User talk:Mattjs

Now largely defunct as I rarely bother to login anymore.

John Howard

Freezing little Johnny for Posterity

- Way Forward you must mean Way Backward how dare anyone use such a progressive expression here of all places in an article on a conservative like John Howard even in a talkback page. I think we should leave the article frozen for good so John Howard can drift off into a well deserved retirement. So I ask you what does such an emminent statesmen really deserve: all of this controversy or a banal obsurity? - The Queen after all has already had the last word by failing to give him his knighthood. God bless her royal arse! - I for one am happy never to return nor add to his infamy so long as he remains more or less permanently cryogentic. :-) - The only Prime Minister for whom it could undoubtedly be said: "A man who's vision for Australia was exceeded only by his stature!". LOL. Mattjs (talk) 22:56, 15 May 2008 (UTC)

I want my grand kids to see him on display and stuffed at the Australian Museum. LOL. Mattjs (talk) 23:12, 15 May 2008 (UTC)

Geez they got it right didnt they: "B-Class biography" LOL. Mattjs (talk) 23:16, 15 May 2008 (UTC)

May 2008

Welcome, and thank you for your attempt to lighten up Wikipedia. However, this is an encyclopedia and the articles are intended to be serious, so please don't make joke edits, as you did to Talk:John Howard. Readers looking for serious articles will not find them amusing. If you'd like to experiment with editing, try the sandbox, where you can write (almost) whatever you want. Merbabu (talk) 01:40, 17 May 2008 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of What is America?

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ArbCom elections are now open!

Hi,
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ArbCom Elections 2016: Voting now open!

Hello, Mattjs. Voting in the 2016 Arbitration Committee elections is open from Monday, 00:00, 21 November through Sunday, 23:59, 4 December to all unblocked users who have registered an account before Wednesday, 00:00, 28 October 2016 and have made at least 150 mainspace edits before Sunday, 00:00, 1 November 2016.

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