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Friday, May 30, 2008

Eight out of ten ‘aint bad…

Here’s my 8 for 10:
CROWS over DONS, Scotties back but it’s not likely to save us, alas.
Hot PIES
DOGGIES to upset HAWKS, going on an uneasy gut feeling here.
LIONS, CATS, SWANS, SAINTS & FREO to round it off.

Monday, May 26, 2008

PM visits Boarking

Our workplace was graced last week with Chairman Kev, the radiant Julia G., and other luminaries such as local-boy-made-good Eddie Maguire.

Many of my colleagues got to share a buffet breakfast with the main man, impressions it seems were positive.

Alas, it was not seen fit to give Boarking a head's up, my manager was "sworn to secrecy" and was only able to share the news with close friends and favored underlings. It wouldn't, I feel, have risked state security to suggest that I might want to come in early on the morrow.

Maybe it was feared that the sometimes opinionated and forthright Boarking might cause a diplomatic incident, but I would have just said thanks for getting rid of the inequitable Medicare surcharge slug on those of us on moderate incomes with the good economic and political sense not to have signed up to the private medicine rort.

I'll find plenty to have a go at Kev and his gov over the next couple of years, but credit where it's due on the surcharge and for being nice to my colleagues.

Friday, May 23, 2008

aflate

Apologies to my imaginary reader who awaits the Boarking tips b4 putting in their own. Though it might not do you much harm... I'm watching CATS vs PIES on tele and the pies are three big ones up. Like most, I'm going for geelong.

For the rest, FREO over BLUES, the dockers can't keep chucking games in the last qtr.
SYD over PORT, though would be more confident if it was in sydney.
CROWS over WCE, obviously.
TIGERS over my BOMBERS who seem to have given up.
LIONS over SAINTS, no worries.
DEES are paying $11, could be worth a $1 bet at the bookies, but we tip the lucky bastid HAWKS in this rd.1 rematch.
DOGS over ROOS, not massively confident.

I've got the footytips.com.au page up as I type, showing Geelong paying $8. This is either an error, or I've done my tipping dough tonight, bearing in mind I'm watching an hour behind...

Bugger!

Friday, May 16, 2008

afl8

Club footy is back and the Boarking tipping machine is right on it. Only going for one upset this round, and that's tonight, the team I can't tip gets my tip of death: SAINTS over PIES. The Saints have some serious outs but a couple of alright ins too. It's nice to tip against the Pies even when it's not sensible.

For the rest we go with the bookies:
CATS over Tigers. I'm going to this game and I'll support the underdogs who will be alright, but I won't tip'em.
LIONS
HAWKS
NORTH
CROWS
SYDNEY. Rd8 and my mighty DONS are already "playing youngsters" and presumably thinking of draft picks. I won't be tipping them much for the rest of this season.
DOGGIES.

Go lock'em in!

Sunday, May 4, 2008

Imaginative dressing

How come, if you see a woman in clothing that "leaves little to the imagination", you find yourself imagining quite a lot?

afl 7 roundup

What's wrong with the universe? AFL timekeepers, which might explain my continuing Saints tipping hoodoo for this week.
As for the other fail: you could tip Melbourne? In fact, my brother BoarkingJnr did... he thought "they were due". He is a prescient fool!

Friday, May 2, 2008

Meredith Gift 2005 (with commentary)


It's an exciting new movie from Boarking Productions:

"Warning nude people. Footage from amongst the competitors of the 2005 gift at the Meredith Music Festival with narration; set to Yo La Tengo's instrumental cover of the Ramone's Blitzkreig Bop."

It's on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9PfXVOA3Qk


AFL 7 0f 22

Have definitely lost my tipping mojo, but for my sins; here's Round seven:
BLUES, CATS, HAWKS, TIGES (SAINTS though are the team I can't tip in '07 so be warned), CROWS, DOGS, FREO, PORT.
If this lot aren't worth a big 8, then there is seriously some problem with the universe.