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Friday q and a #62





Oh! Doing questions on a weekend feels rather wicked, I must say. I should be wearing golf pants and a hawaiian shirt just to get into the spirit of things.


*pours oversized pina colada*


*entertains men of ill-repute*



Yesterday I had the pleasure of running into the lovely Craig Reucassel again and told him about our strange fan letter. He seemed very happy about it.



Craig: We should definitely send her a photo.


Me: Agreed. Next time you're in Melbourne we should go to one of those old-timey places and get a picture with you wearing cowboy boots and holding a gun in a bath-tub while I stand next to you fanning myself.


Craig: What?


Me: You know, those joints where you get sepia-toned photographs done and you wear costumes. I could dress up as a ye olde prostitute.


Craig: But you're already dressed as a ye olde prostitute.


Me: Oh, you.


*******



I like boys who tease me, I really do.




Anyhow, since we get to stretch this lovely beast out over a forty-eight hour period we may as well amble into our Friday Saturday Sunday questions...




Anonymous said...
Dear Ms Fits,

I for one am getting a bit sick of the, "What's it like being the messiah?" question which invariably appears each week. Don't they know you are just a very naughty girl? (Apologies to Monty Python - like they care.)

You could institute a tacit decree to ignore these questions - this being your personal electronic kingdom and you being a lady of manners and all; or you could reply, "Well, my friends really love me, lots of people think they love me, and everyone else definitely hates me."

Never having experienced fame, I am duly unqualified to write all this, so I boldly ask: do you forgive my didactic dictums?

PS You...






complete me.












Just kidding.




I don't think it's manners to ignore a question at all, Anon. Indeed, it seems insufferably rude to suddenly decide some queries are unworthy of being answered and to hell with whomsoever may have done the asking. It's an open forum and you are more than free to judge commenters at your will, but my job if I choose to accept it is to sit patiently in my knickers and sift through each and every one with nary a moral appraisal. I have no issues with this.


Incidentally, do you really think that absolutely everyone who fails to fall into the love me/think they love me categories veers all the way over to the realm of hatred? Surely there are some out there who feel indifferent about me. I'll wager that there are even those in the world who are as yet unaware of my existence and therefore unable to generate feelings of teeth-gnashing rage and loathing. Imagine that.


p.s. Yes.


Anonymous said...
Is it wrong to want to give Kevin Rudd one two or (any many as he wants) even three goes at 'winning over my electorate', so to speak?
I almost feel as if I'd be helping him towards victory by allowing him to let off a little stress in a private, enthusiastic and judgement-free environment.
So, the question is, is wanting to shag Kevin Rudd senseless completely screwy or the mark of a sane, red-blooded left-woman?



Oh, you are lovely. Next time I go to bed with someone I am going to employ the term 'win over my electorate' and perhaps even 'caucus briefing'. NB. I may also invoke some 'party discipline'.


I don't think you're screwy at all. I think you're a giant scoop of hilarious and your intentions are marvellous and you've got me wondering who on earth I'd have it in me to provide 'stress release' for in similar circumstances. That adorable black-eyed ice fiend Ben Cousins looks like he needs to let off a bit of steam now I consider it....


Anonymous said...
I'm kinda sad.... Mine wuz one of the three you didn't get to last week...(hangs head and shuffles feet)



But I DO GET TO THEM EVENTUALLY, Anon. Did I get to yours eventually? I hope I got to yours eventually. Stop shuffling now, no-one cares for poor posture.


The Slapper Princess said...
Dearest Ms Fits,

Re: Friday q and a #58. I can't remember which one was Statler and which one was Waldorf, but... JP is a dear old friend, I've known him for a fair whack of a decade now and I bought him a pair of Superman jocks last Christmas. AH is JP's great chum, they are fellow 'Writers in Arms' and go about the place being young, spunky and literary. I've only ever met AH once, but have heard a lot about him through JP. So, I'm not dating either of them (although JP once tried to make me marry Matthew Reilly).

Now, my problem is that I don't really have a question, I just wanted to answer yours and seeing as though I had forgotten about it until now, I didn't want you to think me rude (which is not always the case with me). So I think I'd like to quickly make one up now.

Um.

Fuck.

OK, ooh! I have one. Seeing as how you've moved to Collingwood, and you've borne the revolting destruction of your beloved team, Fitzroy, would coming along to a Pies game, with me and my pink thermos and knees blanky, to shout CARN THE MIGHTY PIES like banshee bogan bitches, sway you to join the ranks of the most reviled football supporters in Christendom (even if it could never be wholeheartedly)?



Wait, so Statler and Waldorf are young, spunky and literary and you're not dating either of them because why exactly? Are you at least going to share them with the rabid female readership of RYWHM? DON'T BOGART THE ELIGIBLE BACHELORS, MISS.


Anyway, I would love to attend a Collingwood game in the manner of a 'banshee bogan bitch' and though I could never find it in myself to wholeheartedly throw my support behind another team after the tragic death of the Lions I can at least pretend for an evening as at the right price I am a cunning ballsports courtesan.


Tim said...
I hate Friday questions. They are so long that scrolling through them to find your other posts is now an arduous task, and the majority of ‘questions’ are either from people you don’t know sucking up to you or people you do know cunningly advising the other sycophants that you are friends in the real world. I ask, Ms Fits, would you consider letting the Friday questions go?



I'm sorry you're dissatistifed, Tim. A couple of people have raised the 'give it a fucking rest, you tedious know-all cow' issue in the past and I put it out as a vote to the public to either reduce the number of questions or axe the posts altogether and there was an overwhelming ARE YOU MAD WE ARE FRIGHTENED BY CHANGE LEAVE THINGS AS THEY ARE-type rebellion and until commenters stop asking I'll keep turning up here of a Friday or lazy Saturday to meander around aimlessly typing baloney.


Bevis disagrees with you, anyways:

BEVIS said...
Tim, I don't think you know what you're talking about. The kinds of examples you've given never actually happen, and you're a fool for saying they do.

I WENT TO SCHOOL WITH MS FITS AND ACTED IN A MUSICAL WITH HER AND WROTE HER A LETTER ONCE WHICH SHE BROUGHT UP AT OUR HIGH SCHOOL REUNION A FEW YEARS AGO WHEN SHE FLIRTED WITH ME - SHE REALLY FLIRTED WITH ME - AND GAVE ME HER BUSINESS CARD, POSSIBLY HOPING FOR NAUGHTY-STYLE SHENANIGANS TO BE ARRANGED FOR A LATER DATE, NOT KNOWING AT THE TIME THAT I'M NOW HAPPILY MARRIED, THE POOR DEAR.

Sorry, I "lost time" for a moment there.



He's right, you know. Not about the naughty-style shenanigans; that night I was too starry-eyed for ex school heart-throb Tony Macafee to really notice any other man in the room.


Anonymous said...
Do you ever miss me?



I miss the good things, of course. But there has been too much badness since then, and the last round of angry knocked the fight out of me. I want no more of it.



If this isn't who I think it is, I'm going to feel quite odd, you know.


catbrain said...
Dear Ms Fits,

Why are people getting so upset about Friday Questions?

Am I too organised and/or potentially stalkerish?



1. People get upset about all kinds of stuff, catbrain. Late library books, traffic, Trevor Marmalade. I don't begrudge them their petty grievances.


2. You're only 'too organised' if you're checking in here Friday a.m. I take my sweet fucking time with this shit, as my present status of Saturday/Sunday answeringer would attest.


Richo said...
What do think of the Blions choosing to wear the same guernseys Fitzroy wore in their final game in two matches this coming season (as read in Friday's Age)?

Would it inspire you to go along and watch, or would the trauma of reliving this shameful day in Australian sporting history cause an excess of grief and anguish?



