CANBERRA:Outrageous rumours are circulating here that a prominent politician is receiving secret injections of strawberry flavoured botox in his fibia and forehead wrinkles and spending much time on a Harvey Norman couch with a trick cyclist because he believes that something black and fearsome is hovering over his head all the time, like those weird ABC TV exploding bubbles . The deluded pollie is said to have developed this unnerving feeling after it was announced that the Coalition would abolish the carbon tax. In Freudian circles, feeling that you are the harbinger of disaster is known as the Joe Btfsplk Syndrome.
In the popular US satirical comic strip, Li’l Abner, by Al Capp, “disastrous stuff” was always about to happen whenever Joe Btfsplk came around. Little Darwin was handed the above photograph, said to be that of a well known long distance penny farthing rider, coming out of a bicycle repair shop after a bout of therapy. The dramatic photo clearly shows what looks like an ominous black cloud hovering over his shoulder. The poor fellow was taken away to an Opus Dei retreat in a padded stretch limo owned by vulture capitalist, General Bullmoose , in the company of Senator Jack S.("Slim") Phogbound, an up and coming trumpet blower who also has an abacus and loves eating a mess of junk food.
