Oh, this is clever!

You'd have to be a real moron to put this on your club's website. I think someone down there on the Surf Coast has had too many bongs.

I wonder if Johnny Lee Clary has been down to Torquay lately?

According to a ‘breaking report’ on the Herald Sun website, this offensive image has had to be pulled from the Torquay Tigers football club’s website. The image appeared on the club’s website promoting an upcoming club social event dubiously named “All White Night” and showed men clad in full Ku Klux Klan costumes:

Nagambie to get $2 million upgrade

When will the penny drop? If we don't follow suit and upgrade Bright's CBD we'll just lose more & more tourists to competing towns closer to Melbourne - like Nagambie.

Obviously the Alpine council is just not trying to get funds for Bright

I found this interesting little report on ABC Online about how the Goulburn Valley town of Nagambie is to get a facelift funded by the Victorian Government, who have announced just over $2 million towards the cost of the revitalisation project.

PUBLIC WARNING

Urgent notice to all accommodation owners

If you see this man coming DO NOT under any circumstances, no matter how much money he offers you:

(a) Give him a room.

(b) Let him within 10 metres of you.

(c) Allow him to stand upwind of you and your guests.

Just call ’000 emergency’ and insist he be picked up, arrested, isolated & deported.

He’s the Swine Flu source.

He’s …

No crystal balls?

She's a bit of a 'conundrum' herself.

You’ve got to hand it to Alpine council’s deputy Mayor Cr Jan Vonarx, she certainly says what she thinks. I just have an issue with the way she seems to think on a lot of issues – and the rather hilarious way she expresses herself and barely disguises her anger.

Take her quote from today’s Bright Observer on the, er, complex issue of the Bright swimming pool. I think it suggests the very pro-Myrtleford councillor doesn’t haven’t much regard for those in Bright wanting a new indoor pool:

“I can’t see into the future if you’ll get your new pool or not, and there’s the conundrum.”

Mt Buffalo Chalet protest rally cancelled

Was the Bright Chamber of Commerce behind the aborted protest rally? Haven't they learned anything from the Coles debacle?

It’s not a good idea, Andrew … I don’t see the point of this planned protest rally outside the cyclone fence surrounding the Mt Buffalo Chalet … Maybe we need a better approach to this problem. ~ Alpine Opinion 8/4/09

The ‘good news’ from today’s Bright Observer is that the organisers of the protest meeting that was to be held today outside the Chalet ( in the snow, as it turns out) has been “postponed”.

To when though? I hope they mean it’s been cancelled, or are the organisers of this pointless exercise still planning to ‘storm the fences’ around the locked iconic building at some future time?

And on that point, just who is/was behind this futile protest rally in the first place? As I wrote on 8 April in Protest rally over Chalet  , it appeared to be Andrew Wilson, who is a member of the Alpine council’s Alpine Region Tourism Board (ARTB). However, in reading today’s paper, it seems the Bright Chamber of Commerce was behind it.

Woolies by Christmas

But what’s it got to do with Save Bright?

The Alpine council has taken the unusual step of putting out a press release regarding the seemingly stalled Woolworths supermarket site in Bright:

Collingwood under threat

I hope it hits 'him' first.

This report from the Herald Sun spells potential disaster for Collingwood’s finances:

With experts warning Mexican swine flu outbreak has “pandemic potential”, authorities here have put the national pandemic response in place.

A full-blown influenza pandemic could kill 25,000 Australians, according to the Federal Government’s own predictions.

Comment:

25,000? That’s more than half their membership. Thank Christ this pandemic is limited to ‘the swine’. PS to Mick: The Anzacs won’t give a sh*t.

AFL round 5 ‘Round-up’

'Mad Mick' is a bit of a d...

The Anzacs don’t care, Mick

Collingwood coach Mick Malthouse is one strange cookie. His anger & petulance often defies belief, and have you ever seen him smile? I haven’t. But his remark after Collingwood managed to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory against Essendon in that ‘traditional’ Anzac Day clash, really made me laugh. “They let down the Anzacs,” he said. No Mick, they let themselves down, or do you think every Anzac is a Pies supporter? Here’s the ’round up’:

Is she cross eyed?

     

Or are both eyes just out of alignment?

