The Making of “Blame it on the Bossa Nova”
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Good choice First Dog. Doubles as the celebration party music.
“The bottom breathing Turtles of Australia salute you.”
There’s a vivid image.
Now we just have to hope that Australians getting Blame it on the Bossa Nova stuck in their heads for days is not too high a price to pay.
Tee hee … FDOTM, did you hear the scuttlebutt from Gunns’ AGM yesterday? That they think they will find a joint venture partner for their rapidly-gaining-more-expenses pulp mill vision?
Keep being the Creative Consultant there, so you can whisper in Pete’s ear about how we can’t really measure the amount of dioxin produced by envisaged pulp mill, and how that might mean he will have to say “mmm… willIwon’tI … um… no, sorry for the inconvenience”.
It’s just a thought, since you feel like saving the planet today.
Bravo, Mr Onthemoon, Bravo!
Next production (to publicise the plight of the Brush-tailed Phascogale (Phascogale tapaotafa) should be Gidget Goes Hawaiian.
Might I suggest an on-stage role for our Creative Consultant?
No audition needed for Gidge’s boyfriend - Moondoggie!
Greetings to the Hoaxing Cat … can you write in roles for the thylacine and the orange bellied parrot? Perhaps the Gungahlin legless lizard too?
They should be standing shoulder to shoulder with the Bottom Breathing Turtle. We could have Great White Sharks as bodyguards or the Secret Service, maybe.
FDOTM, you always DO this to me. I start building on your fantasies, and it gets OTT.
Funny but that is how I have always imagined you would look - a slightly rakish but very intelligent and serious direct stare - there may be something missing, a fedora perhaps? V xx
Mr Onthemoon, what a delicious handle. As always I must wipe the tears of laughter before typing. Another gem first dog, yes indeed, woof woof.
Gross feed in tariff for solar power albeit 7 years, by Rees Govt (effectively a power station on public rooves).
Mary River ‘travesty dam’ is dumped. Goodbye Anna?
Andrew Bartlett joins the Greens for an electoral tilt.
And the SMH front pager froths against the Greens on school rankings, as the ABC radio takes two Green MP’s in prime time.
Mmm. That’s a pattern of sorts.
“One of the largest infrastructure projects in Australia’ ??? I don’t think so. The Traveston (travesty) Dam project was dumb from the start. A small, shallow dam subject to high levels of evaporation and soaking to be built in an area of relatively low rainfall. I know, because I used to live just few klms from the site but not affected by it. Anna Bligh’s claims that the dam would have been filled 10 times over since 2006 are complete bullshit. I built my own (earth) dam on my property in 2003 and up to 2008, it never filled at all. Now it’s going to be more desal plants just like the failed one on the Gold Coast. What about funding every household to install another rainwater tank, plumb it into the laundry and toilet. Also, relax the rules covering use of grey water. Plus use the perfectly good recycled water for general purposes. Dams are not the answer, smarter use of water is the solution. Ray Sanderson
♡♡♡Oh Mr Onthemoon, how beautiful you are♡♡♡
A wonderful cartoon and a noble visage looks out at the camera. ♡♡♥
Now, as the man says, get stuck into the bastards at Gunns.
PS: I bet Crikey’s computers can’t handle the hearts!
Bakerboy wrong thread dude. We like a drop of light relief here, hugs and all that.
CRIKEY: I apologise. I bet you use Apples/Macs too.
RAYMOND CHURCH: ♠♠♠ Good one, well said. Ace♠
Bloody turtles - I live in Soth East Queensland and am now going to have to drink water with turds in (apparently).
Mr Pastry … it’s okay, I hear they put a few colanders in the mains to catch the solids. LOL.
I’m astonished that people in SE Qld thinks that the water they currently drink is cleaner than recycled sewage. Do they think the fish get out of the Wivenhoe Dam to go to the toilet?
Jane, stop reading my mind.
I was also maundering on my head, before I wrote that line, about how Mr Pastry might feel if humans had successfully developed and commercialised nanotechnology for medical treatment.
Any time you want to wonder what could happen … a book called “Snow Crash”. Nanotech out of control and totally random. Ow! Give me turtle poo any day.
Robbi64 - thanks for putting me at ease, I was working on putting a colander under the tap but it is reassuring that there is one up the other end.
LOL. You can’t be too careful, Mr Pastry. You never ever know for sure! Keep your colander at the ready.
Even the Pope thinks there could be aliens out thar (World Today, today), so Bottom Breathing Ninja Turtles are not beyond the realms of possibility either.