The Official Apec Photo Post
No doubt a myriad of bloggers will exclaim in utter disgust at the official APEC photo. I’ll leave it to others to discuss just why the whole concept of an Australian “national costume” is absurd, and why even if we had to pick a national costume, it certainly wouldn’t be a Dryza-bone™, and what all this tells us about John Howard’s Australia.
No, instead I’ll just point out that when the APEC delegates were told to give a big APEC right hand wave, little Georgy boy forgot which hand was which.
Correction: Or maybe the photographer just said “How about a wave?”, and little Georgy just looks half arsed rather than outright stupid. Oh well.
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Posted: by Kieran September 8th, 2007 under APEC.
Comments: 7
Comments
Comment from Verity
Time: September 9, 2007, 5:18 am
A Dryza-bone! My god! Someone vote the little bugger out fast!
Comment from John T.
Time: September 9, 2007, 1:39 pm
I think Dryza-bones are groovy, at least I did up until now.
Comment from amphibious
Time: September 9, 2007, 2:24 pm
Duh, which is mah rite hand…? oh yeh da one i sign tings wit - shrub is actually left handed. Honestly,ya couldn’t/wouldn’t make it up for fear of being disbelieved.
Comment from Daharja
Time: September 11, 2007, 2:43 pm
Dryza-bones…presumably for the vast amount of rain we’re all getting here in the Australian capitals, right?
Whichever planet Howard is on, it’s clearly one where *his* lawn didn’t die off a long time ago, like mine did!
Comment from silverjoe
Time: September 16, 2007, 5:53 am
Well as much as I’d like the above to be true — turns out the photographer asked them to wave, not raise their right hand.
“How about a wave?”
Comment from Kieran
Time: September 17, 2007, 9:48 am
eh, still looks funny.
Comment from Kieran
Time: September 17, 2007, 9:52 am
half arsed correction posted 
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