Island Life by David Slack

He continued denying the facts
but I wonder 'bout other impacts
'cause if he didn't know
from where came the dough
how did he pay income tax

Well, there's this oldie but goodie:

Oh, what a tangled web we weave,
When first we practice to deceive!
But when you've practised for a while,
How vastly doth your style.

:)

"How vastly doth improve your style". Hamnett!

He practiced
What he preached,
Constant denial

I see from this morning's paper that Winston Peters has once again blossomed into his triennial fingerpointing over gangs, immigration and multiculturalism.

And here was me somehow wondering in my heart if it was really an election year after all: no more. All is right with the world, in a predictable soul-destroying kinda way.

He's like an oil slick on the water - superficially pretty, shiny, attractive, but then you realise he's smothiering all life below and when you try and pin him down he just slips through your fingers...

It seems the high horse has become a bad horse. With an evil death whinny and a chorus of beer-drinking cowboys.

Did anyone else observe the moment on Morning Report today, where W Peters, cornered, almost began to squeak... I'm not sure I've ever heard it before. Satisfying and excruciating, all at once.

David Slack channels E.J.Thribb (17 1/2) I never thought I'd live to see the day ;-)
Shall I be the one that stands up for Winnie? He has always made me think of an 8 year old as a lawyer with his pedantic use of the disingenuous. Kinda cute, kinda funny, kinda needs a slap upside the head.

Shall I be the one that stands up for Winnie? He has always made me think of an 8 year old as a lawyer with his pedantic use of the disingenuous. Kinda cute, kinda funny, kinda needs a slap upside the head.

Steve! Slapping kids upside the head is not OK, and if you tried it on Winston you'd break your wrist on the solid mass of bone. :) But I get where you're coming from -- the combination of Jesuitical semantics, outright psychosis, and feral aggression is creepy-cool.

Slapping kids upside the head is not OK,

Sorry Craigo, how unPC of me.

How do I get hold of Owen Glenn?

I want 100K too.

How do I get hold of Owen Glenn?

Apparently, by the Balls.

It seems the high horse has become a bad horse. With an evil death whinny and a chorus of beer-drinking cowboys.

You really think Winston can be compared to the Thoroughbred of Sin? I suppose he does rule the party with an iron hoof.

I suppose he does rule the party with an iron hoof.

iron hoof? That there be rhyming slang, who are you calling an iron Hoof?

David has written several Thribbing pieces in the past.

Lines on the Death of Chairman Mao

So.
Farewell then
Chairman Mao.

You are the
Last of the
Great revolutionary

Figures. You
And I
Had little in
Common

Except that
Like me
You were a poet.

Though how you
Found time
To write poems

In addition to
Running a
Country of
800 million people

Is baffling
Frankly.

That one wasn't by David though.