Winnie the Spiderman

August 3, 2006 – 9:57 pm

So our foreign minister Winston Peters is discharged from hospital in Australia. For public figures like Winnie, any news on him would cause a huge controversy and sometimes, jokes.

You should know that he was hospitalised because of a spider. As news reported, he sat on a spider while he was attending a meeting in Malaysia, thus this heroic spider bitted Winnie's ...buns and causing fever.

I learnt two things out from this.

1. Tropical forest is a dangerous place to place you buns.

2. People usually betray politicians while they were away. Jim Bolger is a good example, and this time, just few days ago I heard someone suggests we should done a deal with aussies: tell them to hold Winston as long as possible to stop him back to NZ, in return New Zealand government agrees to host half of aussie's psychiatric patients for free.

And I think that's a pretty good deal.