Garpal Gumnut
Ross Island Hotel
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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
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,
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 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.
That's not what the polls are indicating.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
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.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..
Bear in mind that the clamour, such as it is, shows fewer people want Costello than want Rudd.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
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
OK you've got it in one or 2 or 3GG 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.
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."
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