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Gobblydock

Post by Bob Pacey » Tue Oct 18, 2011 12:50 pm

Got a letter back from the Premiers office re bottle refunds will see if i can post it tonight what gobblydock !!!!



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Post by Heather » Tue Oct 18, 2011 1:30 pm

Did you honestly expect anything else Bob?

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Post by Darren » Tue Oct 18, 2011 3:54 pm

Bob, a lot of people go into politics with high ideals, morals and principals. The problem is the enviroment does not foster that type of thinking.

Eventually the people that stay are hardened by the political machines that they answer to and are not game to stick their heads up for fear of getting them kicked again.

No idea what the solution is but the current one has lots of flaws. Logic is something that seems to get left behind and spending millions is something that most in politics don't even think about. It is a number and not coming out of their pockets. Put someone in power that has run a small business where they need to make every dollar count......then matbe we will stop having $3 million rail foot bridges and the like.

Time to hop off the soap box.

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Re: Gobblydock

Post by Vic Jefferies » Tue Oct 18, 2011 4:29 pm

Gobblydock? A Queensland expression perhaps?
Politics, a subject dear to my heart. Sad realty is we get the politicians we deserve. If we didn't vote for 'em they wouldn't be there but we seem to never learn. How we have ended up in the disastrous state that we are in is beyond my ability to comprehend.
I heard a quote on radio about twenty maybe thirty years ago from a learned chap from a university in Sydney that has stuck in my brain ever since and it was this:
"A survey conducted by the university (I forget which) has shown that the psychological age of the average Australian is eleven!"
I immediately took great umbrage and was outraged at this educated imbecile's assertion.
Sad to say time has proven the survey correct!

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Post by Bob Pacey » Tue Oct 18, 2011 5:41 pm

Still trying to get his bloody thing up will copy but not paste.

It is a pdf doc so any ideas welcome.


Off to do a show tonight

Cheers Bob.
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Re: Gobblydock

Post by Zondrae » Tue Oct 18, 2011 7:16 pm

Don't ask me,

I still can't get a photo on.
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Post by warooa » Tue Oct 18, 2011 9:02 pm

Vic Jefferies wrote: "A survey conducted by the university (I forget which) has shown that the psychological age of the average Australian is eleven!"

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Awwwwwwwisnot! You so dunno what ya torkinbout! . . . . Oim tellin! :cry:

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Post by warooa » Tue Oct 18, 2011 9:06 pm

warooa wrote:
Vic Jefferies wrote: "A survey conducted by the university (I forget which) has shown that the psychological age of the average Australian is eleven!"

Vic
Awwwwwwwisnot! You so dunno what ya torkinbout! . . . . Oim tellin! :cry:

or in pollie-speak "I absolutely repudiate those assertions and allegations. They're scurrilious and un-Australian . . . and I'm still tellin'! Naaana-na-naaaa-naa

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ps. Gobbleydock is NOT Qld . . must be a Bobbitism

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Post by Maureen K Clifford » Tue Oct 18, 2011 11:56 pm

don't know about gobblydock but gobbledegook originated in America and supposedly came from a turkey farmer who coined the word after the noise his birds made..ie unintelligent gobbling or a lot of pompous noise and strut about nothing..turkey gobbling. It does fit politicians come to think of it - and the insults they tend to sling are often nothing short of fowl
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Re: Gobblydock

Post by warooa » Wed Oct 19, 2011 6:26 am

Or who remembers the Smith's chips Gobbledock?



Does it not look a bit like Pacey sans thirsty eyebrow?
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