johniser.bsky.social
Australian (Northern Tablelands, NSW).
Retired Pubic Circus clown.
Passing interest in politics (socialist),
economics (post-Keynesian, MMT-curious),
and music (mostly Americana and related).
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Donny Dump & The Droppings
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As someone who once spent a week picking pears outside of Mooroopna in 40-deg heat, and being paid 20% more than the dole for 50 hours' work (it was the third and last pick of the season), I'd just like to tell the people responsible for this brainfart:
Go and get right-royally fornicated.
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From Wikipedia:
'Bragg borrowed the opening lines of the song ("I was 21 years when I wrote this song/I'm 22 now, but I won't be for long") from Paul Simon's song "Leaves That Are Green", which appears on Simon and Garfunkel's 1966 album Sounds of Silence.'
youtu.be/OTlpdCPrx14
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Not true! El Rumpo wore a uniform when he was a student at the New York Military Academy. (Not a real military academy; it's a high school for naughty rich kids AFAICT.)
He received the "Neatness and Order Medal" - twice.😂
www.snopes.com/fact-check/t...
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What's next for him? He is recording a version of a Smokey Robinson & The Miracles song, and will be making a promotional video for it.
Go-Jo will be doing a promo for Going To A Go-Go.
For the benefit of the kiddies who don't get the reference:
youtu.be/WFP8DWqwhIw
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When he was in Los Angeles a few years ago, he expressed an interest in visiting the grave of the American Olympian Florence Griffith Joyner. Unfortunately, due to the CoViD restrictions in place at the time, this was impossible.
Flo-Jo was a no-go for Go-Jo.
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"Dregs" was the actual word he used, but - same difference.
Can't remember where I got this from, but AFAIK it's an accurate transcription of what he said:
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Standout tracks (IMO): Finding You and Darlinghurst Nights.
www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
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Some examples from popular culture that probably won't change:
Give them 2.54 centimetres and they'll take 1.609 kilometres
28.3 grams of prevention is worth 0.454 kilograms of cure
A 38-litre hat on a 237-millilitre head
It's -12.2 degrees and getting colder down by Boulder Dam today
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(Obligatory Rude Words warning)
youtu.be/_5S3N1h6LVY
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Are pitbulls legal in Australia? I don't know - but do not, under any circumstances, crossbreed them with dachshunds.
www.boredpanda.com/pitbull-dach...
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And the worst of it is that Barnacle got the #1 spot on the ballot this time. So he'll get the donkey vote as well as the usual sheep vote. #AusPol
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Keeping it in the family, sort of. (Sam and T Bone Burnett used to be married.)
Sam Phillips's version of Big Spender from Sweet Charity:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1IB...
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T Bone Burnett's version of Diamonds Are A Girl's Best Friend from Gentlemen Prefer Blondes:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAlR...
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This is the closest anyone will get to bringing the dire wolf back from extinction: a Sikh [sic] version of the Grateful Dead song.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tBwB...
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Naomi Wolf - The Oxford Years
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Jeezus. As if Ira Hayes hadn't been subjected to enough indignity while he was alive.
youtu.be/CVxUBncNRFo
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Tesla's share price is being talked up by idiots like this one:
finance.yahoo.com/news/cathie-...
...because robotaxis are the Next Big Thing, apparently (once they sort out all the bugs in the software).🤣
In the immortal words of Darryl Kerrigan: "tell 'er she's dreamin'".
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"Elon Musk: I'll put a Man on Mars in 10 Years"
Thus spake the Alleged Tech Genius - in 2011.
youtu.be/IiPJsI8pl8Q
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RIP Rick.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hf4E...
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Did anyone have a sign that read "LOCK UP YOUR COUCHES!"?
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A guy who used to be on here (but who seems to have left) once owned a record shop named Vinyl Solution.
There is a mobile phone repair shop in my town named Show Us Your Crack.
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I looked for a GIF from the movie Leningrad Cowboys Go America. The search engine returned a heap of GIFs featuring the American Footbrawl team the Dallas Cowboys.
...from which I deduce that Dallas is the American Leningrad. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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Source?
OTOH: from 18/12/2024 when Tesla's share price peaked at US$479.86, to 21/2/2025 when it closed at $337.80, Skum lost approximately $58 billion on the value of his 410 million shares.
(Source: finance.yahoo.com/quote/TSLA/)