Actually, I love seeing the old Fitzroy guernsey and usually come close to crashing my car each time the Reds wear it at Brunswick street oval. Even bumping into someone at the Napier in a too-tight jumper is cause for lumpings in throat and wellings of tears. While it certainly invokes the odd painful memory and ache for days of yore, it's still nice to for a moment pretend that the merger never happened and my team is still out there losing games with hearts so big you get choked up just watching.




*sighs deeply*



BEVIS said...
"Now I just don't know what to believe. IS IT FRIDAY Q'S LAPPING AT TESTICLES OR IS IT SHANE JESSE."


It's Shane Jesse.




You have been 'pwned', Shane Jesse. As I believe is the phrasebook of the under-nineteen set.


Anonymous said...
Have a great time at the beach.



Thank you, it was lovely. Although I still had a lot of deadlines. Next week I am taking TWO WHOLE DAYS OFF. That's right, lock up your pastry chefs.


sublime-ation said...
I pretend in public like I know Chelsea Peretti personally merely through following her blog.

I love this/you, you funny duck.



ps Happy Birthday Papa Fits.




And I love being called a 'funny duck'. Particularly by high-falutin' artist types such as yourself.


richardwatts said...
p.s. So did you get laid at GP then hmmm?

Sadly work intervened at the godless hour of 9am and forced me to cancel GP plans and stay in Melbourne in order to conduct interviews for this damn newspaper. *sigh* Does this suck or what?



Yeah, I had to pike for workly reasons too. Aren't we a disciplined pair? It was a tough call but it in the end I'm glad I spent Tuesday strolling around in a self-satisfied state of achievement rather than trying to bang out articles for the Age with a three-day hangover.


Oh god, this is a maturing thing isn't it? I've heard about heinous shit like this. Fuck it, I want to go home to Irresponsible Land.


DJKL said...
How much must Rob, Tom, Santo, Mick, Tony, Jane and the Late Show crew laugh when they see the new Gillette ads with the 5 bladed razor? I mean they had this totally nailed in 1993 with their ad about the Gillette 3000, with 16 blades. Gillette even seem to be copying the Late Show graphics now. Is it just a matter of time before they really go mad and create the mighty 16 bladed shaver?



I thought exactly the same thing, DJKL. What a pair of D-Gen tragics we are. The advertising branch of Gillette must surely be taking the piss, must they not? I saw a 'wood-finish' stereo at a friend's house not long ago and couldn't help but enjoy a private Late Show moment, too. They are influential in so many ways.


p.s. I am in at least three episode of the Late Show if you know where to look.


joseph said...
Yes I went to Summersault on NYE 95/96, where I had my one and only religious experience three rows deep in the Sonic Youth mosh, my slight frame at the time being unable to suck in any oxygen. Still one of my favourite memories.



It's really more a conversational stroll today than outright questions and answers, isn't it? Not that I am complaining at all; it's nice to sit back and have a chat. Did you see God purely for the fact that you were unable to breathe, Joseph? Or did the noisecore guitar stylings of Thurston and co transcend you to a higher plane?


de.foxus said...
Any Ben Kweller attendees willing to get a young lady drunk and make her look spectacularly aloof and winsome every time a certain man glances her way?
***
*I* will be attending Ben Kweller in melbourne and would be happy to jointly swoon (but still keep in mind that he has a gorgeous wife and cute baby)...

but if you're going to travel to see a solo show, would it possibly be better to head to sydney? no possibility of awkwardness, the gaelic club is a lovely venue, etc...



Bless you, Foxy. I think our young lady in question is determined to wend her way to Melbourne by hook or by crook, so possibly best not to intervene. Though what's wrong with swooning over married fathers, I ask you? I'd still hit Brett Kirk up for some sexing and he's happily nuptialised with mini-Kirks afoot.


Tim said...
I went to Sommersault. It was great, I still remember Sonic Youth and Beck playing (he swallowed a fly and had to go to hospital).

My question is how can I convince my parents I am not being picky with my job search as I don't want to work for someone who is going to rip me off.



Parents can be a bit intense sometimes, can't they? Obviously they only want the best for us AS LONG AS THAT BEST HURRIES UP A LITTLE AND DOES SOMETHING WITH ITS LIFE BEFORE GRANDMA DIES WHICH COULD BE ANY DAY NOW NOT TO BE MORBID. Try not to get too bogged down in their constant 'and what's wrong with slave labour? Your father worked for twelve years as a canary in a coal mine and he never had use for tea breaks/sick leave/IR marches with burly firemen etc' as they're just trying to show you they care and besides which they'll back off once you're pulling in 40K and have a secretary named Janine with big boobies and a penchant for filing things under the letter 'Z'.


Big Matt Stud said...
Are they not luckier than Ric Ocasek?

OK, you're going to have to explain that one to me. Is this a reference to the fact that someone who looks like this

got to marry someone who looks like this

?



You got it in one, Stud*. See also: Jordan Bratman, Lyle Lovett and Michael 'Trust me folks, I'm made of Blu-Tac' Douglas.




*I enjoyed typing this sentence way too much.


Big Matt Stud said...
...and I didn't mean to offend with the question about it being weird that people find you interesting. Having just re-read it I can see how it might have been better if I had worded that question a little more delicately, but I was just wondering if you ever have any of those "How did I get here ?" moments.

OF COURSE you're fascinating, and gorgeous too.



Now you're just laying it on thick, Johnny Sweet-talk.


I guess sometimes I do wonder why the fuck people would bother reading what I have to say and then I consider that my mother tells me I'm maximum awesome every time we speak on the phone and adds that OTHERS IN THE WORLD RESPECT AND FEAR YOU, PRECIOUS BEAN so I figure it pretty much makes sense and I should continue on unabated for the sake of all that is good and holy.


Melly` said...
Yet another Friday with a difference!

I found you at tb's maybe 8 months ago. Scarey huh? Every time I read at aforementioned I feel like I have just visited a train wreck. I am grateful for your humour, compassion and ability to story tell. I have no question... I just hope you always entertain us.

You are everything I wish my daughters can be. (Except maybe the user of some expletives - I prefer to think my girls do not do that)

I guess you cant marry my son. What a bloody shame. You could hurry up and breed...I am kidding.



Oh. That question makes me feel particularly nice. Thank you.


Why can't I marry your son? Is it the swearing thing? I think I make a particularly nice daughter in law. Ask Sime's parents; they love me still despite the fact I go on radio and talk intricately about my veedge.


As for the breeding, I'll get to it eventually. My ma is so sick of dropping hints she now refers to herself as grandmother to the dog. IN MY OWN TIME, MOTHER.


Anonymous said...
Ms Fits...my apologies if my question is a little long:

Nearly 18 months ago, I met a gorgeous guy on a night out. We kissed, he sang to me, he drove me home, and text me at 4am that same night/morning to thank me for a good night. He then text me the next day to arrange to meet up again, but I was busy.
He kept texting me for a few days after, but I was in the middle of some ex-boyfriend dramas, so declined at that stage (was literally the next few days after we met), and eventually, that became the end of that.
Since then, not a week goes by when I don't regret my actions. What if this guy was 'The One'? I've certainly never given two thoughts to any other bloke that I've disco pashed on a night out, but then again, no other bloke has wrapped me up in a big hug from behind to watch a crappy cover band together.
Anyway, the other night I found the store where he works! This got my head turning...
Do I go in, (assuming he still works there), and ask him out for coffee? Do I apologise? Should I bother, after 18 months?
NB - approx. 9 months ago, I found what I thought was his number, and text him a sorry-catch-up type message, but never heard anything back. Is this a sign? If your advice is not to find him, how do I forget about him (NB - have tried liquor, other men, all manner of cheeses)?
Like a lot of people, I fear rejection, so I don't know if it's going to be worth it or not. And what exactly do I say. Whilst I adore your phrase "(insert number here) parts of wonderful", I don't know if it would translate to conversation.

