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Happy New Year Everybody!
Although by now you’ve probably heard that one already. As we ready ourselves to return home tomorrow and resume wanking it up for you, we take a quick look at yesterday’s Wall Street Journal editorial:
In the U.S. and Australia, George W. Bush and John Howard decisively won contests framed as referendums on their handling of the war on terror.
As far as Australia is concerned, we can happily say (thanks to Tim Lambert’s excellent posts 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5,) Sadly, No!
Frederick said,
January 2, 2005 at 3:54
As we ready ourselves to return home tomorrow and resume wanking it up for you,
“Wanking it up for you”? I’m not too familiar with British slang. Are you saying that you’re masturbating for your readers?
melior said,
January 2, 2005 at 4:26
I always use “decisively” when what I really mean to say is “barely averted another Supreme Court decision”.
Frederick said,
January 2, 2005 at 14:53
In BushWorld (a/k/a Bizarro World), any election in which he gets more of the popular vote than the other guy is considered a crushing victory. By the same token, had Dino Rossi (R) won by 129 votes over Christine Gregoire (D) in the race for the Washington governorship — instead of the other way around — the WSJ would say that Rossi had “decisively won.”
merl said,
January 2, 2005 at 15:23
Jesus Christ, please don’t wank it up for me.
Ti-Guy said,
January 2, 2005 at 17:43
Are you suggesting that there isn’t an undercurrent of Anglomania among the Australians, who, having rejected the effeteness of straight out British culture (which is kind of funny, since, Australians, to most non-Anglo people, are pretty much indistinguishable from the British), aren’t basically gloming on to some Anglo-centric glory by identifying with America?
I’m shocked.