The tweets -of the week judges like entries that are short, sharp and aggressively vicious with a quick hit, just like the way they tackle bottles of rum when they meet each Sunday night to crown each week’s winner.

So it was a no-brainer that our dear friends over at Sky News Australia Parody take out their first blue ribband with us for their entry at top. Give them a regular watch, by the way. They’re a bit like The Shovel and The Chaser, only more creative and funnier.

Ouch! Talk about kicking a gal when she’s down!

Now, onto on-water, underwater and almost-in-the-water matters, also centred on Saturday’s Aston byelection result. This column will concentrate on that event, seeing it was a once-in-more-than-a century happening.

The judges also liked Skyowl’s meme that cleverly depicted the current state of the once great Liberal Party of Australia. Ming Menzies has probably rolled out of his grave and is spinning his way to Queensland, the party’s last ray of hope.

Also with water on the brain was Bruce Williams, while cliffs and lemmings had PR Guy’s attention.

Some of our favourite Twitterers used the Aston result to question Peter Dutton’s smartometer reading, including Coalition Tea Lady and Mark Langham.

Lovely tilt at Sussan “this goes with this goes with this goes with this” Ley, by the way.

Peter Murphy, just like our winner, delighted in roping in Australia’s woeful mainstream mediocre to try to explain Mrs James Campbell’s shocking – and rather large – loss in a once-safe Tory stronghold, as did Bernie Dowling and Not Aldous in an exchange.

Let’s return briefly to Coalition Tea Lady with a little history lesson about the Liberal candidate which gave us a glimpse that maybe she wasn’t the bee’s knees as a moderate Liberal candidate, as David Speers and Patricia Karvelas tried to paint on election night. Summary: hey, what do we have here? A barrister and Institute of Public Affairs member who’s supposedly good with words giving us a peek into her arrogance and entitlement.

Terry Sweetman made a sad yet true observation on the state of the Liberal Party…

… while timdunlop pondered an Australian political landscape without the Liberals at all.

Seeing we mentioned David Speers before, take it away, Ronni Salt, in conversation with someone named Malcolm Turnbull.

Okay, you BUGers out there, hands up if you thought Ronni’s harsh and cruel words were aimed at Speersie? Simple mistake to make, wasn’t it?

One whose words were definitely aimed at the Insiders host was Tom etc etc…

Finally, just to highlight the parlous state of the Liberal Party of Australia – especially if Peter Dutton thinks there’s nothing basically wrong with it apart from the need to sell its message better to adults in outer metropolitan seats horrified at the glut of trans-gender people putting their little darlings at risk – we have Andrew Gardiner, replying to a certain Coalition Tea Lady who we understand lives in the west.

No, wait! One more! And congrats to you, Barrie! You’re THE VOICE!

And, also perhaps, the master of the rhetorical question. Dutton will oppose The Voice because too many of his Liberal parliamentarians are racist rednecks.