outback to jungle

Musings on experiences of volunteering in Papua New Guinea with some gratuitous domestic social and public comment

Thursday, March 08, 2007

The State of Gravity. Or is it Graveness?

The seriousness of a political issue can be judged by how quickly it is tagged as "-gate." So far the business over Rudd and Burke is merely an "affair". When more mud is thrown and Saint Kevin begins to look more like The Blessed Kevin than fully canonised, the business becomes a scandal. By the time Tony and Peter and Eric the Merciless have finished with him and The Blessed Kevin now is drowning in a 3rd world pig sty of muck, the business can then be referred to as "Burke-gate". By which time St Kevin has become so wretched he is referred to simply as Mr Kevin Rudd, Prime Minister.
(from the Canterbridge New Dictionary of Journalese, 2007. p 456)

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