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Hard to know where to begin… Nice to see Elfy the Elf back
I believe the correct term is hanged.
I feared Federal Election’s depression may get the better of him, but I didn’t think he’d actually go through with it.
I saw him just the other day and, sure he looked a bit down, but he always bounces back. Were there signs I should have noticed? Was there something I could have said?
I swing between blaming myself and cursing him for being selfish to leave us with the grief.
If only he’d called Herbert.
Sad.
Mr Onthemoon, do you realise it’s The Sabbath? Should you be working on this holy day? If Tony Abbott forms a government part of his platform is to make Sundays holier than ever. Dogs could be gaoled for doing cartoons.
I’m fascinated with the electoral outcome: good, clean (?) parliamentary fun is guaranteed for all the family for the forseeable future. We’re paying for it, so sit back and enjoy the high jinks.
And what a big improvement we have now ! Replacing the balance of power in the Senate - a halfwit Christian loony - with Elfy the Elf.
And replacing a well-meaning, economically lucky but ultimately boofy government with a sh*tfight from hell government where smuggling budgies becomes a whole Department and smug wingnuts parade like poococks …..
Boy are the NSW right wing of Labor going to pay for this ……..
Roll on March, is all I can say….. and may the blood stain the waratahs then…..
Mike,
You’re lucky in NSW, you only have to wait until March. Up here in the tropics we have two whole years remaining before we can vent the collective spleen. And then we’ll be replacing Bligh & Co with a gaggle of turkeys, oy vey.
Ha ha - the democratic rump!
Thanks for that FD. Only laugh I’ve had all day.
(Except when someone suggested that Bob Katter, should be the new speaker of the house.)
Perhaps the bandicoot might like the job.
O I resisted coming to Crikey on a Sunday as so many of the loyal seem to have.
The door remains ajar reminding me of a gaping hole in the body electorate.
Sandshoe is able to honestly say she’s hung over this day without a drop.
@MIKE JONES. I wonder what these budgies are going to be smuggling.
@ EVERYBODY. Allons enfants de la patrie le jour de gloire! The country has been undone! Long live the country!
cool: 
:not alone: :not single handedly: :not on a passing whim: 
‘Shoe, I reckon budgies wearing underpants are definitely going to get noticed going through customs.
Killer fruitbats.
I’m with Zut Alors—just sit back & enjoy. Crikey blog on Saturday night was a lot of fun. The comments were coming in so thick & fast I didn’t get to play FD’s board game. Amazing how the intensity of commentary increased & decreased through the evening as various talking heads came on the telly. It was particularly intense when Rudd got the jump on his leader and came out smiling (or was that smirking) to claim victory—which victory was that again Kevin?
“Splinters in it’s bottom” ? You’ve been away from the wholesome influence of Jasper too long, he would have said arse.
oops, my bad grammar. should have been its.
Lucky escape from a killer retort from Innocent Until, Meski. It’s lucky for you, I said.
Any budgie in a crowd manages that in underpants is a serious celebrity don’t you worry about that, MIKE JONES. Teeheeee.
this is actually quite good.
one point: a really, really short knife-edge is a pin-head.
ok, two points: a pin-head is the editor of the terrorgraph.
ok, three points: i handed out how-to-votes for the greens, with my pre-schooler son, at a pre-poll station last week. had a great chat with a big-l liberal volunteer. this contrasted immensely with a trip to the philippines a few months ago where a priest, radio broadcaster and journalist were shot within 50 km of us for expressing their political views.
quite pointless, really.
@WYANE
Hello. I ‘read’ that image and its meaning for you and with your little boy. Wow. That is sad.
I just noticed here my comment @ SANDSHOE answering a previous comment of MIKE JONES was published following MIKE JONES> MESKI.
My reading of Mike Jones’ comment is he supposed Innocent Until otherwise would have chipped in with a wisecrack (“killer retort”) had not Meski self corrected .
WHEREAS’
my comment @ SANDSHOE refers to a sequence beginning @MIKE JONES some many hours before
“… smuggling budgies becomes a whole Department”
followed by my quip@SANDSHOE “I wonder what these budgies are going to be smuggling.”
and @MIKE JONES quip
” ‘Shoe, I reckon budgies wearing underpants are definitely going to get noticed going through customs.”
hence my latest @SANDSHOE
“Any budgie in a crowd manages that in underpants is a serious celebrity don’t you worry about that, MIKE JONES Teeheeee.”
Just thought I would say Wyane in case I caused confusion of meaning by posting without looking what else Mike Jones posted in that interim.
Regards
‘Shoe.