Guess the Marlion Pickett connection

[Royce Hafey]

Being a fan of all things quirky (not to mention having a Gramsci obsession) I couldn't help but share a weird connection I just discovered between Marlion Pickett and the downfall of Mussolini.

I will simply post two pictures and it's up to you to guess the connection.

The first is of the young Marlion celebrating a junior footy GF:



The second is a photo of celebrated Italian partisan leader, Piero Balbo:

What do these two have in common (apart from being good looking roosters)?

 

[Wacko23Jacko]

They have both at one point in their lives bent their left arms at a 90 degree angle?

 

[Ghost Patrol]

Piero's brother was Marlion's grandma's milkman

Same tree of families, you would think.

 

[Oprah From Tigerland]

Both born in Manjimup?

 

[Royce Hafey]

Both born in Manjimup?

Well done! What an Italian partisan leader was doing getting born in a tiny Western Australian town is anybody's guess. That flog Sam Kekovich comes from there too, but I left him out because...well because he's a flog. Manjimup is also apparently the main place where they've started growing truffles. If they were growing them back in the day, Balbo's parents might have hung around (northern Italians love their truffles) and never got to shoot any Nazis. Sliding doors moments (of which Marlion has had his fair share).

 

[JAKLAUGHING]

Well done! What an Italian partisan leader was doing getting born in a tiny Western Australian town is anybody's guess. That flog Sam Kekovich comes from there too, but I left him out because...well because he's a flog. Manjimup is also apparently the main place where they've started growing truffles. If they were growing them back in the day, Balbo's parents might have hung around (northern Italians love their truffles) and never got to shoot any Nazis. Sliding doors moments (of which Marlion has had his fair share).

But what about their left elbows?!?

 

[Royce Hafey]

But what about their left elbows?!?

No doubt they are/were elite on both elbows. The great players all are.

 

[Bojangles17]

If you tell me he was bog in that gf , I’ll fall off my chair

 

[Royce Hafey]

If you tell me he was bog in that gf , I’ll fall off my chair

I don't know. But, given he'd be the only one to go on and play professional footy, there's a fair chance he was. What is not in dispute, however, is that he was wearing the right jumper both grannies!

 

[THE THIN MAN]

What is not in dispute, however, is that he was wearing the right jumper both grannies!

My grandmothers had a preference for cardigans over jumpers as they were easier to put on.