Saturday, October 17th, 2015 |
But Mayor Mullet says that she hasn’t forgotten JT:”He can have a stand in the ground named after him, ‘ she said in an interview. At least one respected national daily thinks she’s serious. Also in this week of wonderment, the Astonisher’s well documented troubles with arithmetic suddenly spread like wildfire through the whole of… View full story »
Saturday, October 10th, 2015 |
Also, Peter Typo Gleeson – a News Corpse Nostradamus – not!! Labor puts the knocking back into door-knocking … … and is an election hardening up in Charlie’s Trousers? But first, a touch of house-keeping. The ‘Pie likes to be ahead of everyone but himself, but that’s what happened last week. The old bird misread… View full story »
Saturday, October 3rd, 2015 |
This week … what Jayne Arlett must do to become mayor of Townsville – and she has to do it immediately, because it is what Jenny Hill can’t do. Anthony Galoot Galloway bids us – and the Astonisher – farewell – with what will possibly be his final story today reminding us why we won’t… View full story »
Saturday, September 26th, 2015 |
The Kat In The Hat has exposed the dastardly plot from the new Talkbull Government to make it – well, make it sorta de rigeur to enjoy it in the derriere. Also, a political polka is in full swing in the ‘Ville, as the local council sides sort themselves out. All the latest goss from… View full story »
Saturday, September 19th, 2015 |
So they’ve spun the bottle, and kissed Wingnut goodbye. It’s been the Canberra Carnivale at its most hilarious. The ‘Pie rummages through the best of it, with a clear winner being an animated video from Taiwan … it’s not dubbed or sub-titled but it all the funnier – and deadly accurate – for that. On… View full story »
Saturday, September 12th, 2015 |
Yup, it’s been a doozey of a week, with one of the strangest who dunnits we’ve enjoyed for ages. Astonisher Iditor Lachlan Heywood has been spectacularly caught out lying in an iditorial this week … Ewen Dumbo Jones also vies for the clumsy fibber of the week title … but then, he is a politician… View full story »
Saturday, September 5th, 2015 |
The uncritical hyper-spruiking of direct flights to Bali ignores the very real possibility that all this could end in tears – yet again. And all because of over-hyped expectations and self-interested one-sided self-promotion. Could be a few Steggles Egg On Face Awards coming up, if the punters decide Phuket. The ‘Pie politely inquires into a… View full story »
Saturday, August 29th, 2015 |
The ‘Pie is back in the nest, having ‘homeward his footsteps he has turned, after wandering on some foreign strand’, as good old Sir Wally Scott so patriotically penned. Bently is of yo-ho-hoing as skipper of a tub in the Maggie Island Race Week, so we are bereft of his insight this week, but he’ll… View full story »
Saturday, August 22nd, 2015 |
But there will be a second installment by Monday. A quickie from our top ‘toonist Bentley about a current issue du jour – same sex marriage. Bentley’s on fire! Political dream team or nightmare on Walker Street? Political ghosts of the past come back to visit the ‘Ville. Reports pouring down… View full story »
Saturday, August 15th, 2015 |
Yes, he still walks among us … there have been sightings and indications that Kid Crisafulli isn’t done with politics in the ‘Ville just yet, If true, the Ironyman Award will go to his backroom opponent. Also, an unhappy milestone in the sinking fortunes of the Townsville Bulletin has just been passed … And a… View full story »