RAFFLE NIGHT ( YIPPEE)

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download (3)Well we are past the halfway mark till australia elects the party that will lead us for at least the next 3 years

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MANY PEOPLE HAVE ASKED ME WILL THE ELECTION RESULT ( WHICHEVER WAY IT GOES) MAKE  A DIFFERENCE TO OUR FRIDAY NIGHT RAFLLES.

THE ANSWER TO THAT IS A BIGNo-ArtWE WILL  AS LONG AS YOU WANT HAVEimages (6)

SO LETS GET STARTED. THE MAGNIFICENT CK WATT WILL( Hopefully) TAKE YOUR NUMBERS AND THE STAFF WILL BE AROUND AT SOMETIME.

OUR MAGNIFICENT BARMAID THE LOVELY

cat queen

FIONA HAS BEEN BUSY BUT SHE WILL BE AROUND AT SOME TIME.

BB AND I WILL BE OUR USUAL

Courteous Bar staff

TONIGHTS POLL

TRY AND BE OBJECTIVE 

 

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644 thoughts on “RAFFLE NIGHT ( YIPPEE)”

  2. Janice
    Bob went a bit weird for a while, he seems to have got over that and is making a lot of sense lately.

  3. Leone,
    Yes he did wander off to another universe for a bit – it crossed my mind at the time that he’d succumbed to a bit of senility! I didn’t read his stuff for months and now that he seems to have got back his mojo, I think that maybe he had been unwell or something.

  4. House of Cards is amazing. I hope it wins an emmy.

    I’m watching it at the moment and seeing the chaotic life of US politicians dramatized like this is so brilliant.

    I had a look at the background, and seeing the evil Francis Urquhart dampened down a little to create the more likeable Frank Underwood was a pretty good move.

  5. Dannylewis,
    I think you have do the html thingy for quotes – I can never remember that stuff anymore so can’t tell you. Maybe Joe might be kind to poor old senile pub patrons and put up a “how to” on the sidebar – that is if wordpress doesn’t throw a tanty!

  7. Joe6
    Did you see my post, I think it was last Wednesday where I discretely tipped MV R6 No8 for today without mentioning it’s name which is Clear For Action. A lovely 7/1 today and a beautiful ride.
    Connections and me at Flower Drum tomorrow. Yeeha

  8. Kirsdarke
    House of Cards is fantastic. I am a big fan of the original version and I was a bit worried about how the yanks would handle it, but it is just superb.

  9. BB

    Any chance you putting a link to your last two pieces on twitter, maybe do under ‘The Pub’ twitter? I don’t know how to do it. I think rnm’s piece is worth a tweet too.

  10. Kirsdarke

    Your young, going overseas to live for a while would help broaden your horizons no matter what happens here politically. If you do, and I know you’re talking about a couple of years time, please check in here occasionally to let us know how you’re doing.

  11. Left arrow “blockquote” right arrow. To end do the same but “/” before “blockquote”.

  14. This is a great site with a lot of interesting people on it and excellent moderators. As Joe says we can’t let it expire, no matter what happens in a fortnight’s time. I hope that all of us remain talking and drinking together after that day (and that the excellent C@t is then back among us).

  19. Brian & Ducky,
    I couldn’t agree more. On every point.

    (Joe6P already knows I agree with him.)

  22. I’ll be here for the “duration” – never know, it might never happen! Still can’t understand how anyone who is not extremely rich would vote for such morons – even apart from the actual lack of morals displayed almost daily!

  24. For those considering making a mistake on the senate ballot as suggested in an IA article to avoid filling out the complete form I would advise against it.
    It has been suggested by others with reference to Electorol rules that it will invalidate your vote.
    Perhaps this would work? Preference the ones you want and know including Labor or Greens. Then continue selecting the rest at random. I suspect the preference flow would effectively stop once it reaches the Labor position.
    Perhaps others could comment on this approach.
    Eventually all preferences flow to the winning party. True or false?
    The Pirate party seems OK.

  25. orangefox
    The IA suggestion was not to avoid filling out the entire senate paper. It suggested making one ‘mistake’ in the numbering that would make all preferences after the error invalid. I’ve checked the legislation and that is allowed. This is confirmed and very clearly explained in the AEC Informal Voting Electoral Backgrounder in paragraphs 19 – 21.

    Click to access 2010-eb-informal-voting.pdf

    I’d like some advice from someone who has scrutineered or actually done some election vote counting on this.

  26. leonetwo,
    I should have said not wanting to be bothered thinking about how one is to preference each candidate. But you know what I mean and thanks for correcting me.
    I have had a good read of the electoral act and it seems what the IA article states is correct. It only applies to the senate paper though.

