Costello - Next PM of Australia?

[Garpal Gumnut]

gg....ok I have done a quick read...very interesting...thank you for bringing it to my attention....just have to get my hands on it....
now whose return...Peter's return and you have been requested to attend....or is it the bassoonist's return...
apologies if I appear brain dead this morning.....its been a big week

Peter's return with a short stop at Tullamarine

(MY plane flies in there)

gg

 

[Calliope]

Peter's return with a short stop at Tullamarine

(MY plane flies in there)

gg

You have your own plane, you have a judge for a girlfriend and a world famous bassoonist for a mate. You must be a VIP.

 

[Garpal Gumnut]

You have your own plane, you have a judge for a girlfriend and a world famous bassoonist for a mate. You must be a VIP.

Whats so unusual.

I keep below the radar as well

Lady barristers and judges are just as much in need of a bit of rough as the rest of us.

gg

 

[trainspotter]

Garpal,

You are building up a "signature" trail behind you. Like any good stealth bomber you are best served to hit when they least expect it. To admit "roughing" up a female judge. Points from a blokey point of view. To admit that your mate is an ekkie taking world famous basoonist that makes his money on a NT trawler and hangs out in a Melbourne airport lounge waiting to score? Just plain discombobulated me it did.

The "MY plane flies there" threw me for a bit. (celebrity name not mentioned) Not sure if you are trying to appease the masses of ASFers with name dropping or whether or not you are the genuine article and believe the hype.

If you are the latter why are you lowering yourself to us disenfranchised plodders? Tried to figure out your slant in the "Kevin Rudd misled paliament" thread when you called us a pack of losers who are just reacting (sorry, paraphrasing here) and decided the red wine must have kicked in for a moment.

In my experience, usually find the "under the radar" people are just that.

 

[Garpal Gumnut]

Garpal,

You are building up a "signature" trail behind you. Like any good stealth bomber you are best served to hit when they least expect it. To admit "roughing" up a female judge. Points from a blokey point of view. To admit that your mate is an ekkie taking world famous basoonist that makes his money on a NT trawler and hangs out in a Melbourne airport lounge waiting to score? Just plain discombobulated me it did.

The "MY plane flies there" threw me for a bit. (celebrity name not mentioned) Not sure if you are trying to appease the masses of ASFers with name dropping or whether or not you are the genuine article and believe the hype.

If you are the latter why are you lowering yourself to us disenfranchised plodders? Tried to figure out your slant in the "Kevin Rudd misled paliament" thread when you called us a pack of losers who are just reacting (sorry, paraphrasing here) and decided the red wine must have kicked in for a moment.

In my experience, usually find the "under the radar" people are just that.

I never mentioned roughing up. A bit of rough is normal and totally different from roughing up. The PC mob will never change sex/intercourse/rooting, whatever you want to call that joyous interlude in a life well lived.

Ask my mate Sean Connery.

I in no way lower myself by addressing this forum.

It is full of the most sublime intellects, real live people and devoid of those who don't care.

I have as much respect for those who don't agree with my opinions as those who do.

Now bugger off.

gg

 

[trainspotter]

I asked the same question of Johnny Depp at the "White Party" at Ku De ta. He replied "I pretty much try and stay in a state of confusion, just because of the expression it leaves on my face"

We enjoyed a bottle of 2002 Château Calon-Ségur and agreed that we should never speak of our meeting.

 

[Garpal Gumnut]

I asked the same question of Johnny Depp at the "White Party" at Ku De ta. He replied "I pretty much try and stay in a state of confusion, just because of the expression it leaves on my face"

We enjoyed a bottle of 2002 Château Calon-Ségur and agreed that we should never speak of our meeting.

I think I've got a pic of you on my Panasonic Lumix with JD.

Aint it a small world.

gg

ps it was a 2001 from memory.

gg

 

[Julia]

3rd term....no way....they are stuffing up everything they lay their hands on....all the photo ops with the hard hats on....hello ...housing promised to indigenous in 2007 ...well no nothings happened...so many big promises and then silence...will be lucky if they get a 2nd term

That's not what the polls are indicating.

Costello was the big man in the Howard years....it was not that ugly little man Howard or his ugly wife Jean, who wore the pants and told him what to do, at all....we all voted for Costello to keep the country running..

Probably need to speak for yourself here, kincella. I think most people actually voted for John Howard, not Costello. Polls and other commentary repeatedly showed people did not want Costello to replace Howard.
Remember all the caustic references to his smirk?

can you imagine the clamour going on for Costello to return....
Turnbull thought he was free of Costello......Peter knew he would self implode
...the timing is perfect

Bear in mind that the clamour, such as it is, shows fewer people want Costello than want Rudd.
Dream on, kincella, though I wish you were correct.

 

[trainspotter]

The 2001 was "Graphite, cherries and chocolate. Medium body and good concentration but not much complexity." That was with Sean Connery.

The 2002 was "Fabulous aromas of crushed berries, with cassis and blueberries and hints of spice. Full-bodied and very rich, with a wonderful tannin structure. Long and exotic" Just like JD. He smokes too much as well.

 

[noco]

I think I've got a pic of you on my Panasonic Lumix with JD.

Aint it a small world.

gg

ps it was a 2001 from memory.

gg

GG I don't expect you to answer this, but your dialogue is very similar to the "Townsville MAGPIE"! iT IS THE FIRST PAGE I READ ON SATURDAY MORNING. YOU HAVE GOT ME THINKING OL'E BOY.
I E-Mailed Peter Costello a couple of days ago pleading with him to reconsider his position.
I think you know more than you are letting on. I hope you are right.

