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Lawyers for dancing nerd Rachael “Raygun” Gunn are demanding $10,000 in legal fees from the owner of a small comedy club that had planned to stage a show about how we all paid for her to go over to Paris and bring great shame upon this great nation of ours.
Instead of taking part in the age-old custom of just having a laugh and getting on with it, Raygun has put the boot into a comedian putting on a low-budget musical where there probably was bugger-all money to be made anyway.
Threatening to sue someone for taking the piss is about as un-Australian as you can get, according to senile local legal mind Sir Darcy John Tucker KC OAM, who is also in-house counsel here at The Advocate.
“It is disappointing. We could’ve really gotten around her,” said Sir Darcy.
“Instead, uh, who are we talking about again?”
Raygun’s rise to the national zeitgeist took place by using the very same principles by which she’s suing the people and venue behind this musical.
Breakdancing, at an Olympic level, is taking the piss. It’s utter bullshit and unbecoming of such a spectacle. By all reports, the selection process for the Australian Breakdancing Team took the piss as well. At every step between researching bloody breakdancing at a mid-tier, orange brick tertiary institution like Macquarie University and getting selected for the Olympics, it was a piss-take.
In terms of piss-taking, this is taking a jar of piss from someone and then throwing said piss on them. This Sydney comedian, Stephanie Broadbridge, and the venue, have had their own piss ripped from their hands by Raygun and had it slung upon them.
It is a shame because, with the right advice and direction, Raygun could’ve been Prime Minister. Instead, the nation has moved on, and with this last legal salvo over the bow of anyone willing to even dare speak her name, her legacy is gone. Like a fart in the wind.
It’s over. It’s done. It’s time to move on.
Nothing more to come.