I’m not making fun of her but I do find this curious. The two images are of the same well-known Australian woman but in the first photo it’s her right eye that appears crossed in, while in the other it’s her left.

I’m no optician but I would have thought you can’t do that. On closer inspection though, in the first photo she’s actually looking quite hard to her left, only her left eye can’t quite get over there. Whereas in the other she’s staring straight ahead (or at least one eye is). Therefore, I’d say it’s actually her left eye that is turned in.

In case you’re thinking the confusion is due to one of the photos being a mirror image, it’s not so. As you’ll notice in the full shots (below) the famous ‘hairdo’ is clearly parted on the same side. Guessed who it is yet?:

Boat people #2

Look on the bright side - the new arrivals will provide a welcome boost to Australia's population. Well, 'I' happen to believe that's a positive.

We’re not AUSchwitz any longer, Iain

The latest arrival of potential refugees from ‘far flung war-torn lands’ (like Afghanistan) has prompted the usual responses from those who sit on the more hard-line conservative side of politics to, once again, claim that the increasing frequency of boat people arriving is an indictment of the Rudd Government’s ‘relaxed’ policy on border protection and the more humane treatment of refugees.

None more so than well known Queensland blogger Iain Hall, who never let’s another arrival go by without using it as yet another reason to take a swipe at the person he calls ‘”Brother No 1″ (i.e. KRudd). But, in his latest post, Iain may have revealed just a little too much about himself:

White Sunday

Nowhere to run, nowhere to hide (I wonder if Doreen is with him?).

New ‘franchisee’ in trouble

Today’s blizzard conditions have forced the closure of the Great Alpine Road between Harrietville & Mt Hotham. But obviously some people didn’t listen to the weather forecast and now find themselves stranded.

In fact a ‘Dave from Hotham’ has just phoned in to ABC Radio to report that he’s “stuck in a blizzard in the car park.” Yeah, we can see that, Dave, and I’ve got a sneaking suspicion that you are yet another (foolish) ‘Dave from Albury’  franchisee. Maybe Dave should be screening his franchisees a bit better.

You can follow Dave from Hotham’s plight live on the Mt Hotham snow cam, HERE.

Border Mail attracts another nut-job

It’s been a slow news weekend and there’s not a lot to blog about. But this little Letter to the Editor of the Border Mail that appeared in Saturday’s edition compels me to ask the question: Has Dave from Albury taken this franchising of the ‘From Albury’ concept  just a little too far?

I mean, what the hell is his latest franchisee Doreen from Albury saying in her letter? 

And what’s she been drinking?

Anzac Day tribute

The comment in brackets is mine.

Huh?

Maybe they’re only referring to the Vietnam War?

This ‘tribute’ appeared in today’s Domain real estate lift-out in the Border Mail and I’m outraged.

Would someone please explain to Ray White real estate of Wodonga that their olive branch (if that’s what it’s supposed to be) is not really cutting it?

And that it’s really not polite to suggest our diggers worshiped the weed.

Autumn in ‘Beautiful Bright’

This is why Bright is so popular in Autumn. Put simply, it doesn't get any better than this.

It might be raining today but that’s good, because it means those OTT DSE burn-offs are out and the smoke is gone. Yesterday was beautiful & sunny (like it usually is in Bright at this time of year) and I managed to get around the property and take some pretty good snaps to update the GG website.

They were so good I’ve decided to put them up here for your enjoyment (and, of course, for the benefit of Bright’s tourist trade – and mine!) They’re in thumbnails, so make sure you click on each image to enlarge. Cheers, and I hope you make it up here while the place looks this good – plenty of vacancies:

AFL round 5 ‘expert’ tips

Will both sides wear it? I hope so.

I’m confused. Why is there no public holiday in lieu of Anzac Day falling on the weekend this year? Shouldn’t it be declared a holiday either today or Monday? I know we don’t get one for Australia Day if it falls on a weekend (thanks to Mr Kennett), but since when did the same deal apply to Anzac Day? Or have I missed something here?

What’s that got to do with AFL footy tipping, you ask? Well not a lot, but if we had a holiday on Monday then that game - the one they always play on Anzac Day as some kind of symbolic gesture - involving that team, would not be played until Monday. Instead it’s being played tomorrow and is going to spoil the whole weekend!  

Here are the ‘expert’ tips, mine first, Baldrick‘s second: