I was sure I’d put this up before, but WAtching swears it hasn’t been seen. I’m sure Oggi’s are a cut above the general garden feature, but I like that while you’re not even cold in your grave, your kids might be fighting over a concrete nymph with big boozies who pours water from her jugs, like this one. Or a maiden befouled by Zeus himself, like this. Or even one like this from 2007 or the more recent elephant hung like a donkey. Is that what they mean? When you are dead, the kids will be fighting over the garden gnomes? Maybe Oggis can show us a sample of their wares so we can judge the quality. Me, I was born a this man, and I’ll die a this man.
The Worst of Perth 
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I agree… what the fuck?
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that is an attrocious tag line – very clunky and ridiculous to boot.
Must be because they have gifted “degigners”
http://www.oggi.com.au/
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That’s hilarious MP. And I do so love the faux crappy ’90’s look of their website. Top degign work.
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I’m sure this has been on before.
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Really? Well it is probably a good thing to have multiples.
Wouldn’t want the kids fighting over who gets this post.
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Oggi is Italian for today.
Perhaps for maximum effect the company should be called Oggi Domani?
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I thought the tag line very Italian as well. Italy is all about authentic art being collected and kept for prosperity.
This is perhaps a sad and dislocated emmigration of a grand idea.
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Lifestyle
now where did that come from
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Should anyone snap off the dangly bits of their garden sculpture, you can replace it with an oggi knob
http://www.kenma.com.au/oggy.html
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…while swigging some refreshing soda from Item 12 in link below:
http://oddee.com/item_96961.aspx
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UH OH!!!
Can i just take this moment to say what a wonderful group Patti Patti, Bree and all the other A-listers are. Good for you, and all the good work you do.
Cyber poison-penner hunted down and sued TONY WRIGHT
February 25, 2010 .
Legal counsel Martin Bennett has a short message for those who allow themselves to attack reputations over the internet, imagining they are safe under the cloak of anonymity. ”You can be hunted down and found,” he said yesterday.
Mr Bennett has done just that for a Perth client, winning $30,000 in damages and costs, an apology, and undertakings from a Colac man that he won’t post any more defamatory comments.
The hunt for the man’s true identity proved the stuff of private detective novels updated into the age of blogs.
It is, Mr Bennett said, one of a very few such actions in Australia against the author of anonymous postings on an internet forum. He predicts it is the tip of a legal iceberg.
”There has been an increasing proliferation of internet chat sites where people feel free to hide their identities and make defamatory comments about companies and their executives and directors,” he said in a statement released after the case in the Supreme Court of Western Australia was resolved.
The action against Graeme Gladman began after highly uncomplimentary comments appeared last November under pseudonyms on the HotCopper website, a stockmarket forum.
The postings related to technology security company Datamotion Asia Pacific Ltd and its Perth-based chairman and managing director, Ronald Moir. One posting appeared under the pseudonym of ”witch”.
Datamotion and Mr Moir hired Mr Bennett to launch defamation proceedings. But first Mr Bennett had to track down ”witch”. He asked HotCopper to reveal the identity of the person registered under that pseudonym, plus two others under different pseudonyms, but HotCopper refused.
Mr Bennett then took court action, forcing HotCopper to turn over its files. ”Unfortunately, the registered membership name appeared to be false,” he said. ”It turned out to be attached to an escort service in Geelong.”
But Mr Bennett was not prepared to concede the trail was cold. He told The Age he did not wish to reveal the details of his next detective steps, but the upshot was a defamation action against Mr Gladman alleging that, as a result of his postings, Datamotion and Mr Moir had been ”brought into hatred, contempt and ridicule and thereby suffered damage”.
It was resolved last week, with Mr Gladman agreeing to pay damages totalling $20,000, taxed legal costs of $10,000, and to provide apologies and undertakings not to publish further defamatory postings.
Mr Bennett has launched two more cases. Both are pending before the WA Supreme Court.
Source: The Age
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oh shi
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Thats why you often see xxx xx xxxxxx xxx over some comments.
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Where is your god, now?
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rest assured that there is a difference between contributors on this site posting their personal opinion on public figures, and someone posting false information on a stockmarket forum that might negatively influence a company’s share price.
