Hello patrons.
Tonight for something a little different we will have a little quiz night.
The rules
I will post a series of 10 questions
You will have 15 mins to think about them and post your answers.
Then another series of questions etc.
I will score the previous series and post totals before the next series.
If I make mistakes shoot me.
THIS IS A HONESTY SYSTEM. PLEASE NO GOOGLE ETC.
ASKING PARTNERS, FRIENDS,ETC IS ACCEPTABLE
This takes a little bit of work, so if I run a little late with posting forgive me.
First game will begin about 6.00pm correct time.
10 min/5 min warning will be given.
The winner will be crowned” THE PUB” Champion until the next time.
Join in have a bit of fun and good luck.
THE PUB 
Fiona
Ever since my very first trip to ‘Straya in 1982 I have had a huge grudge/chip on shoulder/ bias against Bananabenders. Going through customs in Brisbane as part of a rugger bugger team from Sheepens land I was met with the query “Have you got any Maoris in the team ?” . I innocently replied that yes we did and had a couple of pacific islanders as well. To which the customs officer said “Well that explains the trailer them.” . I was totally WTF ? was he on about …………………until after going through customs I saw that behind our bus was a trailer for our luggage (We didn’t have them in NZ) I exploded.
The outrage has never left me.
Kaffeeklatscher,
Take it as the customs officer’s way of saying “Welcome to the Deep North”.
I’m only being semi-facetious.
Fiona
Later trips to rural towns there because of work this tune spontaneously popped into my head. Prejudice ? You bet ya but I nae have seen a reason to lose it. Mind you racism in WA country towns are at least as strong……if not worse. However the tune didn’t come to mind when visiting them.
Kaffeeklatscher,
I must also point out that Joh was all Sheepens land’s fault – he was born (to Danish parents) at Dannevirke. Ya shoulda kept him there.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dannevirke
Good evening All,
Interesting happenings in my Qld State electorate. The sitting LNP member is having very few helpers on the ground, mainly his family. He has billboards up all around the electorate and roadworks here there and everywhere which were only started in the past few days.
Our ALP candidate has people manning signs up and down the main roads everyday and at the prepoll booth. The candidate, like so many ALP candidates is hitting the phone and talking to voters and doorknocking. The personal touch seems to be cutting through all the LNP ads and lies.
Talking about ads, tonight in every commercial break on the Freetoair TV station I was watching the LNP had an ad featuring a lifesaver’s boat?? who knows why because I certainly don’t, I think they were channeling team work. Anyway they had a ad at each break.
Ms Adventure,
Maybe they have received some sort of subliminal message that they’ll need a lifeboat to get out of the place alive?
Orange lifeboats?
Blue lifeboats and blue and yellow life-jackets. Blue and yellow are the colour of the “Strong” message.
Ms Adventure,
Probably too late for the ALP to point out that yellow is – traditionally – the colour of cowards. Also of infectious disease.
Fiona!! You’ve changed.
Soaring with eagles.
Ms Adventure & Ducky,
One of the best times of my life was watching these amazing birds – when I visited Christmas Island in the mid 1990s – somewhat before the failed casino and even longer before the disastrous concentration camp.
Both of which – but especially the latter – were shocking things to impose on a nearly pristine place.
So I thought I’d be a Golden Bosun – for a while, anyway.
Good morning Dawn Patrollers. Yay!!! My internet speed has been restored.
Compulsory acquisitions never go down well.
http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/westconnex-letters-anger-st-peters-residents-20150124-12xgkd.html
Charles Waterstreet and the hustlers of New York.
http://www.smh.com.au/comment/waterstreet-life-the-big-apples-hustlers-keep-the-dream-alive-20150124-12vsk4.html
Clearly this works and works well. So why not introduce it?
http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/poll-shows-90-per-cent-support-for-nsw-premier-mike-bairds-recycling-scheme-20150124-12wvh5.html
Hockey talks tough. Let’s see how long that lasts.
http://www.smh.com.au/national/hockey-income-tax-burden-to-increase-if-labor-keeps-blocking-savings-measures-20150124-12xdet.html
Abbott is being blamed for the G20 cost blow out.
