Yes folks, the Crikey subscription is back at the top of Troppo for ONE WEEK ONLY as we’ve just been issued with the link – which will enable you to sign up. It’s here!.
As aficionados will be aware, Troppo funds its entire garage of imaginary vehicles (including the latest acquisition – Bronnie the chopper) from its annual group subscription to Crikey.
This is how it works. You email me on ngruen at Gmail with “Crikey” in the subject heading. (This is a new bit, and without it I don’t think Troppo’s Group Subscription Division could aim to be bought up by Facebook in a few years time with 100 million followers.)
I then send the names and email addresses to Crikey and they get in touch with you with an offer of a very cheap subscription to Crikey. (Illustrating the glories of crowdsourcing, someone will now look up the group discounts available on the Crikey website and post it for others. Anyway, we have for many years got over 50 million subscribers.
You get the subscription cheaper than ever thought possible, and then the holding conglomerate Private Media – which runs Crikey, The Mandarin and Fox News – sends Troppo all the imaginary vehicles it needs in the coming year. (Stop Press: Private Media appear to have divested itself of Fox News in favour of News Limited – a nice move, given the rise of Donald Trump – this itself coming on top of Troppo’s endorsement of The Donald).
They’re not imaginary vehicles (though I do admit I once owned a car that judging by its reliability seems to have been multiplied by the square root of -1; from whence my animus against the Australian car industry stems). They’re VIRTUAL vehicles. You’ll never hustle up those 100 million marketable followers if you don’t get the terminology right.
Virtual vehicles. Doh!!
You’re quite correct.
We are right now scouring used drone yards in Pakistan. I objected to this in the
imaginaryvirtual management meeting we held. I said Troppo wasn’t about violence. Unfortunately Ken said that, if it was good enough for Nobel Peace Prize winner Barry Obama to read his kill list with breakfast it was good enough for him. Don sided with Ken. Still I’m hoping for a good name. What do you think of ‘Chopper’?Seeing as followed Nicholas’s instructions : http://get.crikey.com.au/group-subscriptions/
It may be due to the unclosed bracket above.
Stuffed if I can work it through..go on, laugh!
Won’t send an email off my email system.
A simple link would be easier?
You are the same Nicholas Gruen mentioned in “Shitstorm”.
If so, thanks for the thousand bucks a few years ago.
I haven’t read it I’m afraid. I AM the guy who got people an extra payment of family allowance in the ill titled One Nation statement that was Paul Keating’s first big statement as PM. It’s a long story, which I should write out here, but it’s late and to cut a long story short, Treasury were horrified at my suggestion. It seemed so, well . . . frivolous. Surely a stimulus should be more than just giving money away! I mean consider the optics. What might people say? To me it seemed obvious that it was a quick way of getting money to people and getting it into the economy. And it did – far better than the stuff with all the hard hats on.
Confirms my impression of you over time.
May God go with you.