Posts by Joe Wylie

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  • Hard News: The Sunday Capers,

    well would someone please elucidate for me the reasons that this Mr Laws' column on epidemica is a monument of "comprehensive ignorance"?

    If god hadn't meant there to be swine flu (s)he'd've given pigs hands, so they could take Lhawsie's advice & wash 'em.

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  • Southerly: At the RWMC with Alan Bollard,

    "Which country formerly featured a pair white mice on its highest denomination note?"

    I'd assumed that they were just a pair of lab critters, part of the general ambience of Florey's role in the discovery of penicillin. Now that it's been revealed that Bollard was up to his tricks in those parts back in the day I'm inclined to suspect that it's an illuminati thang. The Richmond Workingmen's Club is renowned as a hotbed of that Erwige Blumenkraft stuff.

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  • Southerly: At the RWMC with Alan Bollard,

    Aussies only introduced the hundred dollar note in 1984. This story allegedly happened in 1974, if Bollard was 23 at the time.

    Bollard was young, concussed, and already showing an early talent for factoring in the effects of inflation. Howevah, there's no way anyone but the profoundly colour blind could confuse the old $50 Florey 'pineapple', with it's cryptic symbolism of a pair of white mice worked into the design (true) with the monochrome $100 Mawson 'grey nurse'.

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  • Hard News: Going Underground,

    Forget those silly hats. Dig a sensible tunnel.

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  • Hard News: There is History,

    I tweeted it and got a bunch of RTs who'd been (briefly) taken in

    There are still folks who trust the BBC, then. How sweet.

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  • Hard News: There is History,

    Those cuuute little piglets.

    Hogwash. Those cuties grow up to resemble some mediaeval concept of the antichrist. Left unsupervised they'll cheerfully devour their arguably cuter nominal cousins, the guinea pigs.

    Swine fever at a Japanese petting zoo:

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  • Hard News: There is History,

    Those cuuute little piglets.

    Hogwash. Those cuties grow up to resemble some mediaeval concept of the antichrist. Left unsupervised they'll cheerfully devour their arguably cuter nominal cousins, the guinea pigs.

    Swine fever at a Japanese petting zoo:

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  • Hard News: There is History,

    And in general I've found the coverage a lot more sane and balanced than the coverage of most other things -

    When 'most other things' consists of 'Editor's picks' such as Linsey Lohan's latest tattoo, well naturally. The 'element of vaudeville' you describe has been centre stage for some time now.

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  • Hard News: There is History,

    Yes, except... no. It's not what happened at all.

    Ah . . . so, for example, "Nick Smith stricken with suspected Coughing Pig Death" isn't alarmist nonsense. I stand corrected.

    flat earth • Since Jan 2007 • 4593 posts Report

  • Hard News: There is History,

    Yes, except... no. It's not what happened at all.

    Ah . . . so, for example, "Nick Smith stricken with suspected Coughing Pig Death" isn't alarmist nonsense. I stand corrected.

    flat earth • Since Jan 2007 • 4593 posts Report

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