Examiner Day!

Celebrating the Examiner:

We have the “Ride to work day”, the “Be kind to Dad’s day”, the “World Environment Day”, and the “love your pet day”… so in that spirit of recognising those special people, places, items or events perhaps we should celebrate the “Worlds Best Uses for the Examiner Day”.

Never before has a sorry arsed, stupid, bigoted, prejudiced and intellectually dishonest production existed for so long, and in doing so repeatedly failed to provide objective, moral and ethical leadership to the community.

This achievement needs celebrating.

The late (gee I missed a knighthood and did time) Eddie Rouse frequently described it as ‘the local sausage wrapper’, and in doing so perhaps provided creative license for his (then) money maker to be used for all kinds of wonderful and creative applications.

In winter 30 years ago, we used to tear it up and place it in our shoes – as it was a good insulator. Some would argue it still is a good insulator – from truth, objective observation and intelligent writing.

My brother and I used to keep it in the back of an old Landrover, (ingloriously christened the anti-christ) and use it in those quiet little moments when man contributes to the fertiliser of the bush and needs a useful strong if not absorbent wiper. We always argued about who got to use the mast-head.

And so to today, decades after it was used to wipe bottoms, start camp fires, insulate winter shoes, wrap sausages, and advertise year in and out the sad, the downtrodden car yards and close to failure hardware stores – as well as report on the tea and scones parties of those post private school Launceston girls who have snatched their best friends husband and finally made good and got a shot at the dented family silver from long forgotten midlands estates…we should all take time to reflect on and celebrate the Examiner.

Have simply splendid, informed or misinformed (depending on what you read) and quite possibly entertained day.
A Note from Castro