Poor dead Louie
Posted: September 28, 2011 Filed under: Thought For the Day | Tags: Bryce Courtenay, Louie the fly, Mortein, Poor Dead Louie Leave a commentApparently the advertising agency responsible for Mortein fly spray are going to can this ad. No! I grew up with Louie. The famous author Bryce Courtenay thought up Louie when he worked in advertising. From one Louie to another I hope that Louie the fly lives to buzz around another day. I don’t think I will ever be able to buy Mortein again. Poor dead Louie, a victim of marketing people with no taste.
Apparently this is not true, the latest news is that Louie won’t be axed. Cynical people would say it was a marketing exercise….
I was in the Hot Seat
Posted: September 26, 2011 Filed under: AUSTRALIA, Thought For the Day | Tags: Australian TV quiz shows, Eddie Maguire, Hot Seat, Sale of the Century 2 CommentsI won $20,000 for answering a few questions on Millionaire Hot Seat. Watching it again I notice I said, “Lock it in Eddie,” about a thousand times because I was so worried about running out of time and leaving the show with an empty wallet.
Television quiz shows are my not so secret guilty pleasure. My mum won a lot of prizes in the late 50s on an early TV quiz show, so it’s in my blood. I was on the TV show Sale of the Century back in 1997. Six months pregnant with my first child I started dreaming up get rich quick schemes. I won a place on Sale and flew to Melbourne on a 6am flight. Being heavily pregnant I spent my time in the make up chair and the TV studio yawning. The host’s glamorous sidekick was almost as pregnant as me and I could tell the producers weren’t happy with another fat woman on set.
Once the cameras rolled pregnancy brain took over, I couldn’t even answer a simple question about the Australian cricket team. The host with spray-on hair asked,
“What is the large vessel starting with K which beer is stored in?”
“Keg.” It was the one question I answered correctly so I got to pick a famous face and I won $5000 dollars on the prize board. Then I was booted off the show with a silver stickpin, later sold to a pawnshop for $5. The second most exciting thing to happen that year. Of course the birth of my first child was numero uno.
My Dad called when the Sale episode went to air.
“What were you thinking? Everyone knows about Chappell’s underarm bowling!” I wasn’t thinking, I’d inhaled too much hairspray on set.
“Thanks Dad, I’ll try harder next time.”
“I wanted some of the prizes, can’t believe you couldn’t win the steak knives. Will they have you back on for the jackpot?”he said.
Ah, sadly no. After that my new vocation of raising three children on my own took off, so I thought my quiz show career was over. But late one night when the kids were in bed I went online and entered Hot Seat. So I auditioned, got through, flew to Melbourne, met Eddie Maguire, had fun and won some cash. Do it, and hopefully you’ll win big.
September 24 birthdays
Posted: September 24, 2011 Filed under: Birthdays | Tags: F. SCOTT FITZGERALD, Fozzie Bear, JIM HENSON, Kermit the Frog, Miss Piggy, September 24 Birthdays, The Great Gatsby, The Muppet Show, The Muppets Leave a commentTwo brilliant men were born today – Jim Henson and F. Scott Fitzgerald . The Muppets were a huge part of my childhood. I wanted to be Miss Piggy. I still do.
F. Scott Fitzgerald died young, leaving fine books for the world to enjoy. My favourite is The Great Gatsby, set in the golden days of the Jazz Age.
Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that’s no matter — tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther…. And one fine morning —
So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.
Troy Davis
Posted: September 23, 2011 Filed under: SONGS, Thought For the Day | Tags: Ben Harper, death penalty, Like a King, Martin Luther King Jr, Troy Davis Leave a commentI don’t believe that anyone was served with the execution of Troy Davis this week, Mark MacPhail’s family do not get him back. Studies show that the death penalty is not a deterrent to violent criminals and minority groups are disproportionately represented on Death Row. I wish you could help us Dr King.
September 19 birthdays
Posted: September 19, 2011 Filed under: Birthdays, SONGS | Tags: George Cadbury, International Talk Like A Pirate Day, Mama Cass, pirates, September 19 birthdays, Twiggy 1 CommentToday is my birthday, so while I’m waiting for my cards, chocolate, flowers and new car from Johnny Depp and the Queen, I will tell you about other famous people who share my day.
TODAY’S STARS are MAMA CASS, TWIGGY and GEORGE CADBURY
This morning I ate a kilo of chocolate in honour of Mama Cass and George Cadbury. But I gave up ham, because it killed poor Mama. Apparently this is an urban myth, but I wish Mama Cass had shared her chocolate with Twiggy.
Today also happens to be International Talk Like A Pirate day. Which fills my heart with gladness. What do you get when you cross a pirate with a robot?
RRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR 2D2
Aye I’ll be thar looking for a pirate for meself, just been keelhauled and be plunderin. I forgot to cast me message in bottle back…arrrrrrrr
http://www.talklikeapirate.com/piratehome.html
Sisters
Posted: September 12, 2011 Filed under: LOVE, Thought For the Day | Tags: Allison Krauss, friendship, Sisterhood, sisters Leave a commentToday is my sister’s birthday. We are not related by blood, she is my soul sister, one of the gals who keeps me sane when life seems too much to bear. She is a very private person, very discreet, so I can tell her all my secrets. We have been friends for 30 years, so I know when we are 93 and have blue hair and no teeth, we will still be giggling at our own shortcomings. Love may be blind, but friendship is clairvoyant. Happy birthday mate.
9/11
Posted: September 11, 2011 Filed under: SONGS, Theme Songs, Thought For the Day | Tags: 9/11, Lest we Forget, Paul Simon Leave a commentThere are so many words that can be said about today, but as I watch the footage from the memorial in New York I weep as I look at the faces of the 9 year olds who will never know their fathers.
These boots aren’t made for walking
Posted: September 7, 2011 Filed under: Self improvement, SONGS | Tags: acupuncture, Boots are made for walking, Nancy Sinatra Leave a commentI went out dancing with a bunch of wild gay men. It was a night of jazz hands, time steps, kick ball change, Solid Gold poses and lots of throwing each other in the air (almost). I got home at five in the morning with a…throbbing pain in my knee. Maybe I’m too old to dance all night in high heels. But I thought, ‘I’ll get acupuncture, that’ll fix it.’
I love my acupuncturist. He has seen me through many traumas. He can tell when my monkey mind needs to be quiet. I turn up stressed and carrying on, lie down on the table and he sticks a needle right into the cranky part of my forehead. Some people call it the third eye. Acupuncture is great for emotional dramas too. Ladies, the best way to get over a needle-phobic man is to have acupuncture. So I’ve started going every week. But at my last appointment Mr Acupuncture looked at my Mexican cowboy boots and shook his head. He said my boots are hurting my feet and my spine. So apparently my boots aren’t made for walking…
Freddie Mercury
Posted: September 5, 2011 Filed under: SONGS, Thought For the Day | Tags: Freddie Mercury, I want to break free, September 5 birthdays, showmen Leave a commentToday would have been Freddie Mercury’s 65th birthday. What a showman.