Famous people.

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Originally Posted by JohnE

Again mate please don't be offended.
Its interesting,
as far as the olympics, it is a shame you didn't take up the offer,

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Nor offended in the least. I hope I don't offend thee by taking no interest in sport. :)

The best thing about the Olympics was that traffic to and from work was much reduced. It took me less time to get to/from work during the Olympics (and for some time after).

I didn't watch any of the events (apart from the opening ceremony - I didn't bother watching the closing ceremony) on TV and couldn't care less who won what or which country won more medals. It was completely unimportant to me.

I wouldn't have attended anything anyway as I absolutely hate crowds and will not go anywhere where there are crowds.

Ron

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Originally Posted by BigJon

I don't think I have ever heard of him anyway...

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nothing to get excited by any way. he does those ads where he's dressed up as ming the merciless doing the ironing and he was the top cop in white collar blue. he used to do stand up when the oils would play at the antler

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Originally Posted by barney

nothing to get excited by any way. he does those ads where he's dressed up as ming the merciless doing the ironing and he was the top cop in white collar blue. he used to do stand up when the oils would play at the antler

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Nope, still don't know him :D :D

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Originally Posted by JohnE

Again mate please don't be offended.
Its interesting,
as far as the olympics, it is a shame you didn't take up the offer, although I worked clearing and patrolling a lot of the venues with my little black dog. Sydney had an atmospere I can only describe as electric, completely different to its normal self. I know it may sound weird and I may have been sniffing too much explosive, but its true, I even had a day off during the first week and took my son into the basketball. Visiting as a punter was an unreal experience, then later in the week i was lucky to be given a ticket to the trap shooting finals, aside from nearly knowing everyone in the stands , it too was different,
the whole olympic and paralympic experience is something that will, for me, stand out for a long time in my mind, and yea there was a lot of elbow rubbing especially in the games village. and other behind the scenes areas.
Oh yea, the only athletics that turned me on, was when the para games were on, they deserved everything they got.
Both experiences for me, as a worker at Sydney 2000 and a team official at Melbourne 2006, have remained as experiences that far exceed those normal day to day events we all go through,
plus I get to do some good name dropping.


john

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yeah john, i was on the gates at the athletes villiage - so i spent the entire games sittinginside a white tent xraying things - i hated it to the max - was on the quads on the first day though - made the papers as apparently someone :wasntme: caused 10 grands worth of damage to the villiage.

in the end i chucked that many sikkies that when time came to send people back to their units early i got to go early.

as for athletes that were nice - the para's were the best nicests professional athletes i have ever met -

you still at the doggies - is gleddo still there ?

Mick - 31407

Molly Meldrem, Ruth Cracknell,Frank Thring, Graham Blundell,Sandy Roberts, Jeff Fenech,Mark Mitchell, Eric Bana,&
Glen Robbins
Hows that 4 a mixed bunch?:eek:
Cheers Dean.

My wife went to school with Justin Leptch. My wife and I have both met Keiron Perkins, wish we hadnt:D. I got rather drunk with Jack the mus's missus from once were warriors, cant remember her name. I have met Colin Bond on quite a few occasions. My wife met Hayley Lewis, and has met Micheal Micheal Hill Hill Jeweler Jeweler (for those of you who remember the most annoying ads). I have shaken hands with Prince Charles

I forgot about Colleen McCullough. She gave me a full set of her books - all autographed "To Ron and Elisabeth, with love, Colleen McCullough" - when I left Norfolk Island.

Ron

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Originally Posted by barney

HERE WE GO welcome to namedroppers corner
at the last lroc meeting i met warren brown, cartoonist from telegraph and who did the paris to peking thing, garry garry beers used to own my yoot, done some work at richard carter's house (actor) pretended i'd never heard of him 'cos he's a nob, used to do electrical work at ian moss's place in harbord, kevin borich on numerous occaisions, my ex wife was good friends with gina jefferies before she was famous, herm kovacs (drummer from TMG), a whole lot of country musos from tamworth that no one has ever heard of, don burrows, that'll do.

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Know Richard from working on Wildside and he acted in a short film I made a few years back. Good bloke by me.

Cheers
Simon

Thanks ron, I didn't think you would take it the wrong way, hey your not doing too bad though dropping some good names every now and then. Collen McCulloch is a good one.

Hey Mick, thought as much, you'd know me then, my face anyway, mark smith and i were there nearly everyday, i was the bloke that started up the random f/p's off in all the public access areas, circular quay etc, only because I was told we couldn't do it.
So you were on the nightshift that all the trouble occured,with the quads. I remeber seeing some divots near the back fence
Were you working the day the Atlantics came through the xray tent,
you'd know darryl holder and greg black, they turned into grade one knobs there at that venue.
You know the little garden of plastic animals the aussie netballers had in front of their house, mine and smithys dog made off with them.
The credit union did a blurb on me at the commonwealth games.

No mate i have gone the way of most of the pre-88ers, got broken , **** on, and went. i think you told me that gledo was on the way out too, i was there the other week and he is definately gone. Hey I was a one eight. and i think gleddo is a one seven, the threes are, we,ll the top levels. i'll bet there is a three doing an LAC job. I know there were a lot of 25's and 26's as lacs. Unheard of, no wonder all the experience is leaving.
I'll leave the blurbs for aussie cops, its more fun on there.


john


lets drop some more names

yeah - threes aint that high any more wera are looking towards 50 now, its a shame all the 'ole boys are leaving. Darryl Holder - i used to work with him at CT transits - and lived three doors up from him - never had much to do with him though.