A Perth worst that’s so perfect, it’s beyond quintessential. From Jazzrusso. Jazz, if you got the mattress when Dennis’ hair was like that, could I ask if it’s getting a little manky by now? He’s much more like THIS or worse these days. What a superb find. Is he still firm? And the chin. I just can’t keep my eyes off it. I wish Jazz had taken a bigger shot, so I could fill the screen with that incredibly outre chin. It’s like a scene from Caligula.
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I used to have hair like that as well… in 1979
If that’s the only bed that gives him a good nights sleep, how has he been coping without it all this time? Or is that actually D’Lillee’s bed?
I assume there was a reference to ‘bowling a maiden over’ in the promotional material at the time.
There’s just so much to love about the great man, TLA. The chin, the field settings, the dancing. I’m surprised they didn’t use this shot of him, and I doubt he got much sleep this night. Here we see him sharing a laugh with a friend about one of his victims.
I was at the WACA the day he took 8 for 29. I’m still pinching myself.
Get out of town, Snuff!
I was there when he faced off with that disagreeable Javed Miandad.
The memory of that means I can almost forgive Dennis for his mattress apostrophe abuse.
Even I was willing to overlook that too, DFOC, such is my love for the great man. I don’t think the incident was one of his finer moments, however, and despite conflicting versions of events, the video‘s fairly, as they say, conclusive.
I saw him in quite a few state maches. The only test match I saw, Australia was flogged from arsehole to breakfast by the Windies in the early 80′s. Can’t remember what DK’s effort was like that time or if he was in team..
If it was in Perth, TLA, then it must have been this thrashing, which was played in November, 1984. Dennis, along with Greg Chappell and Rod Marsh, had announced his retirement in January of that year, during the 5th Test against Pakistan in Sydney.
YOUNG and HUNG
Am I to assume from this post that Tim Winton is unavailable for comment?
I might Winton youse later.
aussie, i believe you were at wait in the early 80s. did you ever do any classes with elizabeth jolley. because i would very much like to know about any worsts on her.
No, did no creative writing but saw her pottering around a few times. I keep on thinking I see Andrew Mallard going by. Is he at Curtin now?
he seems to be doing cafe 101.
i also see him in my local coles.
i’m sure he’s not stalking me…
I would add at least 15 ‘allegedlies’ to any further comments, if I were you. Allegedly.
Don’t go there Curious.
She is ruthless.
Unless of course you close all your profiles on the dating sites.
On a serious note, she was actually a very good tutor. Completely lacking in all the things that make TW so unpalatable. ie Sincerity, Good intentions.
WAtching, as she had the same program three semesters in a row i’m not convinced she was a good tutor.
certainly, she is one of the reasons i am now studying architecture.
Allegedly curious!
should i just keep digging?
curious, if it’s going to lead to Mallard or Jolley coming onto TWOP to call us a bunck of wankers – then yes please.
or bunch.
No. I believe ‘bunck’ IS the correct collective noun.
Well I don’t really want to add to Andrew’s woes, and isn’t Elizabeth dead?
yes, she’s dead, and i also think andrew has had enough grief.
so perhaps you might like to delete all after cafe 101?
“No Delete. No Surrender.”
[your link here]
She did die a couple of years ago, which is why i would be mighty impressed if curious could manage to get a response.
now that would be worth summoning up.
How hard could that be?
It’s Jolley
Only if you’re really curious.
But it’s all about the symposiums :-)
thankfully, symposium was not a word we heard a lot of in the early 80s.
No Symposium?
It was the 80′s I guess. Long lunches at the Mediterranean?
couldn’t see the symposia for the big hair and shoulder pads.
Cheers for the gentle edit.
jazzrusso sleeps with dennis? now that’s a worst.
Apparently bed manufacurers use the same Brand Agency as mushroom merchants.
http://theworstofperth.com/2009/06/18/in-a-blue-funk/
Sadly the Hate Tim Winton thread is overwhelming this superb worst.
you hate ‘hate time winton’?
This has reminded me of a possible entry for TWOP. Does anyone actually have an “aluminium cricket bat” still lurking in a garage or a shed?
I have not actually seen one for several decades. So a photo of one would be greatly appreciated.
(As an aside I recall a one-day match between Aust and the WIndies at the WACA in the Lillee-Marsh days. Someone let a real duck onto the field when Greg Chappell came in to bat, as a reminder of his poor form at the time).
I think there’s one at the WACA museum, which I must visit since it is bound to be chockers with worsts. Apparently it was an incredibly bad bat.
I can’t imagine anyone ever getting this one from the great man’s hands again, but Middlepeg apparently have one on show TLA.
The Lillee matress is up for grabs. Anyone interested?
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