  27. J6p

    I feel that the rabbot may win by 10-15 seats but with only 50.9 % of the vote. so if all goes wrong the next election should see the vermin removed.

    It is just a pity that the runt here in QLD has such a large majority as it will take at least 2 elections to excise the boil upon our rumps.

  28. Whew, and I’ve just finished the last ep of House of Cards.

    Well played by Frank Underwood, albeit some downright nasty moves and there’s a few problems he might encounter in the next season with the press. I look forward to it as much as the next season of Game of Thrones next year.

  29. Ah, dinner!
    Lamb chop, lots of veggies to make my whiskers shiny, and a most palatable cleanskin Margaret River Cab Merlot.
    Be back in a while.

  30. The Daily Telegraph via Samantha Maiden has tried to accuse Kevin Rudd of delaying the briefing on the Syrian crisis so he could film an episode of Kitchen Cabinet, Rudd’s people put out a statement saying the article was defamatory and the Smelly has sort of changed the lying headline. But Tweeters have it all recorded, so we should as well.

    The original front page –
    https://twitter.com/GeorgeBludger/status/371225580726800385/photo/1

    The statement from Rudd’s office –

    The new Smelly front page –
    https://twitter.com/GeorgeBludger/status/371225612146327552/photo/1

  31. Of course, Ms Maiden has not mentioned that Abbott thought the briefing so trivial and so unimportant that he decided to send Mesma in his place and then play Chinese whispers with her on what was said, while busy campaigning at the same time.

    She made a big deal of Rudd’s ‘taxpayer-funded’ aircraft too, carefully forgetting to mention us taxpayers are also providing Abbott with a plane.

  32. Leone,
    If Col Pot Allan had to authorise that headline change, I hope he suffered severe gastric reflux as he did so.

  33. have just watched and listened to Allegri’s miserere
    Wow what a show , have seen it live in Adelaide years ago. They coming to brissy but way outside my finance levels to attend. Bloody beautiful music.

  35. Paddy,
    Allegri’s Miserere is in my opinion one of the most exquisite pieces of music ever – but I don’t know anything about the show. Please explain!

  37. Fiona ,
    I watched in the Adelaide town hall. both times. the whole group sang at the front of the stage. but after the interval they started the miserere but two of the singers were missing, then when the ultra high soprano voice sang it was in the balcony ad lifted the hair on my neck, Scary but beautiful.
    Now I am listening to Goreki symphony of sorrowful songs. watched it twice and cried each time

  39. Paddy,
    It is a very fine performance. The solo soprano in particular has close to what I think is the right quality of voice (this work is one of the few where I get seriously fussy about the colour of voices/instruments) – but not quite the ethereal quality of a good boy soprano. The women altos – nearly, but they sound like women. And this is one work which – again in my opinion – is best performed by the best male voices.
    (Disclosure: once upon a time, my voice was so close to male alto in quality that I’d have given myself a leave pass to perform this work.)

    Frightening – my all-time favourite performance of the Miserere, with the choir of King’s College Cambridge in that fantastic Tudor chapel – happened 50 years ago, with, allegedly, the boy soprano soloist all muddy after soccer practice, but singing like an angel. It seems like yesterday.

    Of course the recording quality is not fantastic, and unfortunately because of copyright issues I can only link in two bits, but here you go for anyone who wants to listen:

    You are absolutely right – it does raise the hairs on the neck. What a lovely memory to have shared that performance with your mum.

    I also completely empathise regarding Goreki.

  41. Dear Fiona,
    That lady has done the voice for nearly 20 years. What stamina and skill.
    My first time of hearing and watching Gorecki was part of the Adelaide festival in 90 or 92. the Soprano or mezzo or was Marilyn Richardson, unfortunately she struggled in the opening movements but really excelled in the body of the composition.
    The second time was also in the Adelaide town hall with, sorry cant pull the name from my thick skull, Brunette with a grey or white streak in her hair and a magnificent voice. the lovely lady was a judge in some of the ABC singing comps.
    Was it you dear Fiona?

  44. and aginhttp://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=henryk+gorecki+dawn+upshaw+live&oq=henryk+gorecki+dawn+upshaw+live&gs_l=youtube.3…2439.6971.0.7594.5.5.0.0.0.0.219.1088.2-5.5.0…0.0…1ac.1.11.youtube.y_WyNc9hsD8

  46. @left right out

    After finishing the results of the 1978 Wranslide election, Alan Jones holds the wooden spoon prize for the Lib having the biggest swing to Labor at 16.1%.

    So yeah, his failure as a politician corresponds with his abject failure as a decent human being.

  47. Paddy,
    Definitely not me. The most illustrious points of my singing career (apart from what I inflicted on one of my local communities) was as an alto in so-called solo choir things at intervarsity choral festivals.

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