Who says 'Australia has no culture' ?

[newman]

Sir Les Patterson is Australia's Cultural Attache` to the Court of St James.Obese, lecherous and offensive, this farting, belching, nose-picking figure of Rabelaisian excess is an antipodean Falstaff.

Affectionately known as "Sir Les", he has served his country in many roles as:

Chairman of the Australian Cheese Board
Minister for the "Yarts" (arts)
Minister for Sport with special responsibility to keep sports rampantly heterosexual and "blokey"
Cultural attaché to the Court of St. James

He boasts of his prowess with his "Girl Friday" and his trips to Bangkok "rub and tug shops"
He jokes that "the best place to hide something from a Pom is under a bar of soap".
He also resents Australians having died "stopping a bullet for the Pommy Empire."


Sir Les Patterson was awarded an honorary doctorate of letters by Cambridge Union (a debating society) in a spoof ceremony. This caused great angst amongst Cambridge dons who were worried that the general public might mistakenly believe that Cambridge University had awarded the gong to Sir Les. Of course the Cambridge Union is not entitled to award honorary degrees in any case.

[Kiwi]

  I love Dame Edna ...................Helllloooooooo Posssums 

[AussieJTFer]

I never understood the whole appeal of dame edna, such tripe.

[Kiwi]

Because his wit is clever, unlike "now thats a knife"