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Title: Monty Python alive and well.....
Post by: hotel21 on 16 March 2010, 21:17:53
There was an oil tanker spillage on August 19th, 2007 off the coast of Australia when a tanker split in two, dumping 20,000 tons of crude oil.

Senator Collins, then a member of the Australian Parliament, appeared on a TV news programme to reassure the Australian public.

Monty Python?  Eat your heart out.....   

Politicians, don't you just love 'em!!

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Title: Re: Monty Python alive and well.....
Post by: STMO999 on 16 March 2010, 21:25:05
He cannot be serious ;D ;D
Title: Re: Monty Python alive and well.....
Post by: Entwood on 16 March 2010, 21:26:49
That's GOT to be a setup ......  surely ???   :-/ :-/ :-/ :-/
Title: Re: Monty Python alive and well.....
Post by: PhilRich on 16 March 2010, 21:40:30
It was very well done, and would equal Monty Python's 'Dead Parrot' for tongue in cheek sillyness, but It MUST be a spoof? ;D ;D ;D :y
Title: Re: Monty Python alive and well.....
Post by: Squealey on 16 March 2010, 21:54:30
No way on earth that was real, but by god it was funny. Nearly pmsl. Brilliant
Title: Re: Monty Python alive and well.....
Post by: jerry on 16 March 2010, 21:56:22
agreed, its excellent, very funny.....but surely a spoof?

(mind you, could picture our Borris doing something similar ;D)
Anyhow, thanks for posting it, together with the baggies win, thats made my night H  ;D :y
Title: Re: Monty Python alive and well.....
Post by: Squealey on 16 March 2010, 22:05:09
Found this on Wiki. Sorry everyone, it aint real:

During Collins' term as Minister for Shipping, on July 21, 1991, the Greek oil tanker Kirki in Australian waters lost its bow in rough seas, and 17,280 tons of light crude oil were spilled. The tanker was subsequently towed further away from the coastline and salvaged.[4] Collins' response to this was the subject of a famous parody interview by the satirists John Clarke and Bryan Dawe, in which Clarke, playing Collins, repeatedly refers to the ship of which "the front fell off."[5]

Title: Re: Monty Python alive and well.....
Post by: The Red Baron on 16 March 2010, 23:32:12
had to see it 3 times, very good indeed. :y
Title: Re: Monty Python alive and well.....
Post by: Jimbob on 17 March 2010, 08:16:03
 ;D ;D ;D ;D
Title: Re: Monty Python alive and well.....
Post by: alunonhisown on 17 March 2010, 09:21:22
I initially thought that was a real interview.
Phewwww! Thank God in heaven it was not, imagine somone like that running a country. :-/ :-/ :-/ :y
Title: Re: Monty Python alive and well.....
Post by: Sixstring on 17 March 2010, 11:53:38
I thought we had someone like that running ours????????
Title: Re: Monty Python alive and well.....
Post by: Lazydocker on 17 March 2010, 11:56:21
Doesn't matter that it was a spoof... Still funny ;D ;D ;D