The Post Turtle

While sewing a cut on the hand of a seventy-five year-old Aussie farmer, whose hand had been caught in the gate while working cattle, the doctor struck up a conversation with the old farmer. Eventually the topic got around to Kevin Rudd and his role as our Prime Minister.

“Well, you know, in my opinion Rudd is a Post Turtle,” said the old man. Not being familiar with the term, the doctor asked him what a Post Turtle was.

The old Farmer said, “When you are driving along a country road and you come across a fence post with a turtle balanced on top, that’s a Post Turtle.”

The farmer saw the puzzled look on the doctor’s face, so he continued to explain:


“You know he didn’t get up there by himself, he certainly doesn’t belong up there, he doesn’t know what to do while he’s up there, and you just wonder what kind of dumb idiot put him up there to begin with.”