While taking my obligatory daily walk, I usually listen to music that I’ve downloaded to my phone, but for the last few days I’ve varied things by listening to “Triple M”, an Aussie commercial FM station. Of course, they carry adverts, which are frequently highly localised and delivered in a strong local accent, wherever one happens to be. I’m inclined to ignore the content, but I learn a lot of dialect.
Yesterday, however, I was much amused by one for a new Ute – a Mazda I believe, though I could be wrong – which had a delightful political throwaway buried in the exaggerated Queensland Strine. Describing the virtues of the new vehicle, at breakneck speed, the guy said –
… and as for grunt, well, this baby delivers 412 Newton-metres, which is more torque than you get at a Climate Change Convention …
Quite made my day. 🙂
Boadicea's Chariot 
Sounds like a wind up. 🙂
That’s clever, LW!! 🙂
And torquing about Climate Change conventions COP17 kicks off in Durban this weekend. 15,000 torquers converging fortunately a days drive from me and upwind, I doubt if we here in the Eastern Cape will at all be affected by the resulting increase in hot air.