The ‘Suppository of all Wisdom’.
August 13, 2013
A cheeky little number and ‘suppository of Wisdom’..
A few weeks ago someone questioned the silly terms given by wine tasters to alcoholic beverages. Far from it to complain about our national past-time of tippling but to call a wine having ‘ambition’ or being ‘arrogant’ is getting a bit wild. I have often watched those buffs at wine-tasting. Those with small noses need not apply. Most wine tasters have enormous noses not unlike the proboscis monkey with those flexible noses. Do they also drink through their noses?
Apart from giving a simple wine the most ridiculous attributes on par with an enraptured tourist guide describing Sydney’s opera House to Japanese tourists or Lang Lang’s suave description of Beethoven’s Ninth symphony to musical conservatorium students we have this latest discussion from our possible future Prime minister, Mr Tony Abbott.
He is a Rhodes Scholar, apparently meant to say repository – a storage place- rather than a medication inserted in the rectum. Get a bit closer to your screen now and listen carefully.
His political opponents have now available one of the richest veins of jokes, cartoons, and endless requests for Mr Abbott to bend over and get free ‘suppositories of wisdom’.
This is George Bush’s territory in Australia all over again.
Window Dresser's Arms, Pig & Whistle 
Unless he was getting punched below the belt, YES!
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This is a response Helvie’s “brain damage” comment.
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I’d suggest its bums to the wall when he walks into the room.
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Algernon, it was a Freudian slip. He needs a good lie down on the sofa and tell us his story. With him in the room I wouldn’t worry about bums. …It would more likely be: Balls to the wall.
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There is going to be a play now with a giant suppository on stage with a purple faced politician pleasing his boss in a very tight, dark and sunless space.
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Thank you for validating this. I thought I’d mis-heard. Why has the media not picked it up?
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Some of the media has – Guardian, Age etc but the ABC has chosen to ignore it. Many of us have had a good day reading comments here and there – the humour is wonderful.
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Viv, I replied to you on the Reith blog, being critical of ABC, they published it…I was surprised as they seem to want Abbott to win. Why, I can’t comprehend. Murdoch?
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I can answer this Helvi: The decision has been made. They are grooming The ABC to be privatised after the election. That’s why.
Introducing ‘in-program-advertising’ at the SBS was an experiment. The ABC was always going to be the next…
But, then again, I hope I’m wrong!
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hph, I have thought for some time now that they have sold their soul to the Devil, Murdoch….they are definitely biased …not a good look for a public broadcaster.
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Oh yes, they have. It’s made the international press
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They have. It is everywhere now. Look at Twitter.
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Murdoch media is pro Abbott, as they promote him, they are not going to say anything bad about him…makes it hard for Labor.
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What else would anyone expect from someone who is the arse-end of the political system?
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..and this from a so-called Rhodes ‘scholar’, I wonder if all that boxing has been harmful…
brain damage/
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I think he’s given us the bum steer.
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I;ve noticed before that TA frequently uses the wrong word without a blink of an eyelid. It is common among a class of politican and happens in any profession where people are required to talk incessantly on demand. One of the funniest moments but of awe happened when I was switching over from BBC World News at the radio station and listening closely to it with headphones to time the change over when Gordon Farquharson one of the marvellous speakers of the BBC began to say an entirely inappopriate word and he somehow swallowed the word as it formed and instead said the right one. Hilarious. A common peculiar phenomenon is transposing words as if typing and getting one word out of continuity and a number of presenters I heard do it and speak about it, Some of us are too chicken though to get absent minded about the difference between repository and suppository rotflmao. I loved the expression on his face as he heard it echo back and wondered, giddy man, if it was the right word. 🙂
All that ruggers and boxing and rowing and cricket with chaps…
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With him its punching walls and fondling breasts as well
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we knew he was an idiot, but now we know he is an extreme idiot apropos his reference to the candidate having sex appeal as a feature of her suitability for an election platform, crikey.
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…but, today, it’s a ‘daggy dad’ moment, no explanation or apology needed.
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Very scary. The expressions on the faces of those young women he was addressing said it all. Now we have had a parade of idiots from his party (and not only his!) telling us it was ‘light hearted’ comment that meant nothing. That something means NOTHING is then elevated to a virtue. Oh, my.
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