tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2523157134200402843.post3789078346387283520..comments2023-07-02T19:23:47.154+10:00Comments on scuze i: not the six o’clock newsFruitCakehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15660225514077942415noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2523157134200402843.post-32795576682017185102012-06-21T22:51:06.610+10:002012-06-21T22:51:06.610+10:00I love the description of the Age as a sail! And I...I love the description of the Age as a sail! And I like the way you say you miss the Age - present tense. The horse has already bolted, so who cares who stands at the stable door?FruitCakehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15660225514077942415noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2523157134200402843.post-57641170656662778382012-06-21T22:06:44.413+10:002012-06-21T22:06:44.413+10:00A person could run The Age up the mast and sail to...A person could run The Age up the mast and sail to England on one issue!<br />I miss The Age - no, I miss transparent, investigative journalism that presents the facts sans any political bias, which seems to be a pre-requisite with anything regurgitated under a headline these days :(Jaynehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02851305238478213940noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2523157134200402843.post-50825582920252763532012-06-21T17:30:28.413+10:002012-06-21T17:30:28.413+10:00Perhaps the doorstop/step thing was "colloqui...Perhaps the doorstop/step thing was "colloquial" i.e. depending on who one "hung" with.<br />Even when it's not windy... if only we had a butler at home here to iron the Hun and Age after messy people have got to it before me.FruitCakehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15660225514077942415noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2523157134200402843.post-54955278348597796162012-06-21T13:21:57.657+10:002012-06-21T13:21:57.657+10:00As Windsmoke said. I am confident of that, less so...As Windsmoke said. I am confident of that, less so of it being doorstop rather than doorstep, but then it was rather like a a step. ICPOTA was kinda cute. Irregular readers of The Age get their papers into a terrible mess on public transport. They can be comical to watch. You need at least one decade's practice of broadsheet page turning to do it with aplomb. Experience also teaches you not to even try if it is windy.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2523157134200402843.post-78442971031028775642012-06-21T10:43:48.027+10:002012-06-21T10:43:48.027+10:00Thanks Windsmoke, http://www.alexanderstitt.com/pr...Thanks Windsmoke, http://www.alexanderstitt.com/preview-autobiographics.html confirms it was indeed "IN" the classifieds. At least it's never likely to be a quiz question in the Hun.<br /><br />Of course, it's only a hop skip and a jump from here to all the song lyrics I got muddled for years.<br />Perhaps we could have our own version of the game show 'name that tune', e.g. who sang the lyrics 'overtree in motion' ?<br /><br />:)FruitCakehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15660225514077942415noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2523157134200402843.post-20073175972587019452012-06-21T08:43:05.326+10:002012-06-21T08:43:05.326+10:00I always thought ICPOTA stood for In The Classifie...I always thought ICPOTA stood for In The Classified Pages Of The Age?? :-).Windsmoke.https://www.blogger.com/profile/12225394580987872677noreply@blogger.com