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KEATING ‘TUBED
Fans of Paul Keating will enjoy this YouTube musical biscuit; non-fans will recoil from the arrogant fellow.
The ‘Keating’ should be the name of the standard measurement unit for twisted bitterness.
Posted by boxofmatches on 2007 04 12 at 04:46 AM • permalinkI thought this was brilliant!
Keating was, and will always be, a cock fancier.
cookoo cock fancier
And his wife was ugly too.
jeez sparrow! He gave us Sheik Catmeat, remember? You ungrateful swine you!
Posted by Crusader-Rabbit on 2007 04 12 at 05:08 AM • permalink(again… again… again… ooooh
(again… again… again… again… ...)ODE TO PAUL
You dress me up, Im your puppet
You buy me things, I love it
You bring me food, I need it
You give me love, I feed itAnd look at the two of us in sympathy
With everything we see
I never want anything, its easy
You buy whatever I needBut look at my hopes, look at my dreams
The currency weve spent
(ooooh) I love you, oh, you pay my rent
(ooooh) I love you, oh, you pay my rentYou phone me in the evening on hearsay
And bought me caviar
You took me to a restaurant off broadway
To tell me who you areWe never-ever argue, we never calculate
The currency weve spent
(ooooh) I love you, oh, you pay my rent
(ooooh) I love you, you pay my rent
(ooooh) I love you, oh, you pay my rentIm your puppet
I love itAnd look at the two of us in sympathy
And sometimes ecstasy
Words mean so little, and money less
When youre lying next to meBut look at my hopes, look at my dreams
The currency weve spent
(ooooh) I love you, oh, you pay my rent
(ooooh) I love you, you pay my rent
(ooooh) ooh, I love you, you pay my rentLook at my hopes, look at my dreams
The currency weve spent
(ooooh) I love you, oh, you pay my rent
(ooooh) I love you, you pay my rentLook at my hopes, look at my dreams
The currency weve spent
(ooooh) I love you, oh, you pay my rent
(ooooh) I love you, you pay my rent
(ooooh) I love you, you pay my rent (its easy, its so easy)
(ooooh) you pay my rent (its easy, its so easy)
(ooooh) you pay my rent (its easy, its so easy)
(ooooh) I love you (its easy, its so easy)
(its easy, its so easy)
(its easy, its so easy)
(its easy, its so easy)
(its easy, its so easy)
(its easy, its so easy)
(its easy, its so easy)Posted by boxofmatches on 2007 04 12 at 05:19 AM • permalinkLove it. A big pin for a big ego.
What better way to waste one’s 1000th post than on that ‘dessicated iceberg’, ooops, I mean, ‘tip of of the coconut’ that incorrigible French clock winder, fancy pants pretender, Darwin fly-overer, St. Kevin’s resident and ex-tie salesman at Farmer & Co, the one and only insufferable Bankstown bovver boy, the granulated horse shit purveyor extrordinaire, and unravelled Italian bag-a-fruit who wears them badly, clothes-horse cocked-upped phoney Paul Fucking Cheating, ex everything, ex-fucking Ramrods tin-pot band manager (Ramrods who? great job there shitface!), including ex-PM.
AS they say in the ad, ‘I feel better now’.
WTF does “all tip and no iceberg” mean, anyway? Doesn’t seem to make a great deal of sense.
Posted by James Waterton on 2007 04 12 at 06:07 AM • permalink“All tip and no iceberg” was first used by Keating against John Hewson some 15 years ago. After all this time, a resurrected one-liner is the best he could muster against Costello. Pathetic.
#10 You forgot Dr Herbert Vere Evatt, who literally was mad. After members of his staff were named in the Petrov documents in 1954 he wrote to the Foreign Minister of the USSR, Vyacheslav Molotov, seeking reassurance:
During his speech Evatt announced that he had written to the Soviet Foreign Minister, Molotov, asking him to confirm if the Petrov documents were forgeries. The Hansard records could not capture what followed - a moment of stunned silence followed by outbursts of laughter from both sides of the House. Evatt had essentially asked the Soviet Foreign Minister to confirm whether the Russians had spies in Australia. Not surprisingly, the answer was no.
