Mark Elliott

Grouchy Mick, former Councillor, unionist. Average jogger. Passionate about my town, education and footy. Views my own.

[Mark Elliott @Mark_In_Midland]

@MrCongee Romeo Icarus🇻🇦 winning the MVP in his debut season after a stunning year at Pontifical Gregorian University; that kid is going places*

(*the seminary)

[Mark Elliott @Mark_In_Midland]

@random_scrub @tajallieh I co-sign this, and it’s written very accessibly, too.

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@tajallieh You got it!

(Y’know, as opposed to the Australian Design Rules for road safety, but alas, I’m unfamiliar with those.)

[Mark Elliott @Mark_In_Midland]

@tajallieh “Hunting and foraging” is also how I refer to ADR.

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@spissy_c Which is why I’m content for Scott Pendlebury to play for as long as he pleases.

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So, the circle of people in my life who have read both Bleak House and My Immortal had to be, like, vanishingly small, but this is terrific.

[sympathetic opposition @sympatheticopp]

did you know that only 38% of college literature students in a recent study could understand the opening of bleak house?

[Mark Elliott @Mark_In_Midland]

I’ve really enjoyed the diversity of responses to this prompt, but my whole experience has just been me doing this after literally every Yeats poem that gets posted:

[alaska @145k4]

everyone wants to say "this poem sucks" that poem sucks"" etc but very few brave enough to say Helllo, here is a poem i LIKE!! This is my taste!

[Mark Elliott @Mark_In_Midland]

@MelbaofNM “Look. Do you want to do it? Or do you just want to tell me how to do it?”

[Mark Elliott @Mark_In_Midland]

@MelbaofNM Unfortunately, we stopped doing that a while ago.

(you’re still welcome to come regardless)

[Mark Elliott @Mark_In_Midland]

@MelbaofNM The other solution, presumably, is to move somewhere that saw more Civil War activity, and get more reenactor action there.

I mean, the Virginia Bar exam is probably a piece of cake, right?

[Mark Elliott @Mark_In_Midland]

@MelbaofNM “If there were no dudes in sick tricorns, it would be necessary to invent them.” - Voltaire, probably

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@Guy_Incognito84 Impressive: literally none of this is true!

Based on the Register of Interests, she started with no property, then:
June 2014: bought a place in East Melbourne
Jan 2021: bought a place in Oakleigh (in her electorate), making the other place a rental
Aug 2023: sold the rental.

[Mark Elliott @Mark_In_Midland]

@Guy_Incognito84 It is not! He’s practicing as a criminal defence barrister in Perth nowadays.

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@dutchpossum I looked at this and thought “what’s the issue; that seems reasonable,” and then I realised what this was in response to. Goodness me.

[Mark Elliott @Mark_In_Midland]

@ExposingNV Only question is whether the Andrews’ lawyers are sending an enterprising young associate along with a notepad for a quiet evening beer.

[Mark Elliott @Mark_In_Midland]

Announcing the Cheapskates XI: the cheapest possible team to make (all $1 and $2 guys, and one $3):

1. Langer
2. Hayden
3. Watson
4. Head
5. Hussey
6. Healy
7. Cummins
8. Lyon
9. MacGill
10. Lee
11. Hazlewood

A long tail, but $13 to spare; enough for a beer at @OptusStadium!

[cricket.com.au @cricketcomau]

You’ve got $30. Build your all-time Ashes XI. Who misses out? 👀

[Mark Elliott @Mark_In_Midland]

@OVTweetmarck Let’s gooooooo

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PRINCE GEOFFREY: “Why, you chivalric fool, as if the way one fell down mattered.”

PRINCE RICHARD: “When the fall is all there is, it matters.”

- The Lion in Winter #Ashes2025

[Mark Elliott @Mark_In_Midland]

I want to see Australia batting by the end of the day’s play.

*one finger on my cursed monkey’s paw curls inward* #Ashes2025

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There’s something Dickensian about an opening batsman that’s totally incapable of leaving a ball being named Duckett. #Ashes2025