The Blue Baron and Snoopy
June 4th, 2009 at 11:39 am by David Farrar
There was a good crowd at the Backbencher last night for the unveilign of the new puppets. John and Bill were cast as the Blue Baron and Snoopy. Was very disturbing as John kept ticking Bill’s stomach (the puppet that is).
Also had Pita Sharples in a waka, and Roger Douglas as Rodney Hide’s puppet master.
John Key joked that he could have done with the machine gun in the plane at around 8 am yesterday. Bill joked about wanting to know about which National MPs had been seen in the Backbencher after Boycie revealed this is where Clark, Wilson and co plotted against Mike Moore.
And as the Dom Post reports, Rodney said:
“The great thing about having Roger Douglas in our caucus is that you get plenty of advice,” Mr Hide said last night.
“The advice is never contradictory because it hasn’t changed in 20 years.”
Afterwards around 60 of us went upstairs to hear about Obama’s first 100 days from a visiting US expert. Thanks to the US Embassy and State Department for helping make it happen. People seemed to enjoy it, and we had a good turnout of MPs.
After that we had Backbenches which was fun also. A good Wednesday night.
Tags: Back Benches, Backbencher, Bill English, John Key, Pita Sharples, Rodney Hide, Roger Douglas
June 4th, 2009 at 11:46 am
very cute!
Vote:June 4th, 2009 at 11:46 am
What???
The leader of a nation speaking without a Teleprompter!
How can this be?
Vote:June 4th, 2009 at 12:03 pm
Ah, the Libertarian-who-is-a-Democrat. Saw him in Auckland,he was a bit all over the place.
Vote:June 4th, 2009 at 12:56 pm
Some of the “chaps” from the Standard (Clinton Smith, Tane etc) were at backbenches last night making nobs of themselves by shouting snide comments at anything Chris Tremain or Roger Douglas said.
The good news is that these boys look like such inbreed banjo playing monkeys that there is very little chance of them ever convincing any girl to assist them in bringing indoctrinated leftie off spring into the world. The hope is that the gene for dickish leftyism might eventually die out.
As an aside I have noticed that there is a lot of top shelf birds at these things and the blokes are mostly nerdy political types. For any bloke with his genetic code in the right order it is an absolute turkey shoot.
Vote:June 4th, 2009 at 2:26 pm
The catcalls when Annette was speaking of ‘hot, hot’ from the pre-pubescent standardistas was a bit of a wtf? last night.
I’m sure they’ll be salivating on her doorstep come the full moon on Sunday night.
Vote:June 4th, 2009 at 2:45 pm
Is Clinton “Steve Pierson” Smith still working at the Parliamentary Library, that source of IMPARTIAL support and advice to MP’s of all shapes, sizes and parties?
Vote:June 4th, 2009 at 2:57 pm
Could be but a job that would suit him better is sitting on the edge of peoples ponds as a garden ornament holding a fishing rod and wearing a pointy hat.
Vote:June 4th, 2009 at 3:14 pm
LGF, your 12.56, sounds like Lord Flasheart would have a field day then!
Vote:June 4th, 2009 at 5:25 pm
Hold on… is that Peter Dunne (in puppet form) in the corner?
They’ve got the dress bit right, but surely the pose is wrong… the hands should be gripping the ankles.
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