Prince Charles and a host of NT high flyers, including Darwin’s Mayor , Dr Ella Stack, once came down with Bombay Belly in Alice Springs. During the recent Alice sittings of the Legislative Assembly guess who came down with food poisoning? *** The latest hot tip is that the weird singing guy in the Bottlemart Tv advertisement has applied for a position as a spin doctor in the Chief Minister’s Department. Of course, he will wear his bottle costume when dealing with the thirsty media pack.*** It is quite clear that the NT News has a well thumbed book of quotations , but does it have a dictionary on the premises ? Its understanding of charismatic does not seem to appear in Webster’s, Collins Pocket , the Oxford . *** Wonder who has commissioned Roy Morgan to ring round asking questions about police, safety and crime ?