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POLITICIAN AMIDST CAR SALESMEN

Announced on page six of June’s Auto Industry News (“Official publication of the Victorian and the Tasmanian Automobile Chambers of Commerce”):

Former Prime Minister, Paul Keating, heads an impressive list of speakers appearing at the 2006 Australian Automobile Dealer Association National Convention at the Grand Hyatt in Melbourne from September 7-10.

Mr Keating will speak at the Castrol Luncheon on Saturday September 9.

The Castrol Luncheon! Good for him. From the same report (no link available): “Other speakers include perennial favourite, David Martin, world-renowned automotive sales training guru, Joe Verde, and special international guest, Tom Stuker.”

UPDATE. Fidens asks: “Wait, lemme get this straight … Joe Verde will be there? The Joe Verde?”

Posted by Tim B. on 06/08/2006 at 12:51 PM
  1. Most politicians would feel right at home with car salesman, wouldn’t they? Especially used car salesmen.

    Posted by Retread on 2006 06 08 at 01:04 PM • permalink

  2. Castrol luncheon? WIll it be held at a greasy spoon?

    Posted by Blue Hen on 2006 06 08 at 01:08 PM • permalink

  3. Would you buy a used economy from this man?

    Posted by Stop Continental Drift! on 2006 06 08 at 01:13 PM • permalink

  4. I’d be leery of the soup at the Castrol Luncheon.

    Posted by Mr. Bingley on 2006 06 08 at 01:34 PM • permalink

  5. The whole thing just sounds so…so…viscous.

    Incidentally, Tom Stuker is the acknowledged “Father of the Phone Room”.

    Nah-ahh!! No link; I want you folks to google Stuker* and experience the electrifying excitement all by yourselves.

    * Does “google Stuker” sound to anyone else like a German obscenity?

    Posted by paco on 2006 06 08 at 01:51 PM • permalink

  6. Du bist ein google stuker, herr paco!

    Posted by Mr. Bingley on 2006 06 08 at 02:18 PM • permalink

  7. #6: Why, thank you, Mr. Bingley. Charmed, I’m sure.

    Posted by paco on 2006 06 08 at 02:20 PM • permalink

  8. It’s all about the oiiiillll!!!!!

    Posted by Some0Seppo on 2006 06 08 at 03:32 PM • permalink

  9. The used car salesmen invited Keating so they’d look good by comparison ...

    Posted by Evil Pundit on 2006 06 08 at 04:09 PM • permalink

  10. I always saw him as more of the time-share salesman type,however I suppose with a little bit of training he could make it in the under $3000 segment of the used car trade,after he did claim specialised knowledge of bananas which in some circles are still used to tune-up dodgy gearboxes.

    Posted by Lew on 2006 06 08 at 05:34 PM • permalink

  11. Wait, lemme get this straight… Joe Verde will be there? The Joe Verde?

    Posted by fidens on 2006 06 08 at 06:32 PM • permalink

  12. #11 - Why not?  Car salesmen are all trollops anyway.

    Posted by SezaGeoff on 2006 06 08 at 07:34 PM • permalink

  13. Their convention goes for three days? They’re obviously not moving a lot of cars at the moment.

    Maybe Keating’s there to discuss bananas - in the diff.

    Posted by ilibcc on 2006 06 08 at 07:53 PM • permalink

  14. If I’ve told them once, I’ve told them a hundred times - Put Paul Keating first, and Puppet Show last.

    Posted by Mr Hackenbacker on 2006 06 08 at 08:14 PM • permalink

  15. Man, that’s a comedown.  Like going from being Cindy Crawford to pointing at the washing machine on The Price is Right...

    Posted by richard mcenroe on 2006 06 08 at 08:29 PM • permalink

  16. Can we expect to see him as keynote speaker at the Local Council Sanitation Workers annual conference in Bourke? Or is that being reserved for Kevin Rudd?

    Posted by mr magoo on 2006 06 08 at 09:05 PM • permalink

  17. I believe Keating doesn’t even drive a car.
    Who would cough up a wedge of hard-earned to hear the turgid, flatulent twat whine about how he was dudded in ‘96, and how the people of Australia have been lured off the path to rightousness by filthy lucre? I wish he’d croak. Actually get Gough to kark it as well, and we could have a double bill- I reckon a Charleston, followed by a jaunty jig would be in order for that bill.

    BTW- if a politician, a paedophile, a disc jockey and a car salesman were thrown out of an aircraft at 10,000 feet, which one would hit the ground first?


    Who cares?

    Posted by Habib on 2006 06 08 at 09:17 PM • permalink

  18. Everything you ever wanted to know about car dealers Paul Keating is in this film: Suckers.

    Posted by Dan Lewis on 2006 06 08 at 09:30 PM • permalink

  19. Are auto dealers in Australia known for somewhat colorful attire, as they are in the U.S.? If they open the convention with the national anthem, will they all rise as one plaid jacket?

    Posted by paco on 2006 06 08 at 10:39 PM • permalink

  20. paco:  No.

    Posted by Stop Continental Drift! on 2006 06 08 at 10:59 PM • permalink

  21. Keating uses Castrol lubricants to grease his antique 8 day clocks.

    Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2006 06 09 at 12:06 AM • permalink

  22. TO GREASE HIS — oh, clocks...

    Posted by richard mcenroe on 2006 06 09 at 12:41 AM • permalink

  23. I’d like to kick him in his clockweights.

    Fucking recession we had to have bastard.

    Posted by Habib on 2006 06 09 at 01:05 AM • permalink

  24. There’s a lot of disrespect being shown in this thread towards car salesmen. At least they have their own compulsory code of conduct and have cleaned up their act (or been forced to by Governments), unlike politicians, especially ex-ALP leaders, who accept comfortable directorships, consultancies etc, while drawing down generous public pensions. In fact,the car dealers are rather letting down their own high standards by inviting a politican to be the speaker at their conference. What I’d prefer to see is a car dealer like Rick Damelian from Sydney’s Auto Alley as Castrol Visiting Professor at the next ALP national conference, speaking on ethical behavour in public office. Should be a sell-out.

    Posted by mr magoo on 2006 06 09 at 02:07 AM • permalink

  25. Social climber…

    Posted by Paul on 2006 06 09 at 03:27 AM • permalink

  26. Re #22 Richard has it almost right. PK is following the money speech trail all the way to his next big antique market.

    He’d like to be the Rolls Royce Socialist from Balmain. But the guy learnt his ‘Labor worker’ hypocrisy from good teachers like Bob Hawke.

    I only know of one morally-genuine ex-ALP leader - Lyn Arnold, ex-Premier of South Australia, gave his services to World Vision - but he was brought up a Quaker.

    Posted by Barrie on 2006 06 09 at 05:33 AM • permalink

  27. I think that would be the Vitriol Luncheon.
    Keating would only pour oil on troubled waters in order to throw a lighted match in after it.

    Posted by blogstrop on 2006 06 09 at 07:34 AM • permalink

  28. Didn’t Paul Keating manage “Al Constantinidis and the Conrods”?

    Posted by Stevo on 2006 06 09 at 08:14 AM • permalink

  29. #28 - yeah. And the Roadie was Drivin’ Dog, from Spanner Flat.

    Posted by blogstrop on 2006 06 10 at 08:15 AM • permalink

  30. Oinks ain’t oinks Paul..

    Posted by crash on 2006 06 12 at 04:09 AM • permalink

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