From: Emlyn O'regan (oregan.emlyn@healthsolve.com.au)
Date: Mon Jun 10 2002 - 20:30:06 MDT
> >> How remarkable, then, to find a thinker of
> >> Dr Fukuyama's conservative credentials adopting just this
> view--while
> >> warning us, inevitably, of the urgent need to stop it
> before we go blind.
> >
> >Great line!
>
> It is indeed, but I can't take credit for it. A wonderfully
> sharp Aussie
> political comic named Max Gillies used to garb himself
> convincingly on his
> TV show as various notables--his astoundingly cruel portrayal
> of the dimwit
> who's now our Prime Minister seemed for a time to have killed
> the man's
> prospects, but Howard's resurgence proved how little effect
> caustic satire
> has on the real world's behavior--and one of his favorites
> was the Pope,
> who would come on in full white regalia and headgear, prohibiting and
> banning and warning of perdition, always ending in tremulous
> Polish tones,
> finger wagging, with that grotesque anti-masturbation slogan
> from the 1950s
> and earlier: `Stop it, or you'll go blind!'
>
> Damien Broderick
>
You forgot the punchline; he then staggers blindly into the microphones.
Emlyn
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