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First Dog On The Moon

What is with things trying to sail here and cause trouble?

First Dog On The Moon

Jul 20, 2012

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22 thoughts on “What is with things trying to sail here and cause trouble?”

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  1. zut alors
    July 20, 2012 at 3:03 pm

    “We will decide which icebergs come to this country and the circumstances in which they come.”

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  2. ernmalleyscat
    July 20, 2012 at 3:15 pm

    That’s just a distraction from the real threat. Those giant lettuces.

    Lettuce be vigilant, cos the icebergs may be behind us, butterhead lies the loose leafs that sink ships.

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  3. Andybob
    July 20, 2012 at 4:12 pm

    Didn’t Thor Heyerdahal show that icebergs can float from Greenland to Brunswick ? After all, its all downhill to Cape Horn and after that it can just shuffle around pretending to be an Antarctic iceberg, although absence of penguins would seem to be a giveaway.

    I shall raise it with the various prosetlysers outside my polling place for the Melbourne byelection and let them know my fourth preference may turn on their policy regarding Northern Hemispheric icebert defences. I’ll be voting Stephen Mayne first, second and third of course.

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  4. SBH
    July 20, 2012 at 4:20 pm

    I’m not fussed. Even if it makes it to Brunswick it’ll never get up the hill to Northcote

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  5. Andybob
    July 20, 2012 at 4:21 pm

    Gah ! I live in Richmond electorate and can’t vote tomorrow. I want back all those hours spent thinking about preferences between the 31 candidates (alright, two and a half minutes). Its disenfrachisement, its not right and I’m gonna complain on the Bolter’s blog….oh wait.

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  6. rubiginosa
    July 20, 2012 at 5:59 pm

    You can stand down Dog. Without a beard and a fixie, that iceberg won’t get past Royal Park.

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  7. Bryannai Baillieu
    July 21, 2012 at 7:23 pm

    Calm down everyone – after all it is a white iceberg!! Them lefty lettuces though..

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  8. Peterhau
    July 22, 2012 at 10:19 pm

    it seems strange that the iceberg would travel all the way to brunswick, when all it really needs is to lob on “the shire” – iceberg threat ends, so does an awful TV show. win / win, I say. if the sea level rises, then I have a water frontage in canberra.

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  9. Mike Jones
    July 24, 2012 at 1:51 am

    Ha ! That mustachio’d mystery cat was EMC – all along. I knew it ! Magnificent pun run, pussy boy ! To us, you sure did sock it – the only ones that I might add were oak leaf and maybe rocket.

    Ice is Twice as Nice

    Oh Shaggy Dog, Oh Shaggy Dog,
    Now like a Husky furred,
    We need a tanker of vermouth and gin.
    Make ’em shaken and not stirred.

    Now good folk of Brunswick hold the line,
    Against this monster pesky,
    While WE duck out – and go and find
    A [email protected]’ enormous Esky.

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  10. ernmalleyscat
    July 24, 2012 at 9:36 am

    Curses MJ, you’ve foiled my cunning plan.
    And come up with a line – “against this monster pesky” – worthy of The Tempest.

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