26 Nov 2007, Comments (5)

Speech Therapy: the R word

Author: Helen

Scene: A back room at the Wentworth Hotel, 9:30, saturday, November 24.

The soon-to-be-ex PM is rehearsing an especially tricky section of his concession speech with a coach from Crosby Textor.

Crosby Textor Coach: Now, deep breath and try again. You can do this!

Rodent: I t-t-t-t-take…

CTC: C’mon…

Rodent: I t-t-t-take fuuuuuuuuuuaaaaaaaaargh!

CTC: Full.

Rodent: fuuuaaaaaaargh! Respoooooooooooniiiiiibleeeee…

CTC: Res-pon-si-bil-ity.

Rodent: Yes, I AM aware of that. It’s the word order I find, quite frankly, mr Spoiker, offensive to a great statesman such as myself.

CTC: I’m not your Mr Speaker, you made that mistake before. Try to remember we’re not in Parliament now. Right, let’s go again, not long to go before your speech.

Rodent: I t-taa..ake fuuuargh! Respoooooooooooniiiiiieeeee! Aaargh! It burns!

CTC: Here, have some water. Don’t worry mate, I know you haven’t had any practice with this. we’ll have it down by the time you hit the podium.

Rodent: I’m meltiiiiiiing…..

Comments (5)

  • Bernice says:
    November 27, 2007 at 8:15 am

    i had no idea about the Granny Smith festival gaffe – what a beauty!! & of course Howard’s problem had become that even if he did take responsibility for anything, who’d be convinced?

  • Ariel says:
    November 27, 2007 at 9:17 pm

    That GS festival gaffe was wonderful, wasn’t it? What a brilliant message to send to the electorate.

    Howard’s Liberal colleagues seem to agree with him that he bears full responsibility for it all, too. It’s wonderful watching the Libs do the post-election ‘we obviously have a message from the Australian public, we will need to do a lot of listening’ thing for once.

  • Ann O'Dyne says:
    November 27, 2007 at 9:25 pm

    While fully aware that Mrs.Rudd owes us nothing, I live in hope that she sets a visible example of community responsibility – develops a charitable profile etc etc.
    The previous Mrs looked to me like she had no friends.
    it would have been a help to her husband’s appeal if we had seen the occasional photo of her with anybody else.

  • Girl on The Avenue says:
    November 29, 2007 at 1:28 pm

    Love this oped piece from today (particularly: “It’s the ecology, stupid.”

    http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2007/11/28/1196036982629.html

  • david tiley says:
    November 29, 2007 at 9:47 pm

    That is very, very funny. Thank you.

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