Comments on: The Costello Memoir Part 1: the last Howard Budget http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/08/13/the-costello-memoir-part-1-the-last-howard-budget/ now with extra source Sun, 12 Feb 2012 02:48:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: JamesK http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/08/13/the-costello-memoir-part-1-the-last-howard-budget/#comment-24117 JamesK Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000 #comment-24117 Haha! Walt; you are a genius is what u are. It is the funniest, cleverest, bestest and truly most brilliant piece of political mockery ever!!!!!!!!<br /><br />You guys at Crikey..........ur just too brilliant....that's why Christian left...ur just too witty for the likes of Kerr and any other serious commentator. Haha! Walt; you are a genius is what u are. It is the funniest, cleverest, bestest and truly most brilliant piece of political mockery ever!!!!!!!!

You guys at Crikey……….ur just too brilliant….that’s why Christian left…ur just too witty for the likes of Kerr and any other serious commentator.

]]> By: Gene http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/08/13/the-costello-memoir-part-1-the-last-howard-budget/#comment-24118 Gene Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000 #comment-24118 I disagree - this is a pretty pathetic parody. Walter lost me at "bum, sh-t, poo, wee-wee". I disagree - this is a pretty pathetic parody. Walter lost me at “bum, sh-t, poo, wee-wee”.

]]> By: AdamC http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/08/13/the-costello-memoir-part-1-the-last-howard-budget/#comment-24119 AdamC Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000 #comment-24119 Why publish a juvenile, snide piece like this which isn't even funny?<br /><br />Surely it should at least be funny?<br /><br /> <br /> Why publish a juvenile, snide piece like this which isn’t even funny?

Surely it should at least be funny?

]]> By: MediaMook http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/08/13/the-costello-memoir-part-1-the-last-howard-budget/#comment-24120 MediaMook Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000 #comment-24120 Funny stuff Mr Slurry. And the 'bum, sh-t, poo, wee-wee' comment is a reference to a strange Wikipedia entry traced back to the Howard Govt's Dept of Prime Minister and Cabinet as reported back in August 2007. So the lavvy language is justified. The staffer responsible must have been lower middle-class. <br />http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,22299260-662,00.html<br />'The most embarrassing edit traced to the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet (PMC) is an act of vandalism on a martial-arts related entry, in which the user wrote, “Poo bum dicky wee wee” on the page in an apparent test.'<br /> Funny stuff Mr Slurry. And the ‘bum, sh-t, poo, wee-wee’ comment is a reference to a strange Wikipedia entry traced back to the Howard Govt’s Dept of Prime Minister and Cabinet as reported back in August 2007. So the lavvy language is justified. The staffer responsible must have been lower middle-class.
http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,22299260-662,00.html
‘The most embarrassing edit traced to the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet (PMC) is an act of vandalism on a martial-arts related entry, in which the user wrote, “Poo bum dicky wee wee” on the page in an apparent test.’

]]> By: Jennie http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/08/13/the-costello-memoir-part-1-the-last-howard-budget/#comment-24121 Jennie Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000 #comment-24121 Have to chuckle Have to chuckle

]]> By: Patricia http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/08/13/the-costello-memoir-part-1-the-last-howard-budget/#comment-24122 Patricia Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000 #comment-24122 Yes! If this circulates more widely than Crikey the real thing has no chance of gaining gravitas in its publication as political biography. Crikey subscribers should send it to friends. I loathe e-round robins but think I'll make an exception of this. The lavvy language which usually leaves me cold is just right here. I am still smiling after a belly laughing re-read! Yes! If this circulates more widely than Crikey the real thing has no chance of gaining gravitas in its publication as political biography. Crikey subscribers should send it to friends. I loathe e-round robins but think I’ll make an exception of this. The lavvy language which usually leaves me cold is just right here. I am still smiling after a belly laughing re-read!

]]> By: Venise Alstergren#2 http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/08/13/the-costello-memoir-part-1-the-last-howard-budget/#comment-24123 Venise Alstergren#2 Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000 #comment-24123 MediaMook: Yeah, I can be a pain in the butt. Thanks for the info. re origin of of 'poo,bum, etc. BTW when I accuse the land of Oz for bing lower middle class, I, naturally, include myself!<br /><br />Cheers<br /><br />Venise MediaMook: Yeah, I can be a pain in the butt. Thanks for the info. re origin of of ‘poo,bum, etc. BTW when I accuse the land of Oz for bing lower middle class, I, naturally, include myself!

Cheers

Venise

]]> By: Mervyn Langford http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/08/13/the-costello-memoir-part-1-the-last-howard-budget/#comment-24124 Mervyn Langford Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000 #comment-24124 Mate, my grin is almost as fixed and inane as the Hon. PC's. Well done. Mate, my grin is almost as fixed and inane as the Hon. PC’s. Well done.

]]> By: andrew http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/08/13/the-costello-memoir-part-1-the-last-howard-budget/#comment-24125 andrew Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000 #comment-24125 Hilarious. Thanks, I really needed a good laugh. Hilarious. Thanks, I really needed a good laugh.

]]> By: Mark P http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/08/13/the-costello-memoir-part-1-the-last-howard-budget/#comment-24126 Mark P Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000 #comment-24126 Thanks for that, funniest piece I've read for some time. Thanks for that, funniest piece I’ve read for some time.

]]> By: Venise Alstergren http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/08/13/the-costello-memoir-part-1-the-last-howard-budget/#comment-24127 Venise Alstergren Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000 #comment-24127 I could have done without the bum, sh-t, poo, wee-wee. I thought, perhaps erroroneously, that Australians had outgrown this lower middle-class terminology. The sort of talk that a Kath or Kim of the 1940s would have used to talk to their children. However, the parts where someone's (?) hero, PC, says to himself the things he didn't have the guts to use to the world's worst Prime Minister (JWH), are better than hilariously funny. Here we perceive a hint of George MacDonald Fraser's sublime "Flashman". I could have done without the bum, sh-t, poo, wee-wee. I thought, perhaps erroroneously, that Australians had outgrown this lower middle-class terminology. The sort of talk that a Kath or Kim of the 1940s would have used to talk to their children. However, the parts where someone’s (?) hero, PC, says to himself the things he didn’t have the guts to use to the world’s worst Prime Minister (JWH), are better than hilariously funny. Here we perceive a hint of George MacDonald Fraser’s sublime “Flashman”.

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