Anyway, any help would be gratefully appreciated. Thank you.



YOU MUST INDEED GO IN TO HIS STORE AND ASK HIM OUT FOR COFFEE!


Lord, it's eighteen months later and you're still thinking about him and exploring doorways of romance in your mind. Whether he is 'The One' or not (best not to put that kind of pressure on sweet singalong boychildren so soon I find), the fact that his mere lazily perfect presence remains as a linger in your lovebrain then someone in the world of cupid wishes for you to explore your possibilities further. Whatever it is or was it is not yet finished, and it's up to you to take some delicate steps to ensure progress. What's wrong with taking steps into his place of work and smiling winsomely? Do you really require an 'opener'? The tried and true 'hello' (see: Had me at, etc) may suit perfectly.


Just walk in. Lock eyes with him. If something is meant to occur, you will sense it.




Lucky you.


Treesh said...
I've never been much for long showers actually, as I tend to get a bit bored standing around naked with nothing to read.

Dear Ms Fits,

I overcame this issue a long time ago by adopting the practice of reading in the shower. I am always mildly stunned that no one else seems to have this habit as in this age of multi-tasking, I too find devoting myself solely to standing under a stream of hot water a bit on the boring side. Obviously it doesn't work very well with magazines or the papers, but I have had reasonable success with paperbacks/hardbacks, although it is not recommended if reading a friend's borrowed treasure as a spot of mild water damage often offends. My housemate is always able to determine the exact time that I start washing my hair by the dull "thud" that is heard as I toss the book sideways out of the shower alcove and onto the tiles.

Try it, you may like it...



I'm not sure I'd dare, Treesh. Reading? In the shower? At present I'm having a crack at Hemingway's A Farewell To Arms and the copy I have is so old the very idea of splashing water on it seems sacreligious somehow. Anyway, at which point do you toss the book and start scrubbing? Doesn't throwing oneself mentally into the realm of treasured story cancel out the need to wash? Do you hold your novel out with one festy hand whilst tending to your privates with another? The mind boggles, honestly.


Cloudy said...
Oh dear, I really wasn't expecting my lame-arse comment connecting mainstream righties with nazis to make it into the next Q and A since it didn't contain a question. It's not as if you've short (of questions to answer).

Props re Shirley Temple. And she's still alive, which helps.

As is Sophie Mirabella (née Panopoulos). She's got it all: Presentable, fiesty and a rancid bigot.
What do you think? (This is a question).



Ah, but it fits in well with this weekend's Friday 'let's all sit down for a cup of tea and organic chocolate' chat, Cloudy. Do you really think Sophie Mirabella works it in the pants region for the right at heart? I mean, really.




I guess she's got nice lips. I'd probably pass, though.


Sarebear said...
Dear Ms Fits

What are your drugs of choice?



At the moment, four drops of probiotic in the morning, vitamin c, zinc, one coffee a day, a can of coke zero in the afternoon, white wine, Jagermeister, sake, and if someone were to offer me vast amounts of high quality cocaine I'm not sure I could refuse JUST JOKING CHILDREN OF RYWHM DRUGS ARE TEH BADNESS ETC. I am quite lame with all that shit, though I do have my daily routines that I may well die without, so consider me 'hooked'.


Anonymous said...
Hi Fits,

Just wondering what type of car you drive?



I drive a 1987 Toyota Lite Ace (aka 'The Krankivan') with a mattress in the back and awful pink curtains. I can up stumps and fuck off any damn time I like and for that I am forever grateful.


MelbourneGirl said...
this q&a amused me no end, thank you.

i am still tickled by the thought liam's penis might be shaped like that last evian bottle, the pyramid-shaped one.

though tickled might not be the correct word.

i have no question, other than did you have a nice weekend? are you still wearing the boots on the book show? must confess, haven't managed to see it this year, but i remember the boots were your trademark.

and keep the flower. it's you and it's very fetch.



1. I did have a very nice weekend, thanking you. My folks and I ate affogato with three spoons, which was so wholesome and full of small life it nearly broke my soul open.


2. I wear those boots nearly every day, so yes. Are they really a trademark if they're just the down-home brownyboots one wears to the supermarket and back? I don't even think about it; they're what I put on my feet if I wish to walk without risking local syringeing.


MelbourneGirl said...
ps i do have a proper question.

is it wrong that i have dreamt about you more times now than i have the man i will marry soon?

the tally is 3 to approximately nil.



I wouldn't say so, no. I had the most filth sexing dream about Scarlett Johanssen last week which resulted in the kind of sticky sheets normally wrriten about in the secret diaries of Adrian Mole, and I don't for a second feel she takes pride of place in my day to day living over real life heart-throbs and danger-hounds. Your groom-to-be remains just that, and I remain the filthblogger in Collingwood prepared to tip you a wink and stick my finger in your cleavage at the most inopportune of moments. And with that, I remain sincerely, yours etc.


Anonymous said...
Does The Age let you know the number of viewings your articles receive?



Not at all. Should they? I've never really been that interested. Should I be? I sat next to someone on a plane last week who was reading an article of mine and felt a quiet pelvic thrill; that's really all I need to get me through for the next short while I'd wager.


Anonymous said...
Hello Fits/co,

I have only recently discovered this blog and much enjoy the zaniness/politicak combo. Just wondering if the personal attacks upon our esteemed blog-author are a regular occurence or a recent phenomenon?

Are they more likely to occur when it appears the Libs are in the shit?

Speaking of personal attacks, does
"Anonymous said...
Hi Fits,

Just wondering what type of car you drive?"
strike anyone else as a prelude to an elaborate E-street like car bomb assassination attempt?

Beware the ghost of Sonny Bennet Fits…

P.S. My word verification of “jvuztbgv” is how I sound saying “Just got a VB” at 6am when I would perhaps have been better off not getting one.



Hello new and interesting person.


a) The personal attacks upon your Lady of St. Leisure are a regular and somewhat tedious occurrence dating back to 2004. It's okay, I'm used to it now. If people neglected to call me a fuckheaded cuntrag at least once a week I think I'd grow somewhat forlorn. PAY ME ATTENTION, DO.


b) Nope, they're reasonably regular.


c) What are you saying? That someone will affix a bomb to my wee jellybean van? It's possible, I guess. Utter waste of time though, since I barely drive it these days.


d) Your word verification comment makes me interested in you. Prelude to dating in 2007? Discuss.


BEVIS said...
Sorry to be the one to break it to you (at least on your blog), but your beloved beefcakey Adonis, Greg, was voted off The Biggest Loser tonight. Hurt much?

However, his "2 months on ..." montage showed that he is indeed now a hunky hunky man of love!

This year is all about Damien, though. He's the true gentleman and inspiration of the whole series - and I've watched every bloody episode.

Child name: Bxbpy.



I know, my darling Gooshy and I are both devo. Poor Greg! If I'd watched more than two episodes I may be in a great deal of pain right now and wouldn't that be a fucking nightmare?


Lukeus said...
Dear Ms. Fits,

1.Your simply irresistible.
How can it be permissible?

2. When is Shaun Micallef going to relinquish that ridiculous radio show and return to television?



Dear Lukeus

1. She's so fine, there's no telling where the money went (poss. pokies addiction).


2. I really don't mind what Shaun Micallef does so long as it's in the public eye in some way. I'm not a completely devoted listener to Nova but I have on occasion strayed via the dial and his dulcet surrealism is always a pleasure. Whether the commercial networks are ready for his cock-eyebrowed madness is another matter altogether. Remember channel 7? They had no idea what to do with him. He was like the uncle in your family you can't quite label as a professional pedophile even though everyone knows he rather fancies touching kids in his spare time and best to carry on, mustn't grumble mustn't grumble etc. Not that I'm of course saying that Shaun Micallef likes pre-pubescents; he is an upstanding family man and I find him a genius and was only trying to illustrate a commercial network's inability to handle his eccentricity. Are you with me or do you find me a tedious ass? Six of one I suppose.


