A stockman from North Queensland attends a social function where the Prime Minister is speechifying.
Clearly the stockman was not paying much attention, yackking with those closest and even quite far away from him.
The Prime Minister endeavoured to attract his interest with slower single syllable words.
As he was doing that, he kept having to swat at some flies that were buzzing around his head.
The stockman says, “Yer havin’ some problem with them circle flies?”
The Prime Minister stopped talking and said, “Well, yes, if that’s what they’re called, but I’ve never heard of circle flies.”
“Well sir,” the stockman replies, “Circle flies hang around these parts a lot. They’re called circle flies because they’re almost always found circling around the back end of a horse.”
“Oh,” the Prime Minister replies, and resumes rambling.
But, a moment later he stops and bluntly asks, “Are you calling me a horse’s arse?”
“No sir” the stockman replies, “I have too much respect for the citizens of this country to call their Prime Minister a horse’s arse.”
“Thank you for that respectful explanation,” the Prime Minister responds, and resumes rambling once more.
The stockman adds slowly, “Hard to fool them flies, though.”
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