tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1524385416868745098.post854795399994074374..comments2023-07-27T21:14:18.975+10:00Comments on The Magpie's Nest...: No Christmas spirit – or beer and wine – for Charters Towers council workers. The Grinch decrees a dry Christmas. Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger19125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1524385416868745098.post-34897642205242494272013-12-28T14:36:56.199+10:002013-12-28T14:36:56.199+10:00Sounds a bit like the "famous" storming ...Sounds a bit like the "famous" storming of the Reichstag film, which too was a re-enactment.<br />MJKnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1524385416868745098.post-77868688138397435212013-12-27T03:34:42.668+10:002013-12-27T03:34:42.668+10:00‘Pie, I have another problem with Ando’s piece.
“...‘Pie, I have another problem with Ando’s piece.<br /><br />“A bit like raising the flag on Iowa (sic) Jima” ???<br /><br />How can you possibly equate successfully moving along a bunch of bats – no matter how annoying they were – to a scene from a WWII battle that cost the lives of 25,000 men? Get a grip, man – have you no sense of perspective? Or respect?<br /><br />Hyperbole! Best thing Grumpynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1524385416868745098.post-35043490899485575732013-12-25T18:18:21.966+10:002013-12-25T18:18:21.966+10:00Yeah, subs were a good idea... weren't we? :si...Yeah, subs were a good idea... weren't we? :sigh:Vicky Sealnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1524385416868745098.post-24638940048321966132013-12-25T18:14:43.667+10:002013-12-25T18:14:43.667+10:00It makes the unemployment stats look better, speci...It makes the unemployment stats look better, specially when the 'disabled pensioners' are the over-50s laid off when the GFC began to bite. Few of them can expect to get back into the workforce now, so it's hardly surprising the most common 'disability' is depression. Leah Southeynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1524385416868745098.post-53589290765603783852013-12-24T23:02:29.283+10:002013-12-24T23:02:29.283+10:00State of confusion? Where are all the subs, long t...State of confusion? Where are all the subs, long time passing, eprisode 2,391.<br /><br />It is accepted that with words flowing passed their eyes every working moment, even the best journos need a sub editor as a second pair of checking eyes.<br /><br />Case in point in John Andersen in Tuesday's Bully.<br /><br />Writing about the apparently successful banishing of the bats in Charters The Pienoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1524385416868745098.post-84780438468650775672013-12-24T18:44:26.777+10:002013-12-24T18:44:26.777+10:00(Posted dec 21)
Magpie don’t know about you but I ...(Posted dec 21)<br />Magpie don’t know about you but I find Tony Raggatt’s article in today’s Bully very much off the pace compared to Dennis Shanahan’s article on the Abbott Government in the Australian. Don’t think Raggatt is up to speed at all. John Wehlownoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1524385416868745098.post-83777073335637300242013-12-24T11:57:38.854+10:002013-12-24T11:57:38.854+10:00Pie, thanks for all your wonderful work this year....Pie, thanks for all your wonderful work this year.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1524385416868745098.post-86868828599418497412013-12-23T20:26:43.681+10:002013-12-23T20:26:43.681+10:00Magpie, thanks for providing a platform for altern...Magpie, thanks for providing a platform for alternative thinking and criticism. Thanks also for the humour and cartoons of the past year.<br /><br />To you and your readers, a happy,safe and peaceful Christmas and New Year.Tom Darlingtonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1524385416868745098.post-32456644209514941222013-12-23T17:59:45.813+10:002013-12-23T17:59:45.813+10:00Merry Christmas to you and yours, 'Pie, and le...Merry Christmas to you and yours, 'Pie, and let's all raise a glass or three to Peter O'Toole and his fellow hellraisers -- blokes like Peter Finch, Richard Burton, Richard Harris and Oliver Reed -- "purple-prosed poets with vast hearts and shrivelled livers" (to quote Hannah Betts in yesterday's The Daily Telegraph.<br />We will never see their like again because, as Ron Bairstow Perthnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1524385416868745098.post-52830271822041680642013-12-23T14:53:49.099+10:002013-12-23T14:53:49.099+10:00Merry Christmas Pie,
Lots of Love,
Rupert Murdoc...Merry Christmas Pie,<br /><br />Lots of Love,<br /><br />Rupert Murdoch.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1524385416868745098.post-8216432156544608182013-12-23T11:37:07.685+10:002013-12-23T11:37:07.685+10:00Happy Xmas to you and yours pie. Another year done...Happy Xmas to you and yours pie. Another year done keeping us the great unwashed educated and informed. Looking forward to the expanded of. As always - love your work Malcolm. Cheersthe third readernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1524385416868745098.post-32673313836858628042013-12-23T10:48:40.829+10:002013-12-23T10:48:40.829+10:00Oh Pie, the goodwill and merriment is intoxicating...Oh Pie, the goodwill and merriment is intoxicating!!!!!!!<br />Maybe even the Mullet, Messagebank and all the other Labor lackeys you harass in this blog will soak up some of the festive mood and send their season's greetings, after penning a note to Santa letting him know who has been naughty (nothing nice about this blog).<br />Sorry, but it looks like no presents for you this year Grumpy, Santa's helpernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1524385416868745098.post-74638764404785975482013-12-23T10:00:32.789+10:002013-12-23T10:00:32.789+10:00Merry Christmas to all lets all have a safe one, a...Merry Christmas to all lets all have a safe one, and look forward to a good New Year.woodducknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1524385416868745098.post-87273366804124164972013-12-23T04:56:38.351+10:002013-12-23T04:56:38.351+10:00Seasons greetings!Seasons greetings!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1524385416868745098.post-48617526477245986992013-12-22T16:04:17.840+10:002013-12-22T16:04:17.840+10:00Ding,song merrily on high.....i can't believe...Ding,song merrily on high.....i can't believe 1 in 20 Australians are on a disability pension.<br /><br />Sagely Yours,<br /><br /><br />Miss Lou.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1524385416868745098.post-23968426625593168772013-12-22T11:20:28.609+10:002013-12-22T11:20:28.609+10:00Great blog as usual, Pie, and perhaps your funnies...Great blog as usual, Pie, and perhaps your funniest of the year. Hope you and yours have an excellent Christmas and look forward to your expanded blog next year. Cheers, Gonzo Gonzonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1524385416868745098.post-88216883435983013472013-12-22T06:57:46.726+10:002013-12-22T06:57:46.726+10:00Merry Xmas to you Magpie. You are a small island o...Merry Xmas to you Magpie. You are a small island of insanity in a bleak & grey ocean of muppetry. PS, please fix this stupid commentary mechanism.SPQRnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1524385416868745098.post-65009526933108690552013-12-22T04:04:48.414+10:002013-12-22T04:04:48.414+10:00Seems to be some questionable tourism data thrown ...Seems to be some questionable tourism data thrown around by TEL!.They quote tourism numbers are up 8-11% but the airport says that traffic due to a drop in Government and FIFO traffic is down 3.5%!.If the tourists are coming by car then why did TEL let the information centre going south close due to roadworks?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1524385416868745098.post-14980641720224851352013-12-21T19:18:10.564+10:002013-12-21T19:18:10.564+10:00Merry Christmas,pirMerry Christmas,pirAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com