The Last Scientician said...
If I don't tell anyone to read my blog, and rarely update it as I am busy... uh... doing stuff, can I really be disappointed that no one ever leaves comments?

Probably comes across as condescending... or smarmy... or any number of things I've been called in the past for trying to write concisely.

For some reason, the word verification "tlreegg" makes me think of a bloody faced seafarer with a swollen tongue and all his teeth knocked out trying to say "Queeg". I should go to bed.

There is a question in there.



The frightening transient nature of blogs means that should you drop off the face of the earth and fail to update, eventually your once-loyal audience will grow tired of refreshing a stale post and shuffle off to the mortally-terrifying 'next blog' button at which point you should probably shut up shop and start all over again. You can't expect faithful hordes to submit HAY I STILL LIK THIS POST ETC two weeks after sharing your views on David Hicks' dashing new beard with the world.


MG wishes to intervene also:

MelbourneGirl said...
to TLS - when i visited your blog i found it a bit impenetrable. however i find most of your comments readable and entertaining and smart. just saying.



That's what he's like in real life too, MG. A bit impenetrable, yet entertaining and smart. The boy can wear a suit pretty sharp also, if you're into that kind of thing.


Anonymous said...
This bloke is popular with the ladies it seems - HOW?!

http://photos.timchuma.com/StPatricksDay2007/photo30.htm

(one woman even grabbed the camera off me to look at a 'pants down' photo of him)



Oh dear. I don't really know. Could it be the womb broom? The cheeky tip of pink tongue? The intoxicated bathroom-tile eyes? Ours is not to question why, Anon. Sex appeal can come from the most unlikely of places. Perhaps he has a cunning wit - ladies do like to laugh, you know.


Lackey said...
Hello Ms Fitserrific. I have a question:

Say someone liked to do the cryptic crossword, and preferred most of all to do the Times cryptic crossword. And say that that particular crossword is only to be found in Australia in the Australian newspaper.

Now say that this someone is a reasonable person of some sense and hence found himself obliged to stop buying that particular newspaper (The Australian) when it decided to run a campaign against muslims by making them all look like funny dressing gun-running child-throwing whiteboy-hating swarthy merchants of nasty death standing only for the stinkification of all our beloved western values except kebabs.

My question is, given all these hypotheticals, this: How long must our poor hero enforce his self-inflicted boycott? Is there a statute of limitations on consumerist actions? Bear in mind the poor boy lives in Brisbane where the only alternative is the Courier Mail, and trust me that's bad in mostly different ways, as well as owned by the same people. But it's crossword is the Guardian and that's too hard!

Also, thanks for updating your sidebar gig list, but it didnt help me as I was only there Golden Plains weekend. Don't feel too bad, noone is to blame.

Auxiliary questions - did you like Golden Plains? Did you catch Fat Freddy's Drop and marvel in the Greatness? What do you think of Glitch on St George's Road?

My verification baby is Uroygslp - destined to be back up vocals for Hedwig on her come back tour 2028 before sliding into a drug induced sitcom mistake and career purgatory. I will still love you, Uroygslp.



Poor Uroygslp. She never stood a chance, did she? CALL HOME UROYGSLP, WE MISS YOU.


I do feel for your clever-clogs 'someone' (cryptic crosswords? The Times? I am still stuck on the anagram puzzle and April's retarded friend in For Better or For Worse); self-imposed one-person boycotts are so difficult to break. Years ago I pompously decided that Alannah Hill was a bit of a political nob-end and I'd not be setting foot in her chocolate box frippery warehouses again, and while it hasn't necessarily been a rod for my back as I no longer dress like a nineteenth century call-girl with autism I just can't seem to shake it. Can your hypothetical friend download the crossword from somewhere and print it out? That way it can be folded up and crammed inside a worthy book when irritating talkers come and harsh his mellow.



As mentioned previously I didn't go to Golden Plains as I am clearly a lightweight dedicated to my craft. Glitch is lovely and I've always wanted to have a screening of R. Kelly's Trapped In The Closet there as a kind of private hip-hopera party, holding hands with someone in the back row of their tiny romantic cinema.


MelbourneGirl said...
ps bevis said bloody.

pps fits, does it annoy you when other people get between you and your questioners?



1. He did, didn't he? I'm not sure what this means for the rest of us but I don't think it's going to work out well somehow.


2. Not at all. In fact, I like the backup as it means I can rest on my laurels and get you folk to do the dirty work for me. GET TO ANSWERING, YOU LAZY MOOKS.


BEVIS said...
I'm becoming a real potty mouth, aren't I. Thank goodness I have MelbourneGirl out there, reporting on all my transgressions!

< INSERT SMILEY-FACE HERE >

Are 'bloody' and 'bitch' as bad as other, arguably more 'harsh' swear words? (Ask MelbourneGirl for examples; she says them better than anybody I know. Except maybe for yourself, Ms Fits. Perhaps you two should hold a "swear-off"? Another great BEVIS invention! Ear-plugs optional.)

Bear in mind that I'm not making (or asking for) a statement on whether or not ALL swear words are 'bad' to begin with - I'm merely talking about 'levels'.

Just like Kramer.



I don't think 'bloody' and 'bitch' are bad swear words at all, but then - as you so delicately point out - I have a mouth like a sailor on shore leave in Amsterdam so really shouldn't be trusted with answering this kind of question.


I really don't take issue with people swearing. If they stand in front of me suggesting that God Hates Fag Enablers then I'd probably want to kick them, but the odd 'cunting fuck!' barely registers.


MG tackles your questions (get a room you two, etc):

MelbourneGirl said...
1. yes, levels. exactly, bevis.

2. swear-off. good lord, no.

3. am i abnormal because i find the thought of having someone's entire hand up my clacker not arousing in the slightest? rather, quite the opposite.

please tell me i'm still within the normal range.



You're quite normal, yes. Although the words 'don't knock it til you've tried it' spring to mind.



Anonymous said...
Hello

Do you not find it twelve parts of creepy DO YOU SEE WHAT I DID THERE etc that so many of your readers imitate your style of writing (which is great, but it is very much yours) in their comments? I know I do!



No. I find it charmed and somewhat humbling. Although it creates the false illusion that I am somehow spearheading a movement of cutting-edge neologists, which is possibly not good for my fragile mind.


Anonymous said...
Help me Ms Fits you are my only hope. I need your wise counsel.

There is this boy (of course). I discovered today he has said some not particularly complimentary things about my body to a male friend of his (and when they tell you you will regret snooping when entrusted with passwords, BELIEVE THEM) involving the words "stretch marks" and "saggy". I am no supermodel but am not ashamed of my body.

What do I do? Confront? Tell him to move on if he is the wanting a younger, better bodied woman? Or live with the fact that I snooped?

Any advice appreciated.



Oh, what a jerkface mcjerkington. Who is he to be pointing the finger, please? Is he stacked like Pharrell on a wheatgerm detox? No he's not; he has sticky-out legs and a permanent man-crease under his bottom.


Honestly. It gets my fucking goat (THAT'S RIGHT, GOAT) when some simple-minded boob starts getting snippy about ladies and their stretch marks. Have they not seen the issues of NW where Paris Hilton falls out of a taxi with an arse like a road map? It happens to everyone, men of the world.


