Drum! There has never been a man! Drum! Drum! An Australian like him! DRAMA EVENT! Wooo-ooooooo! OF THE YEAR! Never has! And never will be! Howzat?!?!?
Softcock pop does not conjure up images of epic true stories. But what do I know? It will probably rate its socks off. I might even watch it. Even if it is the most massive big suck-up in Australian TV history.
Royalties to the usual address:
there's one Aussie sporting episode that has ALL the ingredients to make a top shelf mini series. This guaranteed Big Event Presentation is screaming out for a screen run. It's virtually hanging out the car window and drooling on motorcyclists at the lights: World Series Cricket.
Can't see m'self watching it. But I love the bloke they cast as Packer. Spot on.
A la Gyrating Grantley as Carl Williams in Underbelly.
Posted by: Big Ramifications | Tuesday, June 19, 2012 at 02:15 PM
Oy! What about me as Alphonse Gangitano?
Posted by: Vince Colosimo | Tuesday, June 19, 2012 at 02:22 PM
Meh. They could have cast Lex Marinos. You all look the same.
Posted by: Big Ramifications | Tuesday, June 19, 2012 at 02:23 PM
Mistresses had long been commonplace in the Packer family, but I endured.
There will be only one Mrs Packer.
Posted by: Ros Packer | Tuesday, June 19, 2012 at 02:50 PM
Is that a piss take or real?
Posted by: Lou | Tuesday, June 19, 2012 at 05:02 PM
I thought it was real. If you can have Paul Keating the musical....
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/entertainment/playing-kerry-wrecked-my-love-life/story-e6frf96f-1226398063184
Posted by: Big Ramifications | Tuesday, June 19, 2012 at 06:12 PM
We just had an earthquake. 5.5. DRAMA EVENT!
Posted by: Tony | Tuesday, June 19, 2012 at 09:33 PM
I initially thought it was pisstake too. I still suspect it might be. Howzat, that is, not the earthquake.
Posted by: Tony | Tuesday, June 19, 2012 at 10:07 PM
It would take a miracle to cast Kerry Packer s the good guy and Bradman as the bad man yet that is what happened.
I remember playing golf with the counsel for the royal commision into the painters and dockers.
His opinion of Mr Packer cannot be written about.
On second thoughts since he is dead it probably can.
Posted by: The Don has Risen | Wednesday, June 20, 2012 at 01:19 PM
Ask Ian Chappell what he thought of Bradman. Check out the extremely unusual manner in which Bradman got a leg-up in the stock broking caper after retirement.
Not saying Packer wasn't a C U next Tuesday. It's possible they both were.
Posted by: Big Ramifications | Wednesday, June 20, 2012 at 03:42 PM
Few years ago there was a big article in one of the weekend lift-outs about Bradman's business reputation in SA compared to his national cricket reputation.
Posted by: Tony | Wednesday, June 20, 2012 at 04:13 PM
Wasn't there a wasps vs. tykes (led by O'Reilly) type undercurrent during Bradman's playing career too? All seams rather quaint now, oh for the days when whites could just fight amongst themselves.
Posted by: Cameron | Wednesday, June 20, 2012 at 04:47 PM
Wasps and Tykes are traditional rivals, and teams in the 20s and 30s were no exception. However, O'Reilly v Bradman might be more apocryphal than actual; they were not best mates, but the animosity is overplayed.
Posted by: Tony | Wednesday, June 20, 2012 at 05:05 PM
Doesn't Ian Chappell think that everyone apart from Ian Chappell is a w***er?
Posted by: Lou | Wednesday, June 20, 2012 at 07:07 PM
Does that include his brother Greg?
Posted by: m0nty | Wednesday, June 20, 2012 at 07:13 PM
I initially thought you meant the slang for Jews and I'm all "what the hell are you on about Cameron?"
Anybody wanna go fly a kite with me tonight? I hear it's great weather for flying KITES! I wonder if there's any KITES around here we can fly!
Posted by: Big Ramifications | Wednesday, June 20, 2012 at 10:25 PM
Hey listen, Rammernaugh. It's not kite, it's KIKE! K-I-K-E kike. You know, you're too stupid to even be a good bigot.
