Go the Maroons

[suzuki59]

Great result by the mighty Maroons.
I love watching Australians smash the crap out of each other.

PS Lions to wrap the series up this weekend Firko?

[firko]

PS Lions to wrap the series up this weekend Firko?

Cheeky prick .....but you may be right but it'll be a close game whichever way it goes. I think we could do with Quade Coopers X factor but that ain't going to happen so lets just see how it rolls....Wallys by 4 in a tight one.

[suzuki59]

PS Lions to wrap the series up this weekend Firko?

Cheeky prick .....but you may be right but it'll be a close game whichever way it goes. I think we could do with Quade Coopers X factor but that ain't going to happen so lets just see how it rolls....Wallys by 4 in a tight one.

Dont be like that Uncle 

Actually given I am hosting customers at the third test (junket) I am hoping for a Wallaby win on Saturday night (this is a one off wish).

[bazza]

Your on to it craig.
were the blues not playing last night just saw some Maroon boys having a training run.
And no biff? WTF  more biff with Julia and kevy Rudd!!!
Lions were backed in first game

[Davey Crocket]

Gee Firko, I thought I would get a better bite than that.....remember the PM now comes from that "redneck state"....gee, its all falling apart down there now isn't it 

[Ted]

What odds you offering for Qld to win in Sydney and Rudd to be PM after the election?

[Davey Crocket]

Qld will win, Rudd to lose.

[Ted]

I see the match review committee ruled The Koala's elbow which opened Pearce up an accident. No case to answer.

Only in Qld.

[EML]

Com'on Ted, he coped a loose arm over the top and flicked out with his elbow....so it smacked a grub in the face....loose arm was 1st.
Don't give us any shit, we blew 'em off the paddock, just ask Mr Firko, he knows a good game when he sees one.

[firko]

Gee Firko, I thought I would get a better bite than that.....remember the PM now comes from that "redneck state"....gee, its all falling apart down there now isn't it

Yeah a bit later on I realised that I'd been too restrained.

I'll never forget my first experience with the Queensland police. It was 1971 and we were sitting in the old Beer Garden Hotel in Surfers Paradise enjoying a few cold beers when four big Queensland coppers came walking through the garden with scowly looks on their faces, I didn't think too much about it and continued to chat away with my mates but as the cops drew level with me some unknown person behind me said "the ambulance are here, there must be a problem". One of the cops stopped, asked what I'd said and when I told him I'd said nothing he jobbed me hard in the face and shouted at me with his face an inch from mine, spittle flying like a garden sprinkler, that he was a "Queensland flucking Policemen, not a flucking Ambo" and dragged me out to the street by my hair (I had long hair then) and threw me head first into the side of a parked car. He then looked me dead in the eye and told me that his duty beyond everything he does as a policemen was to rid drug addicted scum like me from the streets of Queensland. He then jobbed me twice more and went back into the pub. A  few minutes later he and his copper mates came back out with my three mates and some other long haired blokes and told us to "get the fluck out of Queensland and back to whatever shit hole we came from".

That was the very first day of our very first trip to race our drag car at the Surfers Paradise Speed Week meeting and it left an indelible impression on 20 year old me. That same weekend some other racing mates from NSW were pulled over and arrested when the cops searched their van and found a bag of pot that hadn't been there before they'd been pulled over, if you get my drift. That my friend was my introduction to Bejlke Petersens Queensland and his rotten police force and the start of my life long distaste for redneck conservative politics and crooked cops.....now you know why my little fibro cottage Mt Druitt is more a paradise to me than a penthouse in Broadbeach would ever be ...............Go the Mighty Blues, Go the mighty Wallabies and Go the Waskally Wabbitoes.

[Davey Crocket]

Geez Mark, I was a long haired 70's love child and I never got the Qld yobo weclcome when I arrived in 1982 on the Gold coast and I had a kiwi accent bro. We have grown up since then and let anyone in now, even if you cant speak English. Did you ever get to Surfers Paradise Raceway?....was a great place before they built houses on it and a golf course.....bastards. Maybe it was that "Goff for PM sticker" on your car?.How's the boss settled back in to home life?...I hope she wasn't too upset we beat NSW...Tell her I'm still rooting for the bunnies...but I don't like any of your other teams choice's chances.

[suzuki59]

Uncle Firko,that is a terrible story.

I can see why you dislike QLD coppers (after reading this I cant get that  Rodney Rude song out of my head "QLD Cops, they get the prostitutes to gobble their knobs"....)

But I am somewhat bipolar, so the South Islander in me is thinking, if you werent a hippy back then with long hair,and had a short back and sides haircut,you would probably have been shouted a Pot of XXXX by the Queensland cop 

[firko]

Did you ever get to Surfers Paradise Raceway?....

Sure did, loved the place....in fact in 1972 we raced at every drag meet at Surfers, following the Queensland championships as an unfortunate engine blow up at a key round had buggered us for the NSW series. We ended up runner up in our class in the Qld series that year....ironically beaten by a Queenslander who was later found to be a habitual nitro cheat. Don't misunderstand me though, I like Queenslanders and their funny ways but I could never live there, my run in with the facists is too ingrained in my psyche.

Uncle Firko,that is a terrible story.
I can see why you dislike QLD coppers (after reading this I cant get that the Rodney Rude song out of my head "QLD Cops, they get the prostitutes to gobble their knobs"....)   

It wasn't our only experience with Joh's storm troopers Craig. My mates hammered, mural adorned 308 HJ Holden van was a magnet to the Queensland Police to pull us over and get the full search treatment "looking for drugs". After dragging all of the tools, parts, clothes and sleeping gear out onto the road they'd then just drive off with a smile on their faces.  After 4 or 5 of these 'searches' and a few more trumped up speeding tickets we were forced to use my other mates more conservative, uncomfortable and less powerful EH as a tow car to help avoid any more police attention. On the advice of my Dad who ironically was a detective sergeant in the NSW Police, I bought a VF VIP Valiant rather than a more groovy Monaro or GT Falcon because it was such a lawn bowler style car that it wouldn't draw attention yet still had plenty of towing power. As difficult as those early drag racing trips to Joh's Queensland were, the fun factor far outweighed the shit and I wouldn't swap the memories of them for anything.
                                                                                 
                                                                                                     
 

[Tim754]

Dear Davey Crocket history tells me it was not "Goff for PM " stickers. Indeed it was "It's Time" I have some nos of them in a folder somewhere if your wish to purchase some. Cheers Tim754.

[firko]

Go the Mighty Blues, Go the mighty Wallabies and Go the Waskally Wabbitoes. Grin 

One down, two to go.