tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14994418.post1647307813806118538..comments2023-12-12T11:39:43.504+01:00Comments on Blurb from the Burbs: MedicatedMoohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08609190990579743429noreply@blogger.comBlogger19125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14994418.post-49190699543793710202010-04-04T05:43:53.145+02:002010-04-04T05:43:53.145+02:00The comment above this is a
puzzle. Mine was worse...The comment above this is a<br />puzzle. Mine was worse.<br /><br />Take no notice (as my father would say).R.H.https://www.blogger.com/profile/04639593801088008224noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14994418.post-35543351123099584992010-04-04T03:09:08.627+02:002010-04-04T03:09:08.627+02:00...though the PR peeps made a slight error. While......though the PR peeps made a slight error. While trying to avoid political bloggers they didn't notice how some of us use our more popular food blog as a cover for the political one(s)!<br /><br />The selection process seemed a tad random. Though to be fair, a number of bloggers didn't open their invite due to the name of the company - thinking it was spam.<br /><br />The owner of the PR company has now written to every attendee to apologise for their "innocent mistake". It took me a while to find my email, as my mail reader took it for mass produced garbage and parked it straight into the spam folder. LOL.<br /><br />The "innocent" excuse doesn't explain however, how the company could have missed a headline in The Age just a few days before the event proclaiming the biggest PR social media blunder ever re: the Greenpeace video and N*stle's poor attempt in damage control on Facebook. Still think this thing doesn't quite add up.<br /><br />...but I'm guessing I'll not be invited back to any of their social media/blogger experiments in future.GShttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11963643826578219126noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14994418.post-22073893797442718852010-04-02T20:55:51.421+02:002010-04-02T20:55:51.421+02:00This comment has been removed by the author.R.H.https://www.blogger.com/profile/04639593801088008224noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14994418.post-89222004947337676532010-03-31T12:52:19.941+02:002010-03-31T12:52:19.941+02:00Nice poncho :)
I have fun with you at this event....Nice poncho :)<br /><br />I have fun with you at this event.<br />Thanks for sharing and I'm still smiling at the bum crack.<br /><br />best wishes from another aussie bloggerxxxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12600470311819511684noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14994418.post-51655968498027563042010-03-31T11:56:13.901+02:002010-03-31T11:56:13.901+02:00Looks like fun. How do you get invited to these th...Looks like fun. How do you get invited to these things . . I've been blogging for three years and not a single freebie! And on top of that only a handful of Aussie commenters. I'd be better known at the Irish Blog Awards than an Aussie event! <br /><br />Must be Choccoblog yeah? We have this sort of thing at Taronga in the summer too but I've never been $60 bucks a ticket so . . next year maybe. Glad you had fun! (nice poncho!)Bainohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14156193098088048637noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14994418.post-58432392738618332702010-03-30T08:26:36.424+02:002010-03-30T08:26:36.424+02:00A potato in a poncho? You do yourself a disservice...A potato in a poncho? You do yourself a disservice Kath. <br />I've never thought about the reasons for turning up the brim of a hat before. To kiss without poking the other person's eyes out is a great idea.<br />Did you have fun? Did you meet up with any bloggers?Riverhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14794655013673748992noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14994418.post-29779484930853455512010-03-30T01:16:38.973+02:002010-03-30T01:16:38.973+02:00Aw Kath, Saphh is so gorge, bless her - she looks ...Aw Kath, Saphh is so gorge, bless her - she looks so loved and happy. Very fitting your entourage accompany you to any blogger fest, they are muchly part of your identity, if i may say so - without them it would be like the Brady Bunch showing up without Alice. But wait, where's Milly? Surely if other animals were present Milly should have passed all entry requirements, though, she may have been tempted to get too friendly over by the bum cracks on display.Rowehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02765993736554383626noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14994418.post-70862659259949954622010-03-29T23:55:02.183+02:002010-03-29T23:55:02.183+02:00(waving and smiling) - Hi Elisabeth, and welcome!