Chris Sheil is today president of the Evatt Foundation.
Doesn’t really work as a metaphor, though - isn’t an iceberg mostly “tip”? That is, the bit that sticks out of the water?
Posted by James Waterton on 2007 04 12 at 06:38 AM • permalinkAAaaaaaaaaaaash_
I want HIM to explain.
(I already guessed the answers, but I’d like to hear his - he burbled on about how Queensland is just growing and growing economically and it will just go from strength to strenghth adopting the 60% reduction, blah, blah, blah…)
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For James:
Iceberg#19 - I stand corrected :) That’ll teach me to question Mr Keating’s ability to construct cogent metaphors!
Posted by James Waterton on 2007 04 12 at 06:57 AM • permalinkExcellent rant, Bonmot (#12)!
Worthy of my old Drill Sergeant, (and that is a rare compliment).
Posted by Pedro the Ignorant on 2007 04 12 at 07:05 AM • permalink#12 - Well done! Taking bookings for the ‘Ramrods’ was probably a portent, a taste for his current likes!
Posted by boxofmatches on 2007 04 12 at 07:53 AM • permalinkPaul Keating? Arrogant ex-Midnight Oil fellow?
Attempting to give a damn . . .
Compiling data . . .
System failure. Operation terminated. Damn not given.
Posted by Tungsten Monk on 2007 04 12 at 11:02 AM • permalinkThere was always something terribly ‘new money’ about Paul Keating, his money, his manners, his policies, but above all his manners. More then anyone else, he sums up the post-Gough ALP, that is why his memory is so fondly cherished by the ALP faithful. Which is odd given that they hardly mention Bob Hawke, but then old Hawkie had the ‘common touch’.
Keating on the other hand was the social-climber ‘par excellence’. And no one with any sense of actual style likes a social-climber.
KEATING ‘TUBED- by his clock polishers? what’s new?
Posted by eeniemeenie on 2007 04 12 at 12:40 PM • permalinkIt’s Friday, it’s Blair Sing song day…
Today’s sing song is about: I’m more Aussie than Howard: HilaliIN brief…EMBATTLED Australian mufti Taj Din al-Hilali has declared himself more Australian than John Howard and said his widely criticised remarks supporting the hardline Iranian regime were meant to encourage world peace.
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Ting= the triangle, do be do is back ground singing and anything else goes…..
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OKIES< our sing song… goes with the lyrics by the Pussycat dolls...Called “Don’t Cha…” (my favourite song to tim b)Ready Mr Prime Minister Howard, feel free to sing along with us….
Sheik dumb dumb sings:
Dont cha wish John Howard was hot more Aussie like me
Dont cha wish John Howard was a freak Sheiky like me
Dont cha, dont cha , Shakey
Dont cha wish John Howard was a Aussie like me
Dont cha wish your Prime Minister was fun like me
Dont cha, dont cha (ting ting)ting ting… silence…. ting ting
Thank you
_egg, Pogria, Pedro and boxofmatches.Yes, 1000 is a lot of posts - rants, feeble attempts at humor and insights and stupidity. Ah, what a rich tapestry we all weave here at Blairsville.
And yes, for my 1001st post, it’s indeed a pleasure to contemplate yet again, for the 1001st time, how delicious it was when Howard polished Keating’s clock back there in March 1996.
Such memorable and savourable moments only come along a few times in one’s lifetime and once tasted, observed and enjoyed can be remembered with relish well into one’s sunset years.
WTF does “all tip and no iceberg” mean, anyway? Doesn’t seem to make a great deal of sense.
I sort of get that one along the lines of “all hat & no cattle” or something, but what is with the ‘dessicated coconut’ line?
