The celebration of ten years of John Howard PM has been truly world-class. The mere fact that Janette has journeyed to Canberra to be with the big man at this triumphant time of world-class achievement speaks for itself, not that the non-members of Sydney society could recognise such sacrifice when they saw it. She who has made Dame Edna, the Melbourne suburban superstar housewife, so thoroughly redundant, deigns to be seen in a plebian postcode, and moreover converse with the unwashed. The First Lady goes well beyond the call of duty and still the press wants more; is it not enough that she has brought Tim up to be an unthinking reactive? People in those other unmentionable parts of the country are so impossibly gauche.
Clearly the mark of a world-class city is the quality of it's right wing politicians. Melbourne has not managed to crack a hard-righty since the mighty Jeff was unseated by the colourless Bracks, whereas Sydney is a veritable factory. Tony "if offence was taken, it was withdrawn" Abbott, master of the retractable dog-whistle (I do hope he patented that) is a case in point. The kicking he got from undiscovering his son last year has been completely forgotten, and he didn't even get a chance to break the arm of the ex-flatmate who concocted the prank all those years ago. Such restraint is truly a world-class demonstration of a sense of humour and humility that one could only learn in a Sydney seminary.
...and not only do we furnish Australia with it's most rabid supporters of the beautifully coherent radical-conservative-neo-con-centre-right political platform, we also pay those other states to hang out with us in this world-class Federation! Such largesse is truly something that only world-class Sydney could afford.
Adelaide has a free-hold on world-class pomposity, but that is only because the other cities stopped competing in 1856. Indeed, I believe some geneticists (from Sydney, naturally) are studying the Downer strand of humanity in the hope of isolating a restorative for the future monarchs, to counteract some of the effects of fierce inbreeding.
Clearly the mark of a world-class city is the quality of it's right wing politicians. Melbourne has not managed to crack a hard-righty since the mighty Jeff was unseated by the colourless Bracks, whereas Sydney is a veritable factory. Tony "if offence was taken, it was withdrawn" Abbott, master of the retractable dog-whistle (I do hope he patented that) is a case in point. The kicking he got from undiscovering his son last year has been completely forgotten, and he didn't even get a chance to break the arm of the ex-flatmate who concocted the prank all those years ago. Such restraint is truly a world-class demonstration of a sense of humour and humility that one could only learn in a Sydney seminary.
...and not only do we furnish Australia with it's most rabid supporters of the beautifully coherent radical-conservative-neo-con-centre-right political platform, we also pay those other states to hang out with us in this world-class Federation! Such largesse is truly something that only world-class Sydney could afford.
Adelaide has a free-hold on world-class pomposity, but that is only because the other cities stopped competing in 1856. Indeed, I believe some geneticists (from Sydney, naturally) are studying the Downer strand of humanity in the hope of isolating a restorative for the future monarchs, to counteract some of the effects of fierce inbreeding.
posted by Mr Sydney at 11:33 PM
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