May 12, 2010

Action man

After pedalling from Sydney to Melbourne our prime-minister-to-be Tony Abbott was pedalling a different line, this time he was busy telling schoolkids in Adelaide that
it was warmer "at the time of Julius Caesar and Jesus of Nazareth" than now.
This raise more questions than answers; does he mean Adelaide is now warmer, or the Middle East, or Adelaide is warmer than the Middle East?

Kiddies in Adelaide are probably wondering how long ago Julius Caesar came to Adelaide, especially as Adelaide did not exist until 1836, or so the records would have us believe.

Here is another record that some politicians choose to disregard.