Useful Idiot Caption-A-Rama for 17 May 04

Various | 17 May 04 | Me

[retrokitten]

This is hysterical!! I love it!

[Arpege92]

What a bunch of freaks!

[bc2]

BTTT

[FourtySeven]

LOL, I especially loved the series of pics with Kennedy! PERFECT job!

[hattend]

Dang, another stereotype bites the dust.

I always thought that Australian chicks were HOT!

[Rummyfan]

Awesome! Thanks Silverback!

[TheRIGHTChoice]

snapping finga's to da beat "Zippa...du zappa doo woppa! Baby, you know I love you...don't be so cruel..no no.." (That was my absolutely horrible and unemoted version of a blues melody...just go with it... >.

[Mr. Silverback]

"¡Hale mi dedo! ¡Huele mi pedo!"

OK, you're going to have to retranslate that for me. I got the "Pull my finger" part, but I'm clueless on the rest.

[Choose Ye This Day]

Roughly, it means: "Pull my finger! Smell my fart!"

pedo = fart

oler = to smell; huele is the imperative command conjugation.

I just liked it because it rhymed.

[Free_at_last_-2001]

Excellent as usual!

[VisualizeSmallerGovernment]

My God! They dismembered GENE RAYBURN!

[VisualizeSmallerGovernment]

Celine Dion unveils the costume for her new show: "A Salute To The Village People". Dion is dressed as all five members of the 1970's supergroup: The Indian Chief, The Traffic Cop, The Belly Dancer, Superman, and The Creepy Guy In Red Sneakers.

[apackof2]

Very funny :>)

[KangarooJacqui]

As an Australian, I can only apologise that it appears a large portion of my countrymen and women in the west appear to have taken leave of their senses.

As for being too stoned to vote... it's people like her that wish we didn't have compulsory voting in this country...

(And if that's supposed to be a greenback on her "Stop" sign, I guess we can thank goodness she's a little too stoned to do adequate counterfeiting, anyway.)

[KangarooJacqui]

There's meat in Big Macs?

Actually that kangaroo meat thing is a big lie. New Zealanders would taste it and spit it straight out again (Kangaroos are exclusive to Australia...)

I think Macca's New Zealand uses possum meat. Or possum something, anyway... (I'll leave it up to your imagination.)

[Army Air Corps]

No need to apologise. The Merrie Land of Oz has its share of loonies as does the US. It is a shame to see these folks in the same country that produced incredible fighting men in the ANZACs, and tough-as-nails commandos in the Chindits. As for compulsory voting, how does that work? We don't have that here and I am curious as to how such a thing works.

[RMDupree]

...for later perusing

[KangarooJacqui]

Compulsory voting, Australian-style, in a nutshell (to hold some pretty big nuts, like that Perth girl in the rainbow skirt...)

It works something like this. Between the ages of 17 and 18, you're eligible to register to vote (this is because our politicians like springing elections on us whenever they dang well please, unlike the American system.) Everyone over age 18 who is a citizen of Australia is supposed to be enrolled to vote (and with government agency cross-checking, this is happening more and more in this wondrous computer age.) And every election that comes along, be it local council, state, or Federal, you have to vote (or at least show up at the polling booth on the voting day, to get your name ticked off and a few voting slips get handed to you). Penalties for not voting are, at last check, a $20 fine. (I think the last time they looked at the penalties was back when I was in the third grade or something... anyway...)

[Army Air Corps]

Wow! That sounds practically Orwellian.
So, your politicos can hold an election or referendum any time they please? Gads, that is a handy way for them to get away with quite a bit of chicanery. On the other hand, advance notice of an election issue does not always help the voter.
I recall a vote on the Applewhite reservoir when I lived in San Antonio. Half-way through construction, enviro-weenies compelled the city to hold a vote on whether or not to complete the project. That was a lulu of a referendum.

[KangarooJacqui]

That sounds practically Orwellian.

Yeah, Big Brother is watching all right... but Big Brother Australian-style is also something of an idiot. A few years back I got a letter from the Australian Electoral Commission (the body that oversees all this shenangigans) telling me I hadn't voted in the last State election and to either give them a valid reason (like, I was dead or something) or pay the $20 fine. Instead, I wrote them an indignant letter saying that yes I flaming well did vote, and could produce at least three witnesses to prove it, and that furthermore it wasn't my fault if they couldn't employ people who couldn't tick off a simple (if uncommon) surname on a list.

In the time-honoured manner of bureaucracies everywehere, I heard nothing else from them.