Responding to a vigilant Crikey subscriber’s suspicion that Telstra boss Sol
Trujillo is actually Super Mario from The Mario Brothers video game,
subscriber Pattie writes:





Re:
Sol aka Super Mario. Could well be true, but by no means the first
instance of a cartoon character in Australian public life. Hasn’t
anyone else noticed that Mr Burns has materialised in the person of
Philip Ruddock?

Or that Butthead operates under the name of Brendan
Nelson?