I have nothing meaningfull to add -

But surely David should take up bowls or croquet or something - anything to get him away from a word processor.

He clearly misses the lime light, the odd interview on Late Line or even the notoriety of Media Watch.

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"Our man Flint"Dave I gotta hand it to you,you really do have a sense of humour.Were you ever asked to do a stint on the Mavis Bramston Show?You no doubt would have done the best impression of Billy McMahon imaginable.A class act no less.Now Im with you Dave,I know deep in your heart you believe Harold Hold was kidnapped and taken aboard a Chinese submarine during his morning swim at Portsea(was it Portsea ? who cares what's in a name).And I agree,Harold like you deep down loved the communists,and threw his lot in with them and went to work there in a shoe factory.

Now for all those folks out there in forum land,who think your interests only extend to the royal family,and whether her majesty takes one or two lumps of suger in her morning tea,or if the corgi's to indeed fart under the dinning table, or she eats her cucumber sandwhiches with the skin removed,on your latest piece,they have all been evaporated.

Stay tuned folks for our man Flints next fable of fortune"How I tracked down Usama Bin Laden and bored him into commiting suicide in the Snowy Mountains of Australia. ".

Excuse me? Why is this flinty fossil raking up ancient history? I hold no brief for the Whitlam Govt - it was the perversion of the Senate by the Bunton and Field appointments and the duplicity of a doubtless "tired and emotional" John Kerr which outraged me - and it's clear that Gough wd have deservedly gone at a normally scheduled poll (especially after his party's fundraising adventures with the Baathist regime in Iraq came to light). But this is 2006, not 1976. Maybe Prof Flint should reset his calendar.

Good old Flinty, what a goose. Who cares 30 years down the track.Why on earth did OLO print this ludicrous article penned by Alan (i was just doing a wee) Jones',lackey? Is the good Prof. unemployed at the moment?

Aah Davo, wouldn't be without him.

Every self-respecting village needs an idiot to remind its inhabitants of just how lucky they are. Personally, I feel extremely lucky every time OLO publishes one of Davo's contributions.