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A clip of a 17 year old John Howard appearing on a radio quiz show [realplayer download] for your delectation, courtesy of australianpolitics.com, and also mentioned in that bastion of popular culture wikipedia.

Q. What is a mezzanine floor?
H: A what? (laughter)
Q: Well where do you find a mezzanine floor?
H: Oh on the floor of a, a house in a, oh, in an eastern country?
Q: you mean a, a harem?
H: HOW DID YOU KNOW! (hilarity)

mmm. Well it was the 1950s people, give them a chance.