FRIDAY NIGHT RAFFLES

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HELLO AND WELCOME TO ANOTHER INSTALLMENT OF FRIDAY NIGHT RAFFLES.

A BIG WELCOME TO ALL OUR NEW MEMBERS,I HOPE YOU ENJOY YOURSELVES.

PMJG AGAINST ALL THE COLLECTIVE WISDOM OF WHAT PASSES FOR AUSTRALIAS MSM JOURNOS. IS STILL THE PM. AND WILL LEAD LABOR AND AUSTRALIA TILL THE NEXT FED.ELECTION .

IF I HAD A DOLLAR FOR EVERY TIME THESE BOZOS GOT IT WRONG I WOULD BE WRITING THIS FROM ABOARD MY PRIVATE JET AS I WAS FLYING AROUND THE PLANET  ON MY QUEST TO TASTE EVERY BEER MADE IN THE WORLD AT THE MOMENT.

FOR OUR NEW PATRONS JUST ASK FOR ANY 3 NUMBERS BETWEEN 1-100. FIRST IN FIRST SERVED. THE PRIZE IS EITHER A SAT.NIGHT LOTTO QUICKPICK OR A $7 BET ON THE RACES. IF YOU WIN YOU CAN KEEP YOUR WINNINGS (I WILL POST YOU A CHEQUE) OR YOU CAN ASK FOR THE MONEY TO BE PUT INTO THE KITTY WHICH AT THE END OF THE YEAR WE WILL DONATE TO AN AS YET UNDERTMINED CHARITY.  THE KITTY SO FAR IS $40.70  GOOD LUCK

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DRINKS ARE ON THE HOUSE AND THE JUKEBOX  IS FREE. HAVE A GREAT NIGHT

502 thoughts on “FRIDAY NIGHT RAFFLES”

  1. David,

    I had been reading WS Maugham since I was 9 or 10 and was also – even then – a history head, so yes, I was well aware of its significance!

    Von Kirsdarke,

    Yes, it needs its own line – all fixed!

  2. Puffy,

    Killer line. Dare I hope it will cut through?

    They must be reading Bushfire Bill’s “Lonely Hearts” columns.

    All that “He won’t keep his promises” stuff should be out the bloody door.

    Find the worst thing he’s promised and plug it. That’s the way to win.

  4. Puff. Do you think the public know or care about Gonski?

    Buck up Middleman. If they’re told they’re losing something, they’ll start listening.

    Never get between an Australian and an entitlement.

  6. That course is just an appetiser of things to come and that are here now. I am doing a Statistics course for free, from Carnegie Mellon Uni online learning. All completely online, no instructors, everything digital, specifically designed for that style of learning and it is the clearest stats course I have ever done.

  7. I had been reading WS Maugham since I was 9 or 10…

    Me since 18 (late starter).

    The first short story I read was The Fall Of Edward Barnard.

    That was thirty years worth of inspiration.

    The Razor’s Edge took care of the rest.

  8. Now I’m in a sentimental mood and a proud Union man, this song by Canadian icon Rita MacNeil ‘A Working Man’ always brings a tear, is beautiful. She wrote for coal miners in Canada . Check her version of Home Again too, lovely.

  9. Ch7 news not so favourable to Barnett. Showed him stumbling and blustering a bit with his campaign convention excuse, but still not reporting the Barnett Backdown reported by Fairfax. The backdown was obviously placed to miss the commercial TV news cut-off.

    Of course if this was a federal Labor govt we’d no doubt be seeing polling about whether voters agreed with nurses etc, and whether Colin Barnett Julia Gillard should meet with the ANF during the campaign.

  11. BK

    And I see we have a new pub patron – C K Watt. The name rings bell. It had to be from Fawlty Towers in the episode in which the obnoxious Mrs Richards appeared.

    Si, Que = what.

    Sprung, too quick for moi

  14. BB,

    I had unfettered access to my grandmother’s bookshelves: Maugham, Balzac, Zola, Austen, Eleanor Dark – a very progressive lady!

    To be honest, I can’t remember which was my first short story – might have been Rain.

