Obama and Cameron

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Obama and Cameron
President Obama called Prime Minister Cameron and said our international approval ratings are less than 10%.  Let’s both go together and take a whirlwind world tour and I suggest Australia as the first stop.  Great Idea said Cameron. Let’s first go all out & talk to country voters.’
‘Good idea Cameron, how will we go about it?’ said Obama.
‘Well,’ said Cameron, ’We’ll get ourselves one of those Driza Bone coats, some RM Williams boots, a stick & an Akubra hat.
Oh, and a blue cattle dog. Then we’ll really look the part.
We’ll go to a typical old outback country pub, we’ll show we really enjoy the bush.’
‘Right.’ said Obama.
Days later, all kitted out & with the requisite blue heeler, they set off from Canberra in a westerly direction.
Eventually they arrived at just the place they were looking for & found a typical outback pub.
They walked in with the dog & up to the bar.
’Hello Buddy,’ said Obama to the bartender, ‘two middies of your best beer.’
‘Good afternoon Mr. Obama,’ said the bartender, ‘two middies of our best coming up.’
Obama and Cameron stood leaning on the bar drinking their beer and chatting, nodding now, touching the brim of their Akubra hats & again to whoever came into the bar for a drink. The dog lay quietly at their feet.
All of a sudden, the door from the adjacent bar opened & in came a grizzled old stockman, complete with stock whip.
He walked up to the cattle dog, lifted its tail with the whip & looked underneath, shrugged his shoulders & walked back to the other bar.
A few moments later, in came another old stockman with his whip. He walked up to the dog & lifted its tail, looked underneath, scratched his head & went back to the other bar.
Over the course of the next hour or so another four or five stockmen came in & lifted the dog’s tail and went away looking puzzled.
Eventually, Obama and Cameron could stand it no longer & called the barman over.
‘Tell me,’ said Cameron, ‘why did all those old stockmen come in & look under the dog’s tail like that? Is it an old outback custom?’
‘Strewth no,’ said the barman. ‘Someone told ’em there was a cattle dog in the bar with two arseholes.’
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