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drmick
11 years ago
He may have been calling for help. If he was flying Quaintarse or Push Star, I could understand him ringing triple O & giving them updates of his location. They are just as likely to do brisbane to melbourne via honolulu, drop them off in Vanuatu, and tell them to find their own way home.
Matthew of Canberra
11 years ago
Oh, SO close. I was sort of hoping you’d use the toby line from episode one of the west wing:
These people are supposed to be running the effing country, Firsty. And this sh1te commands more than a nanosecond brain time. No wonder the joint’s up the spout.
What’s that flight attendant wearing – or is Mark Dreyfus flying with the Startrek crew again ?
klewso
11 years ago
Dreyfus’s account of what happened might be true?
If it isn’t, after Rudd’s tantrums, what sort of Labor aspirant would put up a fuss, knowing how it would be played up once the media got hold of it?
And how important could a maybe phone call be, that it couldn’t go to voice mail for an hour or so?
Plonkoclock
11 years ago
You’d think he would have remembered Bronnie Bishop’s My Holiday composition..
He may have been calling for help. If he was flying Quaintarse or Push Star, I could understand him ringing triple O & giving them updates of his location. They are just as likely to do brisbane to melbourne via honolulu, drop them off in Vanuatu, and tell them to find their own way home.
Oh, SO close. I was sort of hoping you’d use the toby line from episode one of the west wing:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0745667/quotes?item=qt0508645
WTF is the world coming to ?
These people are supposed to be running the effing country, Firsty. And this sh1te commands more than a nanosecond brain time. No wonder the joint’s up the spout.
What’s that flight attendant wearing – or is Mark Dreyfus flying with the Startrek crew again ?
Dreyfus’s account of what happened might be true?
If it isn’t, after Rudd’s tantrums, what sort of Labor aspirant would put up a fuss, knowing how it would be played up once the media got hold of it?
And how important could a maybe phone call be, that it couldn’t go to voice mail for an hour or so?
You’d think he would have remembered Bronnie Bishop’s My Holiday composition..