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REDHEAD WONDERLAND

According to long-suppressed video evidence, Peter Garrett is some kind of ginger mutant. Check that buzz-cut bloodnut! Peter commenced total hair removal soon afterwards, for obvious reasons (although possibly the redness is due to lighting; we need hair-colour confirmation from Garrett’s office).

Note also, around the 2:49 mark, that Labor’s future environment minister appears to briefly consider an air-guitar solo - before reverting to an early form of his trademark “dancing”, which at this stage (1977) resembled a cross between an awkwardly tall girl’s skip-rope attempts and someone playing table tennis with both hands.

Posted by Tim B. on 03/19/2007 at 12:31 PM
  1. Good gawd, that “dance” thing is incredibly annoying.

    Posted by Spiny Norman on 2007 03 19 at 03:28 PM • permalink

  2. I can’t look.

    Posted by 81Alpha on 2007 03 19 at 03:39 PM • permalink

  3. I finally realized why I am never able to get in here.  I keep eliminating cookies.

    It’s not Andrea’s fault, after all.

    jlc

    Posted by Jack from Montreal on 2007 03 19 at 03:50 PM • permalink

  4. ... before reverting to an early form of his trademark “dancing”, which at this stage (1977) resembled a cross between an awkwardly tall girl’s skip-rope attempts and someone playing table tennis with both hands.

    Normally I would laugh and pile on to the dilerious laughter at Garrett’s expense.  Except for the fact that I recall my attempts at dancing in 1977.  First there were the high school homecoming dances and proms where all couples pretty much just stood together like mannequins and bobbled from left feet to right feet. 

    Followed shortly thereafter by: disco.  (cringe)

    Posted by wronwright on 2007 03 19 at 03:57 PM • permalink

  5. Good God.  Even when he was younger he looked like Night of the Living Dead!

    Posted by RebeccaH on 2007 03 19 at 04:07 PM • permalink

  6. ”..resembled a cross between an awkwardly tall girl’s skip-rope attempts and someone playing table tennis with both hands.”

    Sounds a bit like jlc‘s attempts at dancing.

    Now generally discouraged by spouse (at leasti public).

    Posted by Jack from Montreal on 2007 03 19 at 04:35 PM • permalink

  7. Perview is my fiend

    .. at least in ...

    I forgot to add that I spluttered coffee all over my laptop when I read that.

    This is not aj oke

    Posted by Jack from Montreal on 2007 03 19 at 04:37 PM • permalink

  8. O/T, sad news:  Cathy Seipp is dying.

    Posted by RebeccaH on 2007 03 19 at 04:55 PM • permalink

  9. Cheap-Shot.

    Posted by Thomas on 2007 03 19 at 05:19 PM • permalink

  10. Thw lying big baldy bastard- I recall an interview with the socially-concerned slaphead years age where he claimed to be a victim of alopecia, and was completely hairless; perhaps this was a subconcious attempt to compensate for his undeveloped trouser area, to make collar match cuffs so to speak.

    Let’s face it anyway- if you were ginger, wouldn’t you choose total electrolosis, or a full external and internal wax?

    That or a burkha.

    Anything to hide the shame, and avoid public derision and beatings.

    Posted by Habib on 2007 03 19 at 07:05 PM • permalink

  11. Jeebu, PIMF this morning. Make that THE and AGO. I need a subbie, because I’m a subbo.

    Posted by Habib on 2007 03 19 at 07:07 PM • permalink

  12. He looks like a giraffe playing ice hockey.

    Posted by ilibcc on 2007 03 19 at 07:11 PM • permalink

  13. null

    “Peter Garrett is widely known as a passionate advocate and essayist on a range of contemporary Australian and global issues.”

    Wot eva!

    Posted by 1.618 on 2007 03 19 at 07:23 PM • permalink

  14. I’m sorry, I couldn’t make it to the 2:45 mark, just too painful. What was the point?

    Posted by Wimpy Canadian on 2007 03 19 at 07:23 PM • permalink

  15. Oh, so he is now the Enviro-mental for Labour. Ha. Did anyone else catch the line in the song ...“I should have stayed in school”.

    That’s worth breaking out and putting on you-tube all by itself.

    Posted by Wimpy Canadian on 2007 03 19 at 07:26 PM • permalink

  16. That white man can’t dance. He must be stomping on roaches ants.

    8 RebeccaH

    Cathy Seipp is dying.

    Yep, sad it is. I left a note.