Anyhow, Keating deserves some thanks for sparing the right the humiliation of John Hewson as PM, and ultimately clearing the way for JWH.
Speaking of Labor nutjobs at the top, we need to mind the skeletons in our own closet: Hewson, Fraser….
I think it means all surface and no substance i.e. superficial. Superficiality is, of course, Keating’s sole field of expertise.
Jim, you’re right about Fraser. The man is positively certifiable. Its like he’s made a faustian pact with the progressives – I’ll out moonbat the moonbats and you wont be nasty and demonise me for all time about me ousting Whitlam. Gutless toad.
does Australia have a living ex-PM who isn’t a fuckin lunatic? (and don’t give me Hawkie and his special relationship with the Australian people - his only special relationships are with money and Mrs hand)
Keating was and is a classic example of what’s wrong with the ALP- an opportunistic, ambitious fixer with a limitless ego and minimal ability who’s never held a real job, produced anything or showed any innovation or originality of thought in his entire public-funded life.
He went from a staff job with our worst ever Prime Minister to a safe council seat, then parachuted into an even safer federal seat, where he bushwhacked and slithered his way over other like douchebags into the top job, where he fucked up royally. He is worshipped by true believers, almost as faultless a deity as his mentor, Gough.
Kevni is almost a carbon copy, and hasn’t even had the shame to wait until retirement before getting fat and rich; fortunately I can see Kevni getting walloped at the ballotbox even worse than the thumpings he no doubt used to get at big lunch.
Hey Habib -
Keating was and is a classic example of what’s wrong with the ALP- an opportunistic, ambitious fixer with a limitless ego and minimal ability who’s never held a real job
Matey, matey, matey…...Aren’t you counting the couple of months he spent counter jumping at Farmers, flogging ties. That’s right, selling fucking ties at Farmers.
Must be where he acquired his finer taste for Ital…..ugh, I feel sick!Uh, folks, calling lefties gay is childish (not that there’s anything wrong with that!) and tedious.
Also, Annita Keating was an airline hostess, and a very attractive one at that.
On a more serious note, Don Watson (who worked for Keating from 93 to 96) says in Recollections of a Bleeding Heart that Keating was physically and emotionally exhausted during his time as PM. Apparently, he could only be roused to action by the chance to (1) announce big policies (which he would then fail to follow up on) or (2) attack coalition politicians, non-subservient journalists and so on.
Posted by Chris Chittleborough on 2007 04 13 at 06:28 AM • permalinkKeating wasn’t and isn’t a lefty. He’s a big-government righty. Which is almost (but not quite!) as odious in my book.
Posted by James Waterton on 2007 04 13 at 07:09 AM • permalinkToo young to have much of an opinion about Keating, but I have to say I’m impressed by the musical qualities of it.
It’s a very pleasant drum machine loop with some excellent beatmatching (I know from experience how difficult it is to make random vocal samples like that seem to flow so effortlessly with the music). The use of vocoder to make it more melodic is certainly interesting but I think it’s used a bit too much here, makes it too obviously unnatural.
I can see this thing’s going to become a serious earworm for me. Damn you, Blair!
Posted by Korgmeister on 2007 04 13 at 12:02 PM • permalinkPrediction based on nothing more than the voices in my head: If Rudd becomes PM, Keating will become governor-general.
Those feminist ALP women, such as Carmen Lawrence, who despised Keating for the appalling way he treated his wife, are on their way out the door. The new generation of ALP women such as Gillard and Plibersek are only interested in power, vengeance and wealth. Keating would destroy the vice-regal office in much the same way Richard Butler did in Tasmania - and that suits the women of new Labor.
Oz polly crystal ball gazing. Costello brings down a big tax cutting budget next month. Howard announces he is stepping down June/July. Costello goes to the polls October/November. Rudd/Garret do something remarkably stupid, an anathema to most Australians, but dear to the chattering classes, probably involving GW or AIDS.
Costello wins comfortably.
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