Jeff: Steve, you know what I call this type of Prime Minister? You know, the type you can’t get rid of.
Steve: Is this going to be really tasteless? Am I going to be ashamed to be your friend?
Jeff: (he laughs) There’s a technical term. Just a harmless expression.
Steve: Alright, hit me.
Jeff: Bah, unflushable cos’ they keep bobbing around.
Steve: Go Jeff, just go. Go, go. Don’t look back. Go.
Yes, I know we’re back in the toilet already, but I’m hoping that the slightly amended quote from Coupling and the fact that “floater” is quite similar to the previous “floatie” gives me just enough legitimacy to carry on regardless. I admit it’s an unbelievably flimsy justification, so consider it an homage to the Great Man himself and move on.
After each of the last four great Democratic Flushes of 1996, 1998, 2001 and 2004, when all the bubbling, gurgling and swirling subsided, all that remained for the hungover voters of Australia in the cold light of Sunday morning was John Howard grinning up at us, gently bobbing in the bowl.
Now take that postdiluvial horror and imagine you’ve flushed all the water from the cistern, the pipes are blocked up, there’s no plumber available for the next decade or so and for some bewildering reason the waters are slowly but inexorably rising. Well, you’ve just imagined every working day of Peter Costello’s life, so next time you see him simpering smugly during Question Time, have some compassion, because nobody wants to be around when the smirking stops.
…and he’s the one who gets called “number two”.
Okay, I’ll stop now.
Comments 5
yessssss!!
Posted 14 Jul 2006 at 2:40 pm ¶lol this is better then the Haemorrhoid cushion or the public convenience because its so true ive never seen him illustrated better
Posted 14 Jul 2006 at 11:52 pm ¶Nice. A Coupling fan, with political satire and the ability to draw.
I’m going to tell all my friends. Wait here…
Hehehe.
Posted 02 Aug 2006 at 4:00 pm ¶That was so stupid I did not know what to say but laugh who ever you do that good stuff.
Posted 27 Oct 2008 at 3:36 am ¶Perfect!
Posted 04 May 2009 at 1:23 am ¶Trackbacks & Pingbacks 2
[...] I know – Dickens, that Statue of Liberty poem, and now bloody Shelley? Sorry, I’m still compensating for the floating turd cartoon. Don’t worry people, we’ll be back in the toilet in no time. Speaking of which, with his immigration bill in said toilet, Liberal members going walkabout and interest rates moving in a direction contrary to that promised on the box, the King of Kings might be starting to wish he’d flushed himself with dignity a few weeks ago when he still had the chance. [...]
[...] I predict that whilst Houston has the height to beat HoWARd even with Minister of Defence, Brendan Nelson acting as spit-bucket boy, CDF does not have the trickiness, the sneakiness or the dishonesty to beat the unflushable turd and his little fart that are our PM and Defence Minister, respectively. [...]
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