You are perfectly entitled to say “I think that microcelebrity is a dill”.
if you weren’t then Peter Garrett’s lawyers would be very busy just now
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Commenters do step over that boundary sometimes though. There is a difference between, Peter Garrett xxxxx xxxx xxxxxxx and Peter Garrett xxx xxxx xxxxx.
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It appears to relate to unlisted companies as well. I’d be preparing an appeal to the High Court if I was Gladman dude, free speech and all that shit. Martin Bennett of course proclaims this as a great result while laughing all the way to the bank.
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I would just like to say that I have always considered The West to be a newspaper of the highest quality.
Its journalists are informed, objective and have impeccable grammatical standards.
It has just the right amount of local, national and overseas news reports. The articles are always the latest and well written in a balanced, informative style.
The lifestyle sections are topical and provide a wealth of information which benefits the community as a whole with fresh new recipes and a hilarious comic section.
That Ginger Meggs eh, what a scamp.
And the sports section, with only fourteen pages of football has something for everyone.
I say well done good sirs.
(writtenandspokenbyrblfortherblparty)
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needs more daniel hatch
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Especially in his Outback House mode :-)
http://www.abc.net.au/tv/outbackhouse/txt/s1376091.htm
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Frank, you know you have posted that link before. Are you a bit obsessed?
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Well you did ask for More Daniel, so I obliged :-)
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Dan’s on leave and has been replaced by the time waster Michael Hopkin
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needs more football
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yes orbea I’d like to see more of Daniel Hatch. Perhaps page 3?
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In belated Martin Bennett news from the AGE September 21, 2007 –
Businessman Alan Bond’s novel bid to sue freelance journalist Paul Barry over an article on his links to an African mining company has been thrown out by the Federal Court.
Bennett acted for Bond in that case by attempting to use the Trade Practices Act to sue Paul Barry.
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People seemingly try, but don’t get anywhere:
http://www.bloggerheads.com/archives/2009/11/simon_edhouse.asp
http://www.27bslash6.com/p2p2.html
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Yes, it’s not always a problem:
http://www.bloggerheads.com/archives/2009/11/simon_edhouse.asp
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xxxxxx OGGI xxxxx xxxxx xxxxxx sock-puppet xxxxxx xxxxx xxxxxx Martin Luther King xxxxx xxxxx xxxxx ha ha ha ha
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This seems as appropriate a place as any to mention how appallingly shit Perth writer Craig Silvey is. Check the blurb from ‘Rhubarb’:
Meet Eleanor Rigby – tiny, blind and left behind. Led by her zealous, overprotective guide dog, Warren, she courses constantly through the places she knows. Tired, mired and sequestered from the world, Eleanor can’t shirk the feeling she’s going nowhere slowly. Until, of course, she recognises something in the sound of Ewan Dempsey, reclusive and compulsive maker and player of cellos, who impels in Eleanor a rare moment of caprice…
xxxxxxxxxx xxxxx x xxx cunt!
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now i can agree with that. i thought rhubarb was one of the most over-hyped books i’ve read in a long time.
actually, for quite a while i thought silvey was wintoning.
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did it ‘impel’ any ‘caprice’ for ya?
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the man is obviously a poet:
“blind and left behind”
“Tired, mired ”
“reclusive and compulsive “
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did ‘e know it though, eh? eh?
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Bugger: I thought Pfortner was Craig.
Are you Robert Drewe, Pforts?
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elizabeth jolley?
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you might very well think that- I couldn’t possibly comment.
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Pforts your commentary picked up steam around the time Ben Elton moved back to Oz. Coincidence?
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I think not.
Prepare for a rash of Eltoning…
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Why aren’t you at that Town Hall media thingy?
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Didn’t sound so interesting, since I’m not speaking. Also I see myself as above all that as I hunt for worsts.
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Dave’s got you acting as his mouthpiece now LA? Is there no limit to that mans power and influence? And gymnastic abilities.
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Oops David, not Dave. Matt Buckels learnt that the hard way.
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He certainly did, shazza – but some say that is the best way to learn.
Of course, I will have to keelhaul you for your slip after you’ve been piped aboard the Bylines.
I trust you will refer to me as Cap’n David throughout the ordeal.