As to the question of your snooping...yeah, that business ain't never pretty. You're either going to glare sullenly at him, stewing in the juices of your dirty secret til the ends of time, or snap WHY DON'T YOU FUCKING MARRY HER SKINNY BACKSIDE THEN next time he casually expresses a liking for the young lady at the local sandwich establishment. I say cut your losses and move on to someone who wants to grab a hold of all that you've got and squeeze it like it was going cheap on Boxing Day sales.


Anonymous said...
Fitsy.

What did you make of John Faine's "content is king" remark? and were you in any way offended?



Not at all, Anon. We were having quite the time of it in there talking about fish and besides which Mr. Faine can be a notoriously prickly character at intervals and you get used to the way he 'rolls' after a while. As far as I'm aware I am still loved and I have been encouraged to drop in at any time ladies bring a plate.


theREALlordoftherings said...
Hail to you!

So, like, the other week I'm watching the last twenty minutes or so of 'True Love & Chaos' on the telly and as the end credits
roll to my suprise I notice RYWHM's own Ms. Fits credited as 'Out of it woman' !?!?!
My interest piqued, I've since been considering dusting off my
video rental card and heading on down to my local movie emporium to rent the flick.
But being the extraordinarily lazy person that I am I couldn't be arsed making the journey and yet still being all curious-like I thought I'd ask you here: just how long did you appear in it and, ahem, is there a 'fine art' to acting out of it on film? (besides getting well plastered beforehand of course...)
And yeah, should I make the effort to track the film down?

(btw, I'm a newish reader/1st-time poster here who usually doesn't like blogs but, hey girl you know, you're all right!!!)



Oh dear. I wouldn't recommend a visit to True Love and Chaos if I were you. Unless of course you're interested in seeing me for all of five seconds buying drugs from Noah Taylor in the Esplanade Hotel toilets, and WHO WOULDN'T BE.


In terms of chemical-addled actings, from memory I was shoved inelegantly into a toilet cubicle by the director and tickled mercilessly for the better part of four minutes. At the end of this time they began filming the scene.


The Oscar just won itself, people.


BEVIS said...
Why does Network Ten keep moving its shows around at the last minute and cancelling them? Why have they replaced Smallville with yet more re-runs of The Simpsons? And when will Smallville be coming back? What about The 4400?

Do you mind that I'm too lazy to call them up and ask them myself, but I know from past experience that you'll do it for me?

Does adding an emoticon at the end of my questions excuse the terrible inconvenience I've caused you by asking them? If so:

:)



1. Bevis, if I knew how the minds of programmers worked I'd be still gainfully employed as a television writer an in-demand woman. The fact of the matter is, the nice men in suits change their minds with gay abandon and expect you all to keep watching and to be perfectly honest you do as there is little else to occupy one's time at ten-thirty on a Thursday evening and it's nothing to be ashamed of so just you set your tivo and be quiet.


2. I'd wager there's more than one question posted on this here forum over the past 62 weeks that might've been answered with a quiet google, but what fun would that be? Come to me with your lightweight queries, men and women of the internet.


3. No. You know how I feel about emoticons. I was only using one earlier to illustrate a point.


de.foxus said...
orright, high speed internet for all.

thoughts?

will this help or hinder labor?



I'd say help, although by the way things are going Kevin Rudd could promise the electorate a free punch in the face with every purchase over $25 and he'd still whip Howard's taters eight types of raw.


The political landscape is so interesting these days, is it not?


Anonymous said...
My life is almost spilt in two pieces.
At work I am at the top of heap and everything is great.
Privately I am falling to pieces.

What to do Msfits?



It's always the way, isn't it? In one area of your life you're accepting Employee of the Month certificates and being promoted to Whitegoods, the other you're masturbating in floods of tears and eating alphabetti spaghetti straight from the tin. Do any of us ever get it right in all areas at all times, Anon? Can we really have it all 'just like Bogey and Bacall'? Do we deserve it? I don't know; I'm sure it's a fucking struggle to be considered Chairman of the Board by workly peers and all the while be craving a simple hug from someone warm whose laugh sounds like roasty chestnuts. Hold on tight and it will balance out eventually. It's the way these things work, you see.


BEVIS said...
Is there any way (any way at all) that I can successfully disguise the following to look like a legitimate question, rather than such a poor attempt at self-promotion?

"Did you hear that Big Blogger is currently taking applications for a second series of the hit fake online reality TV show parody that so wowed audiences across the globe in 2006?"

I love you for not sending me hate mail when I do this. x



No. There isn't. Consider yourself plugged.


Anonymous said...
Fits. Would you please share with us your impressions of these clips? Thanks.

http://defamer.com/hollywood/david-o-russell'/tomlin-vs-russell-the-i-heart-huckabees-outtakes-245292.php



Clips removed for violating YouTube content Anon, though from reading the text I gather it's a stoush between Lily Tomlin and her director. I'm kind of keen on Lily and that act she does in the enormous chair, but until I get a good look at what you're talking about I'll have to reserve my judgement. What would my impression be? Is there swearing? I do like a good curse.


Ryan said...
Does the fact you're doing these on Saturday mean that I can sneak in a late question? Or two, if you count the one before this? Or four, if I decide I want to ask a sensible one after this?

Fitsy, why do girls (i.e. the lovely girlfriend, and by extension, her ilk) make it so hard for themselves? Why hold on to thinking that you will meet someone and know straight away they will be the one and that you will never have any doubts at all from the outset...when that is patently unrealistic?

She does realise that this isn't possible, but she has her good days and bad days. So she ties herself in to knots about it with worry. And goes through bouts of lack of confidence/negativity.

She is definitely worth having patience with whilst she is trying to get through it, as she is an incredible girl...but it can be a tad frustrating sometimes, especially as you are putting your heart on the line.

How do you balance giving enough space with not too much or too little? How is it best to deal with this?

I know, that was seven questions.

I'm becoming a regular Bevis. Assuming of course that Bevis is regular, and doesn't have a catheter. But I am regular, so I guess I would be a regular Bevis regardless...

Thanks Fitsy!



1. Yes, but make it quick as I'm getting a little tired.


2. Yes.


3. Stop it at once.


4. Oh, I don't know. We women are romantic beasts at heart, Ryan. We are drip-fed tall tales of Hugh Grant-like characters sauntering into rooms with sly grins and hip-and-shouldering us into swooning submission. Why on earth we believe that bullshit when the most perfect men to stumble over are those infuriating fuck-ups who drive us fourteen parts of nutty with their emotional problems and inability to choose just one favourite record from the Faces back catalogue is a mystery, frankly. Your girl sounds like she's aware of her awkward shufflings and prepared to take it on the chin, so just keep on being an open book and wearing your heart on your sleeve. If it all goes to shit at least you can say you gave it a crack.





*************************


Look! We're done! I bet you didn't even notice me sneaking off to see my beloved best friend get married in between answering questions. But more on that tomorrow....






Thanks for your patience. Leave questions for next Friday in the comments below.



I remain, etc.




232 days til the next election.

67 comments.

Comments

23Mar11:55
MelbourneGirl said...

but sydney's less than an hour's flight!

[sound of sides splitting]

have fun.

23Mar12:12

Is this a first? Not even a single answer?

Shouldn't have stayed out late eating modern Japanese last night, and you could have got a few down then.

23Mar12:45
Anonymous said...

I'm devastated. No really. No sarcasm here. Not a bit.

23Mar16:04
Joe Hockey said...

What?***!%%!*#%%#

Sack the whole bloody lot of the RHYWHM staff and rehire them on WorkChoices AWAs!

Can't have this sort of nonsense going on!

23Mar16:54
Tim said...

You've got a busy weekend ahead of you, have fun!

23Mar18:25
Lukeus said...

You can and have fun. Lots of it. AFTER YOU'VE ANSWERED OUR QUESTIONS!

24Mar01:43
Mirri said...

