Barnaby’s Watergate: a flush or a truck?
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It’s the question that had ABC listeners choking on their Weet-Bix this morning: did colourful Queensland Nationals senator Barnaby Joyce do an interview sitting on the toilet? During the ABC News Radio interview with Joyce — who has repeatedly accused the Rudd Government of flushing taxpayer dollars down the toilet — a mysterious noise can be heard in the background. Staff at the ABC’s Brisbane office have encouraged speculation it was the sound of a toilet flushing via the station’s Twitter stream:
But not all listeners agreed:
A spokesperson for Joyce denied that the Opposition finance minister had been caught with his pants down, saying that the suspect sound was a garbage truck. To help you make up your own mind, Crikey has posted audio of the suspect sound, as well as audio of a garbage truck and a toilet flushing. Eager to get to the bottom of the affair, Crikey consulted the ACT Government’s Canberra garbage collection roster. According to the roster, Thursday collections take place around the Belconnen district, across town from the area around Parliament House where Senator Joyce is understood to reside. However, garbage collection does take place between 7-9am, coinciding with the 7:15am timing of Joyce’s interview. Crikey is unaware whether Joyce participated in last night’s nation-wide Vindaloo against Violence event, in which Australians were encouraged to eat curry as a sign of support for the Australian-Indian community. |
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13 Comments
Well that’s 5 minutes I’ll never get back.
The audio evidence is piss-weak.
Channeling Ben Pobje? You can do better Mr Knott.
Maybe Barnyard had to stand for the new National Anthem?
“So lefties all let us rejoice
For they have Barnaby.
He’s out there now with charts to show
How one and one make three.
Queensland has given such a gift
A talent rich and rare,
No need to rage, at every stage
Their Barnaby is there.
As Tony strains to make some gains
His Barnaby is there….”
( as posted, originally, by Patricia at LP)
CYBERCYNIC - I like that, very good! It definitely wasn’t a garbage truck. It was at least a tap - maybe washing his hands(ear plug in?) Could’ve been a ‘short flush’ though!
Truly? Talking about it even. What does it say about us/me for even listening to it! A bit concerned!
You’ll be an intern for a long-time yet with this tripe Matthew.
Rohan
“Well that’s 5 minutes I’ll never get back.
The audio evidence is piss-weak…”
A sure sign of prostrate problems if it is taking that long
Cybercynic - that would be prostate wouldn’t it?
Ian Bryant
Prostrate is the “Barnaby” way of describing his inability to piss from both ends whilst on the phone ….:)
Ignore that smart arse JBG Mathew, good article. The whinger is peed off it was so good, never get a smile out of a Lib, theres is to oppose oppose and look down in the mouth. Barny is not giving them anything to laugh about, the dipstick.
@LIZ45 - short flush? Really? Associating Barnacle with an environmentally friendly action?
It sounded like a short flush to me - Maybe he was having a whiz during the interview
Before reading further a warning: some dirty words will follow…
This reminds me of a piece of graffiti in a cubicle within the male toilets at Fisher Library at Sydney Uni in the early 1980s: “Some people come here to sit and think, I just come here to shit and stink.”
Of course, we all know what else boys do when they sit on the toilet…hope the pages of the coalition’s monetary policy aren’t stuck together…
And Cybercynic…loved your composition - I almost fell-off the toilet from laughter!
It explains why he always looks flushed.