steve dow, journalist

October 12, 2008

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The Swede battle-cry

Year: 2008

Like a sleeper cell waiting to regroup at the prophet’s call, we discreetly continued listening in the 80s, when you could track down ABBA cassette tapes in the bargain bins of service stations.

Poor music writer Neil McCormick. The full fuselage of the ABBA theocracy – pent up with long memories of the infidels who dared mocked us – was unleashed upon him in the blogosphere.

Smokin' hot, that's cool you

Year: 2008

Tobacco companies always knew how to handsomely market their death sticks. Back when he was a struggling wannabe actor, Brad Pitt was enlisted to hand out cigarette samples. Mind you, before Pitt’s arse made its debut in Thelma and Louise, it was also alternately zipped up in a chicken suit to promote the El Pollo Loco restaurant chain, and seated in a limousine to ferry strippers to bachelor parties.

Keep the Fete

Year: 2008

Cut to the 81-year-old Pope waving his arms in the air like a raver. Queue graphic, “The time of your eternal life”. All we need now is for the Pontiff to do a little air guitar on his special Sydney Harbour cruise ship trip, and he’ll become the Pied Piper calling the overflow of young Pentacostalists spilling out of Hillsong.


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