    Posted by El Cid on 2007 03 19 at 07:35 PM • permalink

  17. Completely O/T

    Do go and read Four Years In.

    It’s just wonderful.

    Here’s the first paragraph:

    Four years in. An inch of time. Four years in and the foolish and credulous among us yearn to get out. Their feelings require it. The power of their Holy Gospel of “Imagine” compels them. Their overflowing pools of compassion for the enslavers of women, the killers of homosexuals, the beheaders of reporters, and the incinerators of men and women working quietly at their desks, rise and flood their minds until their eyes flow with crocodile tears while their mouths emit slogans made of cardboard. They believe the world is run on wishes and that they will always have three more.

    (via John Ray)

    Posted by Janice on 2007 03 19 at 07:43 PM • permalink

  18. Poke fun if you must, but at least he moved on from his earlier look.

    Posted by Margos Maid on 2007 03 19 at 08:14 PM • permalink

  19. My life long dream to beat him like a red-headed step-child is half way there.

    Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2007 03 19 at 08:23 PM • permalink

  20. ``... Did anyone else catch the line in the song ...“I should have stayed in school”.

    No, because I couldn’t understand anything he was singing at all - it might as well have been in Sumerian.

    He doesn’t get the prize for the silliest-looking creature on that stage, though.  The winner is the bearded guitar player with the shoulder-length pageboy ‘do.  If Lileks had known about this clip he probably would have featured the guy in ``Interior Desecrations,’’ in one of the horrible-bachelor-pad settings.

    Posted by Sonetka's Mom on 2007 03 19 at 09:02 PM • permalink

  21. #18- if he’s a hippy, why’s he wearing cherry red Docs? No wonder he changed his look- he’d have had to kick his own head in.

    Posted by Habib on 2007 03 19 at 09:04 PM • permalink

  22. Treasurer Peter Costello attempted the Garrett Dance to great effect. Youtube video here.

    Posted by Dan Lewis on 2007 03 19 at 09:25 PM • permalink

  23. Anyone can achieve Garrett Gyrational Greatness with the aid of Cadbury Caramello Eggs.

    They’re Epilicious!!

    Posted by Habib on 2007 03 19 at 09:49 PM • permalink

  24. Looks like David Hicks without his Bazooka and alsmost as frightening.

    Posted by Hillyminx on 2007 03 19 at 10:10 PM • permalink

  25. Margo’s, it’s lucky you’re a guy because I thought I was feeling a bit Lesbian with our friendship. (phew..)Why are you margo’s maid? That’s a ladies name.

    Peter G needs to wear Valium style earings with his bald head>

    Posted by 1.618 on 2007 03 19 at 11:24 PM • permalink

  26. How ‘bout some real music?

    Here’a little something from a project I’ve got stuck in my head; some music and comedy stylin’s called
    “Almost a Redneck…”

    You Had Me at Beer


    Chorus:

    I don’t need no menu, waitress,
    The food ain’t why Im here.
    This ain’t no eating venue,
    But you had me, hon, at beer!


    Had a beer for breakfast
    Had another beer at lunch
    Had more beer between ‘em
    (In LA they call it brunch)
    Had some beer at work today
    A little workplace cheer!
    And if I roam
    On my way home
    Some beer will help me steer!

    (Chorus)

    I took some beer out hunting,
    Gonna shoot me up a bear.
    Drank a few up in my tree
    Did my hunting in mid-air.
    The ground was hard,
    The bear was scared,
    The rangers was amused.
    It’s gonna take a few more beers
    To fix what I got bruised.

    (Chorus)

    Met a roadhouse honey
    Said those words I want to hear,
    She can’t love me for my money
    cause I spent it all on beer!
    I think she left with someone else
    Or shes hiding in the can,
    I guess she couldn’t handle
    A hot beer-drinkin’ man!

    (Chorus)

    Don’t talk to me bout beaujolais,
    Margaritas is just queer,
    Rum and cokes a sissy joke,
    Tequila makes me sneer.
    Vodka’s UnAmerican,
    So I drink the only drink I can:
    Now lose that wine list, baby doll,
    And bring me another beer!

    (Chorus)

    Now I don’t have that job no more,
    My wife and kids steer clear,
    My pickup’s stuck
    Under this truck
    (But they’ll get me out of here),
    The rangers took my shotgun
    And that bear knows where I live,
    If I don’t get a beer real soon,
    Something’s gotta give!