...(waving and smiling) - Hi Elisabeth, and welcome!<br /><br />Benjamin, they emailed me. I think the company was looking for local bloggers who are perhaps a bit less political than your good self? (and I mean that with the greatest respect, considering your passionate propensity to protest every decent issue affecting society). As such, the bloggers there tended to be foodies, art-and-craft leaders (ie Pip from Meet Me At Mikes) or PR types....Kath Locketthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09677312773827236567noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14994418.post-41169228978342377882010-03-29T12:59:35.410+02:002010-03-29T12:59:35.410+02:00How'd you score that gig?How'd you score that gig?Benjamin Solahhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10657105522335752577noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14994418.post-70770643472206759742010-03-29T11:55:37.107+02:002010-03-29T11:55:37.107+02:00Great to meet a fellow Melbournian, Kath. Needles...Great to meet a fellow Melbournian, Kath. Needless to say, I'm new to your blog via JahTeh of CopperWitch.<br /><br />What a lovely day you had. And I too love the expression a 'blerk' of bloggers. I shall mention it to some of my overseas fellow bloggers soon enough. I think it might be your road to blog fame.Elisabethhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04015624747225433940noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14994418.post-15038256669222405072010-03-29T10:17:19.371+02:002010-03-29T10:17:19.371+02:00Wally I do like the idea of setting up a Wiki entr...Wally I do like the idea of setting up a Wiki entry (rushes off to add it to her 'things to do in the school holidays with a ten year old' list)<br /><br />Cat, it was sort of a fun day but a bit disorganised. One blogger noted that we got a family-sized block of KitKat in our hampers yet Nestle use palm oil and are the current hot target in the latest Greenpeace campaign and the zoo is full of "Don't Palm Us Off" posters. Unintended mistake by the PR company methinks.<br /><br />Jodie - I can understand why you didn't. I was vaguely aware that I was the only person over the age of nine who actually wore her yellow poncho.....<br /><br />No baby Mali, DrB, and the kids there were pretty disappointe. The organisers said she was already sleeping. We just sort of idly wandered over to see the lions who seemed to like wrestling with each other rather homo-erotically....<br /><br />Lidian, why don't you start using 'blerk' over in the northern hemisphere and see if we can get it to catch on?<br /><br />Nice to meet you too, AOF - and well done for spotting the palm oil/nestle choccy gaff!<br /><br />Pandora, the bogan grouping is an important one to get right, esp at Grand Prix time or Clipsal 500 time in SA:<br />A Mullet of Bogans?<br />A Divvy of bogans?<br />A Bludge of bogans?Kath Locketthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09677312773827236567noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14994418.post-32684112303412661972010-03-29T03:05:32.727+02:002010-03-29T03:05:32.727+02:00Gotta love the lions - looks like a great day out....Gotta love the lions - looks like a great day out. What about a Blaspheme of Bloggers? By the way, what is he collective noun for bogans - is a Bumcrackful of Bogans? A Broadmeadows full of Bogans? Something to ponder.Pandora Behrhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17582255671962095503noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14994418.post-38940907311222694272010-03-28T23:22:19.012+02:002010-03-28T23:22:19.012+02:00Nice to meet you Kath :) Good to have found each o...Nice to meet you Kath :) Good to have found each other off and on the net.GShttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11963643826578219126noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14994418.post-24113559862968584092010-03-28T15:27:14.151+02:002010-03-28T15:27:14.151+02:00Definitely, it must be a blerk of bloggers! I must...Definitely, it must be a blerk of bloggers! I must try and remember that.Lidianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14609618027313982020noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14994418.post-52979226690583761252010-03-28T13:48:21.228+02:002010-03-28T13:48:21.228+02:00No sightings of the baby elephant Mali?No sightings of the baby elephant Mali?drbnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14994418.post-75215836429903037762010-03-28T13:47:42.749+02:002010-03-28T13:47:42.749+02:00No sightings of the baby elephant Mali? Didn't...No sightings of the baby elephant Mali? Didn't notice it rained....drbnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14994418.post-669808523092566532010-03-28T11:44:43.212+02:002010-03-28T11:44:43.212+02:00I wish I had the guts to come over and say hi....t...I wish I had the guts to come over and say hi....those skinny groovy kids freaked me out a bit. <br /><br />Then I would have met someone else who laughs at bum cracks !!!Jodiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02924653077212971448noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14994418.post-54044392889789583662010-03-28T11:11:38.199+02:002010-03-28T11:11:38.199+02:00Aww, that looks like it was a sort-of fun day!And ...Aww, that looks like it was a sort-of fun day!And your lil girl looks just like you, with just enough of LC to not be all you. Love the potato look :)Cat J Bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09392607219027350143noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14994418.post-61140434176216572372010-03-28T07:17:49.907+02:002010-03-28T07:17:49.907+02:00I rather like the idea for the collective noun for...I rather like the idea for the collective noun for bloggers being "A Blerk".<br /><br />I'm convinced that these collective noun things are just made up be a few people somewhere having a bit of a laugh (probably over the lunch table to relieve their boredom). So why not make up a few of your own.<br /><br />Then edit an entry on Wikipedia for it and reference your blog where you can proudly be cited for "first common usage".Wally The Walrusnoreply@blogger.com