Wellington’s favourite daughters and self-proclaimed ‘filthiest people alive’ Shaaron and Shandy were welcomed by Wellington Mayor and former pirate Kerri PrendergARRst in the council chambers last Friday night for the official launch of the website for the Wellington Out Games 2011. No stranger to controversy, PrendergARRst has faced public scrutiny in recent months after accusations of embezzling ratepayer money for the purposes of a highly secretive Lambton Harbour project rumoured to be a shipyard. Or launchpad.The Out Games to be held in two years' time will boast not only the top GLBTQ athletes in the Asia-Pacific region, but will coincide with other events such as seminars and social gatherings aimed at the queer community. In attendance were a selection of inflated debutantes lapping up the sense of occasion, and many prestigious pushers and shovers from the Wellington queer community, and further abroad.
“It might be two years away but there’s an awful lot of planning to do!”, PrendergARRst said in her speech. “As the mayor of the most tolerant city in the country, I am only doing my duty to be a patron of such an event, so it is my pleasure to patronise you further tonight.”
The night came to an abrupt end after an intoxicated member of the Victoria University group UniQ had to be keelhauled by one of PrendergARRst’s personal bodyguards and former shipmate for attempting to maul the mayor in search of her ‘sunken box of treasure’.
When asked to comment, PrendergARRst communicated exclusively to Shaaron and Shandy that she “[doesn’t] know why she tolerates these people.”
It's such a thrill to be tolerated by such an illustrious personage.
ReplyDeletePlease don't be offended by Office Bitch Kirsten's use of the word 'pirate' to describe PrendergARRst. We are aware that the term 'Buccaneer-New Zealander' is currently the preferred one, and is the way the ethnicity will be referred to on the next census.
"The night came to an abrupt end after an intoxicated member of the Victoria University group UniQ had to be keelhauled by one of PrendergARRst’s personal bodyguards and former shipmate for attempting to maul the mayor in search of her ‘sunken box of treasure’."
ReplyDeleteHmmm not quite true, we left with the illustrious Kerry and her husband and she gave us a ride home - she's a dear!
The two are not mutually exclusive, buttercups.
ReplyDeleteomg those totally look like balls on her chin in that photo
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