OPINION: Today is Sir John Key's 60th birthday.
'Happy birthday shit-stirrer in chief' is the birthday message I sent him. I won't tell you how he replied other than to say it did little to dispel his new titular honour.
With age comes wisdom and there is no pretending Sir John wasn't wise to the mischief-making he got up to at the National Party conference over the weekend.
When supporters of Judith Collins are asked if she'll be rolled before the next election, they answer with a very straightforward 'no'.
If you're not a Collins fan, you play silly buggers and obfuscate with gems that don't directly answer the question like, 'look, I think Judith's working really hard' or, 'ultimately, that's in the hands of the public and the caucus'.
Two of Key's responses on Sunday.
Politics can be a nuanced exercise in reading between lines, often the greatest clues lie in the omissions.
Sir John's rapier strike was delivered by what he didn't say - and it wasn't particularly subtle.
There were two glaring omissions in Judith Collins' keynote speech to the party on Sunday too.
Before big speeches are delivered by leaders, journalists are sent written copies in advance. We're told to check the written quotes on spoken delivery to ensure we report what's actually said.
Leaders go off-script. Collins is renowned for it, but on Sunday she stuck to the autocue teleprompters and delivered the written script almost verbatim.
Almost.
Collins' rallying cry to the troops was focused on Labour's failings and how National would capitalise at the next election which, Collins says, is fast approaching.
In her written speech it's an election 'that is easily winnable'.
Maybe realising how laughable that seems on current polling, the word 'easily' was dropped on delivery.
But it was the dropping of an entire line that's perhaps more prophetic.
The victorious quote in the written speech: 'National can win the next election', scrubbed completely from the speech Collins delivered.
I'm not getting all 'interesting series of facts' on you, nor do I think this is even remotely worth demanding a debate over.
But whether it was by design, mistake or Freudian, the omissions from Collins' speech on Sunday felt a bit closer to reality than all her talk of unity and focus.
Tova O'Brien is Newshub's political editor