The column that has fun with the smaller mistakes and missteps of Australia’s mainstream mediocre; that pays homage to those sweet little fishes that individually don’t amount to a full meal but collectively can cause a tummy upset over the overall state of the once great and noble craft of journalism in this country.

The ABC’s Canberra-based correspondent Tom Lowrey was banging on the other morning on News Breakfast about when Anthony Albanese might call the federal election.

He offered some wise advice of his own as to when he thought the PM might drive out to “The Lodge” to get the Governor-General to kick off the process.

If Albanese drives out to The Lodge (top left) at any time soon, it’s likely to have a shower and hop into his pyjamas after a long day trying to put the MSM’s pick for next PM (Peter Dutton) in his place. The Lodge is where Albo currently lives.

If he wants Parliament dissolved, he’ll need to make the short drive out to Yarralumla (right, above), our GG’s official residence, and sweet-talk that lovely lady in letting him get on the hustings for real.

We are all entitled to brain fades every now and then so we won’t be too harsh on Lowrey for that slip but as we keep reminding you BUGgers out there, Mediocre Bytes does love the smaller mishaps that take place far too regularly in this nation’s mainstream mediocre but give us a giggle anyway.

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And mistakes in those “news” strips at the bottom of TV news bulletins provide plenty of chuckles, including the Nine News Queensland promo last night with the totally unwanted apostrophe in “FLIGHT’S DIVERTED”.

A number of commercial flights were diverted with news that China warships might be firing off some live rounds in the Tasman Sea.

Once again, no biggie right? But news bulletins are supposedly the work of competent, professional journalists and silly little mistakes like that happen far too often.

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Which brings us to the end of last night’s (Friday night’s) Nine News Queensland bulletin where weatherman Luke Bradnam declared …. “get pots in the water; there’s plenty of these sandies around as well”.

As one of the older members of the Mediocre Bytes compiling team dryly observed: “If those are sandies, whenever I went to the beach in my teens and early 20s, I was often mistaken for Arnold Schwarzenegger!

“Or Dirk Diggler if it was a nude beach.”

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