I don't know why but this is the first thing that popped into my head when I saw that picture. Midnight Wallaby Long live AC/DC.
Or as my friends from Brisbane call them: Ecka/Decka Don't ask me why I don't know. And for some reason I still have a jar of vegamite in my house. Haneous stuff. They also insisted on pronouncing 'Oregano' as 'Oragano' Aussies will tell you: FOSTERS SUCKS!! If you ever find VB you need to try it. Good stuff. And lastly, Gobert is a twit. Bayliss rules.
Oh, don't forget INXS. I remember them from college. If only I could go back to those days, only this time I wouldn't crash my FZR all the time.
One of my all time favorite songs is "Beds Are Burning" by Midnight Oil. I still have the vinyl extended remix 12" single. I'll bet half of you reading this have no idea of what I just wrote. :-( The song was written in 1987. http://ubl.artistdirect.com/cgi-bin/ramstream?file=~hh-475124/0016135_0101_00_0002.ra
All this pinning for all things Australian is bringing out the Brad in me. Just pack out all the INXS records, all the Fosters, your Goberts, crocodile dundee I, II and III, your vegimite (nasty stuff), your outback steakhouse, and the rest of the sh@t and ship it back down under. (But when you do, you can forget to pack a few cases of Swan and VB, The Mladin, Buckmaster, any sets of Tiger Angel leathers, and AC/DC. )
I had no idea Buckmaster was from OZ.... And, oh yea, MM kick some butt at RA this year! Suzuki all the way! I didn't make it RA last year, but I have to this year. Mladin, Yates, and Hacker= 1,2,3......that would be awesome; maybe Nicky in place of Hacker... I grew up in the deep south, we don't need marinate; just some good ol' carcinogens on a steak and you're set.
Man, you're right about sending back the Outback. I don't know what they put their steaks in to marinate, but that stuff makes my stomach do hoola-hoops around my a$$. I'll go through half a bottle of Tums after eating there...
I thought I knew the name. But I'm not sure of her nationality. I do remember thinking she was hot back then but the music sucked.
Ahh, Rick, I can date myself by saying not only do I remember the song, but I remember the video also....good album one of the first CD's I ever bought. (I can REALLY date myself by saying I remember when CD's were just a neat concept and nobody thought they'd catch on!)
I have never heard of any of the stuff on the Outback menu. I'm not a beer drinker, but when someone sticks their head in the suzuki tent at the races and says have a fosters mate, they get the standard reply from my guys. "It's horse piss" (My crew chief and chassis mechanic are Aussies).
I asked JU to negotiate a good price for me (below $10K), when he hires MM for FXtreme as suggested by some business wiz a few pages back. You trying to get it for free??? Who do you think you are?
People do have preconceptions about others. I've had "city" people tell me, "Hey, I bet you folks like to sit around drinking Budweiser while watching Hee Haw." Actually, it's more like drinking Corona and watching Wall Street Week. Of course, I'm guilty, too. I thought just because somebody's a three-time championship roadracer it automatically meant he couldn't write sophisticated prose. Stop laughing, JU!
Hey Mat, As long as we have you here, I wanted to ask you the first serious question I've seen yet on this thread: If you had to be another animal species, what species would you choose? I'm guessing Anthony Gobert would choose Koala bear, because they like to hang around in the trees eating those eucalyptus leaves and get high.... USCRacerX
Wow, I'm off surfing porn, I type in Kylie Minogue and presto...I end up here. What's the chance of that happening? I had Highway to Hell on 8-track, Bon Scott rules!!!!!!!
Ya' know Mat, I think quite a few people have thought it, and maybe some have said it to you face to face.......Thanks for the AGV for the Roadracing World Airfense fund. Although I was knocked out of the bidding in the first hour, it was an F'in awesome prize with the money going to an awesome cause. I'm sure JU made sure at least a small portion of the money raised from the helmets' sale came to a section used by people who post on this board. Now go and train for Sears, because if you don't do the double, you're in line for a a sh@t load of grief on this BBS. Dave K