There's an exhibit on in town about those old objects that most people have never seen before that once upon served a particular purpose but now just take up space in your kitchen drawer. And since their names are easily forgotten, they become whosijiggers.
Or thingamabobs.
Or whosiwhatsits.
Of if you're like me, the more aptly put 'That f-ing part that connects to that other thingijig' when attempting to explain to my father in law the latest issue with my Slowbaru.
Lu brought up that she is the proud owner of a pie crimper. But has never made, baked, nor crimped a pie in her life..
And so off the back of this, we're putting it out across tomorrow's show for people to peruse through their junk drawers and let us know what old school goodies are lurking there. We're expecting a whole heap of random doo-dads, doo-dahs and whatchamacallits in short order.
BIG WHO?
Molky let us know that Big Brother this year isn't rating so well. Is it because the format has changed to become Survivor in a warehouse? Or maybe it's the fact that it's Big Brother and I would rather spend time under my car dodging drips of hot coolant than sit through an episode currently (which coincidentally I did this very weekend).
Remember when 'I was on Big Brother' got you free drinks and nightclub tours? I do, but that was back in the mid 2000s. Back then there was a local club in Geelong that got the latest evictee for an hour over the weekend to hang out there. They'd get plied with free drinks, they'd bat off the women that swarmed them and some poor unfortunate minder had to be by their side just to make sure they didn't poison themselves with two many free shots of Bicardi 151.
(I don't remember the full details but I remember contestants/evictees did alright in appearance fees, scoring at least $1000 for being dragged drunkenly from one club to another. Great money if you could get it just grinning like an idiot and trying not to pass out.)
But it's 2022 and the announcement that it was returning to me was akin to Ford announcing they were making the Laser model again. A Laser was my first car and for a little punt around, it went okay. But I've driven bigger things and faster things since then, things with turbos and windows you didn't have to wind down, things you could diagnose problems with via a paperclip. A lot of fun cars along the way and while that announcement would be good for nostalgic purposes, I certainly wouldn't be rushing out to buy one.
And in that vein, I wonder if they're going to check in with Lara Bingle soon?
REVENGE OF THE (MONOPOLY) NERDS
Since I've been a part of this breakfast show, I reckon I've helped give away 29,088,019 copies of Monopoly The Border Edition. Okay, just a slight exaggeration there as slightly less than that number have actually be printed but funnily enough, we've met quite a collection of Monopoly collectors. People who grab every special edition of the game possible like Star Wars Monopoly, Super Mario Bros Monopoly, Game of Thrones Monopoly etc.
Some of these mad Monopolers have 10+ versions and then there's Joe today who at last count has 20 editions so far. Joe's got five kids and each of them loves to track down the latest version of the game he doesn't have.
Imagine each birthday - unwrapping another 5 variations each year. That's a no for me personally but he loves it, onya Joe!
Chat tomorrow
-Almigo
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