No question here, sorry, just thought I'd share, that I now hold in my hands a copy of A Confederacy of Dunces, as I ordered it solely based on the recommendations read on this here blog.

So, that's all, cheerio.

24Mar01:44
catbrain said...

Hello gorgeous,

Methinks you've had quite a time of it lately; hope your coastal sojourn won't be wiped out by your hectic lifestyle.

I'm surprised it hasn't stretched out to the weekend more often. Thanks for being here for us.

24Mar13:35
Tim Chuma said...

What do you think of RRR FM's role as a community noticeboard? I have heard of at least two marriages (one on-air marriage proposal), births and deaths on various shows.

24Mar14:22
lil shaz said...

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24Mar14:51
Anonymous said...

"the other you're masturbating in floods of tears and eating alphabetti spaghetti straight from the tin."

HA HA HA HA HEE HEE HEE HEE HEE HOO HOO HEE HEE HA HA HA HA HA.

You funny.

24Mar15:11
Anonymous said...

Do you quietly wish that one or two of your obsessive "posters" who litter your comment sections with completely unintelligent, witless, rubbish might post a little less, esp on a Friday?

(I think a lot of readers now skip Friday Q&A because the majority of the post is boring, uninsightful commentary on questions you have already answered by a select few who paint themselves as hang-a-ron-erers, rather than actual questions to you...yes, i realise my contradiction here.)

Conversely, do you miss any "posters" who seem to have mysteriously disappeared?

24Mar15:39
BEVIS said...

Do you have any idea who the above Anonymous could POSSIBLY be referring to??

It's all a mystery to me ...

24Mar16:33
Anonymous said...

To the slut who isn't sexy enough. You're fucking not. And who gives a fuck how good your supposed current goyfriend looks naked right now you shallow vacuous cunt. Youth is a fleeting fucktard of a thing and I fucking well hope your non animal tested cosmetics give a tumour to reckon with. He'll fucking leave you, hey they all do right? And guess what cunt...you're shallow vacuous slut and you've had fucking far too many 'sexual partners', and fuck your lipstick feminism, what fucking man wants to see his first born son come into the world through a hole that's been used as a fun park for over a dozen and a half (conservative estimate) thrill seeking filthy cocks? That's why there is RIGHTLY a double standard you pigs, because the purity just isn't there. Even a man worth five Bil, Jamie Packer can't get a wife who hasn't taken cock from Russel Crowe. I am so fucking sick of you sluts. It's only you're virtue right? Yeah...motherless fucking cunthole paraphernalia motherfuckers eat my promiscuous cock expanse. Future: 2035, all children born out of vaginas that have been theme parks for two dozen 'sexual partners and that's ok sex positive taking it back ethical sluts' and all mother's calling thier fat arse children away from the play station do so with mouths that have also been used a theme parks for two dozen filthy cocks. Cheaper by the dozen, that's the feminist pig CUNT of today and its gonna get worse fellas, so fucking get a russian bride. At least they are hot, unlike the fat miserable vacuous cunt feminist scrag CUNT whores like the poster two messages up WHO ISNT FUCKING SEXY YES THATS RIGHT CUNT YOU FUCKING YOU, YOU, YOU! Just give me ONE day without the justice system intact, and we're on slut. Fucking ON. Example day, bird flu pandemic, meteor imminent, IT'S ME AND IT'S YOU SLUT FEATURES. And yes I want a DNA test.

24Mar16:37
Anonymous said...

Oh DEAR!

I need to catch someone's eye and have a giggle at the raving looney...

24Mar16:48
Anonymous said...

That's if any of your little cuntwhore slovenly pieces of cum guzzling SHIT have the fucking BALLS to be a woman and have a fucking baby the way the universe fucking intended and not through a hole cut in your stomach and done while on opiates. You still get whinging rights about how painful childbirth is though don't you cunts? Yeah... fuckin thought so cunts. And that's those of you sluts that even kids before you go barren isn't it? And then you want the medicare funded IVF, because you had to go and prove yourself as fake man for ten or fifteen years didn't you? The birthrate drops, and I can smell the VD from here. It's not just what I think, the modern Australian young woman is a filthy, vacuous, shallow, drunkard, promiscuous, rapidly infertile CUNT with NOTHIN to say but politically correct sheep speak, and nothing but a neurotic pile of useless flesh that's been laid out on too many other men's beds. And fuck global warming when a man can't even find a wife that isn't a hook-up minded pile of hang-ups, and a clotheshorse cosmetic trowelled CUNT. Yeah you. Long fucking live breast cancer I love watching you meulling feminist cunts drop like flies after you refuse to let the chemicals you paste all over your faces and pores be tested on animals, you're alll SOO fucking dumb. Okay sluts I'm done. Out. And all men agree. It IS ok for men to have as many sexual partners as they want because thier bodies are not the incubator of purity required for giving birth to every future generation of mankind.

24Mar16:53
Anonymous said...

"...incubator of purity required for giving birth to every future generation of mankind"

Tom Cruise, is that you? Oh dear Tom, did you forget to take your pills again, little one?

24Mar17:26
Fenz said...

well, if you say so you filthy mouthed anon.

Slow Monday then?

24Mar18:16
bec. said...

Dad, is that you?

Anyway,

my question for this week:

Veronica Mars is a really really awesome show. Great writing, etc. I love it.

Do YOU?

You should know, my respect for you hangs on this one question.

24Mar19:24
Anonymous said...

Next time I go to bed with someone I am going to employ the term 'win over my electorate'...

So, is it true that your electorate is a 'swinging seat'? I've know you prefer men who 'lean to the left' but what about some 'ballot stuffing' on the sly?

I'd suggest some 'community polling' as well but I recall it wasn't entirely your thing. Still, the thought of you developing a 'committee-based services policy' is certainly having a 'trickle-down effect' on this voter.

P.S. Sly innuendos? Hahaha in-you-e... oh, forget it.

24Mar20:27
Anonymous said...

Is it weird to have a sex dream about one of your gay friends? One of your male gay friends. When you are female? It feels so wrong and a wee bit dirty (but not in a good way). Thoughts? I suspect it just feels wrong 'cause he's in a committed relationship.

Also, what's with Mel Gibson popping by in the comments above? I mean, "slut features"? That's rather uncalled for.

24Mar20:53
epon_anon said...

" ... have the fucking BALLS to be a woman and have a fucking baby the way the universe fucking intended ..."

That's an anatomically fucked up viewpoint if nothing else. Didn't you hear what they said about the brown acid?

Question for Fits; is it wrong to poke the animals with sticks? Also, should I drink less?

24Mar22:25
epon_anon said...

Second question if I may; is there anything better than a hug when it's really needed?

24Mar22:42
Ifindbevisannoying said...

My Friday question:

Do you find Bevis annoying? Like, how he is obviously desperate to be included as one of your friends, he hopes that by repetition of what contact he has had with you (HE WENT TO SCHOOL WITH MARIEKE HARDY, YOU GUYS) he can make it so.

25Mar01:12

Does it bug you when people call you by your REAL WORLD NAME on here? Cos it would bug the shit out of me.

Oh, and if people left smileys like you displayed in last week's answer, I'd probably pack up and shut the thing down.

I guess my blog's bound to be impenetrable, it's all the shit people get sick of me talking about in detail at the pub, only in a lot more sober detail. Mostly.

If I made it a bit more user friendly and Netspeak, with various ROFL HARRIS and LOLOCAUST type phases thrown in, would the "kids" be "all up on that shit"?

25Mar08:59
lil shaz said...

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25Mar09:01
BEVIS said...

I find BEVIS annoying, too. You should try being the guy, dude! There's no escaping the mirth.

Also, I would like to nominate the crazy Anonymous at 4:33pm and 4:48pm as Humanitarian of the Year.

