http://www.thepunch.com.au/author-bios/fred-pawle/ Fred Pawle is the only journalist in history to go straight from a job interviewing Home Girls at The Picture men’s magazine to a sub-editing gig at the Financial Review. It is emblematic of his absurdly diverse career, covering fashion, business and sport magazines, newspapers and websites across the nation. In 2007 he was nominated for a Waklley for a story he wrote for STAB surfing magazine about Matt Branson, the first pro surfer to come out as gay. Fred now edits Executive Lifestyle on theaustralian.com.au en Copyright 2012 The Punch penberthyd@newsltd.com.au penberthyd@newsltd.com.au Fri, 10 Feb 2012 02:00:13 +0000 Fri, 10 Feb 2012 02:00:13 +0000 Politics, opinion, world news, sports news, latest news, views, Barack Obama, Kevin Rudd, Julia Gillard, Nathan Rees, Malcolm Turnbull, Peter Garrett, Barnaby Joyce, Australian, federal politics, opinion polls, election, The Punch, thepunch, punch ExpressionEngine 1.6.7 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 15 http://www.thepunch.com.au/images/punch-logo-rss.png http://www.thepunch.com.au/ 144 70 Politics, political opinion, world news, sports news and the latest news and views updated live, daily on The Punch - Australia's best conversation. Search The Punch keywords http://www.thepunch.com.au/search/ http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/obama-is-no-king-just-a-fudd-of-a-president/ Imagine for a second that you had mastered the impersonation of some forgotten 1960s cartoon character - let’s say, for argument’s sake, it’s Elmer Fudd. You try it out on your girlfriend, and she cracks up. She begs you to talk to her with your new voice all the time, even during the most intimate moments. For some reason, this seems to make her love you more. After a few days of this, she cajoles you into ordering a meal at a restaurant using your cartoon voice, so you order the “woast wamb” for yourself and the “wemon chicken wiv wentiws” for her. The waiter thinks it’s hilarious. You spend the rest of the evening receiving special treatment and leave without having to pay the bill. At work, your colleagues stop by your desk just to hear you say, “my secwetawy is witing a wetter”. Even a cop lets you off a speeding fine when you tell him, “But officer, I was wacing to catch a wascawy wabbit!” Eventually you talk like Fudd all day. feedback@thepunch.com.au (Fred Pawle) Article http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/obama-is-no-king-just-a-fudd-of-a-president/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/obama-is-no-king-just-a-fudd-of-a-president/#item574 Wed, 08 Jul 2009 18:50:33 +0000 Fred Pawle | Author bios | The Punch http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/abc-drops-the-f-bomb/ Until last week, I thought the silliest casualty of modern warfare was the word “bomb”, which in many news reports had become known by the acronym IED, or improvised explosive device. IED might be a handy term for military strategists needing to distinguish between a mortar fired from a well-equipped conventional unit of soldiers and a bucket full of fertiliser and nails left by an anonymous freelancer in a car on a crowded street in Baghdad, but to the media, any explosive device whose detonation imperils those in the immediate vicinity should, provided it’s not Barry Hall after giving away a couple of 50s, be simply referred to as what it is: a bomb. To do otherwise simply buries the true horror of the incident under a comforting layer of jargon. feedback@thepunch.com.au (Fred Pawle) Article http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/abc-drops-the-f-bomb/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/abc-drops-the-f-bomb/#item446 Wed, 24 Jun 2009 18:45:21 +0000 Fred Pawle | Author bios | The Punch http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/get-off-my-wave-you-boof-head/ When Ben Hannant appeared at his door this week to reveal he had played Origin while suffering from swine flu, he wasn’t only sending shivers down the spines of league fans. A lot of surfers would have felt a pang of anxiety too. Not because of any fears about the Origin series, but because Hannant was photographed in a hoodie with a surf label emblazoned across the chest. There’s nothing wrong, per se, with footy boof heads pulling on a surf label. Australian surf companies have clad most of the free world in reasonably stylish, affordable clothes, and for footy players to feel part of this phenomenon is perfectly understandable. feedback@thepunch.com.au (Fred Pawle) Article http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/get-off-my-wave-you-boof-head/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/get-off-my-wave-you-boof-head/#item292 Wed, 10 Jun 2009 18:45:00 +0000 Fred Pawle | Author bios | The Punch