘Waltzing Mathilda vs. Gaia’
Aussie Epic
Published on 28 Feb 2008 at 8:10 pm.
2 Comments.
Filed under Oz.
It’s an Australian tale of endurance, mateship, survival and loss, revolving around an esky with a feat of great swimsmanship. AFP:
Frog Affronted
Published on 12 Feb 2008 at 9:40 am.
2 Comments.
Filed under Oz, Britain, moronocy, France, America.
Support the Dissident Frogman’s campaign for compensation from Her Majesty’s Government for all the centuries of anti-Froggism: Exhibit A in the Frogman’s case. Hey, if they’re doling out $$$ for cultural slams, then as an first-generation Australian-American … small but fiercely proud minorioty … I’ll take mine in beer.
Tim’s Hat Parade
Published on 10 Feb 2008 at 11:40 am.
3 Comments.
Filed under Oz.
Australians have long been defined by their hats.
Blair, no slouch in the headgear department, exercises some hat speech:
(Not for the smaller hat-sized or those who wear them too tight).
Manly Flowers, Hilarious Organ Spillage
Published on 6 Feb 2008 at 2:15 am.
1 Comment.
Filed under Oz, blogs.
It’s all part of Tim’s recovery, along with a couple of young lovelies. The flowers from an unquestionably hetero infidel Crusader dog in Afghanistan are great, very touching. But it’s the hilarious organ spillage upon sudden brakeage that has caught my imagination. It’s got a bit of a Max Fleischer* sound to it.
*St. James Infirmary Blues only. Whole […]
Read ‘Manly Flowers, Hilarious Organ Spillage’
Well Armed
Published on 27 Jan 2008 at 10:38 am.
2 Comments.
Filed under Oz, blogs.
Good thing, because apparently that’s all that’s left of Blair.
Blair Re The Big C
Published on 23 Jan 2008 at 9:12 am.
3 Comments.
Filed under Oz, blogs.
Daily Telegraph. As much detail as you’ll need and more on Tim’s fight with cancer, up to surgery. Updates on his condition in the massive comment stream.* Break a leg, Tim.
* link fixed, thanks Becks.
Blair
Published on 22 Jan 2008 at 9:32 am.
2 Comments.
Filed under Oz, blogs.
Goes under the knife. Hang in there, Tim.
Pre-9/11 Era
Published on 24 Nov 2007 at 8:46 am.
6 Comments.
Filed under Oz.
Another one of the original three who stood up, Bush, Blair and Howard, is gone. Australia votes Labor. Good luck with that.
Non-Talking Points
Published on 2 Nov 2007 at 8:32 am.
5 Comments.
Filed under Iraq, Oz.
It isn’t just the United States Congress that would rather not discuss Iraq right now. The loyal opposition isn’t interested in talking about it much in Australia, either. Bolt, Oz Daily Telegraph:
Line of Duty
Published on 25 Sep 2007 at 1:13 am.
2 Comments.
Filed under Oz, Afghanistan.
Aussie bomb-sniffing dog killed, three diggers injured by IED in Afghanistan.
“Razz helped identify where the bomb was placed and sadly paid the ultimate price for his actions.”
Razz was the second Australian explosive-detection dog killed in Afghanistan this month.
h/t Tim Blair
Pinkie vs. Leadfoot
Published on 22 Aug 2007 at 8:57 am.
3 Comments.
Filed under Oz.
Aussie authorities enlist cruel mockery to curtail testosterone-charged road hazards:
RAN vs. Iran
Published on 22 Jun 2007 at 9:46 am.
7 Comments.
Filed under Iran, Oz, military.
Royal Australian Navy wins:
Yer Gotta Learn How to Say G’Day
Published on 9 Jun 2007 at 10:20 pm.
No Comments.
Filed under Oz, linguistics.
Speak Strine like an Aussie:
“Mate.” (compliments of Heinrichs)
“Mate.” (compliments of Blair)
“Dude.” (compliments of Driscoll)
Read ‘Yer Gotta Learn How to Say G’Day’
“Adventure of a Lifetime”
Published on 20 May 2007 at 8:14 am.
11 Comments.
Filed under Oz, GWOT.
