Imagine. Bang bang bang … G’day, Joe Brown’s budgie’s given us permission to rifle through your underpants.

Ha ha, ha you say, that’ll be over my dead body. No no, he says, its true its Joe Browns budgie ..

Well, you’d better get that budgie down here then and well make it over its dead body too.
Settle down, tiger .. its JOE BROWN’S BUDGIE.
Buddy, I dont care if its my ex-girlfriend’s axalotel that’s given you permission, if you want to rifle through my underpants then I’d suggest its my permission you’re going to need to get. This stops him. Dumb stares and dribble – ah, its one of the Kings men … And how do we get your permission then?, he stammers. Well you don’t, fuck off! Imagine.

Its funny how Pistol Pete get so irate about ‘people’ – he spits this – people, ptwew .. telling lies and slander, as he calls it, about him and his boys yet he’s just spent the better part of the past 20 years telling lies and slandering others. He seems to think that this is okay because its in the interest of what he calls, his State. Imagine. And imagine, being counseled by Pistol Pete … One of his au pairs, sure, that I can imagine, but by Pistol Pete! Ha, this I can’t. Poor old Mickey Paluzzio .. getting counseled, for what? Getting caught. Well they’re in it together – all aboard the drunken boat.

I have an awful lot of friends who seem to care more about a ‘reputation’ that a sincere reality. I don’t think they should really worry – most of my friends sincere realities are good enough to have as a reputation … Most of them. It is a shame. Ain’t it .. tigers?

One thing, and you’ve got to respect him for this, is that Pistol Pete’s reputation matches perfectly his true self. All over the world he’s seen as an ignorant bigoted thug and thats exactly what he is. Its what he projects and he seems happy enough with it. The King on the other hand, seems to want to project a reputation as a compassionate far seeing giant – which is so far from the reality that its just not that funny anymore. He doesn’t seem to care, he doesn’t even seem to notice that the picture he thinks he projects is so much different from the reality. It must be awfully hard on his family, his kids, wandering out to the limo and off to the shops. But then, I suppose his palace in the Shire is a separated ‘virtual’ reality and the shops come to him. Ohh, wouldn’t it be cool to be a blowfly on them walls. Of course this in just an opinion, based on observation, and probably in no way reflects the Kings true self-interest.

“Better an honest enemy than a dishonest friend” – Billy Blake .. again.