[Kharon]

Satire, slur, slander and systems.

Ow! My sides hurt, too much laughing will do that, every time. Birthday bash for one of the troops last evening and the uninvited guest was our old mate Wodger, who stole the show. It was an innocent enough remark which kicked off the hilarity; Blind Freddy asked an ATCO we know WTF happened at Sydney:-

BF – “WTD was that all about yesterday?” (casual and curious).

ATCO – “It could be said that we are Accelerating toward another Senate Inquiry”.

BF – “That makes sense, particularly after the last round of estimates”.

ATCO – “Nothing to do with estimates mate; the same fellah who ran the Pel-Air audits, made all the necessary happen, triggered an inquiry  and then investigated his own team is in charge again.

BF – (incredulous) Naw! Not Wodger! - Shirley?

ATCO – “Yup, the very same”.

What began as a quiet drink with an old mate turned into one the funniest comedy shows ever; if, as they say, ears burn when folk are talking about you is true, then there’ll be some very hot ones floating about this morning. As most of it was most definitely slander, I’ll not repeat any of it here, leaving it up to the imagination of the informed reader to fill in the blanks.

But on the serious side – can you imagine anyone, barring Halfwit and 6D (AGAD) being silly enough to allow the manager of the branch to investigate his own operation? Particularly ‘that’ manager. It has to be a joke; or, a get ducked message to the RRAT committee; brave call. Anyway FWIW we all thought it hilarious, can’t wait for the ‘report’. But the complete mess ASA is in is not so funny and ‘accelerate’ despite claims to the contrary is having an impact. Ask any one of the punters waiting to board an aircraft at Sydney their opinion of the claimed internal savings made.  We may well be accelerating – but toward what? Aye, tis true – if you’ve time to spare – travel by air.

Toot - toot.