And Prime Minister at the next election. (Possibly his campaign slogan could be, "There's no escaping the mirth", although please don't misread that as a confession that I am the Anonymous in question. I don't even know half those swear words.)

25Mar09:40
Anonymous said...

Dear Ms Fits,

Thanks for taking the time to entertain with your bloggings!

Thought you might get a kick out of Jon Kudelka's '101 Uses for a John Howard' blog, if you haven't seen it already. He's up to 65 now:

http://www.101usesforajohnhoward.com/

Monkeyfluids also makes me laugh, but for different, and possibly more disturbing, reasons:

http://www.monkeyfluids.com/

Cheerio,

Anon (no relation to the unhinged poster earlier in the comments, I might add)

25Mar09:55
Anonymous said...

what i find annoying is people who keep bringing us the fuck down with their snide criticisms.

let's all just breathe and let each other be.

people who are just trying to score points give me the shits. including myself in this comment, because i just did (score a point)

25Mar09:56
Anonymous said...

what i find annoying is people who use the term "posts" when it should be "comments"

fuck off!

25Mar09:58
Anonymous said...

what i find annoying is people who think they own this blog, whether they stumbled across it like 5 minutes ago, or were "here at the beginning"

but fits, i admire your gentlewomanly attitude about it all.

25Mar10:10
Claudia said...

About 1 month I ago, I started being chased by a boy who I wasn’t very interested in at all. I didn’t find him physically attractive, but for some reason, his actions and our scintillating conversation began getting under my skin (read: private parts). He persevered, I resisted, and then eventually succumbed to his brilliant brain and sultry tactics and had a wonderful evening of unbridled passion with him (involving glorious food, amazing wine, and one of the best evenings of conversation/orgasms I have ever experienced). 3 weeks later I have utterly fallen, and now the cowboy is EASING RIGHT OFF! Is this his tactic? Is he playing hard to get? Because frankly, I do not like being seduced and then discarded. This has lead me to question my looks, sanity, smarts, bedroom skills…list goes on. I am an educated woman why am I reduced to even caring!





Umm. Do you think he likes me still?

25Mar11:44
stumpy said...

Regarding the krankivan...I drive a 1977 Toyota that is green with rust highlights. Of all the cars I've had, it's my favourite, surpassing even a 1984 Buick Skyhawk the colour that shit would be if shit was blue.
I'm sure you're aware of the advantages of such cheap cars (zero depreciation, cheap insurance, theft-retardant). But have you also noticed an often overlooked one - people get out of your way. If you need to make a sneaky lane change or butt into traffic, flash cars will part like a be-Mosesed Red Sea, because you look like the kind of person who (a) might not have ANY insurance or (b) might not care too much about occasional fender damage. It almost makes up for the AM only radio.

25Mar11:51
morgan said...

*butts, opinion-laden, into friday questions*

Claudia liebling, this cowboy? Methinks I have met one or ten of his types before.

He sounds like one of those people who are turned on by other's unavailability/disinterest. They go all out to win the ambivalent other's affection and as soon as they have it, they completely freak out and run.

People like this are using garden variety hard-to-get tactics - they have serious isshews, originating a loooong way back, that stop them being able to intimately connect with others & stay connected for any period of time. The only people they can fall hard for are those who are the same as them but worse. Dude needs therapy & lots of it.

Please do not be questioning your fabulousness because of his withdrawal. The only thing you have done "wrong" is become interested in him.... because he's tried so hard to make you that way.

I could be wrong, but if you want to test out my theory just back right off yourself - way back. If he returns like a wet nosed puppy scratching at the front door of your affections, desperate to please then bingo... Then just to be sure be all keen and affectionate and see if he bolts.

Look after your warm heart.

25Mar12:13
Anonymous said...

I know it is probably best to ignore the above rabid posting but I loved the sentence: "motherless fucking cunthole paraphernalia motherfuckers eat my promiscuous cock expanse". Why it reminded me so much of Booth's "Sic semper tyrannus" I don't know but I had so much time on my hands this morning that I translated it (roughly) into latin: "Orbus fututiones cunnus foramen apparatus matris fututi edi meus promiscus mentula amplitudo". Do you think this would be an appropriate motto for Australia's immigration department? Is it sad and/or wrong that I spent some time on the translation at my place of work?

25Mar13:14
DJKL said...

Hey Bevis, I was thinking about your clean mouth and thought you might enjoy reading this book:

Language Most Foul

The book takes you on the most swearingest journey possible but clearly explains the social context of cursing, oaths, swearing, expletives etc etc. It's written by an Aussie woman so it also has lots of great local examples in it. Highly recommended to any wordsmiths.

25Mar13:16
DJKL said...

Seeing as that last offering wasn't a question I will redemm myself as follows:

Ms Fits, can you please tell us if you appear on the Champagne Edition of the Late Show DVDs? Or do I have to somehow get pirated versions of the entire series to see your appearances?

25Mar15:11
BEVIS said...

DJKL, that's very funny! What a great book. Maybe "Dr Ruth Wajnryb" is MelbourneGirl's real name?!

I love the title of Chapter 3.

25Mar15:26
audrey said...

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25Mar15:28
audrey said...

BEVIS, I would just like to point out that even though I referred to your questions as "interminable" a couple of weeks ago, the above two anons are not me in disguise because last time I was told off.

They are slightly interminable though, but I suspect that's your intention...

*skips off to find another sexual partner to defoul her ghetto-womb*

25Mar15:29
audrey said...

Not that being told off would stop me. I just don't believe in disguise unless I'm asking questions about fertility.

25Mar15:49
Simon said...

Stellar comments this week, well done everybody- except bevis, naturally.

Something niggles at me, about the snooping girl with the stretchmarked saggy breasts.

How could you come looking for sympathy?

25Mar16:36
Hellglitter said...

Dearest Dollfits

Okay, here's a doozy

*holds up flannel with hole through the middle and charred edges*

I always thought they looked different somehow.

Now, I also have a difficult question.

This is Geoffrey Robertson doing a hypothetical*.

Imagine during an interview with a totally unimpeachable (I mean totally unimpeachable) source you were told - off the record and must never tell anyone - who the Hilton Bomber was and why the bomb was exploded.

You keep your word and don't tell a soul - except close family of course in an off-the-record kind of way.

Then that person dies a few years later.

He has told his family the same story but never another journalist.

The family may not want the secret told but could absolutely verify it, and did to you, off the record.

Would you write the story even if the family didn't want to be a part of it or would you just walk away from it.

There's a whole big journalistic ethics thing here I'd like you and your readers to get your head around.

Oh, and the bomber is still alive.




PS: My veri-child is kslhalu. It's Hawaiian for kiss and hug all night. I kinda liked the image of tropical beaches and hot bodies and the wordy child has luvly warm biscuit coloured skin.



PPS: *Actually not a hypothetical at all

25Mar16:45
John said...

Life. It's a sexually transmitted disease with 100% mortality. Can't do much about that but for those other STDs one gets from slut lipstick feminist cunts I may have the outbreak, sorry, breakthrough, for you. I'm John and i'm a Phd candidate working on an instantaneous saliva test for HIV and other common STDs. When visiting prague I noticed the whores there are ultra hot compared to the pieces of used shit that inhabit australia, and I wanted to break them all one by one thing is I fucking HATE being forced to wear a raincoat just because of all the other johns and, in the case of 1 in 4 young australian females according to ABS figures, uncle nasty fingers too, so I had the idea of the saliva test, so I could go the raw dog, to quote eminem, "with any whore with genital warts on the warped tour". The clinical trials begin in August and the working name we have the product is called SpitSlip. Because you get the whore to spit on the swab, and you're right to slip it to her disease free. No one likes to get to the stage where it is time to insert your PIN and you see the ant farm on a chick's box and it's transaction declined, it's insufficient fun. We feel this innovation could even make me australian of the year in 2011 when SpitSlip hits chemist shelves. Think about it guys, no more wasting your precious man-time tuning some VD carrying cunt in the club when you could be off inventing civilization and engineering bridges or beating women in IQ tests, just swab her glass when she goes to slash. And you're either ready to venture some more capital or cut your losses. Plus the sex holiday potential is fantastic. We have several major pharma giants considering the product so load up your portfolio with biotech stocks, book a flight to eastern europe, or if asians sluts are your thing, asia, and get ready for some raw dog action. There is no need for the filthy franger any more, so kick away that pig skin and pick up the other kind of pig skin, because with SpitSlip you're gonna be kicking goals. And remember, a hole's a hole, and any hole's a goal!