 

[Garpal Gumnut]

GG I don't expect you to answer this, but your dialogue is very similar to the "Townsville MAGPIE"! iT IS THE FIRST PAGE I READ ON SATURDAY MORNING. YOU HAVE GOT ME THINKING OL'E BOY.
I E-Mailed Peter Costello a couple of days ago pleading with him to reconsider his position.
I think you know more than you are letting on. I hope you are right.

OK you've got it in one or 2 or 3

gg

 

[kincella]

Julia, polls out last week showed PC at 43% MT at 22 and forget the rest, for the Libs leader
the week before the polls for lab was 44 and libs 43%...only 1% difference
the rubbish about 65% for rudd poopularity (pun) was probably done in a non english suburb....where all the happy illegal immigrants friends and relatives gather.....
oh and there can be a real difference if they poll readers of the rubbish news, ie herald sun, to the age (melb only) the australian etc
polling can be as selective as they like....and depends on the questions etc...designed to achieve a desired result....probably requested by the weasel itself...
after all the swoooning done by most journalists and articles since he came to office.....what would one expect....its been hopelessly lop sided and skewed to the labor
the small business operators are against that mongrel and team, SB employs more than 30% or more of the workforce.....now they have unions running rampart over their business, maternity leave, unfair dismissal, carbon trading costs....they will not be able to afford to run a small business....
believe what you will....
people need to fight for rightousness....and against the wrong decisions ....
laughable none of those idiots have ever run a business....most are just union thugs,,or mugs
the role of a PM is running the biggest business in the country....and there is no experience required, qualifications or merit....

 

[kincella]

Julia...another thing...I never heard of PC's smirk until this forum....PC actually laughs a lot and laughs out loud....its an honest hearty laugh...
similar to Downers.....I would like to see him come back too.
compared to that weasel, licks his lips ,pursues his lips, screws up his face...
and the swans constant blank look....hohoho and .....argh forget it...

you may be surprised how many people voted for the libs....soley due to Costello.....including majority of business people....we figured Howard had been dead wood for years and just living off the popularity of his treasurer's decisions.....
I guess it all depends on your view and who you communicate with on a daily basis...with me its business owners...and they loved PC

 

[trainspotter]

MORE than 130 years separate them, yet the resemblance between the late publican and disgraced politician Patrick Costello and his great-great-grandson, Treasurer Peter Costello, is uncanny.

Even with the Lincolnesque beard, Patrick's genetic legacy is clear - in the determined gaze, the resolute chin and that legendary smirk.

The recently published Carlton: A History, edited by Peter Yule, includes a photo from 1860 of Patrick Costello, pictured with his fellow Melbourne city councillors. It shows Peter Costello is a dead ringer for Patrick.

"That's gorgeous!" said Professor Agnes Bankier, head of Genetic Health Services Victoria, when asked about the persistence of the smirk.

Yet she can't conclude it is purely genetic, pointing to the mix of genetics, social and environmental factors that shape our behaviour.

The Treasurer declined to comment, but his brother, the Reverend Tim Costello, did, by phone from Los Angeles. He revealed their father, Russell, did not smirk.

Adding to the enigma, Tim had it when he was young, while Peter developed it with age. "When I was a young man, I did look like that, so I think it was a genetic trait," Tim said. "The smirk came out in later days with Peter, so DNA is cruel."

He does not know how he lost his. "I was just nice to people and tried to be civilised and Christian. I didn't go into the bear bit of Parliament."

 

[Sean K]

Hooly dooly!

Is that old photo a mock up?



It's Peter!

 

[trainspotter]

Genetics my man .... genetics.

 

[Garpal Gumnut]

MORE than 130 years separate them, yet the resemblance between the late publican and disgraced politician Patrick Costello and his great-great-grandson, Treasurer Peter Costello, is uncanny.

Even with the Lincolnesque beard, Patrick's genetic legacy is clear - in the determined gaze, the resolute chin and that legendary smirk.

The recently published Carlton: A History, edited by Peter Yule, includes a photo from 1860 of Patrick Costello, pictured with his fellow Melbourne city councillors. It shows Peter Costello is a dead ringer for Patrick.

"That's gorgeous!" said Professor Agnes Bankier, head of Genetic Health Services Victoria, when asked about the persistence of the smirk.

Yet she can't conclude it is purely genetic, pointing to the mix of genetics, social and environmental factors that shape our behaviour.

The Treasurer declined to comment, but his brother, the Reverend Tim Costello, did, by phone from Los Angeles. He revealed their father, Russell, did not smirk.

Adding to the enigma, Tim had it when he was young, while Peter developed it with age. "When I was a young man, I did look like that, so I think it was a genetic trait," Tim said. "The smirk came out in later days with Peter, so DNA is cruel."

He does not know how he lost his. "I was just nice to people and tried to be civilised and Christian. I didn't go into the bear bit of Parliament."

I'll tell you straight mate, if I was on a leaky boat ( sings da da da ) with the Costello brothers I'd throw the godbotherer to the sharks first.

Peter would be much more useful and a harder worker.

Timmy baby likes to lean on pews and look good.

gg

 

[trainspotter]

I think I can emphatically say that Costello WONT be running for Higgins thereby having no chance of becoming PM of Australia. Well ... not yet anyway. He might nominate in a few years time again? Maybe.