    (Chorus)

    Posted by richard mcenroe on 2007 03 19 at 11:41 PM • permalink

  27. Margos Maid is a man???

    Next you’ll be telling Margos special friend’s are a plant and a long plastic cylinder, filled with batteries.

    Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2007 03 19 at 11:58 PM • permalink

  28. I will have you know that I am all woman

    Posted by Margos Maid on 2007 03 20 at 12:19 AM • permalink

  29. #28 - Phew! It’s a relief to know you haven’t been toying with us.

    Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2007 03 20 at 12:26 AM • permalink

  30. Further proof - that’s me on the left on a recent road trip.

    Posted by Margos Maid on 2007 03 20 at 12:30 AM • permalink

  31. What’s the betting that after he was pelted with bottles, lit cigarettes and a few barstools he immediately penned a new song titled “Blue Hair Dyeing”.

    Posted by Habib on 2007 03 20 at 12:49 AM • permalink

  32. Me or Garrett?

    Posted by richard mcenroe on 2007 03 20 at 01:20 AM • permalink

  33. Nothin’ wrong with your tune, needs a good pedal steel backing is all.

    Most ‘Mericans wouldn’t get my awful pun on a Midnight Oil song called “Blue Sky Mining”, a whiny bleat about the compo dodging by CSR of former asbestos miners, oddly a regular on rotation on commercial FM stations in Australia whose sole interest in legal-political issues is if former Slater and Gordon ambo chaser and now deputy opposition leader Julia Gillard will show her tits to win a car wash and a Coolio CD.

    Posted by Habib on 2007 03 20 at 01:53 AM • permalink

  34. Here’s the horror in question- note how the Member for Kingsfors Smith’s noggin spins on its axis in the opening reel like Reagan MaNeils, clear proof of his demonic possession. Is this enough evidence to burn him?

    Posted by Habib on 2007 03 20 at 02:26 AM • permalink

  35. Please everyone, a warning on links that take me to a Garrett video.
    My fine motors aren’t working like they used to and sometimes I see things I’d rather not see while I’m trying to click the Stop button.

    Posted by Skeeter on 2007 03 20 at 02:48 AM • permalink

  36. You do you to keep in mind that Ginger Kids Have No Souls.

    Posted by Todd on 2007 03 20 at 02:53 AM • permalink

  37. But they’re R Souls.

    What’s more, they have no sense of humour, the beacon-like, bloodnut, bolshie-bonced bastards.

    Posted by Habib on 2007 03 20 at 02:58 AM • permalink

  38. Lowenstein his bottom, digs….

    Hate to direct traffic to the squeezer but this is some prime “truthiness” here.

    Posted by thefrollickingmole on 2007 03 20 at 04:58 AM • permalink

  39. In related news, the Climate Change Coalition of Crackpots have their own ‘viral’ ad campaign via YouTube

    Get F’ed for Fat Fillup Adams’ party?

    Posted by egg_ on 2007 03 20 at 05:06 AM • permalink

  40. More CCC Crackpots’ news: (14.03.07 entry)

    Like most people, I have wondered about the impact of a cessation of coal mining and the alternatives in power generation. How would we counter the loss in export dollars and how would we employ all of those people made redundant by shutting down the coal industry?

    Just snap your fingers, Patty Adams, and rearrange the garden furniture in your big backyard - the Hunter Valley - remove those grubby coal mines - overnight.

    I’m sure many and powerful will tell you to Group F-off!

    The Hunter coal industry preceded you, NIMBY, that’s your true ‘beef’: time to fess up!

    Who’s going to take care of your farm while you’re in parliament? ... oh that’s right, the Station Manager, the one who always does, like when you spent 4 months in Italy learning about <strike>Latin lovers</strike> olive oil manufacture, fer chrissakes ...

    Posted by egg_ on 2007 03 20 at 05:59 AM • permalink

  41. You’d think a dork that tall would have a little deeper voice.  He could have sung with the Vienna Boy’s Choir (especially since it appears he already sings in German).

    Posted by Texas Bob on 2007 03 20 at 06:17 AM • permalink

  42. ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!

    Does that mean I’m a lesbian?


    Margo’s? Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh


    Margo’s, you’re really nice but I love Tim B.

    Posted by 1.618 on 2007 03 20 at 08:21 PM • permalink

  43. eeekkkkkkk

    Margo’s .. well, I still like you as a friend.

    You’re a lady…......... phew…...!!

    Posted by 1.618 on 2007 03 20 at 08:50 PM • permalink

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