Horse 1176 - Imaginary #qanda

Last night the ABC had the gall to replace Four Corners, Media Watch and Q and A with a show called Paper Giants, which was a dramatisation of the story of Cleo magazine with Ita Buttrose, Frank and Kerry Packer. To be honest, I dismissed the series purely based on the adverts, and had no desire to watch it at all, so I didn't.

Faced with the prospect of having no Q and A to watch, I did what every person suffering from withdrawal symptoms upon seperation... I made do.

These then, for your amusement are my tweets from a purely Imaginary Q and A which for all sorts of reasons would have been utterly impossible. As we all know, Monday nights on the ABC were meant for yelling at the TV and sending off tweets... and fighting in the street, boy...

- Imaginary #qanda tonight causes imaginary outrage. I can't stand what the Deputy Leader of the Opposition, Arthur Fadden just said

- Someone needs to tell Ben Chifley that smoking a pipe even on Imaginary #qanda is bad for people's health.

- Ol' "Ming The Merciless" Menzies has got his scary eyebrows working tonight on Imaginary #qanda he wants to create some sort of Reserve Bank thing.

- Ha ha, PM Chifley thinks that the ABC might transmit this new fangled "television" thing - it'll never catch on - Imaginary #qanda

- But why would we even want to bother holding a referendum to ban Communists? Everyone knows that it would fail - Imaginary #qanda

- Now PM Chifley is talking about letting an American car company GM build cars in Australia. What a joke - Imaginary #qanda
 
- Artie Fadden calls Chifley a "socialist" for wanting to introduce the PBS - Imaginary #qanda

- PM Chifley wants a referendum to introduce Universal Health Care. Is this a s.51 amendment? - Imaginary #qanda

- Frankie Forde has been very quiet on tonight's Imaginary #qanda If he ever gets to be PM, he won't be around for very long

- Yeah, well we all remember what happpened two days after Jimmy Scullin became PM don't we? Fadden you are a dill - Imaginary #qanda

- Bla bla bla "light on the hill"... yeah Mr Chifley, more like bats in the belfry - Imaginary #qanda 

-  Can't say I feel sorry for the coal miners on strike. Maybe, Chifley should send in the troops? Ming aint helping much - Imaginary #qanda

Notwithstanding the fact that Forde was PM in 1945 (albeit for only 7 days), I would think that this set of tweets probably belongs within the period 1945-1949. I then got to wondering who would have hosted this episode of  Imaginary #qanda. I think in all likelihood it would have either been Alan McGilvray or perhaps more likely James Dibble. - go on click the link, you know you want to.

Out there in the twittersphere, other people were tweeting with the hashtag of #papergiants in place of the usual #qanda on a Monday night. I don't know what this says exactly, other than the Monday night #qanda crowd is a weird mob and really miss yelling at the TV.