Where I grew up: RoCo.
Where I live: Stephen Dank.
Where I live: Stephen Dank.
Who is the biggest deal to come out of your home town/suburb?
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Fantastic cricketer. Did the Windies proud.
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Decently well known set of gates too
Traditionally (seemingly compulsorily) introduced with the words: "It has cleared the".
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If memory serves, that evening saw some top shelf utterances from the Don in the rooms after stumps (probably embellished for the telling):
Don: Good knock Deano!
Don looks at Merv, Merv puffs himself slightly waiting for some praise from the great man.
Don: Yeah, funny game cricket
Don to Patrick Patterson: You bowled rubbish out there today son
Patterson (a bit miffed): I would've killed you out there today, old man!
Don: You couldn't even get Merv Hughes out. How were you going to worry me?
Ian Chappell famously had plenty of frosty run-ins with Bradman, but one exchange that was warmer was this one from 1993:
Chapelli: “The current Kiwi attack of Morrison, Watson, De Groen and Doull. How would you go against them, Don?”
DGB: “Oh I’d probably average about 40...possibly 45.”
Chappelli: “But you averaged nearly 100 across your career, Don.”
DGB: “I’m 85 years old, Ian.”
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Rod Marsh.
Apparently not well liked by folk in local cricket circles either.
Apparently not well liked by folk in local cricket circles either.
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I'll always remember Marshy for an over against Lance Cairns in a ODI at the Adelaide Oval. 6, 4, 6, 4, 6, out!
Oh, and for getting hit in the nuts twice by Garth Le Roux and throwing his bat to the ground and yelling words to the effect of, 'come and have a go ya campaigner!'
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I grew up a few streets away from the U2 lads in Artane, Dublin.
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<everyone hates bono>
"It could have been me!"
"It could have been me!"
dazzler1974
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Larry's family was closest to us. He's the good egg!
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I used to drink with an Irish copper who was in the Hyde Park bombings, he tried to recruit me as a narc and banged up one of my barmaids. He claimed to have been a mate of Bono as a lad, good lad though he had a French wife who served horse. .
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Pregnant, bashed, bonked,imprisoned
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I've heard of videos on the net about that. No thanks.
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Not so much who but what: The Ashes trophy.
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Rarely in kitchens at parties.
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Not just suburb.
School too.
Craig Minogue.
School too.
Craig Minogue.
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The umpires are always right!
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Tom Cruise
Dean Kemp and Eddie Betts.
Engimal v3
**** m**nl*nd*rs
No one. I think George Bailey grew up nearby. I knew his great aunt.
What was he like at school?
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