Mega Thread The Random Thoughts Thread Part 1

[Portia]

El Toro Vino!

 

[HugeJohnson]

I didn't laugh.

 

[Zakk Wylde]

I didn't laugh.

Me either...

 

[Eddie Dingle]

I didn't laugh.

Me either...

Me three.

There is nothing funny about a fat man and a gun.

Unless the gun is pointing at a fat man.

 

[Stromageddon]

 

[Stromageddon]

Or watch this (definitely watch it from about 5:00 to 5:30)

 

[Burningleviathan]

Or watch this (definitely watch it from about 5:00 to 5:30)

Ahhh Hevy Devy. Surely coming back to Australia soon.

 

[Doctor Feel]

 

[Killer Power]

Ahhh, Marngook Footy Show never fails to amuse. Gilby says that all Norf needs is another Carey at CHF and they would be ok. One of the greatest CHF of all time? Them and the other 17 teams.

 

[Stromageddon]

How about this then? I genuinely enjoy this song.

 

[Lockhart Road]

I just spoke at length to RussellEbertHandball and this thread came up during the conversation.

He is very, very disappointed.

"This is a random thoughts thread not a random immature thoughts thread" he said to me. I had to agree with him. I am quite sure this sort of carry on was not on his mind when Schulzenfest created this thread. I am constantly disappointed by the low brow attempts at humour that have permeated this thread. The wife and I (dear sweet Portia ) and now REH are down but not out we will live in hope that you will all grow as people and as posters and lift the standard.




Eddie, I guess that, being with Portia, all you can do is ... face life.













all of the above may or may not have happened and some of it actually may but other parts may not.

 

[Lockhart Road]

PORTIA FACES LIFE

(Sorry, Eddie & Portia - the above didn't come out so well. Seems to have been a glitch in the system.)

I'm not sure if you are senior enough citizens to make sense out of what I added to your post. (Goes without saying that it makes no sense at all to the younger brigade.)
Rexie J however will be able to back me up on this.

'Portia Faces Life' was one of the 15-minute radio sitcoms that I grew up with. Along with others like 'Blue Hills,' 'When A Girl Marries,' 'Days Of Our Lives,' 'Smokey Dawson,' 'Kid Grayson Rides The Range' .....
I've checked Google to discover it started on radio in Australia in 1952 and survived until 1970. The followed piece is lifted from Wikipedia:

" In 1952, an Australian version of Portia Faces Life began transmission from the radio station 3UZ in Melbourne. It was introduced by an American expatriate named Grace Gibson. It starred Lyndall Barbour as the title character who was renamed "Portia Manning." It ran for 3,544 quarter-hour episodes until 1970 and every episode started with the introduction, "A story taken from the heart of every woman who has ever dared to love." "

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portia_Faces_Life#Australian_offshoot

I trust this qualifies as a mature random thought in REH's opinion.
Cheers from Hong Kong.

 

[Portia]

Radio sitcoms!

My mum was 7 in 1952.

 

[Power Raid]

The whole goal shooter thing has me baffled...I don't think it is what power raid thinks it is?

netball

 

[BIG MATTY T]

netball

Touche'

 

[Eddie Dingle]

Radio sitcoms!

My mum was 7 in 1952.

Portia Manning - "A story taken from the heart of every woman who has dared to love"

Spine tingling stuff.

 

[Lockhart Road]

Portia Manning - "A story taken from the heart of every woman who has dared to love"

Spine tingling stuff.

That's where I got my sex education in those days. Then I went out on the school playground and came home very confused.

 

[Rexie J]

Radio sitcoms!

My mum was 7 in 1952.

Ah the (near) perfect age. Mum would have grown up with the "Hit Parade", 6 pm to 6.15 pm on 5KA.

Bill Haley, Eddie Cochrane, Gene Vincent, the proper Elvis, Big Bopper, Buddy Holly..................

sheesh.............. will have to spin a few fantastic black plastics today

 

[Lockhart Road]

Radio sitcoms!

My mum was 7 in 1952.

I was 5. TV was seven years away from arriving in South Australia. Radio was our entertainment centre every day of the week and the 'flicks', the neighbourhood cinema, was where we went on weekends for Saturday matinees, and especially for Twenty Cartoons on the 11th / last afternoon of our 11-day school holidays in May and September.

In 1952 King George VI died, enter Elizabeth II whom I decided wasn't a bad looking drop, a lot like my mum (but Princess Margaret was hotter). Hit of the year was 'I Saw Mummy Kissing Santa Claus.'

