Pleased to see a little humour in this thread, like to add my two bob's worth, just picked this one up in the pub.
Kevin Rudd called Julia Gillard into his office one day and said,
Julia I have a great idea! We are going to go all out to win the country
voters."
"Good idea Opposition Leader , how will we go about it?" said Julia.
"Well," said Rudd , "we'll get ourselves one of those Driza Bone
coats, some RM Williams boots, a stick and an Akubra hat, oh and a blue
cattle dog. Then we'll really look the part. We'll go to a typical old
outback country pub, and we'll show them we really enjoy the bush."
"Right ," said Julia . Days later, all kitted out and with the requisite
blue heeler, they set off from Canberra in a westerly direction.
Eventually they arrived at just the place they were looking for and
found a typical outback pub, so they walked in with the dog and up to the
bar.
"G,day mate," said Rudd , to the bartender, "two middies of your best
beer."
"Good afternoon Opposition Leader ," said the bartender, "two middies of
our best coming up".
Gillard and Rudd stood leaning on the bar drinking their beer and chatting,
nodding now and again to those who came into the bar for a drink.
The dog lay quietly at their feet.
All of a sudden, the door from the adjacent bar opened and in came a
grizzled old stockman, complete with stockwhip. He walked up to the
cattle dog, lifted its tail with the whip and looked underneath, shrugged
his shoulders and walked back to the other bar.
A few moments later, in came another old stockman with his whip. He
walked up to the dog, lifted its tail, looked underneath, scratched his
head and went back to the other bar. Over the course of the next hour
or so, another four or five stockman came in, lifted the dog's tail and
went away looking puzzled.
Eventually, Rudd and Gillard could stand it no longer and called the
barman over.
"Tell me," said Rudd , "why did all those stockmen come in and look
under the dog's tail like that? Is it an old outback custom?"
"Strewth no!" said the barman.
"It's just that someone went 'n told'em there was a cattle dog in this bar
with two arseholes!"
