Will Dick Pratt do a Bondy? "I am sick, your Honour, and I don't remember doing what I did... not even once... back then... at the All Nations... on May 21, 2001."
Billionaire Dick Pratt faces jail
BILLIONAIRE Dick Pratt faces up to four years' jail after being charged yesterday with lying about his knowledge of a price-fixing scandal.
The laying of criminal charges could force Mr Pratt to step down as president of Carlton Football Club.
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission alleges the chief of cardboard manufacturer Visy gave false and misleading evidence before a commission hearing in 2005.
The way I see it, Dick will plead guilty, get his charge reduced by 25%, and be free to president next weekend.
Unfortunately for Dick, Adam Goodes has the Get Out Of Jail Free card:
The Carlton Football Club 2008 Charity Edition of Monopoly was officially launched on June 12 at the MCG.
The game celebrates Carlton’s remarkable history as well as today’s players. The Carlton version of the world famous board game features 22 current players and four icons of the Club. Rather than wheel and deal with Mayfair and Park Lane, players have the chance to build a footy-opoly empire through buying, renting and mortgaging their favourite Carlton stars. Stars and legends featuring the ‘top end’ of the Board Walk include Chris Judd, Brendan Fevola, Nick Stevens and Marc Murphy.
I don't understand why the other party to the so-called price fixing has not been carpeted also.
Mr Pratt has 'Piss-Off Money" and if I were he, I would shut down Visy completely and let the govt deal with 3000 newly unemployed people.
The big scare seems to be that We The People are forced to pay too much for cardboard fkng boxes.
The ones that $5000 flatscreen TV sets come in.
who cares.
The roads are choked with the cars of people complaining petrol costs too much, so what's a cardboard box.
I wish Mr.Pratt well.
Posted by: dysthymiac | 20 June 2008 at 11:28
I read an interesting piece about Monopoly. It was a traditional folk game back in the day, if there is such a term. An unemployed real estate agent pinched the idea and packaged it. Stole it off the Quakers or something like that.
Get some lerning India.
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Who is Mayfair? ["Board Walk" - WTF???] Your snippet beats around the bush and gives me a choice of 4. If I crick on the rinky will it tell me?
Posted by: Big Ramifications | 20 June 2008 at 11:51
Well, I saw Lon Chaney walkin’ with the Queen
That would possibly (but maybe not) be close to top in my "memorable lyrics" list. That and You walked into the party like you were walking onto a yacht, your hat strategically dipped below one eye. Your scarf: it was apricot.
Not sure why. Possibly coz ya have to know who the long-dead gent is and what he did for a living, and it makes you feel all tingly and clevarr inside that you get the meaning?
Posted by: Big Ramifications | 20 June 2008 at 12:18
Looks like Dick just threw three doubles in a row....
Posted by: Adsy | 20 June 2008 at 12:20
Vis-a-vis...
http://www.news.com.au/business/story/0,23636,23894102-31037,00.html
Posted by: Adsy | 20 June 2008 at 12:21
Vis-a-Visy... he had to stand down.
Posted by: Tony T | 20 June 2008 at 12:24
sh*t
Posted by: Big Ramifications | 20 June 2008 at 12:45
The way the Saints and Freo played last night was no less criminal than Dicky Pratt, by the way.
Posted by: Adsy | 21 June 2008 at 11:48
I'd like to give Carlton Monopoly a go, just so I can land on Chris Judd with a car.
Posted by: carneagles | 21 June 2008 at 18:15
Bondy's performance was deserving of an Oscar. Each evening's TV news showed him tottering down St George's Terrace - small little trippy steps, just like my Dad did when he was going down and out with Alzheimers - his unconditionned hair wisping in the wind, clinging tenuously to the supportive arm of his loving QC.
Posted by: os | 23 June 2008 at 13:12
"I read an interesting piece about Monopoly. It was a traditional folk game back in the day,"
It was originally designed as a game about the dangers of capitalism - hence the title. But a smart hustler saw its potential, bought the rights, rejigged it a bit and now it's the best selling board game of all time. There's a lesson in that for someone or other.
Meanwhile, being too lazy to do it m'self, I'm now waiting for someone to come up with a board game about designing board games. However I have already copyrighted the title. "Game Board! The Ultimate Board Game."
Game on.
...board now.
Posted by: Nabakov | 24 June 2008 at 01:19
All A Board! A board game about designing board games... at sea.
Posted by: Tony T | 24 June 2008 at 10:46
Suck shit, Carlscum.
Not only have you been proved Dickless, not only did you lose by six goals when you were up in the last quarter, but Andrew Welsh made your pointy-headed, over-priced new recruit look like a dud.
Posted by: Keri | 24 June 2008 at 14:39