  18. Sorry BB. I work in super/investments which is infested with individual rent seekers who don’t even understand what the term means… Most of them are salivating at the thought of a Abbott govt. makes for long lonely days on the office.

    Another xxxx gold barkeep…

  20. Middleman,

    That would be the investors who who gain from the rises in interest and tanking of the stock market?

  22. NBN
    Gone. Unless you can afford the $3000+ to get it to your door. Gawd knows how much that would increase to out in the country.

    NDIS
    Gone. Back to the bad old days of abandoning your disabled children at the door of Aged Care Homes when you couldn’t cope on your own anymore.

    GONSKI
    Gone. Good educations again the provence of only those who can pay for them.

    A CLEAN ENERGY FUTURE
    Gone. To feed the hungry maws and agenda of Murdoch, Cheney, the Kochs and other Fossil Fool Billionaires.

    MRRT
    Gone. So Big Gina can have a tax cut.

    $18000 TAX FREE THRESHOLD
    Gone. So Big Gina can have a tax cut.

    WELL-FUNDED PUBLIC HOSPITALS
    Gone. So the Economic Elites can have their Private Health Insurance paid for by the taxpayer.

    A NATURAL ENVIRONMENT
    Gone. So Big Gina can indulge her Northern Australia folly of turning the rivers into dams, only for the water to evaporate.

    There is too much at stake to give up the fight against the forces that would wipe it off the map.

  25. One of these clueless numbskulls asked an investment professional (at a conference I was attending) if the certain to be voted in Abbott team would provide the economy with an immediate boost??!! A la Tony’s adrenaline line. It was I could do to not chortle aloud!

  27. BK

    Yes absolute shocker but one of the best eps from FT along with the Germans and the hotel inspector.

    Thanks for putting up the clip Joe I used it to explain the name to my missus (a recent aquisition 2yrs) I have the box set dvd but takes too long to get it out and so on.

  28. Thanks Fiona. Keep em coming. If I knew how to post a you tube thumbnail using my iPhone I’d be linking the MC-5 doin Kick out the Jams. And advising to play it loud!

  29. Gee its crowded in here tonight.
    If I pass my $5 bucks forward can someone order me a lemon, lime and bitters and relay it back again.
    Cheers all

  31. Joe Cocker vocals, Phil Collins on drums, Brian May on guitar and a little help from their friends – live…

  32. Abbott as political Viagra. The man’s ego knows no bounds. Do you think his head will be able to fit into the Tally Room on Election Night?

    Mitt, Karl and Rupert thought they had it in the bag too. 😉

  33. HaveAchat,

    No problems – I’m leaping flippantly from shoulder to shoulder aaaannnnnd here’s your lemon lime & bitters, and not a drop spilt!

  34. This is what it’s all about,

    As well as here am watching Aus v India first test from India live. No problems and i am enjoying watching indian advertisements between overs.

    This will kill all the old media and the NBN will just make better probably hd etc.

    We are all going to be screwed over to preserve News ltd. margins

  35. Middleman,

    I assume you were there in a professional role.

    I, and many others here, are very interested in how you disabused that particular person of her ideas.

    Was she convinced?

  39. Ducky. I was in the audience as well. Thankfully the guy presenting responded by saying Aust govts of either persuasion rarely change the economy so drastically that they effect markets to the positive or negative. I thought to myself “suck on that question asker!”

  42. fiona,

    I’m on my second pint from the cask. I plead carelessness.

    Mind you … 👿

  44. Middleman,

    fiona really wants to know whether the personage in question was a woman.

    Careful, now!

  46. This little black duck

    Yes they do refreshing I think.And the commentators are fine as well. also not relying on fancy gimmicks

    Au may be in trouble i think another gone

  47. Gee captaincy sits well with Clarke. When I heard stories of him being the outcast in Steve Waughs team of bores cos he wouldn’t hang around drinking beer I knew he was his own person… Leaving the ex was his growing up. Captaincy his making.

  50. The batsmen who get out LBW just are not concentrating, unless the pitch is doing funny things.

    I could do a dissertation on this …

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