Frank Sedgman beat Jaroslav Drobny at Wimbledon. Marjorie Jackson won two sprinting gold medals at the Helsinki Olympics. Jimmy Carruthers won the bantamweight world boxing title in Johannesburg, and Rocky Marciano knocked out Jersey Joe Walcott to be crowned world heavyweight champ. Dalray won the Melbourne Cup, and South Africa beat Australia in a test cricket match at the MCG, the first time it ever happened.
The Port Adelaide Magpies under Fos Williams were in between their 1951 premiership and their six-in-a-row from 1954-1959 inclusive.
FYI: A 1952 Magpies membership badge is on sale on eBay, currently $100, with two days left before bidding closes:

http://cgi.ebay.com.au/ws/eBayISAPI...akeTrack=true&ssPageName=VIP:watchlink:top:en

1952: America tested an atom bomb in the Pacific and Britain let one off near the Australian coast. The French escalated their contretemps versus Ho Chi Minh in their colony called Vietnam... and sixteen years later that was where I turned up. Tried my language skills on an unspeakably lovely French-Vietnamese girl in the bar of the Grand Hotel in Vung Tau and discovered she was born in 1952. Discovered five minutes later all my money was gone. So was she.

Random thoughts.... random memories.... oh for the good old days... oh for another six-in-a-row....

 

[Honeyboy Wilson]

Fastway Couriers can garn git farrrked.

- On Wednesday I email them before my parcel arrived in Adelaide from Sydney, explaining I would likely not be home and to save everyone the headache and them extra driving for a redelivery, would I be able to give authority to leave it without signature or change the delivery address. This email was ignored.
- On Thursday afternoon, they reply to my email above, ignoring it, saying that they tried to deliver but no one was home, please call -number- to organise redelivery. No hours were given for said number.
- I finished work at 5, rang the number to find out that I couldn't ring after 5, their business hours are 8 to 5.
- I get home, I find the "calling card" and go to their website, to electronically arrange redelivery. The parcel number they've given me isn't recognised or found in their database.
- I ring them at 8 this morning, asking if I can organise redelivery TODAY as I need the parcel by the weekend. They tell me they can't guarantee it.

Long story short - never ever ever ever ever use Fastway if you're sending something. The woman on the phone sounded like a bitch, too.

 

[FishingRick04]

Why does nearly every station need to have people calling to give an opinion even 20 minutes. It gives me the absolute heabie geebies.

 

[BrockBlitz]

Sliding doors. Riveting stuff again. Damien is the best journo of our time - they really don't pay him enough.

 

[Peck]

Fastway Couriers can garn git farrrked.

- On Wednesday I email them before my parcel arrived in Adelaide from Sydney, explaining I would likely not be home and to save everyone the headache and them extra driving for a redelivery, would I be able to give authority to leave it without signature or change the delivery address. This email was ignored.
- On Thursday afternoon, they reply to my email above, ignoring it, saying that they tried to deliver but no one was home, please call -number- to organise redelivery. No hours were given for said number.
- I finished work at 5, rang the number to find out that I couldn't ring after 5, their business hours are 8 to 5.
- I get home, I find the "calling card" and go to their website, to electronically arrange redelivery. The parcel number they've given me isn't recognised or found in their database.
- I ring them at 8 this morning, asking if I can organise redelivery TODAY as I need the parcel by the weekend. They tell me they can't guarantee it.

Long story short - never ever ever ever ever use Fastway if you're sending something. The woman on the phone sounded like a bitch, too.

Lol I had a gift card for Dymocks which expired a while ago, tried to use it anyway. It worked.

So I bought two books for ~22 dollars, and the difference between regular and overnight delivery is 4 dollars so I go, well I ain't gonna use 4 dollars of this gift card for anything else, so I got overnight delivery.(this is on the 23rd.) I get an email back that says:

book2 status: ONORDER_BT
DueDate: 29/05/2013

book2 Status: on hold
DueDate: 24/05/2013

They both get here yesterday, which overall isn't that bad, but every time I've paid for fast delivery (twice) there has been some issue to make it take a week or more. It makes me wonder what the difference between overnight and regular is.

 

[It Just Is]

Sliding doors. Riveting stuff again. Damien is the best journo of our time - they really don't pay him enough.

Up there with that high intellect piece him and Luke Darcy put together on Mondays.

 

[BrockBlitz]

Up there with that high intellect piece him and Luke Darcy put together on Mondays.

He kinda reminds me of a politician chasing votes. He says whatever he needs to to be read a lot. It's never insightful, hardly ever true and for the most part he just doesn't seem to know much about football.

And while were hacking on people, I might ruffle a few feathers with this one but is Bruce McAvaney the worst commentator on air ?

He is a wealth of knowledge but in all honesty lines like "you just sense that the next goal is really important don't you?" when a team is 4 goals down really get on my ****. Thanks Bruce, simple addition and subtraction is waay beyond me.

I do enjoy his facts but I feel he is very lost when commentating and doesn't really add anything that I can't see from the vision on the T.V. Commentators should be telling me about what I can't see from my arm chair because I'm not at the game and they are.... He really struggles IMO.