Page 305 - Week 01 - Thursday, 11 February 2010
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Mr Doszpot: That’s a kinky name.
MS PORTER: She came with a name. I felt—
Mr Barr: Isn’t she a showgirl or something?
Mr Doszpot: It’s kinky.
MS PORTER: She came with a name and I’m not about to change the name of a 2½-year-old dog.
Mr Barr: Whatever Lola wants, I think.
Mr Coe: I think it might have attacked some of my letterboxers during the campaign.
Mr Doszpot: Who wrote it?
Mr Barr: Was it Barry Manilow?
MR SPEAKER: Order, members!
Mr Dozpot: The Kinks. You have the wrong song.
Mr Barr: Oh, Lola, as in—
Mr Dozpot: Yes, “Lo, Lo, Lola”.
Mr Barr: That was the Kinks in 1970.
Mr Doszpot: Ray Davies.
Mr Barr: Good point, yes.
MR SPEAKER: Order, members! Ms Porter has the call.
MS PORTER: Thank you, Mr Speaker. I actually think, Mr Speaker, that people are really not taking this matter seriously. I think it is a very serious matter. I do. I think it is a very serious matter.
Mr Coe: I hope for the sake of Hansard, Mr Hargreaves’s laughter comes up in it.
MS PORTER: As I was saying, Lola, whose name came with her, is already—
Mr Barr: Or Mr Doszpot’s impressive history of 1970s music.
MS PORTER: Thank you, Mr Barr. Lola is already an important member of the family. Dogs are abandoned or taken to the RSPCA for a number of reasons. Clearly, Lola was well trained by her previous owners. However, for whatever reason she was surrendered.
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