Things may well be crook in Muswellbrook, but Castle Hill , above, overlooking the Queen City of the North , is looking glum, down at the mouth , as if suffering from toothache , epitomising a feeling afoot in the ville .
There are clear signs that Townsville is going bonkers , cracking under the strain of water restrictions , the Cowboys being smashed by Mexicans , Thurston's shoulder refusing to heal despite the laying on of many hands , the coal fired Murdoch Townsville Bulletin rabbiting on about the same old issues , more yapping dogs being abandoned , unemployment high , signs of an early trying build up to the Wet season , not one of which has filled the city's dam catchment area since the crossing of the Red Sea by the fleeing Israelites .
Evidence of the stressful situation is the action of a prominent , well respected resident we know who punched his Epson copying machine , only two months old, and then threw it into the wheelie bin because it would not work properly. This is more drastic behaviour than Mr Fawlty belting his car with a branch for not working .
Another person , who shall remain anonymous for obvious reasons , was seen parading about wearing an imported, expensive replica of Napoleon Bonaparte's cocked hat . He is expected to be dragged off soon by men in white coats. There are indications of an early mango crop , so the annual outbreak of Mango Madness can be expected across the entire north , not only in Townsville , so medical staff will have to cancel drug company skiing holidays .
On reading that the Townsville Bulletin had once more gone to The Strand to photograph and ask a curvy piece of visiting eye candy in a bikini ( didn't Rupert declare P3 girls old hat? ) if she felt there would be rain , a woman yelled, threw her arms up in the air, said she would never buy the bloody paper again . What would a backpacker know about predicting North Queensland weather ?
Exactly . And while on the subject of aliens from another planet , the Bulletin , Bully for short , has started running the column of bombastic Paul Murray who anchors another fair and balanced Murdoch owned television show in Sydney , joining the array of southern syndicated ear-bashers writing for the paper , and other Murdoch publications , the price of which has gone up more than 14 per cent .
Murray came to Townsville during the recent V8 Supercars , his pending visit written up in the Bulletin as if news of the Second Coming . The reaction to the Murray column is like that of the tragic event when freezing locals at the opal mining town of Coober Pedy , South Australia , were induced on an early morning television show to sing happy birthday to Ray Hadley , another Sydney babbler : Ray Who ?...Why do the gods and the crumbling Coalition punish South Australia so much ?
Evidence of the stressful situation is the action of a prominent , well respected resident we know who punched his Epson copying machine , only two months old, and then threw it into the wheelie bin because it would not work properly. This is more drastic behaviour than Mr Fawlty belting his car with a branch for not working .
Another person , who shall remain anonymous for obvious reasons , was seen parading about wearing an imported, expensive replica of Napoleon Bonaparte's cocked hat . He is expected to be dragged off soon by men in white coats. There are indications of an early mango crop , so the annual outbreak of Mango Madness can be expected across the entire north , not only in Townsville , so medical staff will have to cancel drug company skiing holidays .
On reading that the Townsville Bulletin had once more gone to The Strand to photograph and ask a curvy piece of visiting eye candy in a bikini ( didn't Rupert declare P3 girls old hat? ) if she felt there would be rain , a woman yelled, threw her arms up in the air, said she would never buy the bloody paper again . What would a backpacker know about predicting North Queensland weather ?
Exactly . And while on the subject of aliens from another planet , the Bulletin , Bully for short , has started running the column of bombastic Paul Murray who anchors another fair and balanced Murdoch owned television show in Sydney , joining the array of southern syndicated ear-bashers writing for the paper , and other Murdoch publications , the price of which has gone up more than 14 per cent .
Murray came to Townsville during the recent V8 Supercars , his pending visit written up in the Bulletin as if news of the Second Coming . The reaction to the Murray column is like that of the tragic event when freezing locals at the opal mining town of Coober Pedy , South Australia , were induced on an early morning television show to sing happy birthday to Ray Hadley , another Sydney babbler : Ray Who ?...Why do the gods and the crumbling Coalition punish South Australia so much ?
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Instead of rain , an indication of an early , trying build up to add to the misery .
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