Fasten Your Seat Belts …

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In spite of the gathering storm clouds

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the increasing likelihood of even more


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and


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plus maybe the odd


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we at The Pub will stagger on


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So cheer up –

and enjoy the raffle, the cameraderie, the drinks, the music …

323 thoughts on “Fasten Your Seat Belts …”

  5. Kirsdarke
    .
    Re your comment on last.
    [ The meteorologist was seen fleeing from the ministerial office with Mr. Joyce chasing him shouting “Begone with your ‘science’, heretic]
    .

    Qld , the year 2018 , the last climate scientist is discovered during the reign of Tony the First.

  6. Good evening, everyone.

    CK Watt will be around soon, and will catch on the numbers which his usual unflappable efficiency.

    Moi is still at work, but about to hit the roads. So apologies – drinks will have to wait a bit. See youse in a while.

  8. I don’t know how it works if I’m not around when the draw happens. I’ll be experiencing some kind of personal hell in the lead-up to the Prelim tonight. No minor premier has ever won the Qualifying Final and gone on to lose the Preliminary Final under the current system. But then again Hawthorn can’t beat Geelong. Something’s got to give. So I’ll pick some Hawk-friendly numbers, and if I have to claim them when they’re drawn you can always draw again.

    8, 83, 88 thanks. And one for the road if the pub’s open thanks.

  14. Hi, CK. Could I have 28, 42, and 86 or nearby please? And a Walk on the Wild Side with a Coopers Sparkling Ale would be nice.

  25. When Tone dresses in the morning and puts his lace ups on the right feet that is his daily personal achievement. Credlin, Murdoch and the money men will instruct/order him on what to do from thereon in.

    They will run the agenda. They will decide what is and what is not achievable. Tone just has to front up and mouth what he’s told to mouth, do what he’s told to do and to never travel without a flouro vest.

    Some things to watch for?

    Wait and see how high and how meekly Tone will jump when the instructions from a certain worldwide, based in Rome, religious order deliver their instructions.

    Not to mention;

    Tone in the north, rifle in one hand, sweat stained Akubra in t’other, serious expression, squinty eyes searching the spinefex strewn horizon for Asylum seekers who may have beat the border.

    Tone in a lovely pastel shirt, starched collar, french cuffs with kangaroo links, sitting in an uncomfortable vinyl kitchen chair at a formica and chrome table. Supping tea from a chipped mug, assuring the battered, scared residents of the Vaucluse, Point Piper, Toorak, Peppermint Grove and other high end suburbs, that all will be well under his watch.

    Tone, having seen the fluff with Crabbe go over so well, organises, through
    Rupert, his weekly ” Prime Minister?…uh uh..Prime Steak ” cooking column in the week-end supplement of the Australian newsrag.

    Tone, never being one to let a nice little earner go by, and on the advice of Ita, takes up the Womens Weekly offer of the celebrity agony aunt column. Word has it that the working titles are:

    ” The Abbott….never confess without one. ”

    ” You did what with the f%^$@n ironing! ”

    ” Repentance…..Jesuit style ”

    ” Hair shirts are so cool ”

    ” Uncle Tone loves and respects you. Want a boiled lolly? ”

    There are believed to be rumours that Tone is commissioning a report into the activities of fish filleting, fruit and vegetable growng, factory floor sweeping heavy articulated truck drivers. First reports suggest it does not bode well for th

  28. CKW
    Could I have 12, 21 and 66 please? As I’m off to the MCG for the big match – the match of the finals probably – I won’t be around for the draw.
    Thanks Aguirre for your continued excellent posts. You and others in the pub community of the good-hearted remind me of the wonderful tribute offered by a fellow POW about Weary Dunlop: “A lighthouse of sanity in a world gone mad'”

  31. I don’t think Hyacinth would approve, jaycee, and we know he has problems with strong feisty women.

  34. PJF

    When it comes to heroes Weary Dunlop is for me the epitome. One of my most prized possessions is a copy of his autobiography he signed for me.

  38. Would it be going too far to suggest Tony could make Rupert Murdoch the next GG. ?

    Don’t you have to be an Australian citizen to be GG?

  47. CK, any three numbers for me please.

    And a bourbon and coke please Fiona.

    Another week done. Wife is ok, although should be sleeping more. First born has been going to bed sans nappy for the last couple of nights and waking up dry, much to my happy surprise. And baby just had his first round of vaccinations today. He did not enjoy them, probably why my wife stayed home with the firstborn.

    Early portents of the new Government not good for anyone to the left of Genghis Khan. By this time next year there will be many regretting their votes a fortnight ago.

    Tipping Manly and Melbourne to win the NRL this week. I don’t have any expertise in the AFL, but history suggests Hawthorn and Fremantle to win.

  50. “Don’t you have to be an Australian citizen to be GG?”
    That would just be a tick of a box for Tony, Slav g.

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