One of those irregular verbs

4 Comments

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   monkeywrench
   Posted July 4, 2009 at 8:35 am | Permalink

   That’s such a daft piece of writing. Penberthy is one of the most turgid, affected posturers it’s ever been my displeasure to read. Crikey has definitely gotten under his skin.

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   Sisyphis
   Posted July 4, 2009 at 3:26 pm | Permalink

   “His [Hartigan's] observations about the juvenile and superficial conduct of some bloggers was borne out in the real-time twitter coverage of his speech by Crikey’s Bernard Keane, a grown man who, to borrow from Tim Blair, writes with all the giggly, exclamation-laden excitement of a teenage girl in her email account of schoolies week.”

   “To borrow from Tim Blair”

   Fancy that folks! Borrowing from one of News Ltd’s own “obsessives and ideologues who come at every issue from a fixed position”.

   Tim, the typo and apostrophe obsessive whose incisive analysis owes much to the ‘Laugh In’ one liner school of commentary.

   Self referential circle jurking navel gazing bullshit at it’s (did you spot those one’s, Tim?) best.

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   surlysimon
   Posted July 4, 2009 at 8:40 pm | Permalink

   “The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about”
   Bonjour from Monaco and le tour

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   Peter J. Nicol
   Posted July 6, 2009 at 3:02 am | Permalink

   Imitation is the most sincere form of flattery…