You know you're really famous when people start referring to you by your first name only. This was in today's Crikey Sealed....
3. MORE DODGY GONGS The gong committee is really starting to leak like a sieve to Crikey. Keep it up folks. If you think the Ron Walker gong is bad? Talk is that the Prime Miniature's former flatmate and serial breacher of the Ministerial Code of Conduct, Warwick Parer, is in line for one next Monday, too. And can you believe that none other than PP McGuiness has scored an AO. What next, gongs for other conservative pro-Howard columnists such as Piers Akerman, Andrew Bolt, Miranda Devine, Tim Blair, Imre and Christopher Pearson? Why not one for his biographer David Barnett too? And which of the seven High Court judges would you tip to get a gong? It's easy - Justice Ian "Capital C" Callinan, the most conservative and pro-Howard member of the bench. And the chicken murderers, brothers Ingham, are surely the first family members to collect AOs on the same day. It is Ironic that Australia's obsession with gambling - yes, we lose more per head than any other country - extends to gonging prominent blood stock owners such as the Inghams. Keep them coming in folks. We'd love to get up a comprehensive critique of the whole system and examples of more dodgy gongs over the years such as Brian Quinn and Alan Bond.
Personally, I suspect they can't spell Salazar Sauzinky Sala, err. Bugger it! You know who I mean.
By the way, what's Crikey got against the Inghams? I flat out refuse to eat vegetarian Parmagianas!
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