You might remember a few days ago when we questioned why McDonalds had its flags at half mast for fire victims, while Michael Keenan local Federal member was flying his at full pole. Well yesterday, Keenan was half masting, and Maccas was full poling! Will somebody get some flag consistency on Wanneroo road! What’s going on? Think of the fire victims! Regarding flags, I hear that the PM has said that flags will fly at half mast every year on this day to commemorate the fire. Really? Every year? Doesn’t that seem a teensy bit over the top? We’ll run out of days if we keep that up, and everyone will have to be at half mast all the time. It would help McDonalds and Keenan get it right though.
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Red indians and “Wanneroorow!”.
The old good days.
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Clearly Mr Keenan was in somber reflection of Our Heath’s OscarTM win.
The real question: Why doesn’t McDonald’s care about dead actors from tentpole moves?
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忽悠
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Flickering?
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Another Chinese talker? The dictionary also says it can be to trick people, as well as fluttering flag or flickering lights.
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Nope, just a puzzled Googler. Real shame that.
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What about Keith Ledger day ??????
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Keef ? Is there another one ? Perhaps he can win a “Heath” ( renamed in his honour) next year.
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That’s how much attention I pay to him, his name, his family and whatever film he made. Perhaps he was a reincarnation of James Dean
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Calling Heath Ledger “Keith Ledger” is the sort of low-level trollery that the dickheads in the newsgroup aus.tv resort to. Come on, I thought we had a better class of shit-stirrers here in TWOP.
Speaking of which, the acronym “TWOP” really lends itself to being a swear word in itself. I would like to forward the motion that “twop” be under consideration for being created as a word used to denigrate others. (and I must stress that I am NOT referring to Groucho here, he’s no doubt a highly intelligent person and a nice guy, I’m just on a roll and going off on a tangent here). Imagine a dictionary definition of “twop”:
Twop (noun) – a clueless individual, feckless, unselfconsciously stupid in a notable way. “That bloke who writes opinion pieces in The West Australian is a real twop”.
It could be sort of like an amalgamation of two words, such as “twat” and “fop”.
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Anyone near Wannaroot Rd, can u check whether Keenan is up or down today.
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Why not just contact him or his meeja officer (because they love being telephoned and made to do work) and seek comment?
http://www.keenan.net.au/Contact.asp
As shadow workplace relations minister maybe he could put a good foot forward and hire an electorate flag officer to ensure all flags are displayed properly.
Actually… seriously, wasn’t that a Howard Government policy?
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Something along those lines, Grrr, but Pat Farmer didn’t know why.
Were Keenan and Maccas registered with the Commonwealth Flag Network, they could simply receive emails detailing when to get around with their fly undone.
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Unnamed sources indicate Keenan at full mast today.
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Keenan’s flag was half-masted since close of business on Friday. I think someone on his staff got tipped off to your earlier story and, knowing the national day of mourning was coming up on the Sunday, they were determined not to be caught out again.
Keenan’s website -biography section- has a cute pic in which the Shadow himself is showing a pair of schoolgirls a novel use for the Australian flag.
http://www.keenan.net.au/Biography.asp
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look, if they were serious they would all be mourning that Marisa Tomei was cheated out of her Oscar
I know I am
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Apparently this Marisa Tomei loves funny, quirky, bald men.
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Damn, should have used the reply function.
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two out of three aint bad,
I’ll have to shave my head, or wait till the hairline recedes further
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Besides, he doesn’t even know her. It’s not like anyone’s trying to fix them up. Who, who would try and fix skink up with Marisa Tomei?
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but I have hand!
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Is it coming out of your gloves, Skink?
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You’d know whether Marisa went commando-style to the Oscars then ?
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Skink, Apps has a piece in Crikey about new editor for Teh West. Aren’t you a subscriber? Anything interesting?
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The Apps piece says nothing new – still looking for an editor and McCarthy and Baddass are the only names mentioned so far.
it has become news because Wharton is speaking at the Perth Press Club Friday (and as president Apps is giving it a plug), and so Apps is whipping up speculation that Wharton will be quizzed about the new editor, or lack thereof.
“the challenge for Cronin and the new editor will be to avoid an over-reaction to the Armstrong excesses by making the paper too bland…the time is right for an injection of journalistic talent and a more innovative, fresh approach that will inject energy into the publication.”
good luck with that
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Don’t forget Adshead.
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There was word that it would be announced at the Perth Piss Club on friday.
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possibly
Apps says the event is sold out, which is apt because selling out is what Perth journos do best
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I thought cutting & pasting was what they did best. Are you suggesting they’re multi-skilled?
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Such wit. There’s a strong possibility you’re both (distantly) related to Oscar Wilde…
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He of Broke-Ass Mountin fame ? How’s that possible genetically speaking ?
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Are you going?
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No. The students need to be enlightened.
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Via Wilbur Wilde.
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Good to see we’re still keeping this important issue alive. I will be monitoring all flags along Wanneroo Road until further notice.
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