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so many questions...
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/11/26/2430119.htm?section=justin
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Lads,
What the .... is going on down at Parramatta.........seriously I have burnt my guernsey...for the following reasons;
1) They removed the name of the great Ray Price from bar - and renamed it the Cumberland Lounge (if they renamed it the Cumberland Throw lounge - no wuckers - but they did'nt....
2) In response to fan outcry - they proposed to bronze the great Price (wally style) at the entrance to Parra Stadium - but Dennis Fitz and the boys will not pay.....
(this was just about the last straw for me)
3) now the team is full of kiwi's - wheres the local junioirs - for which the club is renowned - half of which I cannot pronounce their names - except Jarrod Hynes (who incidently is a Fijian)
4) Now they are hiring the ex-Kiwi coach in Gary Anderson to coach the team......
I am over it - I am gone - The club should be relocated and called the Rotarua Eels......
Dennis Fitz needs to be pulled over the coals - verbally sprayed............
Gentlemen,
After a recent TSL show my mind turned to what should be the host “event” in 2012. Your suggestion was pigeon shooting at Trafalgar Square but you may have forgotten that Red Ken issued every Londoner with common sense a 12 gauge and said “death to all pigeons”, banned feeding the little blighters so all they could really eat was lead and Trafalgar Square is now almost pigeon free.
Now a host “event” should truly represent the UK so should include all elements that define the nation. I suggest Royalty, Guns, the Environment, and a genuine desire to make an American buck. As in all thing sensible, and yet again, Prince Phillip has shown the way. Not afraid of a bang, Prince Phillip is often in the back yard at Bucking Palace blasting away with a 12 gauge at the scourge that is the grey squirrel. These little tree rats were introduced from the Americas and have taken over the native Red Squirrels territory. And the wise old man skins then minces them for food for the corgis – they love them.
There’s hundreds of thousands grey squirrels in Green Park and more than that at Clapham Common. A blindfolded child would take out ten squirrels with a single blast at St James’s Park - there’re just everywhere and need to go! Now I know that a 12 gauge at close range can really splatter a squirrel so not much usable remains and there’s not much sport in giving a squirrel both barrels at point blank range (funny yes, sport probably not). But a skilled 12 gauge specialist from a regulated distance (say draw a 10 metre ring around the trees) would draw crowds. The stipulation must be that the pelt is usable – the head doesn’t have to be still on, but you must have a head for each pelt (safety pins will be provided). So just presenting a couple of legs and a bit of tail will not be counted so the skill will be in the tactical use of the 12 gauge.
This is the ideal because the grey squirrel pelt is very lush and a number can be sewn together to make hats, scarves, a fascinator for that special day, shoes, vests, or maybe just the standard stuffed and mounted squirrel throwing a discus or smoking a cigar or on the podium with a gold medal with little furry arms raised in victory. Not only is this event good for the environment but the UK Games Committee will be able to ching-ching-ching and cash in on the sales of Official Olympic Squirrel merchandise. And if they follow the old man’s lead into the organic pet food market that bloody Olympic village will be paid for in no time.
I can't find a spot on this site to book you guys for an event in Adelaide next November. Any hints?
hello booooys,
listened to your so called coverage of the rugby grand final and still had to keep flickin the channels to find out who was and who wasnt actually being carried off on a stretcher or by there mumma. Lets just say, u guys need some mouth to mouth to actually give my gills a decent workout, and yes i am a fish, bein pisces, drink like one and can fart under water! I think its you John that knows my uncles, how do you forget the Hamilton boys, fucken legends in their own right and there was nothin right about the sick bastards. Anyway, Im the offspring of Paul Hamilton and hes told me a few yarns about you. I reckon if he was as good lookin and not married to the blow up, he would give u blokes a run for your money. He tries not to delve into the catholic side of joke molestation out of respect for his mum, fucks me why though, most of his 9 sisters are either married to god or have been molested by him at some stage and dont even know what a joke is. Anyway i reckon you should sniff him out for either a trip down the lanes or pump the old pricks guts for new material. hammo7@primusonline.com
Do it man, hes one funny father
g'day boys,
living on a boat in greece and subscribed to this sporting life. you're keeping me sane at the moment listening to the boot part 1. enjoyed hearing about stinkfist's fight too. what a champ eh?
ooroo
Sadly I didnt hear the olympic commentary from Roy and HG
but the topic did come up after the olympics however..
How you ask...
well... I am not a fan of the so called Australian Andrew Bogut..
And I felt so strongly about this that I felt the need to try to rally support to disown him or bannish him from the proud Australian sporting history..
Wasnt really sure how to do it.. so I tried a facebook profile.. to gather support for the cause...
But the support is minimal... a friend told me about the bogut "love" on the olympic commentary..
So I hope to get some people on board..
there are some personal rants.. a collection of pictures with amusing captions..
and an open discussion encouraging examples of why you hater this heartless swine...
http://www.new.facebook.com/group.php?gid=34967198486&ref=mf
please join and show support..
Long live Larry Sengstock!
Could anyone tell me where I could buy The Dream DVD. Or The Ice Dream DVD
I waswondering if anyone knopws where I could buy The Dream DVD, or The Ice Dream
Walter (Killer) Kowalski, one of professional wrestling's biggest stars and most hated villains when wrestlers offered a nightly menu of mayhem in the early years of television, died Saturday in Everett, Mass. He was 81.
Kowalski's death was announced by his wife, Theresa, who said he had been hospitalized since a heart attack in early August.
At 6 feet 7 inches and 275 pounds or so, Kowalski was a formidable figure who delighted in applying his claw hold, a thumb squeeze to an opponent's solar plexus, when he was not leaping from the top strand of the ropes and descending on his foe's chest.
