Yeah, but even so you then proceeded to have the nastiest sex you've had in a long time, right? You called her "Sarah", and she used words they don't use in god fearin' Alaska and ...

ahem.

There is (naturally*) a Sarah Palin-based porn film now called "Who's Naillin' Palin?"…

He and Friedman spend all day bench pressing anvils, buffing themselves and counting the days 'til Maggie gets there.

I love this forum so much.

I can just see him with a pitchfork, cloven hooves, and going Heh Heh Heh as the next batch of the damned arrived.

He and Friedman spend all day bench pressing anvils, buffing themselves and counting the days 'til Maggie gets there.

uh ... um ... I'll go stand in the corner now, my bad.

See you do.

And we want those hands where we can see them.

He'd probably be getting a bit of media mileage today (and putting the boot in to sundry monetarists) if he were still around.

If he's where I think he is, he'll have plenty of opportunity to do just that...

Actually, he's probably knifed Satan in the back by now. Taken…

Thought exercise for the week. If Muldoon were PM today, what would he have done about the financial crisis? Probably froze house prices a decade ago...

Or got Deputy PM Winston to see if he could hustle a few million off Owen Glen?

uh ... um ... I'll go stand in the corner now, my bad.

Hey, Paul is Depp-ing, and it's for Craig, the lucky bastard.

I got told I looked like Palin on Facebook a couple of days ago. I think this covers pretty much any brunette with glasses now.

Heh. Thought exercise for the week. If Muldoon were PM today, what would he have done about the financial crisis? Probably froze house prices a decade ago...

CER with Iceland.

A 50 billion dollar carbon sink machine (we can rent it to China!) to be built by hand next to…

He'd probably be getting a bit of media mileage today and putting the boot in to sundry monetarists if he were still around.

Heh. Thought exercise for the week. If Muldoon were PM today, what would he have done about the financial crisis? Probably froze house prices a decade ago...

FDR, I think. Nixon nixed Bretton Woods.

You're right. My mistake.

I think of Muldoon every time those words come up. He often wondered aloud about the good it might do the world to have a "new Bretton Woods." He'd probably be getting a bit of media mileage today (and…

Which is somewhat ironic, considering that it was Nixon who dropped the gold standard.

FDR, I think. Nixon nixed Bretton Woods.

Which – I'm over simplifying just a little here – was an attempt to have a gold standard without gold. Or much in the way of standards.

and ouila! there it was, perfect Palin

Voilà, peut-être?

Très embarrassé!

I blame the left-over booze.

SUV owners were vain, arrogant, stupid and insecure.

None taken Paul. Because really, it's my wife's.

and ouila! there it was, perfect Palin

Voilà, peut-être?

I did check, and Babel-fish translates ouila to ullaged which I think has something to do with leftover booze...

What is it with ginger cats?

What is it with hassling gingers?

...as you choose your adult Halloween costume.

consider Sarah Palin, apparently she's all the rage for Halloween this year.

The other night Amy was wearing her hair up and with her reading glasses on. "Wow, you almost look like Sarah Palin, I remarked." She silently looked at me, removed her…

next time you are writing a speech for a politician.

Not that I have been doing any of that this election. Just last week I had an email from a Mr Drinnan of The Royal NZ Herald asking just such a question. Imagine.

You're right about the pets, though. I…

I still hold despicable biases against the (likely totally blameless) owners of the related Audi Q7 and Porshe Cayenne. Especially the blasted Cayenne. They seem to be everywhere.

Sam, embrace your biases. Cherish them. One of the US auto manufacturers did a psychological test and found that SUV owners were…

Heh. I'm now very fond of Andrew's mockable Touareg. Seeing one on the motorway is vaguely cheering.

Likewise. However, I still hold despicable biases against the (likely totally blameless) owners of the related Audi Q7 and Porshe Cayenne. Especially the blasted Cayenne. They seem to be everywhere.

...as you choose your adult Halloween costume.

consider Sarah Palin, apparently she's all the rage for Halloween this year.

Braised in a Touareg hubcap?

Heh. I'm now very fond of Andrew's mockable Touareg. Seeing one on the motorway is vaguely cheering.

Ha! Our ginga cat does that too.

Our ginga cat got his name (Wooster) from his ability to fall off windowsills into bushes, or get himself inextricably tangled in the blind cord. They DO get really shitty when you laugh at them.

Bastard Cat was the one before him, whose…

So he goes into the den where the piano is. Stomps up and down the keyboard till someone comes to feed him.

Ha! Our ginga cat does that too.

What is it with ginger cats?

The only ginger cat I've ever known was a kind of cat genius when it came to human behaviour. My mum got him and dad – a farmer – reacted in dubious fashion.

Cat worked out though dad was a softie underneath. Dad would…

I will be very disappointed if that doesn't appear in The Crepes of Roth.

I was originallly thinking that it should have a recipe in every chapter – and any other rip off buttons I can think of and push.

Recipes with a "depression" flavour – sauteed cat, hot rats…

Got some more recession funnies in the FryUp nooslidda.

What is it with ginger cats?

Our ginger cat is, as a result of treatment for an abscess, sporting a hilarious poodle-esque shaved tail and nether regions. Because humiliation is such an important part of the healing process.

Especially when the bite-that-went-nasty went nasty half an hour and several hundred…

My former cat used to fling himself at a window that was only occasionally open as a useful cat-thoroughfare. While sometimes I'd make it in time to open it and watch him scramble through, occasionally you'd hear a thump…

Oh yeah, and when the worst gets here, we'll eat the cat.

I will be very disappointed if that doesn't appear in The Crepes of Roth.

Braised in a Touareg hubcap?

One day his timing was off & he walked past the only…