25Mar21:19
Anonymous said...

First question ever - did you know you've been linked to from abbotsford blog? - no, that's not the question.

Do you, like me, laugh out loud at the antics of messrs Spader and Shatner on "Boston Legal", particularly Shatner's little girlfriend ...

Frank from Abbotsford (no, not near the dead body).

25Mar23:48
Matthew said...

Ms Fits,

Love the blog - thanks for regular LOL's :-)

Found this and thought of you :-)

http://www.yesbutnobutyes.com/archives/2007/03/top_15_unintent.html

Matt.

25Mar23:50
Matthew said...

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26Mar09:21
BEVIS said...

*rolls eyes*

Relax, people.

Some words for you to consider:

Sarcasm. Context. Backlash. Goodbye.

26Mar16:53
Anonymous said...

BEVIS, seriously dude, since you clearly have a real-life relationship with Ms Fits, why don't you interact with her through that medium, rather than online. It's tedious and boring for the rest of us, and - frankly -embarrasing for you.

26Mar20:19
Anonymous said...

I wish MelbourneGirl would stop commenting on EVERYTHING posted on this blog. What an annoyingly smug sycophant she is. This blog was fun untill Fits' friends sucked the life out of it.

26Mar21:19
MelbourneGirl said...

where the fuck did that come from?

i thought i had my head down.

26Mar22:31
Anonymous said...

there's this guy (i dream about him). when he looks at me i feel propelled upwards. i'm not myself around him, but i love it. i feel like i'm not asleep anymore. i wonder...

what eighties song did i just paraphrase?

27Mar08:06
Anonymous said...

dear anonymous, ifindbevisannoying and other bevis-related anonymouses,

it's not all about you.
the internet does not exist solely for your entertainment and you don't control the content.


yours sincerely,

anonymous.

27Mar10:49
Anonymous said...

What exactly is vinegar made from?

ps - I don't think Bevis is annoying at all.

27Mar10:50
Anonymous said...

I wish Melbourne Girl would shut up too.

27Mar11:40
Unimpressed said...

why must everyone be such jerks when talking to, and about each other here? what's happened to these q and a posts?

27Mar11:51
Damien said...

How hypercritical is Anonymous?
Complaining about other people commenting frequently.


Here is a link for the Lily Tomlin v David O. Russell I Heart Huckabees clips.
http://www.omgblog.com/2007/03/omg_how_emotional_lily_tomlin.php

27Mar23:47
Clem said...

Does The Age let you know the number of viewings your articles receive?

They do if you're a Fairfax blogger; must get more page views, it's all about the page views... *rocks back and forth*

Is it wrong that whenever I visit my agent I have irrational and yet quite overwhelming fears that they're about to take me aside and say something like "Look, we all gave it a red hot go, but we're going to have to let you go, Clem"? Have you ever experienced similar k plz thx.

28Mar00:04
audrey said...

Why does Clem Bastow go by Clem? Isn't Clementine a beautiful name? I think she should be Clementine. Clem, why do you shorten?

28Mar12:43
Hellglitter said...

Dearest Dollfits,

Can I make a wee suggest. Can we all ignore any nasty comments under the name of anonymous?

It seems to me that if writers don't have balls to own up to who they are, we should let their wimpy butts hang over their chairs in silence.

The only time I was nasty (sorry Scientician) I at least had the courage to say who I was.

I'm even brave enough to attach my name to mis-spelt and badly phrased Bevis limericks. Well, I could just be plain stupid.

(Hang in there Bevis - who cares if a bunch of anony-mouses - not anony-men or anony-women - like you or not)

Oh, and one last thing. Do you think it might be that the Libs and CDP types are just taking out their recent clubbing in NSW on your blog.

Oh and one last, last thing - I do drivel on, don't I.

Mr Reucassel (I'm sure I've spelt that wrong) was in the area of the newspaper I was relief-editing when he droped into Debnam's press conference in nothing but his red budgie smugglers (with or without socks - I'm not sure).

Should I call up some of the photos and send them your way?

With a bit of Photoshop magic that fan who wants a pic of the pair of you in a state of near undress might have her dreams come true.

I will provide the leopard-skin bikini for your half of the shot.

Cheers and chuckles all.

28Mar12:48
Hellglitter said...

Oh, and I ran Mr Chaserbles picture on the front page under the headline, Election's a joke.

Well, it was and he gave me the excuse to say so.

My word-veri creature today is zfgloi.

That's the sound light makes when it turns solid streaks across the room and sticks to wall like drippy mud.




I blame the drugs.

28Mar14:42
elmo said...

lady,

who do i have to kill to get on your blogroll? hopefully not you. or me. as that would be awkward.

so glad to read of the happy marryings. HURRAH!

all is going strong re previous agonies, which as an aunt, you counseled so wisely. i'm kind of thinking of adding him to here. or not.


xxx

28Mar17:49
Anonymous said...

"d) Your word verification comment makes me interested in you. Prelude to dating in 2007? Discuss."

Yes, alright. How do you feel about an afternoon of trainspotting followed by a detailed discussion of the Australian Accounting Standards Board's adoption of International Financial Reporting methods? With a social life like that it goes without saying thay I have a number of ho's and bitches that you will be in competition with.

28Mar20:50
Anonymous said...

Gosh, what a lot of nasty stuff. I haven't been reading this blog for long, but would like to say that anyone who loves the Muppets as much as Bevis does has me as a fan.

Boring trolls zzzzzzzzzzzz.

Me question. Ms Fits have you ever struggled with monogamy? Currently in long term lovely relationship, yet the eye and imagination wander, causing much stress and confusion. How does one get to Sinead O'Connor's graceful state of not wanting what one has not got?

Sorry about bein' anon, don't have a blog.

28Mar21:51
Lukeus said...

Hi. I hope I'm not too late.

When Thank God Your Here returns Tom Gleisner will inevitably surround himself with beautiful women and pretend like it happened out of luck. In every episode. I know live TV shows do this - they put the good-lookers front-and-center and it's all business as usual - but I can't believe Tom Gleisner has sunk to this level.

That's not my question, this is. I'm very curious to read the Bolt article on you. I can't imagine what rubbish he came up with. I googled it to no avail and I even employed the Monash Uni Factiva archive to no avail. Will you pplleease show it to us?

29Mar06:09
Easily Confused said...

Me again of the monagamy question. I've given myself a name.

Apologies for the previous anon, don't have a clue.

You can call me Easy for short.

30Mar02:00
Lonosoy Marinero said...

It was you I wanted a signed photo of, dork -- tho I see you are on first name terms with Dan Redacted. Is it because you called him a hottie? Anyway, a little disappointed you don't have any tv/radio publicity photos I could have, tho I imagine you have a lovely arse. As arses go.
What's your shoe size? I'd like to send you some knee-socks.

As a disclaimer I want to point out there is absolutely zero sexual connotation to that, I don't have a sock fetish (if such things exist), I just thought it might be nice.

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