http://www.smh.com.au/national/g20-bill-still-rising-as-tony-abbott-accused-of-hollow-words-on-downsizing-the-hosting-spend-20150124-12wooq.html
There’s nothing more Australian than the minimum wage says Peter Martin and there’s minimal evidence against it. A very good article.
http://www.smh.com.au/comment/minimal-evidence-against-the-minimum-wage-20150124-12wn9c.html
How Alan Joyce brought the nation to a standstill.
http://www.smh.com.au/business/grounded-how-alan-joyce-brought-qantas-and-the-nation-to-a-standstill-20150122-12v3zg.html
Women could be a trump card in opposing GST on food, etc.
http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/national/women-warn-pm-on-gst-hikes/story-fnii5s40-1227195818116
This one has sneaked in under the radar.
http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/business/increase-cost-for-families-running-an-airconditioner/story-fni0cp8k-1227195669476
Desperation brings Newman’s innate arrogance to the fore.
http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2015/jan/24/campbell-newman-tells-reporters-to-google-evidence-of-bikie-donations
Section 2 . . .
James Massola – Abbott is trapped in a death spiral.
http://www.canberratimes.com.au/federal-politics/political-opinion/2015-shaping-up-to-wake-political-opponents-from-midterm-slumber-20150123-12woyo.html
This is a very informative article about what is eating Medicare costs.
http://www.canberratimes.com.au/national/health/doctors-fees-under-the-microscope-amid-accusations-of-overdiagnosis-20150123-12w2yz.html
Why the Greek election is so important.
https://theconversation.com/explainer-why-the-greek-election-is-so-important-36565
What an LNP poster girl Verity Barton is! She’s in a class of her own.
https://independentaustralia.net/politics/politics-display/here-we-joh-again-the-lack-and-loss-of-verity,7291
Fly in – fly out, the cancer of the bush.
http://www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/opinion/2015/01/24/fighting-fifo-the-cancer-the-bush/14220180001411#.VMP7hUeUeSo
The three worst things the Liberals did yesterday.
http://www.ellistabletalk.com/2015/01/24/the-three-worst-things-the-liberals-did-yesterday-177/
Jack Waterford – Australians let us all ignore!
http://www.smh.com.au/business/grounded-how-alan-joyce-brought-qantas-and-the-nation-to-a-standstill-20150122-12v3zg.html
Newman forced into accepting the Fitzgerald transparency principles. If he gets back in stand by to see this promise emasculated.
http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2015/jan/24/queensland-election-campbell-newman-forced-to-endorse-transparency-principles
Legal experts warn Newman that suing The Parrot is risky.
https://theconversation.com/queensland-premier-suing-alan-jones-is-risky-legal-experts-36651
Alan Moir with Scott Morrison setting off to work at his new job.
http://www.smh.com.au/photogallery/federal-politics/cartoons/alan-moir-20090907-fdxk.html
Andrew Dyson – I don’t think this is water that Abbott is struggling in.
http://www.smh.com.au/photogallery/federal-politics/cartoons/andrew-dyson-20090819-epqv.html
MUST SEE! Pat Campbell and the last act of a desperate man.
http://www.smh.com.au/photogallery/federal-politics/cartoons/pat-campbell-20141123-1t21q.html
Big surprise.. Not!
Today’s editorial.
http://www.couriermail.com.au/news/queensland-state-election-2015/editorial-lnp-deserves-the-chance-to-finish-the-job-it-started-in-2012/story-fnrab879-1227195801620
joe6pack
Read the one you posted yesterday too, both so so bad, not even laughable.
MsAdventure
Great observation, thanks. Hopefully Labor will prevail. I know it is a big hope, but then, look what happened last QLD election, they’ve done it once, they can do it again.
