Hard News: Poll Crunch
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Craig:
On Hagel: Agreed, a voice of sanity and a Republican one at that was welcome. And there maybe very good reasons for his ineffectiveness, with the party giving him just enough leash not to throttle his voice but no more. After all, the Bush/Cheney hasn't been shy with stonewalling all and every investigation it's questionable whether Hagel would've acheived any better accountability.
On Palin: Yeah, I've been following that conversation among the US blog - if not the rabid - but what I see is much grougwork being laid for the Republican Party having A. Long. Hard. Look. at itself and what it's become. Most talk during the credit crisis has been between the financial and social conservative divide in the party but I see it may be more of a small 'c' conservative vs. Conservative debate. Not being able to rely on The Base plus a bit and having to talk more moderately would - I believe - exclude Palin as a pick. Also, failed Vice-Presidental Cadidates aren't genreally considered kindly... (Yes: this all with the caveat of reading this from afar but, just like blogs, an obsessive concentration on US politics has taken me some way to learn which voices are worth listening to...).
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This has always mildly puzzled me. If you're doing it even close to right that should result in a net weight reduction.
This is the female school of thought that has a man burning 3,000 calories a shot? And I thought men had ridiculous expectations...
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The pithy retort that never occurred to Glenn McGrath.
Giovanni, I'm assuming you mean Shane Warne?
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Giovanni, I'm assuming you mean Shane Warne?
I thought the attribution was Glenn McGrath v. a Kenyan batsman?
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I thought the attribution was Glenn McGrath v. a Kenyan batsman?
Zimbabwean
Glen McGrath, employing gamesmanship tactics tried to get under the skin of Zimbabwe player Eddo Brandes. He ran up to Brandes during a follow through and enquired: "Oi, Brandes, why the hell are you so fat?" Without missing a beat, Brandes replied "Cos every time I f**k your wife she gives me a biscuit"
The spontaneous retort sent even the aussie slip fielders into delirium who were seen lying on the ground clutching their stomach all the while as McGrath retraced his steps to the start of his run-up for his next delivery
Right up there with 'you know what it looks like, you go find it'.
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Oh there you go now... I'd forgotten it was McGrath. Thanks.
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Right up there with 'you know what it looks like, you go find it'.
I think we found the person who's going to sub for Hadyn during the cricket season.
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I'm seriously hoping the Australian's get flogged but I still don't see the Blackcaps being competitive when they get here.
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I'm seriously hoping the Australian's get flogged but I still don't see the Blackcaps being competitive when they get here.
We are pushing Bangladesh.
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I think we found the person who's going to sub for Hadyn during the cricket season.
We do make a good team. Haydn doesn't like cricket, oh no, and I love it, yeah.
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My favourite
Shane Warne : I've waited two years for another chance to humiliate you.
Daryll Cullinan : Looks like you spent it eating. -
Shane Warne : I've waited two years for another chance to humiliate you.
Daryll Cullinan : Looks like you spent it eating.Sledge of the century?
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Sledge of the century?
I'm partial to "Hi Ian, how are your wife and my kids?"
An Aussie wicketkeeper to Botham, I think. -
No one sledged better than Merv Hughes:
Hughes to Robin Smith: "So, does your husband play cricket too?"
...Hughes: "You can't f---ing bat!"
Smith: "Merv, we make a fine pair. I can't f---ing bat and you can't f---ing bowl." -
Mark Waugh : "F*** me, look who it is! Mate, what are you doing out here? There's no way you're good enough to play for England"
James Ormond : "Maybe not, but at least I'm the best player in my family"
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Talking about cricket, I've set my alarm for 10 days from now and won't visit PA until then. Hopefully the discussion will have ended. Jerry Lewis was right.
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The GREATEST sledge of all, without a doubt in my mind, is the following exchange between Glenn McGrath (Australia) and the VERY rotund Eddo Brandes (Zimbabwe).
McGrath: "Oi, Brandes, why the hell are you so fat?"
Brandes: "Cos every time I fuck your wife, she gives me a biscuit".
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well, let me say that i just heard the prime minister speaking on the radio about the john key "neutron bomb".
what i heard in her tone of voice was, "this wasn't my stupid idea".
i'm thinking that a year from now we'll look back a go, "that was the point that someone's stupid idea cost them the election."
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well, let me say that i just heard the prime minister speaking on the radio about the john key "neutron bomb".
what i heard in her tone of voice was, "this wasn't my stupid idea".
Fairly or not, the organ-grinder gets in trouble when her monkey starts throwing its poo at random. But I heard something slightly different, after all it's got her another chance to push the 'Slippery John' line, even if she's got to be more subtle than usual.
But I have a funny feeling the next round of polls are going to be watched even more closely than usual.
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i'm working off gut feel.
gut says, "phone those melbourne bookies and put a C-note on the nats"
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So am I Che, and my gut is saying, "Nobody is more dangerous than when you've got them in a corner -- because they've nothing to lose by going straight for your eyes."
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my gut also says, "ur walking close to da lyne".
so, it's over craig. we'll have to go our separate ways.
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my gut also says, "ur walking close to da lyne".
Hey, I don't mean that as any way disrespectful to Clark. Like her or not, you've got to respect that she paid her dues in a party where (as they say in Boston) politics ain't beanbag. You've also got to respect that she pulled together a party that could easily have degenerated into the kind of fundamentally irrelevant snakepit the British Tories have been for most of the last fifteen years, or the ALP when they were determined to be John Howard's best electoral asset. She's sharp, and hasn't been a three-term Prime Minister by backing down from a fight on the campaign trail.
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