Yeah, perhaps Fry should have just wept for the country he represented.

Your other no-balls even missed the keeper.

AGIR - you just blew me away, I didn't know John W Howard (former PM) was a communist! I saw him at a function too, trying to explain why his climate change policies were far more 'left' than Rudd's.

bonmot, I'm afraid Leo Lane has you, there. Leo pointed out that Fry, who tearfully called Tuvalu 'my country', was not Tuvaluan, and had apparently never even been there.

You countered with a list of Fry's bona fides, all intended to apparently give the impression that he is a fair-dinkum, grass-skirt-wearing Tuvaluan.

However, Leo's point still stands. Fry is a paid lobbyist for the Tuvaluan government who apparently works from the ANU, and 'would rather not comment' on whether he has ever actually been to the place.

If that makes Tuvalu 'his country', then Sting is apparently a Peruvian indian.

Oh wow! Clownfish, I think you've nailed it. I mean, really - you're telling me that some governments, even if they are from teeny-weeny small island states that don't have the capacity for such highfalutin politicking, have to resort to some well credentialed lobbyist to speak their case.

Oh double wow-wow! And here's me thinking only 'civilised' governments use well credentialed lobbyists. Hey, wanna bet that Leo will tell us that under-developed countries (the rascals) will use lobbyists in Cancun too!

In westen port bay, there is a jetty that is basically on dry land, the water at high tide, just touches the end of the jetty.

So from this conclusion, one can extrapolate that sea levels are falling not, rising.

Secondly at the top end of Western Port is a ship, that is perhaps 50 metres from the waters edge.

Admit it, bonmot, you were caught out, and Fry was a grandstanding bullsh!t-artist.