Fiona,
As shown in the photo you posted, yesterday, your library looks much like mine. I couldn’t fail to notice Les Carlyon’s History of the First World War. It sits there dominating its section of my library. I found it a very well written and researched book but somewhere around the middle of1917 in the mire of the French trenches and the gore and stench of no-man’s land, the arrogance of the high-level officers and the utter hell for the poor bastards in the trenches, I just had to close the book and say “enough, no more” (not that it ever was sweet, before). From time to time I look at the book now – it’s pretty hard to miss when one’s eyes are flitting past – but nod my head negatively, I don’t think I’ll ever open it again. I do, from time to time, and more often recently, as the years clip by and the end of reading (and living) time grows imperceptibly closer, decide about page 15 or 25 that a book’s not for reading, but that’s because I decide reading the book is a waste of time (for me) – and writing it may well have been fro the author, but that’s her or his problem, not mine – but that wasn’t why I closed the Carlyon book
Fiona – the Golden Bosunbirds (White-tailed Tropicbirds) are lovely, but I think the highlight for me was watching frigatebirds drinking water on the wing from of a rapidly disappearing puddle of water. They would wheel around and line up with the puddle, with a bird scooping (or trying to scoop) every couple of seconds. How they managed to avoid collision with their 2m+ wingspan is beyond me, particularly when they changed direction (presumably due to changing wind direction.) We also saw them drinking from the swimming pool at the recreation centre, swooping in under the shade cloth.
From BK’s links – the James Massola piece.
If you ever needed proof that journalists have one expectation of Labor and an entirely different, far more lenient one of Abbott and his lousy government then read the piece. It’s full of negatives about Shorten with a little bit of ‘Tony can still turn it around’ thrown in.
Here’s an example –
with 7:30’s Leigh Sales in early December, Shorten frustrated the host to the point where she felt the need to point out that it is “actually really important if you want people to vote for you that you explain what you would do”.
Shorten’s reply: And in good time before the next election we’ll detail all of our policies
Exactly what Abbott did for years, and every time he said ‘we’ll tell you closer to the election’ whoever was doing the interviewing would simper and move on to the next question. Not one of them showed any frustration with that answer but now, with Shorten, we are told it is something that drives interviewrs to desperation. And why has no journalist or interviewer ever bothered to ask our Dear Leader what happened to those fifty policies we were assured were fully costed and ready to go? The ones that vanished without ever seeing the light of day.
I’ve had my doubts about James Massola’s political leanings, this piece pushes those doubts along considerably.
James Massola sees himself as a “player”, and I thought it was pretty obvious which side he was playing for. He was the one that outed Greg Jericho “in the public interest”:
http://grogsgamut.blogspot.com.au/2010/09/spartacus-no-more.html
They just want Shorten to come up with some ideas, to give them something to criticise. Shorten is probably right to wait. I’m sure he and his team are getting ready quietly.
The journos did the same thing under J Gillard. Constantly discussing the leadership until they had their man back and then it was the end of Labor.
Was listening to L Oakes on RN the other day. He strongly believes he is a player. Wish he’d retire completely.
Brianmcisme….I know exactly what you mean…there are sections of Tacitus’ Roman history that i cannot re-read…it is just too depressing to read the primary text..and I will restrict myself to scholarly analysis for that period.
As you say…enough is enough!
Anything to distract from Team Abbott, who clearly have no idea.
” Was listening to L Oakes on RN the other day. He strongly believes he is a player. Wish he’d retire completely.”…….He can’t afford to….he’s got an appetite to support!
Is that our Hector in the photo accompanying this article ? 🙂 But seriously , this is bad shit. Fark you Abbott, Minchin ,Robb and all the rest of youse climate change is crap ring leaders.
http://i100.independent.co.uk/article/the-oceans-were-so-hot-in-2014-they-broke-scientists-charts–eJD5soHUil
Anything to distract from Team Abbott, who clearly have no idea.
The trouble is they have plenty of ideas – dangerous ideas, wrecking ideas – but they’re not theirs. Those ideas are all on a long IPA list. Idealess Abbott just has to follow the masters like a dog on a leash. How admirable!
For those interested – the whole shebang will be live on the ABC at 6.00 pm tonight.
The contenders – I’d cross two or three off the list.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-01-24/australian-of-the-year-nominees-australia-day-2015/6042836
Brian,
I have yet to read Les Carlyon’s massive book – I inherited it from a dear friend, the anniversary of whose untimely death is rapidly approaching. When I do read it, I shall keep your wise words in mind and take it in small doses.
Jaycee,
There is a very good reason why Tacitus is in the next room.
he’s got an appetite to support!
I’m sure he’s got plenty stashed away. He’s worked for so many years during which he may have been overpaid and overestimated.