Australian Taliban David Hicks/Muhammad Dawood, waltzing Mathilda once more, ”eight years after he left his Adelaide home for the adventure of a lifetime in Pakistan.” Killing infidels, global jihad … such a grand adventure!
More from the Sydney Morning Herald:
Read ‘“Adventure of a Lifetime”’
Anzac Day
Published on 25 Apr 2007 at 12:52 am.
23 Comments.
Filed under Oz.
April 25 is Anzac Day in Australia and New Zealand, marking the landings at Gallipoli in 1915 and the disastrous campaign there. Churchill’s idea for a second front went badly wrong, and he ended up resigning as First Lord of the Admiralty. The deaths of thousands of diggers at Gallipoli became a galvanizing event that helped establish […]
Tie Me Kangaroo-Skinner Down, Sport
Published on 28 Mar 2007 at 12:17 am.
6 Comments.
Filed under Oz.
By now everyone knows that David Hicks, wayfaring kangaroo-skinning larrikin, has been broken by the hated Crusaders in their gulag at Guantanamo. Who better to celebrate the confession of an Australian supporter of terrorism with than other Australians?
Read ‘Tie Me Kangaroo-Skinner Down, Sport’
The Wondah Down Undah
Published on 23 Feb 2007 at 11:43 pm.
15 Comments.
Filed under Iraq, Iran, Oz, al qaeda, Cheney.
Cheney, in an interview with The Australian’s Foreign Editor Greg Sheridan, puts another shrimp on the barbie:
Affinity Soul-Deep
Published on 23 Feb 2007 at 9:10 am.
12 Comments.
Filed under Uncategorized, Oz, Cheney.
Our Dark Lord Cheney in Oz, heralds the deep bond of the soul between two great nations.
“Australia and America share an affinity that reaches to our souls.”
Brits Split
Published on 20 Feb 2007 at 11:50 pm.
13 Comments.
Filed under Iraq, Oz, pols, military, Britain.
Brits are halving their force in Iraq. Tony Blair, who long fought within his own party to do the right thing in Iraq, is giving in to political forces he is no longer willing to fight. He’s leaving himself soon enough, so he might as well set the terms for the British draw down, to leave […]
These Are My People
Published on 16 Feb 2007 at 11:20 am.
3 Comments.
Filed under Uncategorized, Oz.
Drunken South Australia man wrestles an 8-foot shark over bait, wins, brings shark home to the wife to cook for dinner. Just another reason to be insanely proud of my Australian heritage.
You Want It? You Got It.
Published on 15 Feb 2007 at 12:24 am.
5 Comments.
Filed under Oz, USA.
Here’s one of my ancestral countrywomen, Janet Albrechtsen, who draws on a couple of sources, putting very well what myself and others, notably P.J. O’Rourke, have been saying for years.
The real reason they hate us is because our … I mean, we’re … bigger than they are. It’s all bigger, and that’s what they just can’t stand it.
Read ‘You Want It? You Got It.’
The Wild Colonial Brawl
Published on 14 Feb 2007 at 12:19 am.
No Comments.
Filed under Oz, beer.
Jimbo at Blackfive, in honor of Australians, embarks on an international pubcrawl heavy on the brawls:
Read ‘The Wild Colonial Brawl’
Osama Hearts Obama
Published on 11 Feb 2007 at 9:47 am.
9 Comments.
Filed under Iraq, Oz, pols.
Update below: Obama talks back at Howard, can’t count any better than his aide.
Australian PM John Howard says Al Qaeda in Iraq would love to see Barack Obama win, with his thoughtfully crafted, militarily and geopolitically sound “Abandon Hope! Run!” strategy for Iraq. Could be. Dems have informed us in the past that the head office, […]
Bacon vs. Bush
Published on 2 Feb 2007 at 10:51 pm.
No Comments.
Filed under Uncategorized, Oz, GWOT, Bush.
Tim is Hicks blogging … that would be David Hicks, Australian moron/jihadi, currently a guest of the United States Government at Guantanamo.
Reader SezaGeoff emailed last night:
I have just returned from the Roger Waters concert in Melbourne. Not a bad do, but I had to laugh during a track from Animals when they had a large […]
