Has anyone seen Mike Hunt?

Aunty Lil and I were discussing swear words (amongst other things). She believes "the c-word" is worse than the f one. C agreed. I'm immune to any shock value common swear words may offer and am much more impressed with aptly-used, slightly obscure adjectives (current favourite: obtuse).

Anyway I looked up this c-word in the name of research and Wikipedia coughed up this little gem. Aussie politics: awesome stuff.

Even Parliaments are not immune from punning uses; as recalled by former Australian prime minister Gough Whitlam:

Never in the House did I use the word which comes to mind. The nearest I came to doing so was when Sir Winton Turnbull, a member of the cavalleria rusticana, was raving and ranting on the adjournment and shouted: "I am a Country member". I interjected "I remember". He could not understand why, for the first time in all the years he had been speaking in the House, there was instant and loud applause from both sides.