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Lord Herbert Gold Member Offline Posts: 34441 Gender:	Without doubt one of the worst paintings Nov 12^th, 2014 at 11:11am ... I've ever seen of Comrade Gough. It bears only a vague resemblance to him. One can only guess that someone fetched it up on an impulse from the store-room beneath the Sydney Town Hall where the failed Archibald Prize paintings are kept. link
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Amadd Gold Member Offline Mo Posts: 6217	Re: Without doubt one of the worst paintings Reply #2 - Nov 12^th, 2014 at 11:38am It looks good to me, but if you dislike it that much Herbie you could always find out where the photo was taken and move the candle a little closer.
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The Heartless Felon Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 2869 Gender:	Re: Without doubt one of the worst paintings Reply #3 - Nov 12^th, 2014 at 1:05pm It looks like Lyndon Johnson...
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greggerypeccary Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 131414 Gender:	Re: Without doubt one of the worst paintings Reply #4 - Nov 12^th, 2014 at 1:32pm Good one, Smithy. You ruff diamond, you.
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freediver Gold Member Offline www.ozpolitic.com Posts: 47316 At my desk.	Re: Without doubt one of the worst paintings Reply #5 - Nov 13^th, 2014 at 7:40pm A bit silly to toss it out though. It might be worth something in a few years.
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Reply #6 - Nov 13^th, 2014 at 7:42pm

Lord Herbert wrote on Nov 12^th, 2014 at 11:11am:

... I've ever seen of Comrade Gough.

It bears only a vague resemblance to him. One can only guess that someone fetched it up on an impulse from the store-room beneath the Sydney Town Hall where the failed Archibald Prize paintings are kept.

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Looks more like one of my Cabbie mates than Gough! Poor bastard died of prostate cancer.

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Lord Herbert Gold Member Offline Posts: 34441 Gender:	Re: Without doubt one of the worst paintings Reply #7 - Nov 14^th, 2014 at 4:09am And then some wanna-be 'artist' forgot to give Marxist-Leninist Hero Gough Whitlamovich a red tie. That would have got him shot during the Stalin era. Or sent to the Gulag.
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Reply #8 - Nov 20^th, 2014 at 6:04pm

Lord Herbert wrote on Nov 14^th, 2014 at 4:09am:

And then some wanna-be 'artist' forgot to give Marxist-Leninist Hero Gough Whitlamovich a red tie.

That would have got him shot during the Stalin era.

Ah, but this Whitlam was a liberal. He used to belong to the liberal party, didn't he, before jumping ship to the ALP? Maybe this artist's just remembering the good ole days.

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Why the bugger did I get stuck on a planet chalked full of imbeciles?

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Reply #9 - Nov 21^st, 2014 at 12:07pm

Lord Herbert wrote on Nov 14^th, 2014 at 4:09am:

And then some wanna-be 'artist' forgot to give Marxist-Leninist Hero Gough Whitlamovich a red tie.

That would have got him shot during the Stalin era.

Or sent to the Gulag.

I think you need some closure on this Herb. It's too late to throw rocks at Gough's coffin but then you could always desecrate his grave.

I hate to bring it up at such a time of heightened anxiety for you, but I did see the great man speak at the Bankstown Civic Centre in 1972. A very brilliant orator, and it was true that when Gough spoke you could've virtually heard a pin drop in the audience.

Umm...well, admittedly it was all in Russian and the entire audience were KGB spies -- those that weren't home under the bed (if that helps).

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Reply #10 - Nov 21^st, 2014 at 12:40pm

ColdFact wrote on Nov 21^st, 2014 at 12:07pm:

A very brilliant orator, and it was true that when Gough spoke you could've virtually heard a pin drop in the audience.

He had speech writers ....

dear O dear O dear.

And you could have heard a pin drop because everyone was hanging out to hear what extravagant promises the Great Man had in store for them.

Promises ...

Have you ever been to a Bingo Hall that was crammed full of Pathetic Old Farts waiting for the next numbers to be read out ... and you could hear a pin drop because some pathetic prize was waiting for the winner?

I won a Viagra and a well past its Use By Date condom in a brown envelop once, but no luck since then. Tongue

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Reply #11 - Nov 21^st, 2014 at 12:48pm

Aussie wrote on Nov 13^th, 2014 at 7:42pm:

Looks more like one of my Cabbie mates than Gough! Poor bastard died of prostate cancer.

Poor fellow indeed, Aussie.

It's a 40 degree day in Sydney today, and it occurred to me that in 30 years time there's going to be a hell of a peak in the incidence of death by skin cancer.

I'm thinking especially of all those thousands of 20-something year olds who are now building all those new villa houses on vacated quarter acre blocks.

I see them sweating away with their bricklaying and their nail-guns working in the blazing heat.

The lucky ones will be the Pacific Islanders and the other naturally tanned fellows.

But an awful lot of Caucasian types will start seeing skin specialists in 30 years time.

Personally I'm lucky because I've got ethnic skin from my French and Portuguese ancestors, but my brother wasn't so lucky.

He inherited his genes from the Scottish, English, and German side of the family. Had melanoma starting to eat away at his face. A real shocker.

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Reply #12 - Nov 21^st, 2014 at 1:11pm

Lord Herbert wrote on Nov 21^st, 2014 at 12:40pm:

ColdFact wrote on Nov 21^st, 2014 at 12:07pm:

A very brilliant orator, and it was true that when Gough spoke you could've virtually heard a pin drop in the audience.

Have you ever been to a Bingo Hall that was crammed full of Pathetic Old Farts waiting for the next numbers to be read out ... and you could hear a pin drop because some pathetic prize was waiting for the winner?

No.

Lord Herbert wrote on Nov 21^st, 2014 at 12:40pm:

ColdFact wrote on Nov 21^st, 2014 at 12:07pm:

A very brilliant orator, and it was true that when Gough spoke you could've virtually heard a pin drop in the audience.

He had speech writers ....

dear O dear O dear.

Hate to be pedantic but oratory is public speaking -- Oh, maybe he was lip syncing. I always wondered what that guy behind the curtains was doing -- another one of them Reds I reckon.

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Reply #13 - Nov 21^st, 2014 at 1:23pm

ColdFact wrote on Nov 21^st, 2014 at 1:11pm:

Hate to be pedantic but oratory is public speaking --

Indeed it is, but in days of yore the great orators wrote their own speeches. The Ancient Greeks and others.

Nowadays you buy a speech like you order a pizza.

"Have it on my desk by noon, and I'll settle the account with you on Friday".

dear O dear O dear ... and Christ wept for His people.

It's plagiarism, pure and simple.

The world is full of actors earning a good living from reciting other people's scripts.

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Reply #14 - Nov 21^st, 2014 at 2:43pm

Lord Herbert wrote on Nov 21^st, 2014 at 1:23pm:

ColdFact wrote on Nov 21^st, 2014 at 1:11pm:

Hate to be pedantic but oratory is public speaking --

Indeed it is, but in days of yore the great orators wrote their own speeches. The Ancient Greeks and others.

I dunno Herb, Demosthenes who was one of the Greek's best known orators actually plagiarized a lot of his speeches from the philosophies of Thucydides.

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