Props abounded, with a model drone hoisted by one member of the crowd and a large parachute carried by others.
"But ultimately they [the government] don't want their record of no boats arriving to be spoiled, they want to be able to continue to say no boats have arrived for more than six months – they are hoisted on their own petard".
I don't see any point in having the last six months laying there, being unable to communicate, being unable to move, hoisted on to the toilet or wearing diapers.
Thus we spray-painted terrible puns onto bed sheets (oh look, another "Declaration of Waugh") and hoisted them in the air as banners, we slapped on our terry toweling hats, we bought the souvenir tour guides and Channel Nine propaganda pamphlets - still walking away with change from a $10 note – and marvelled in the peerless humour of calling Richard Hadlee a wanker all day.
Wednesday's victory feels similarly significant, less the kind of thing to be enjoyed in the moment, like the Ashes triumph, and more a platform from which expectations can be legitimately hoisted towards the sky.
They are then slaughtered with knives or hoisted out of the water for capture, with buyers from aquariums picking their favoured animals to perform various tricks for audiences.
And speaking of mud, there is cyclocross, where thin-tyred bikes are raced around grassy circuits, occasionally hoisted on to shoulders to be carried over obstacles.
I grabbed a fish and hoisted it up.
And it would give blacks a leader whose near-mythical reputation had hoisted him above the rivalries and dogmas that afflict so many of his followers.
These mobs hoisted the black banner of Islamic extremism over American embassies on the anniversary of the September 11th attacks.
In the eastern hinterland, rebels have hoisted the old tricolour that was the national flag before Colonel Qaddafi took power in 1969.