Emerging as a featured performer in the early 1950s, he became a TV celebrity with wrestlers like Antonino Rocca, Lou Thesz, Gorgeous George, Haystacks Calhoun and Nature Boy Buddy Rogers.
Kowalski wrestled on the pro circuits for some 30 years and appeared in more than 6,000 matches, by his count. Early in his career, he called himself Tarzan Kowalski. But, as he often related it, one particular match, at Montreal in the early 1950s, literally made his name.
"I was leaping off the rope, and Yukon Eric, who had a cauliflower ear, moved at the last second," Kowalski told The Chicago Tribune in 1989. "I thought I missed, but all of a sudden, something went rolling across the ring. It was his ear."
Yukon Eric was taken to a hospital, and the promoter asked Kowalski to visit him and apologize for severing his ear. Reporters were listening to their chat from a corridor.
"There was this 6-foot-5, 280-pound guy, his head wrapped like a mummy, dwarfing his bed," Kowalski said. "I looked at him and grinned. He grinned back. I laughed, and he laughed back. Then I laughed harder and left.
"The next day the headlines read, 'Kowalski Visits Yukon in the Hospital and Laughs.' And when I climbed into the ring that night, the crowd called out, 'You animal, you killer.' And the name stuck."
Kowalski came to incur the wrath of the fans. As he told Esquire magazine in 2007: "Someone once threw a pig's ear at me. A woman once came up to me after a match and said, 'I'm glad you didn't get hurt.' Then she stabbed me in the back with a knife. After a while, I got police escorts to and from the ring."
Walter Kowalski, his legal name, was born in Windsor, Ontario. His parents, Anthony and Marie Spulnik, had emigrated from Poland. He hoped to become an electrical engineer, but while he was working out at a Y.M.C.A., someone who was evidently impressed by his physique suggested he become a wrestler. He made his pro debut in the late 1940s.
He eventually tussled with all the famous names of wrestling, and in his later years he teamed with Big John Studd as a tag team called the Executioners.
"He was a hell of an attraction," Thesz told The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette in 1998. "He had a great body back then. He was not a sophisticated wrestler, but every promoter wanted him because he made a lot of money."
Kowalski retired in 1977 and founded Killer Kowalski's School of Professional Wrestling in Malden, Mass. His protégés included the wrestlers Triple H and Chyna. He sold the school in 2003, and it is now in North Andover, Mass.
Kowalski married in 2006, his first marriage. In addition to his wife, of Malden, he was survived by a brother, Stanley Spulnik.
Beyond the ring, Kowalski displayed a gentle and even aesthetic side. He became a vegetarian in the mid-1950s, pursued charitable work for children with special needs and delighted in photographing fellow wrestlers. His work was sometimes displayed at galleries.
"I wanted to take action pictures," he told The New York Times shortly after retiring. "But I went up to the ring, the fans screamed at me and threw garbage at me. It was detrimental to my health. So all I took were posed pictures. I sign my photographs Walter Kowalski. I used to be a villain, but now I'm a good guy. I kiss old women and pat babies. I've gone from Killer Kowalski to a pussycat."
Make sure you come here to London in 2012.
Yea it wasn't the same having them just on radio every arvo, cos they can't do commentary of the gymnastics, I'll never forget the 'crazy date' 'flat bag' 'hello boys' and of course everyones favourite the 'battered sav'.
@koneal
You are a complete moron...why are you on a roy and HG fan site!?
I just could not watch the Olympics...it was not right ...It was missing two vital components...Maybe a retrospective boys ?????
@koneal
You registered just to post that?
It's all tongue-in-cheek you arse clown!
You guys are bloody legends, channel 7 should hang it's head in shame for not having you guys running the broadcast. WTF is Andrew Daddo hosting a show called YUMCHA on the Olympics, you guys would have done a much better job and given it a more Australian tilt without having an Americanization of a shit show like Yumcha. Keep the dream alive.
Paul
I just watched your commentary of Eric the Eel at the 2000 Sydney Olympics, and I have to say that I am utterly appalled and disgusted by your lack of tact and class. Your ridicule of a man who went out and accomplished something that many of us would be too embarrassed and vain to do is not only shocking but utterly attrocious. Instead, you should look upon and treat this man with the respect and admiration that he deserves. Your inhumanity and arrogant mockery is inexcusable and will unfortuately be the legacy that you leave behind like the sour aftertaste of spoiled milk.
Hey boys -
I'm in the US at the moment and watching the Olympics on NBC. I keep hearing how the games have been scheduled to fit in with US prime-time, but everything is on huge delay over here.
I've been following the Aussie tilt on the Sydney Morning Herald website first thing every morning and so far I've known the result of every major event at least 8 hours before its broadcast. I knew the result of every American and Aussie medal in the swimming at least 8 hrs before it was shown over here, Aussie silver in the womens hurdles, Usain Bolts world record, triathlon, basketball, even the opening ceremony was played on a 24 hour delay!
The worst part is, all of this coverage is accompanied with a logo that says "Live" in the corner of the screen which is a downright lie! If the games are being scheduled to fit US programming the least they could do is actually play it live!
Maybe you could use your many contacts in the world of sport to get this fixed before its too late?!
Keep up the good work...
Dave from Sydney (now in San Diego)
hello gents love your work
you were discussing our greatest olympian and Roy settled upon herb elliot as our greatest.
can I throw in a name that may even pip HE in the greatness if not the recognition stakes... Michael Milton
I'm not sure how many other athletes have successful switched winter to summer games, have overcome to two cancers, hold a world record and have clean sweeped an entire discipline as MM did in 2006
unfortunately I'll be out of range this sunday but once again love your work
cheers
b