Comments on: @KevinRuddPM stumbles into the Twitterverse http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/11/14/kevinruddpm-stumbles-into-the-twitterverse/ now with extra source Sun, 22 Nov 2009 04:36:07 +1100 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Kevin Charles Herbert http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/11/14/kevinruddpm-stumbles-into-the-twitterverse/#comment-13958 Kevin Charles Herbert Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000 #comment-13958 <br />What's Stilgherrian? What’s Stilgherrian?

]]> By: mike smith http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/11/14/kevinruddpm-stumbles-into-the-twitterverse/#comment-13959 mike smith Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000 #comment-13959 Don't you mean who?<br /><br />"The sky is a bank of featureless grey cloud as the PM heads into the city".<br /><br />I prefer<br /><br />"The sky was the colour of a television, tuned to a dead channel." - William Gibson<br />(possibly misquoted, but that's close)<br /> Don’t you mean who?

“The sky is a bank of featureless grey cloud as the PM heads into the city”.

I prefer

“The sky was the colour of a television, tuned to a dead channel.” - William Gibson
(possibly misquoted, but that’s close)

]]> By: Stilgherrian http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/11/14/kevinruddpm-stumbles-into-the-twitterverse/#comment-13960 Stilgherrian Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000 #comment-13960 Dear Kevin Charles Herbert, "Stilgherrian" is my name. Unusual, isn't it! Such is modern Australia. Terrible business. If you Google me you can discover much, much more -- even pictures!<br /><br />Mike Smith, yes, William Gibson's prose is, as I've written elsewhere, like an excellent cabernet merlot. Now if only we had ministerial media advisers like Gibson... Dear Kevin Charles Herbert, “Stilgherrian” is my name. Unusual, isn’t it! Such is modern Australia. Terrible business. If you Google me you can discover much, much more — even pictures!

Mike Smith, yes, William Gibson’s prose is, as I’ve written elsewhere, like an excellent cabernet merlot. Now if only we had ministerial media advisers like Gibson…

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