Golden Tonsils announces retirement

John Who???

Ah yes, the guy who used to tell everyone to buy land on Russel Island...until there was a stink about half the blocks being underwateer at high tide LOL
Great voice, but....umm...rarely agreed with his opinions, unlike a lot of people.

Ahhh.... that would be that bloke who was morally and ethically bankrupt but had a lot of money in his account.

Yeah the same guy who slagged the banks of and then praised them to the hilt
after a large deposit was put in his account,
what a star {I think NOT}..................

Amazing how people have short memories, I stopped listening and lost respect for him because of that, a real hypocrite he'd make a good replacement for Johnny boy
LOL..........

IMO the man was twit. My biggest beef is that most people know not to take him (and others like him) seriously, even he probaby he only says half of what he says to cause a stir and stay on the air but there is a section of the population who think's he's great and that he tells the truth! :-S If there was ever an arguement against free speech, he would be it. hehe!

Good riddance to bad rubbish!

Cheers
Scoey!

Now now ............ sour grape .......... you all could call and make comment as long as you agreed with what he was saying you would get air time ....... if you put up a fight ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh theres that switch..... YOUR GONE .............. and then ridicule the person who could not comment back. YEP .............. great talk back host........ you talk back your gone lol ......... Mind you some of the people where a bit loopy lol and off starboard sometimes.

Not worth the air space now.

Brian

If I make a comment do I get any cash ?

Thank God for that.

He was a total waste of (air)space, couldn't be called a talkback host under any circumstance.
If you disagreed with his opinions, and some of them were weird anyway, you would be cut off QAS (quick as Sh*t).
His capacity to promote any thing depended on how much money he was paid.

He wont be missed in this house.

Disco

hehe....All positive comments here Doug :-) Obviously not everyone liked him. (not a fan myself).

Andrew

Ah; what a shame. The king of the airways for so many years is finally retiring. I think he was just great entertainment and now who are they going to find to replace him. I suppose all you critical, sarcastic and obviously muchy more honest; ethical and entertaining individuals who have been bagging him could do a much better job.Yair, just ask and you all are sure to tell me. Sounds like a special on FIGJAM at the moment. what a bunch of tug merchants!!!

And when will the parrot go? The quicker the sooner. The more the most.

Amazing ....bloody amazing how Australians knock anyone and I mean anyone who makes a success in life and makes millions of dollars , Jealousy must be the reason, I couldn't give a crap if he made money fro cash for comment , if your clever enough and smart enough unlike all of us then good luck to him,
Kerry Packer copped it for excessive Gambling, it was his money , Greg Norman copped it because he made millions and lives in the USA , does it really matter where one lives , Bill Gates, Rupert Murdoch and the list goes on , but we have some grotty little Bast##ds go overseas and fight with terrorist groups and get caught and everyone feels sorry for them , be buggered not me ,

Doug

I guess we all have our shortcomings in one way or another.Sure he is sarcastic and very self opinionated & not at all interested in another persons point of view. If he has made millions & has'nt ripped anyone off then good luck to him.
Us Aussies like to knock the tall poppy, but at the end of the day we each have the opportunity to make our own luck. Slim Dusty reckoned the harder he worked the luckier he got!!

Good , now at least when we travel in country NSW we can turn the radio on again , unless they get some clone to broadcast same s**t
Gary

Maybe now we will see Nissan's sales figures rise above toyota. After all, it is only due to Mr Laws' never-ending flogging of the toyota brand that sooooo many of those useless bloody 4 wheel drives have ever been sold in the first place.

How many of the foregoing blokes who have (quite rightly) bagged the cr@p out of this glorified DJ, drive toyotas? I would hazard a guess that most of you do. (only because it would make perfect sense, given that toyota sales exceed any other brand of vehicle in Oz).

So, I wonder how many of you toyota owners have either consciously or sub-consciously bought your vehicle because of Mr Laws' endorsement? (or maybe you bought it in spite of his comment??? hahaha).

Just remember, he is the bloke who used to say that there was no better fly spray than Mortein ( I think). He used the tag line: "when you're on a good thing, stick to it".

Then, the dudes at the Raid company, paid him a bleep -load of cash to promote THEIR product and he came up with the tag-line: "when you find a better thing, switch to it".

Gotta love a bloke with THAT much moral fibre.

I often wonder how many '000'000'000s Mr Nissan would have had to pay him to get him to do a similar job on Toyota......... hahahaha .......Good ridence ..... ROFLMAO

What a sad indictment on our collective I.Q that this man was popular enough to broadcast for 55 years.

Well, if you thought he was a twit on radio, check out your local video store and try to track down a copy of "Nickel Queen", made in the early 70's, starring Googie Withers and, you guessed it... John Laws!!
How he wasn't buried after that performance - real cringe material!!!

Guess we've been lucky over here in the West - no John Laws or Alan Jones on radio.
Get a few other dorks, tho.
Gerry

I'm with you Doug.
Yes I do listen to him and talkback in general, but why are all these people so nasty and dare I say bitter. Yes he has changed flysprays, god forbid, he even changed bourbans and wine companies a few times. He has been on air for 55 years. Times change good luck to him. If you don't like him don't listen pretty simple really.

Did'nt realize I regularly shared the internet with so many saints. Have'nt you lot got something better to do than knock someone who was, and still is, a great deal more successful than the lot of you combined.

ps I'm no fan of his either but that's no reason for some of this crap.

Amazing to see how many people on here will lament his passing on into retirement.....not too many!!!!

I listened to him occasionally when I lived in Sydney during the 1990's and must say that mostly it was self glorification of the highest order. It was funny to listen at times to how long some caller would last before the put-down came and if there was any hint of the caller getting the better of Lawsy with an opinion or a point then on would come some jingle or sound effect and with it the drop-out button would be pressed and the caller never heard from again.

It was amazing at the height of it all when he and The Parrot (I love that!) had the early and mid morning radio ratings all sewn up. The arrogance displayed both on and off air was amazing. It was almost with sense of occasion that one would tune in! What will they say next?!?!

After a while though it gets really boring listening to the both of them setting up callers to push their own view with "agenda setting radio". The pollies only frequented the shows as it was intensely populist and if you wanted to get a message out to a large audience that had been softened up by these guys then there was no more effective vehicle.

I have to admire anyone that lasted so long in their chosen industry but Lawsy by the late 90's when I listened was so full of his own importance that it became a joke and when cash-for-comments broke it was pathetically laughable how much money and commercialism were shaping the "public agenda" that this self proclaimed "hero of the battler" was pushing.

I don't think I will miss him too much. Time marches on.

Muddy

I didn`t think he could afford to retire !! Regards G.T.

You are all being a bit rough aren't ya!

I used to listen to him driving trucks in the Pilbara and got a few laughs out of the show. Beat the heck out listen to the dry as chalk disabled black lesbian PC programs on ABC at the time.

I have a cassette tape of John Laws called "you aint been trucked like this before" or something similar which has him leaning against a truck with a few slappers sprawled over him including one on her knees. Noice!

His poetry is something special too. Good fire side recital material.