Comments on: Wee gripes: Another Tolley lie

By: tree hugger

tree hugger — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 06:43:52 +0000

Maybe she thought she was being wry. Unfortunately for her, the PPTA people smelled a rat (and it wasn’t in the book).

By: Macro

Macro — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 04:02:07 +0000

It’s not so good really! It has spelling mistakes. Would she pass the National Standard? Fail I fear…
Anne must learn to spell “to”

By: prism

prism — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 22:42:51 +0000

CGE What a great CV so clear and succinct. I wonder if other politicians would reach such heights of experience.

By: Craig Glen Eden

Craig Glen Eden — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 21:39:58 +0000

I bet this event gets added to the CV Under Qualifications and Skills to be Minister of Education in a National Government.

1 I went to school
2 I have kids who went o school
3 I am a grandmother
4 Members of my family are Teachers
5 I have taught the PPTA about being thankful for crums.

Yup she’s right up there with the rest of the performers in this Governments Cabinet.

By: Tigger

Tigger — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 19:51:17 +0000

Why on earth is she reading ANY book to a group of adults. Not only was the book a bad choice, the act of reading was clearly designed to make people sit there and listen to her. That’s patronising but Tolley appears to be oblivious to it.

I suspect my version of hell is National MPs reading me children’s books over and over and over…

By: CrosbyTextor

CrosbyTextor — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 11:42:21 +0000

NOTIFICATION OF CHANGE IN COMMUNICATION STRATEGY From: Xemu To: All Class V Orgs ANZO Due to a Coffee Grinder Incident, an inappropriate release of Tech Material has occurred. Because this happened, the use of childrens books to explain mission details to Ministers will cease, effective immediately. The copy of Charlie In The Chocolate Factory has been recovered from the 9th Floor and destroyed. All operatives will deny ever having seen Riley The Happiest Rat In The World. Work has begun on formulating a new method of bringing the Ministers up to speed and will be merged into the remaining aspects of the overall strategy when this work has been completed. That is all.

By: r0b

r0b — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 11:39:02 +0000

Well it’s that or cry, really…

By: George D

George D — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 11:16:55 +0000

“The Children’s Book Council of Australia named this title the Picture Book of the Year.”

Yeah, it’s a good book. For children.

By: rocky

rocky — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 11:05:08 +0000

This story just gets funnier and crazier! Haven’t laughed so much at something a NACT minister has done before

By: Galeandra

Galeandra — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 10:42:25 +0000

If there’s a pattern to her departures from the truth, perhaps we could create a new verb as in to tolley…?

Mind you, of course, we’d have to discriminate between tolleying and smithing, or even brownleesing, for that matter.

Sadly, such humour eventually becomes a bit punishing.