Enough sheilas? C’mon, fair shake of the sauce bottle

iansand says:

03:01pm | 09/06/09

Gordon Ramsay for PM?

Scotto says:

03:27pm | 09/06/09

Don’t come the raw prawn with me!

English teacher in yr 10 always used to say it to us, as a result, I use it.

Another good one is, ‘onya bike!’

Tracey says:

03:29pm | 09/06/09

At least he didn’t ‘cop a raw prawn’....

Roberto says:

03:56pm | 09/06/09

He could have called the journalist a Twat!

Tom says:

04:14pm | 09/06/09

Rudd reminds me a lot of Bob Carr during the early years of his Premiership. They both place a huge emphasis on the media cycle and getting the right pictures and grab up on the evening news. Not surprisingly the PM’s office is staffed with political refugees from the disaster that is NSW Labor. Both gentlemen are intellectuals, not the sporty type.

However, there is one big difference that I predict will be the downfall of Kevin Rudd.

Carr never tried to be anything other than himself. He never tried to hide the fact that he was a nerd. He didn’t try to be one of the lads. He never tried to use language like ‘fair suck of the sauce bottle’, and who could forget him rocking up to the Olympics where he read War & Peace.

Rudd on the other hand tries so hard to be one of the fella’s having a yarn down at the pub over a few coldies. This make believe image is so see through and does him no favours.

I can’t picture Kevin ever being comfortable with having a few with the boys at the end of the day, but I can easily picture him pouring over the latest Monthly offering. 

Australia has proven time and time again we don’t want a pretend old mate, we want the real deal.

Rudd is taking spin and the image makeover too far.

Lachlan says:

05:12pm | 09/06/09

I like “he’s about as generous as a man with no arms”. That’s what Swan should say next time he’s hassled by a Lib about the $900 handouts.

Another one: “S/he has a face that’d make a steam train turn down a dirt track”. Any politician could use that about anyone else in Parliament…but probably wouldn’t.

And my favourite: “S/he was as blind as a welder’s dog”. The next time a pollie either gets pissed or fails to see something obvious.

Shelley says:

06:22pm | 09/06/09

Ah, come on. It’s fair suck of the sav. 
And no, there isn’t enough female representation on his frontbench.
The drongo, or dips**t, couldn’t lie straight in bed and wouldn’t know if he’d been bitten on the bum. You can tell this because most of the time he’s talking out of his arse. He’s as useful as tits on a bull and as genuine as a $3 bill. But hey, even a broken clock gets it right twice a day.
In other words…He’s a phoney!

Hughie says:

07:07pm | 09/06/09

I’m glad this is getting some attention - he is one of the biggest phonies in Parliament house. I cringe every time I hear him drop some aussie slang or see him in a staged photo at the bar. I was always suspicious of Howard’s love for cricket after seeing him struggle for words when in an interview with Michael Slater, but Rudd’s clutch for national acceptance is downright embarrassing!

Max says:

09:35pm | 09/06/09

I too am glad, to a point. But it is much worse than embarrassing. It actually shows Rudd to be attempting to deceive the Australian people into thinking he’s an OK bloke so they don’t have to think any further about what he is doing. It suits him for the focus to be on language rather than actions, spin rather than substance. He dodged a bullet with the GDP number but knows we probably won’t avoid the next salvos of the recession, and he wants to be seen as an ordinary digger doing his best in impossible circumstances, for which he needs the language.

The absolute proof of this, and giveaway, was his disingenuaous repetition of the sauce bottle phrase at the end of his soundbite.

Far from being the nice bloke next door he is a calculating and devious con-man.

ben says:

11:13pm | 09/06/09

i think heavy kevvie first heard the phrase when his butler was asked by a lodge guest to apply a little more condiment to his wagyu sanger.

Frank says:

10:44am | 10/06/09

Actually - “fair suck of the sav” or “fair suck of the sauce bottle” are more historically accurate (depending on which part of Australia you hail).  He seems to have conflated them with a “fair shake of the whip (or dice)”.

From him - sounds pretentious.  Trying to be like the “common person” rather than be himself.  He (and his staff) are so like the “Hollow men” that it is almost scary.

Jeff from Meroo says:

11:41am | 13/06/09

Onya Penbo for the grouse article, you’re on the nose.  From go to whoa Kev has had kangaroos loose in the top paddock and been as busy as Bourke Street in peak hour working to portray himself as the true blue, ridgy dige, dinky di PM.  He’d like us to think that back of Bourke, out never never way, over near whoop whoop came this happy little Vegemite keen as mustard to lead Australia but he’s got buckley’s.  Heaps of Aussies are fed up to the back teeth with the porkies spewing from Kev’s ivories and “oi, look at me, I’m a fair dinkum battler” is just one of them.

I’m up a gum tree as to real state of the dogs breakfast that is our economy and every night the idiot box has lamb brained Swan flat out like a lizard drinking using the GFC as Labor’s excuse to pull the pin on nearly every election promise.  At any tick of the clock our banana bender PM, who for donkey’s has touted himself as the economic bee’s knees and duck’s guts, will wake up to himself and look like a stunned mullet as the economy his policies created goes straight down the girgler before us all.  He’ll shoot through as the visions of our PM recycling a pie floater on the thunderbox,  spitting the dummy at a hostie, dropping the S-Bomb here and dishing an earbashing there will mean its on for young and old at the polls.  Voters have sussed Kev out and will tell him to make tracks, rack off and drink with the flies.  Malcom will be home and hosed sipping posh plonk.  After all, Australians are ropable after we’ve been kicked in the teeth and we smell a fake.

Austin 3:16 says:

02:48pm | 13/06/09

Hey Frank - Fair shake of the sauce bottle has been around in Qld for as long as I can remember.

Up here in the sunshine state when we want to get the appropriate amount of sauce out of a sauce bottle we shake said bottle.

I suppose you could try and suck the bottle, but it sure wouldn’t be the first option that occurred to me.

michael from melbourne says:

05:26pm | 13/06/09

Thanks David P. for your commentary on Kevin’s explosion of “genuine Australian slanguage”.

In contrast to many who find his use of the vernacular of yesteryear somewhat artificial.. i find his “fair go, good onya mate, fair suck of the sav” approach refreshing and fun, partly because of its kitsch value. Always good from a parochialist perspective to hear people reviving a cultural heritage that has been under assault from the land of the Seppos.

Thanks also to @Austin from Queensland who proves that all the Southerners claiming the phrase “Fair shake of the sauce bottle” is not fair dinkum .. have made a significant blue in spreading that furphy. Aren’t we whackers!

Aside from the language issues .. there just aren’t enough women in cabinet. Kevin thinks we are all galahs and fruit loops. Don’t come the raw prawn, mate.

cheers, michael

Dick says:

06:02pm | 13/06/09

Fair enough, Rudd can say whatever he likes, no matter how false it rings coming from such an ambitious dweeb.  But doesn’t it detract from the discussion somewhat for him to spout meaningless colloquialisms when asked about important issues?

On a more humorous and related note, check out: http://dullsvillain.wordpress.com/2009/06/13/introducing-rudd-roasts/

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