Posted by: Brian Schwartz | Wednesday, June 20, 2012 at 10:27 PM
Doesn't Ian Chappell think that everyone apart from Ian Chappell is a w***er?
Fair call Lou. He's a whiney morose old soul, innit?
Normally I wouldn't quote the sad prick, but I get the feeling Ian formed that opinion when he was still relevant and he was still getting his muse on.
A few years ago I saw Ian buying a soft serve from a rear-concourse caravan at the WACA. I got bonus laffs coz I was up one level higher looking thru a window. He prolly didn't know I was watching him but I was watching him. I like to watch.
Posted by: Big Ramifications | Wednesday, June 20, 2012 at 10:40 PM
lol
I started using 'tyke' after I got called one. The dreadfully painful incident (kidding) occurred when I went round to dinner at a mate of mines place who at that point I'd only recently met whilst working in London. I was sitting down to dinner with his whole family, parents, brother, sisters, etc when somehow the subject got to my schooling. I explained that I had attended a catholic school, the whole table stared at me like I was some kind of alien and my mates mother blurts out "oh, so you're a tyke?!". Laughter ensured and I had to have it explained to me what it meant. I thought it meant small child or something similar. So since then i've appropriated the term.
You're quite right though, i'll have to be careful when using it, you can get locked up for that stuff these days!
Posted by: Cameron | Thursday, June 21, 2012 at 12:13 AM
I saw Ian Chappell getting smashed at a baseball match in Perth in the nineties. He was gobbing off something rotten at the bar AND to make matters worse, he was wearing one of those offensive waistcoats.
Haven't been able to take him that seriously since even though he can actually write quite well at times and says some decent things when commentatng even if you have to listen hard to catch them amongst the 'back in the day' crud.
Posted by: Lou | Thursday, June 21, 2012 at 07:35 AM
Ian Chappell even thinks Les Favell is a w***er - so he pinches Favell's sayings.
Posted by: Tony | Thursday, June 21, 2012 at 08:22 AM
Remember when Ian suddenly got a big horn for boat people? Let the illegal refugeeees roam freeeeeeeee!
His media bluster lasted about two weeks. Concentration span of a gnat.
That's the trouble with these morons. There's lots of work to do after the slogan chanting stops. I recently read that a lot of Africans in the Hunter region are being "left behind" thru lack of social services after being "dumped" there.
But boy. Wasn't there a lot of slogan chanting and banner waving when the local mayor had the temerity to voice reservations about
dumpingresettling them there.Ian Chappell cares about refugees! My bullsh!t alarms were ringing from day one.
Posted by: Big Ramifications | Thursday, June 21, 2012 at 11:13 AM
What makes you think Chappelli is off the refugees?
Posted by: Tony | Thursday, June 21, 2012 at 12:00 PM
I'm not 100% sure. That's why I CRAFTILY said only his media bluster has ceased.
But you know I'm right.
Posted by: Big Ramifications | Thursday, June 21, 2012 at 12:45 PM
You cunning hound.
Posted by: Tony | Thursday, June 21, 2012 at 12:55 PM
Speaking of crafty, I once had sex with Tony Crafter. He gave me minties.
Posted by: Big Rammer's mum. | Thursday, June 21, 2012 at 05:22 PM
Mum!
Besides, that was Steve Randell with the minties. How's this for a perfect storm of colourful cricket personalities.
http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1300&dat=19861223&id=IfRVAAAAIBAJ&sjid=SOMDAAAAIBAJ&pg=3279,447697
Posted by: Big Ramifications | Thursday, June 21, 2012 at 05:27 PM
I played cricket with Chappelli once. He and his brother Trevor, plus Lenny Pascoe, at a corporate day, on Bowral Oval. Swore like a trooper. Seemed like just a bloke.
Posted by: m0nty | Friday, June 22, 2012 at 01:37 AM
Great get, Biggus. Spanky could recruit the young blokes on Facebook, then Deeve Randall could hand out the minties.
Posted by: Tony | Friday, June 22, 2012 at 01:17 PM