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Or Admiral Butthead
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why isn’t Cookster speaking at that event?
that man is the very spirit of the internet zeitgeisty age and never one to shirk the spotlight or a free lunch
I did however spot Sunili, a regular contributor to this organ until she realized the harm that it might do to her legal career
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Cockster is tweeting away like a dog on heet.
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I am sure he is.
the main topic of debate seems to be how great twitter could be for marketing, but all they seem to use it for is to announce when they are going to have their lunch, and the only people reading it are other media folk. and Frank
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That’s why I decided to only use twitter to create good original content. I rarely even promote a blog post. Not many people have decided to go down that path unfortunately.
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Speaking of which, had a chuckle at the plan to eradicate the Rockingham bucket bong TLA.
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and i picked up a few thigh health tips.
perhaps the west could feature it in their health and lifestyle section sometime.
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that was meant to be in reply to shazza, have we lost control again?
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Perhaps they could also feature some vegan vulva lip balm!
http://www.etsy.com/shop/VulvaLoveLovely?section_id=5445406
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fcuking hippies
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shreiking, i am leaving my family and coming for you. it’s like finding my long lost twin…..
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or, ladies, why not restore the youthful pink color back to your labia, with this:
http://www.mynewpinkbutton.com/
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Skink, i am imagining that would of course be after an application of vaginal tightener, “Like A Virgin.”
http://theamericanvirgin.blogspot.com/2009/07/touched-for-very-first-time.html
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I hear you vegan.
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Twitter? It’s about as useless as the Winter Olympics.
I say we burn the motherfucker.
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you could start a petition on Facebook…
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Good idea Mez. Or I could hire a bunch of Antarctic space-nazis to fight my wars. That could be pretty effective.
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now you’re talking my language wombsy!
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Without Twitter, what would us cowardly attention seekers do?
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I tried twitter for about a week, then gave it away as, generally speaking, people are incredibly boring.
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Well you don’t follow the boring ones obviously – although that is most of them.
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but you come here?
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Present company excluded of course.
What is this? National challenge everything shazza says day?
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He was tweeting from the back row.
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Ben Elton. What a XXXX XXX XXXX XXX cunt.
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Urquhart!
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Me? I’m just a backroom boy
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No Pforts , the “backroom boys” were a boy band ; once you have written Tim Winton’s next novel you’ll b e a star at the next Writer’s Festival.
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you’ll be among the first to know
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I’m the Chief Whip. Merely a functionary. I keep the troops in line. I put a bit of stick about. I make ’em jump.
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I thought you liked strong leadership…
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Daddy
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Is this the new Work Makes Free of advertising taglines?
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Totally, it’s the gardenwares of perdition
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I can totes see that middle panel being landscaped into my backyard. A worthy legacy indeed!
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Breaking News – Bob Maumill quits radio due to pain – to be replaced by Ted Bull:
http://www.watoday.com.au/entertainment/bob-maumill-hangs-up-the-mic-20100225-p5j3.html
Rob Fletcher reduced to dubbing 96FM playlist to computers and other audio bits and pieces.
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very close mate of Brian Burke
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I thought he was dead. Ted Bull too.You learn something new every day.
Due to pain? Listening to the program does cause a dull throbing but obviously I don’t mention it in polite company.
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For a long time I thought Brian Burke was Bob
Maumill. Anyone seen them together in the same place and time??
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He famously introduced Brian Burke to Laurie Connell.
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And the unholy trinity was formed….
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Bob Maumill introducing Bwian as “The best new leader in Australia”
Hyde Park 1983
heh, I met Bwian in Wooroloo in 1997
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Yeah. Total cunts.
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i love this comments not linking up thing- like a giant online puzzle!
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#media140?
whothafuck?
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Fuck me sideways Jesus. Whoever would have thought there was such extensive marketing potential for niche vaginal products?
Cunts. You completely have to love them. A bit like puppies really.
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Yes Shreiking, understood. how could you not love ’em when they are so cute?
http://bit.ly/c5j85h
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NSFW.
(Not Suitable For WAtching)
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sorry WAtching – i forget that you guys might only have just finished breakfast over there.
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Kudos, Princess Pants. Kudos:
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thanks Shreiking, his whole site is excellent
http://abstrusegoose.com
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O rly ? Pussies, surely. Regardless, I’m head over heels.
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