These MSM. “players” ought to give some consideration to THEIR station in THEIR country. It’s alright for those big corp’ bosses they write support pieces for, all those fossil energy companies, or the anti NBN. media corps’, and the mining sector…THOSE bosses reside overseas and have nothing to fear from any public backlash against their voracious ripping off of the Aust’ public….they are safe overseas..but these MSM. journos here, who live, sleep, shop and what-not amongst that very public being taken for suckers, might someday feel the brunt of the anger directed toward those giving outright support and justification to such “criminality”.
There may come a time when they will need more than a “gated community” to protect their “interests”…and you can guarantee their foreign employers will not worry about their worthless skin..after all, who ever has given safe harbour to any traitor?…..look what happened to Judas!
Leone,
I hope Rosie Batty wins. She has shown remarkable courage and unyielding determination to get our Governments to re-look at the causes and effects of domestic hatreds that lead to violence and death.
Robert Fisk’s tome is equally daunting and hard to read, emotionally.
Al Palster
So do I. She would be an excellent choice.
I’m not sure about Deborah-Lee F. Hasn’t she, and her husband, already countless accolades?
Leone & Al Palster,
I hope the Australia Day Council has thought carefully about this one and goes for Rosie Batty.
For some strange reason, I think abbott’s choice would be Ms Furness. She’s blonde, “sexy”, famous, and married to someone famous – and don’t forget that little
a bit over a year ago.
Captain’s pick, tony?
Fiona,
Yes, Abbotts choice would be the admirable Deborah. That would be Bishops choice too, going by her fawning of Mr Deborah in NY yesterday. But I don’t think the Captain gets a pick on this one.
New rules
Abbott doesn’t get to choose, thank goodness.
Ms Furness is one I’d cross off. Hanging out with Abbott – even being groped by him – has gained her a lot of attention, but to my mind overseas adoption is not a major issue, rather it seems to be something only for those wealthy enough to be able to buy themselves a child. (I’m happy to be corrected on that.)
If Deborah-lee had been fighting to encourage more Aussies to become foster parents for the thousands of kids here in desperate need then I might think better of her nomination.
continues
Al Palster,
abbott has form on overriding properly constituted judging panels’ decisions:
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/dec/11/row-over-tony-abbotts-nasty-intervention-to-split-literary-prize
http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/federal-libs-prepare-east-west-link-campaign-to-pressure-daniel-andrews-20150124-12xevm.html
http://www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/defence/2015/01/24/us-arms-suppliers-overrule-courts-australia-with-itar/14220180001416
http://mslods.com/2015/01/24/mslods-news-round-up-law-technology-48/ lots of good links
https://hatfulofhistory.wordpress.com/2015/01/25/how-the-aboriginal-tent-embassy-challenged-the-governments-protest-laws/ good history blog
Fiona,
If Abbott does intervene again, it would surely backfire. The Australia Day Council would ensure that intervention – however subtle – was leaked. That would be a political disaster.
The Australia Day board – the people who choose Australian of the Year.
http://national-nadc-dev.cre8ive.com.au/corporate/about-us/national-australia-day-council/
I believe that there is no way Adam Goodes would have been the 2014 Australian of the Year if Tony Abbott could have prevented it.
Books you never read to the end –
“Berlin” by Antony Beevor.
CTar1,
Books you never start: Lazarus Rising.
Is this a clue to the winner or a consolation prize for Ms Furness?
Australian families adopting overseas will be offered government help
http://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/jan/25/australian-families-adopting-overseas-will-be-offered-government-help?CMP=ema_632
I am not in a good frame of mind this afternoon…I find the “mood” of many people so opportunist…so hungry to take advantage of anyone they think they can to be so prevalent amongst so many these days…it is so disheartening. I blame it on the promotion of “individual self-interest” and “getting ahead” no matter what or who stands in your way!…It’s that bastard LNP. philosophy pushed to the fore by Howard and his ilk.
I despise the way Aust’ has lost it’s sense of humour and it’s sense of playfulness…since about the mid ninety’s. We’ve become mean-spirited bastards!, just like the worst of them…always looking for an opportunity…It’s terrible..how’d we get like this?
I hate it.
Books that won’t be written: The Wit of Tony Abbott.
I wonder if OH would notice if I “disappeared” Lazarus Rising from his study?