DUMMY SPIT

Front page of the Herald Sun:

Sam Newman told to take break from The Footy Show

CONTROVERSIAL Footy Show star Sam Newman will be missing from the program tonight after Channel 9 management ordered him to take an extended break.

Everyone - Caroline Wilson, women at the AFL, women in general, Channel Nine, squawk-back radio, assorted honkers, professional outragists - has got it wrong. As usual. This is not an issue of gender respect, sexism, yobbism, taste, manners, ratings, or whether the Footy Show will tank while Sam's "recovering and convalescing". Categorically, this is an issue of diction. Suddenly everyone is saying mannekwin, not mannekin. You people make me sick.

Comments

[TimT]

Sique, surely? Or [sic]?

[Tony T.]

It's up to you, Tim. There's plenty of rheum to maneuver.

[Lad Litter]

What shits me about the whole Footy Show scheme of things is the sledgehammer response they always level at anyone who dares to voice geopick criticism. And the peanut gallery they play to. I've been using that phrase a lot lately. But there are a lot of peanuts.

[Tony T]

The, or rather, ANY studio audience is the absolute pick of the bunch peanut-wise.

[brownie]

Hi TT
I just have to alert you to a new feature on one of my favourite websites

http://www.picturevictoria.vic.gov.au/countryfootball/index.htm

I hope you laugh

[boynton]

That's a great link, Brownie.
So good, I pinched it.

[Tony T]

I'm going to pinch it, too.

Hey, hang on! Don't I own it, anyway? I don't need to pinch it. It's got a touch of the "adverse possession" about it.

Is there a footy stat for adverse possessions?

[boynton]

Well, after about 15 years of holding the ball with no prior opportunity of disposal, you might be able to claim possession.

Slow Stat.

[brownie]

I knew you would like it