A spill no pollie wanted to chicken out of talking about

Malcolm Turnbull talking fowl on Triple M yesterday:

Wil Anderson: … over a million chicken nuggets have spilled on to the Hume Highway. Traffic is in chaos because of these nuggets. I just wanted to ask you, do you ever go to McDonald’s? And if you do go … what would you eat?

Turnbull: I’d just have a burger, I’ve never been a big Chicken McNuggets person.

On Sky News yesterday:

Host Tom Connell: Graham Perrett, you’re an MP, are there some late nights when … you have to sneak through the drive-through late at night?

Perrett: My office is right next to a McDonald’s. It’s right outside my window … Obviously I choose a balanced diet, so I always go for a Big Mac and a Diet Coke. They’re my choices when I go to McDonald’s.

Connell: Tony Pasin, what about you?

Pasin: I’ve got a lot in common with my colleague. I’m a Big Mac medium meal kind of guy with a Diet Coke. I must say, I also share something in common with the PM because if I’m after chicken it’s KFC for me … sadly I’m an all-too-frequent visitor to these establishments.

Politically safer than vegies. The Huffington Post, January 13, 2016:

(Bill) Shorten made awkward small talk with a family at a Queanbeyan supermarket, asking them what their favourite type of lettuce was.

And The Sydney Morning Herald, March 13, 2015:

The prime minister has once again left onlookers shocked … While on a tour of a produce farm in Tasmania, Tony Abbott was seen to be munching on a raw onion, skin and all.

We guess Guy Rundle isn’t fond of Tony Abbott. Crikey yesterday:

Abbott perhaps believed that he could go to the backbench and be some sort of austere presence of principle, a Jack Lang, throwing a long shadow. But he is the exact opposite: a joke, a gargoyle hanging among the buttresses of the backbenches, a jester whose outsize features are redolent of Mr Punch. To call Abbott and his new companion Barnaby Joyce “Statler and Waldorf” is an insult to Muppets.

Good news for Sarah Henderson. Antony Green on Twitter yesterday:

… the new name for Corangamite will see the member referred to in the house as the member for Cox.

The Guardian Australia’s Commonwealth Games live blog during the beach volleyball yesterday:

Well, believe it or not, Scotland came out on top 2-0. Which, for your Australian correspondent, raises quite a few questions. Specifically, most pressing being, are there any beaches at all in Scotland?

Metro.co.uk on July 28, 2015:

Giant dunes, towering cliffs, powder white sand and mountain backdrops, Scottish beaches provide a diverse range of scenery in some dramatic settings. With most stretches of sand offering an uncrowded oasis of tranquillity and with several voted among the best in the world …

Baldrick’s optimism in the Blackadder episode Head (1986):

We’re not at home to Mr Cockup!

That’s a funny spelling of “David Shoebridge”. Cut & Paste yesterday:

Hard-left Greens MP Jeremy Buckingham’s Greens Manifesto website …

Just to be clear, whose website is it?

David Shoebridge.

Just a bit louder for the benefit of those in the back row:

DAVID SHOEBRIDGE!

So, not Jeremy Buckingham’s then.

No.

Baldrick to Blackadder a bit later in the episode:

Shall I prepare the guestroom for Mr Cockup, my lord?