Apropos Brad's suggestion that legislative decorum might be a model
for PEN-L, this is from the Paul Keating Insults Page
<http://www.webcity.com.au/keating/>. Many of these gems were uttered
on the floor of the Australian parliament.
Doug
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On former Labor Prime Minister, Bob Hawke:
"Now listen mate," [to John Browne, Minister of Sport, who was
proposing a 110 per cent tax deduction for contributions to a Sports
Foundation] "you're not getting 110 per cent. You can forget it. This
is a fucking Boulevard Hotel special, this is. The trouble is we are
dealing with a sports junkie here [gesturing towards Bob Hawke]. I go
out for a piss and they pull this one on me. Well that's the last
time I leave you two alone. From now on, I'm sticking to you two like
shit to a blanket.
"Old Jellyback."
"Old Silver."
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On Wilson "Iron Bar" Tuckey (Liberal politician):
"...You stupid foul-mouthed grub."
"Shut up! Sit down and shut up, you pig!"
"You boxhead you wouldn't know. You are flat out counting past ten."
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On Former Leader of the Opposition, John Hewson:
(His performance) is like being flogged with a warm lettuce.
He always turns around when I drop one on him. He can't
psychologically handle it.
I was implying that the Honorable Member for Wentworth was like a
lizard on a rock - alive, but looking dead.
Yesterday, on a personal matter against me, we had old dozy over
there, the Honourable Member for Wentworth.
I have a psychological hold over Hewson...He's like a stone statue in
the cemetery.
I'm not going to be fairy flossed away as my opposite number, John
Hewson, is prepared to be fairy flossed away by some spaced out,
vacous ad agency.
I'd put him in the same class as the rest of them: mediocrity.
This is the sort of little-boy, stamp your foot stuff which comes
from a financial yuppie when you shoe him into parliament.
