Everybody say, is he all right?
And everybody say, what's he like?
Everybody say, he sure look funny.
That's...Tony the Teacher, honey!
They want to introduce a new feature to the school intranet. You post your dial and staff members will recognise you to say "Hi, Tone" as they pass, instead of self-consciously ogling the ground and grunting as they do now. There's a list of five faves, too, so they'll get a feel for common interests. My own profile should convince them I'm made of the right stuff.
Watch This Face
Tony T. Teacher
Power Industry GuruFive Things about Tony
1. Movie: Once Upon A Time In The West
2. Food: Roasts
3. Team: Melbourne
4. Cat or Dog: Gnome
5. Quote: If they move, kill 'em!
I reckon it would be great to work with you. Apart from then I'd have to be a teacher. Which sounds a bit too much like hard work for me.
Posted by: ThirdCat | 11 September 2007 at 17:57
It's not all beer and skittles, TC.
You should have seen how many of the co-leagues listed as their favourite team: Holden Racing, Ferrari, Ford and assorted motor mobs.
Still, there was one woman who listed her fave fillum as Withnail and I and there were TWO Demons fans, so it's wasn't all vroom, vroom, "Go Pies!" and pithy quotes like "Obstacles are just opportunities in disguise," which I suspect were ripped from the nearest desk calendar.
(No Port fans, I'm afraid.)
Posted by: Tony T. | 11 September 2007 at 19:41
Ohh yeah. And I mis-linked the picture of me hard at work at Chateau Maysbury. That electricity is in the blood. Even as a four year old I was digging cable trenches in the front yard.
Posted by: Tony T. | 11 September 2007 at 19:43
What an original idea.
About 8 years after everyone else has thought of it.
I s'pose after your pic they'll call it FuckFaceBook.
Posted by: Francis Xavier Holden | 11 September 2007 at 20:27
How do they know what to call you?
Tone, Tones, Ants, Ant, Tony, Anthony?
I'd start by saying on your intranet site:
" I like to be called Mr T"
Has a ring. And for those hepcat /insiders situates you in time.
I said insiders. But then theres the insniders to deal with. I always drifted to the insniders. Not that you could tell.
Posted by: Francis Xavier Holden | 11 September 2007 at 20:31
mmh I just actually looked at the pic.
Your cardy is done up with the buttons out of synch with the holes.
Now that I recall. The last time I saw you your cardy was done up with the buttons out of synch with the holes.
Posted by: Francis Xavier Holden | 11 September 2007 at 20:34
Good to see the teachers finally threatening to kill rather than the students.
Posted by: Adam 1.0 | 12 September 2007 at 10:05
Hey I just watched "Once Upon A Time In The West" last night on Fox Classics. Is Claudia Cardinale hot or is it just me?
Posted by: Adsy | 12 September 2007 at 20:47
God that FX is a mean bugger. I think the photo's cute, even though I did pause over the cardy-buttoning. It seems to be matching up ok at the neck, but somehow one buttonhole too long by the time it gets to the bottom.
Posted by: Laura | 12 September 2007 at 22:31
"Is Claudia Cardinale hot or is it just me?"
Nah, you're not hot. Claudia is though.
Re that picture for this post Tony, if you did have a caption contest, I'd post:
"Am I holding a petrol powered mower, a wheelbarrow or two scooters at once? In front of a prize-winning flowerbed. Well in all this confusion of being five tears old, I forgot. So you've got to ask yourself one question: 'Do I feel lucky?' Well, do ya mum?
Posted by: Nabakov | 12 September 2007 at 23:56
"five tears"
Well yeah, that should obviously read "five years". Intially.
Posted by: Nabakov | 12 September 2007 at 23:59
And I bet that photo was taken with one of those old look down through the viewfinder with pop up shields cameras. The kids these days just don't understand the instruction "hold still!" while your parents fussed over the fancy imported eurotech with bubbled leather and chrome trims.
Posted by: Nabakov | 13 September 2007 at 00:09
...even though I did pause over the cardy-buttoning. It seems to be matching up ok at the neck, but somehow one buttonhole too long by the time it gets to the bottom.
It's a Mobius Cardigan, guaranteed to button up and unbutton incorrectly, even though theoretically, the number of buttons match up with the number of holes...
Posted by: TimT | 13 September 2007 at 07:59
As long as nobody screams when they kiss the teacher. That's the main thing to avoid.
Any fallout from Summer Heights chez vous, Tony?
Posted by: genevieve | 13 September 2007 at 16:25
The cardy looks both too high and too low on the left side. Work that one out.
Posted by: Tony T. | 13 September 2007 at 16:45
Couldn't everyone just call you 'Sir'?
Good choice on the film though.
Posted by: Mark | 13 September 2007 at 16:59
Picture this, and put it with this:
Cheyenne to Jill: You know what? If I was you, I'd go down there and give those boys a drink. Can't imagine how happy it makes a man to see a woman like you. Just to look at her. And if one of them should pat your behind ...
[Music stops]
... just make believe it's nothing.
[Music starts]
They earned it.
Posted by: Tony T. | 13 September 2007 at 17:13
The picture up top was taken just before I popped out to meet the gang at our local; or rather, meet our gang at the local. That's Alfalfa on the right, Darla in the middle and, of course, a young Spanky on the left.
Posted by: FuckFace | 13 September 2007 at 17:47
No Summer Heights shenanigans, either. But if they kissed the teacher, I'd scream.
Posted by: Tony T. | 13 September 2007 at 18:20
Well of course you would. And your fellow staff would come to laugh at your discomfort and suffering.
Posted by: genevieve | 15 September 2007 at 08:28
I think you should change your quote to "if they write stuff like"Obstacles are just opportunities in disguise," kill them!
The mobius cardigan is really cute. Gran knitting?
Posted by: Helen | 18 September 2007 at 22:15