Ironbar should P & O forever
Uncategorized - - Posted on March, 7 at 5:53 pm by Ken L
I’ve never felt the slightest inclination to go on a cruise that lasted more than half a day. I have a very low boredom threshold and I like to feel that I can escape from tedium any time I feel like it by a clever tactical retreat involving my car or public transport. The prospect of being trapped in the middle of the ocean with people who want to favour me with their views on John Howard or rugby league or the meaning of life is enough to awaken me trembling in the middle of the night.
Which leads me to note that the SMHerald reports, incomprehensibly:
Dr Nelson’s woes intensified when it was revealed that the West Australian backbencher Wilson Tuckey would miss two weeks of Parliament to deliver lectures to tourists aboard a cruise ship.
For the life of me I can’t understand why this news would add to the woes of anybody on either side of parliament. Indeed the air will smell a little sweeter while ever that unbelievably obnoxious moron is somewhere else.
One does however feel sympathy for the tourists on the cruise ship. What in god’s name is the oaf going to lecture on? More to the point, why TF would anyone in their right mind go to listen?
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March 7th, 2008 at 6:25 pm
or pay. Our local ABC in Adelaide speculated that most of the potential customers must be deaf (or dead). Who said UK retirees were on the ball.
March 7th, 2008 at 7:02 pm
It would be a hoot. I imagine a lecture from fart-in-a-crowded-elevator Tuckey would be anything but dull. Stupid maybe. Obnoxious definitely. But dull, never.
March 7th, 2008 at 8:34 pm
Why do the understandings of Lyns start with S as in tupid,O as in bnoxious& d as in ull adding up to Sod!?
March 7th, 2008 at 9:51 pm
But have you thought what it says about the mentality of the West Australians from Geraldton to Albany who vote in this moron with a huge majority every time. They’re the ones who should be on that boat. Let them listen to Tuckey non stop. And damn the torpedoes!
March 7th, 2008 at 11:49 pm
It certainly would be an interesting trip.
I trust this is part of his role as an MP. Otherwise, it is a disgrace.
Cardboard cutouts needed for Tuckey, Vaile and Downer.
March 8th, 2008 at 10:55 am
cardboard cutouts make more sense
March 8th, 2008 at 12:01 pm
The Libs are a strange lot in the West. Our local MHR Barry Haase seems to have contributed very little to the National parliament in the last ten years. He swans around the electorate like a cross between a public relations consultant and a travel agent. He has delivered very little in the way of ideas or achievements. Don’t know how he’ll survive if his access to taxpayer funded printing and postage for party propaganda is curtailed by Labor’s proposed changes.
March 8th, 2008 at 5:07 pm
Don’t be mean, Wilson is dapper.
His crimson neckrash will get itchy in the tropics.
If he falls overboard his ironbar will drag him to the bottom.
He radiates pride like a WA quarry.
Did I read elsewhere that he is actually lecturing on climate change, of all things? WTF?
Is he realist or Boltite on the matter?
I don’t know, but based on past spectacles (trilling the lord’s prayer on Sorryday?) I find it insurmountable to give him the benefit of the doubt.
March 9th, 2008 at 9:12 am
http://www.alternet.org/story/57001/
You just have to have the right passengers.
March 9th, 2008 at 9:52 am
Maybe he’ll explain that rising sea levels don’t matter if you stay on a boat.
March 9th, 2008 at 11:18 am
#9 Charles, many thanks for the link. These are Howards heros?.
March 10th, 2008 at 10:54 pm
Wilson wasn’t just lecturing, he was taking the opportunity to try out his poetry on a (just) live audience. Here’s a snippet from one he called “Australia as a Hole”.
Consider Australia as a hole,
she is a fickle land.
She looks a brown and wrinkled mole,
but there’s wealth beneath her sand.
We should treat her like a lady
-give her all that she deserves-
caress her with a grader
and sample-drill her curves.
We should scour her flanks and contours
with our strong magnetic fields,
then poke our seismic probes in deep,
to see what she might yield.
We’ll sink our shafts,
plunge in and down,
and steal her secret riches.
We’ll pump her full of poison seed,
and make sure we take pictures.
I tell ya -nothing turns me on
like a wide open cut!
Love ya work Wilson. When ya do it.