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From: Smeeegles on 3 Sep 2008 05:26
pulvitzka(a)gmail.com wrote:
> That's amazing.....


H A T Z !
From: Johno on 3 Sep 2008 06:32
On Wed, 03 Sep 2008 19:26:29 +1000, Smeeegles <me(a)here.net.au> wrote:

>pulvitzka(a)gmail.com wrote:
>> That's amazing.....
>
>
>H A T Z !

it is? has the welching tosser paid his bet to twosmokey from last
years motogp?

Johno

From: Toosmoky on 3 Sep 2008 18:17
Johno wrote:

> it is? has the welching tosser paid his bet to twosmokey from last
> years motogp?

Grumble, mumble, razzin' frazzin', fetch ma gun maw! Grumble, mumble...

--
Toosmoky
Work to ride, Ride to Work...
http://users.tpg.com.au/smokey61
From: Knobdoodle on 7 Sep 2008 09:57

"jl" <not-here(a)nowhere.com> wrote:
> Knobdoodle wrote:
>> Seeing as you live out Bathurst-way that'd make you a Country-member.
>
> <All together>... "We remember" !!!
>
Thank you John.
>
> (Was it Doug Anthony that left himself wide open to that one ?)
>
Ooh I've never thought it was an actual event; I just thought it was a joke
line.
--
Clem


From: jl on 7 Sep 2008 10:45
Knobdoodle wrote:
> "jl" <not-here(a)nowhere.com> wrote:
>> Knobdoodle wrote:
>>> Seeing as you live out Bathurst-way that'd make you a Country-member.
>> <All together>... "We remember" !!!
>>
> Thank you John.
>> (Was it Doug Anthony that left himself wide open to that one ?)
>>
> Ooh I've never thought it was an actual event; I just thought it was a joke
> line.


It may be apocryphal. A google search gives very little support to my
thinking it was actual. A wikipedia reference attributes the retort to
Fred Daly (ALP) with the Country Party Member unspecified.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007_December_10

There's quite a few references to it being Doug Anthony making the
statement including

http://www.geekculture.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=13;t=001345;p=
http://mybrain.ej.am/rootsite/lyrics/countrymember.html
http://f2.org/humour/quotes/politics.html

Which attributes the retort to Gough (which is the version I vaguely
recalled as being "correct")

And hundreds with neither party specified

Hardly conclusive IOW.

However there also seems to be a bit of a history of the same phrase in
the UK as well including this

http://www.eveningnews24.co.uk/content/Features/KarlMinns/default.aspx?brand=ENOnline&category=KarlMinns&tBrand=ENOnline&tCategory=KarlMinns&itemid=NOED12%20Sep%202007%2011%3A29%3A54%3A813

So I'm guessing I was too kind to the witticism of our pollies...

JL
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