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Any audio of this? I tried a few searches, like Cosgrove Interview, which returned nothing except some sites claiming it was a hoax.
The great thing about it is that even if a hoax the argument is sound and the delivery is flawless.
Still good to question it though.
All I can find is that it is referenced as being a fake story made up in ~1997 which spread as the internet became more accessible worldwide. In 2008 it got a big kick in popularity after the Alan Jones Show was sent it by a listener and he read it on air as if it were real, but after a few minutes the producer told him they were informed that it wasn't real and they apologized to General Cosgrove.
Here is audio of the 2008 broadcast and the page I found talking about it:
Major General Peter Cosgrove https://www.abc.net.au/mediawatch/episodes/get-it-right-listeners/9975304 https://web.archive.org/web/20201112021514/https://www.abc.net.au/mediawatch/episodes/get-it-right-listeners/9975304 https://archive.ph/4ZL2l
Audio https://www.abc.net.au/mediawatch/transcripts/0813_jones1.mp3 https://web.archive.org/web/20201203140339/https://www.abc.net.au/mediawatch/transcripts/0813_jones1.mp3 https://web.archive.org/web/20210409172309/https://files.catbox.moe/9qq7zk.mp3 https://files.catbox.moe/9qq7zk.mp3
Bah. I wish it was real because it was completely accurate and truthful.
I've heard this story about a few different people, I think the oldest one was attributed to churchill.
The Churchill one I remember is that he was drunk and stumbling out of parliament. A female reporter saw him and said
"You're drunk Mr. Churchill!"
To which he replied
"But, in the morning I'll be sober, and you'll still be ugly. "
That too, and I've heard that line attributed to all kinds of people as well. There's another one I've never been able to confirm about keeping women out of the army: "Not to shield women from the horrors of war, but to shield men from the horrors of armed women."
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