Remember this?
Was Neil Mitchell doing a Belinda Neal?
"Do you know who I am?"
Well, now read this:
COLIN Sylvia would like to set the record straight on one final matter: he does know who the Prime Minister is.
Sylvia phoned 3AW radio host Neil Mitchell in April as part of a club campaign to re-sign lapsed members, and Mitchell was bemused to find that Sylvia had never heard of him or his station. He recounted their conversation on his program, saying that when he'd told the footballer to tune in and listen his interview with the PM the following day, Sylvia had said: 'So you'll be talking to John Howard?'
Sylvia suggested Mitchell hadn't given him a entirely fair run. "I think he was a bit offended I didn't know who he was," he smiled. "He told me he was having the Prime Minister on, and just off the top of my mind I said: 'Oh, Johnny Howard'. But I corrected myself in about two seconds, I said, 'I mean Kevin Rudd, sorry mate,' and we had a bit of a chuckle and a laugh.
(Emma Quayle, the Sunday Age, as part of this fine article.)
Colin lives in my apartment building. He's been a thoroughly lovely fellow as we nod hello then ignore each other in the lift on three or four occasions.
Meanwhile, check this one out Tony: http://www.moreintelligentlife.com/story/why-australians-win-cricket
Posted by: Gareth | 11 June 2009 at 19:34
He was on our table for last year's Demon fundraiser and was an eminently genial chap.
And, I'll use that article on the cricket blog. To quote the Rudd Rat: "Bewdy, bottler."
Posted by: Tony | 12 June 2009 at 11:02