Pies

Had an amusing day. The session on Good Morning TV with Barry Soper and Jane Clifton was lots of fun as it was about MPs getting into trouble in the House. So we covered the recent FU incident to John Carter’s cunning stunt mis-speak, some of Cullen’s wit, Muldoon’s drinking etc.

I checked before hand if I could tell the cunning stunt story, so long as I didn’t actually use the actual words that Carter said (he accidentally accused Labour of trying to get away with a stunning c**t). They said that was fine but as I was telling the story I could tell everyone was nervously waiting to see if I make the same mistake as the original person, and mis-speak. Would not go down well on morning TV, Luckily I avoided tongue twisting. I still remember the House when Carter made the mistake – the Speaker was convulsing with laughter, as was every MP. Took at least two minutes for it to resume.

Then headed up to Vic where I was one of four judges for a blind pie tasting competition. Salient got a rep each from National, Labour, Greens and ACT to sample five different mince pies from the various shops around campus, and rate them out of ten. We were also literally blindfolded for the tasting so they have some god awful photos of us, which I am told will be on their cover next week, as revenge for my blogging the Editor at a party.

I’m not allowed to reveal which outlets were best before publication but will say there was a lot of variety with my scores ranging from 2/10 to 8/10.