Masson's Memories
David Masson puts together a mish-mash of memories.
Please forgive him.
(By the way, do you notice any resemblance to Borat?)
Index
Eric Smith, Tassie, Cooka, Footy and Dancing Class
Junior School, Boonga, PT, Cooka, Ghurka, And More
Adelaide, Uni Days and TV
Tassie, Mrs Schlesinger, PT, Getting Sprung, Lawyers
Kenton Savage and the Cane
Random Observations
Cadets, Uniforms, Casual Day, Orientation Night
Eric Smith, Tassie, Cooka, Footy and Dancing Class
Further to recent ramblings I have been in touch with Pussa and he told ME about HE suggesting Eric Smith was missing some genitalia accessories and I got the blame for it via a CRUSHING EXPERIENCE against the back wall of 6M.
Pussa could not remeber his serenade of Judy Judy do you love me ? Frank English's wife, over the microphone in the bus on the Tassy trip [to Hadleys Hotel]. He did remind me of the Virgin and the Gypsy and that was not Baby Bunting and Blair Evans.
Further reminicences for me [where is Peter Huxley to spell check ?] include the school fete, many many tuck shop incidences and, fight fight fight when Mark Robino took on Cooka , I think even you had a go at one stage with Cooka and had your head punched in. Like everything else you did it was full on. Even then I thought you were a candidate for arrest, cardiac that is!
Do you remember the war cry, yes YOU WOULD. I remember one day going to Assumption College and we dared kick the first two goals! Father O'Shannessy , let's call him that, was thunder struck and cold showers were the penalty for the Catholic boys for a month. Accordingly we lost 2.1 to 43.26 and Swainy was the star he wore the jock strap.
One game we actually had the chance to win against Yarra Valley and Chris Kandiliotis told me at half time, he must have been hit in the throat as he was speaking in a gravelly voice, no wait, hang on, he always spoke that way ..... said these guys have beards must be we are playing OLD YARRA VALLEY by mistake.
Well they were a progressive school .......
I caught up with Rob Ashworth as well.
Sue Meldrum who works for me, wife of Robert, best friend of Rod Haslem, reminded me of dancing classes and the German teachers and how we had to dance close and PRETEND THERE WAS AN LP RECORD between the partners and hold it there through the dance, even rock and roll, I thought it more appropriate a CD strategically placed would have been better, but there weren't any CDs then.
Only VB's behind the bus stop near Ivanhoe Station and watch out where you stepped there were stange white balloons on the ground.
Junior School, Boonga, PT, Cooka, And More
Going round and round is a year by recollection of stories going back to 63.
From 15 in the class, Sherbies with Peter Wilson after Cubs in the playground at the junior school to Robert Mountain
being caned by Stowell in 1965 in front of the whole class for truancy, to someone called King being called up at assembly in the Junior school in 68 for having long hair and a ribbon being inserted into it.
A ribbon being supplied under great sufferance by Lorna Rice after Stowell bullied her in to it.
To Mr Pearce and his league ladder of student achievement, you were in my class!
To me being knocked out by Boonga Sweet , to ending up at the boarding house with Al Pal hovering over me and Matron saving me from him to Bill Mackenzie's boxing tournaments at PE to circuit training and watching you turn purple, to Dwap Dwyers art judo lessons to Cooka slapping me after Randall Saw's party in 70 after Weasel's had got in on with Cooka's
date and can go on and on and on.
To CCR Looking Out My Back Door playing over and over.
Cooka's famous toilet role speech at Ghurkhas, to Computer Bill and the lunch box with handles, to combination locks on the lockers, to Lime Fresh Limey Lockey.
To handball on the gym wall , to the old grandstand to...........
Murray Scott , Mark Humphries , Craig Andersons freckles and MY AFRO.
Yes I can write a story I will call it WRONG SHOTS.
I have just remembered Peter Greenaway singing in a very stylish
impersonation, ' Teddy Bear ' by Elvis, in Adelaide March 1974. Quite a ladies man even then, although he was a full year older than I, Peter Swain was the baby and Don BONKERS, Doug BIG RED and I were only a little older than Peter PIG Swain. No offence intended to Peter these three and I go back to 63.
I also have several other parallels to you insofar as I worked in T.V whilst attending Monash University.
I attended more than studied although I did actually get a degree after four
years.
I worked at O Nunawading and yes Bruce Mansfield was involved in some mischief. I worked on
Talent Time, Bluestone Boys, The Box, Roy Hampson - yes I was accused of knocking off Roys Wheel for the Scavenger Hunt at Farm Week at Monash another story ...
There were other shows ...
Also I worked at 9 and 7 on the following - various OBs at Moscow Circus, Don Lane, World Of Sport, Nightmoves, Cop Shop, News, Penthouse Club and others I will have to think.
In fact I managed to get Bela Rice a job at Seven as well .
He called himself Bela "Mix With The Stars" Rice - I am serious, and when he missed out on a
Cop Shop Crew windcheater he had Harry Rice silk screen up one for him to waer to work at Seven. Have a million stories to come if you want them.
Tassie, Mrs Schlesinger, PT, Getting Sprung and Lawyers
Reading my own rubbish and your recollections of Tassie inspires me to even more stories -
Like when I ran into Eva Sleishinger in Mont Albert or SHE ran into my Toyota Supra whilst SHE went though a stop sign.
After she stopped jabbering about how I was going too FAST whilst SHE went through a stop sign , I calmed her down and said , hello " Mrs Shitslinger sorry I STILL HAVEN'T RETURNED MY COPY OF LORD OF THE FLIES , you silly ........."
Like forgetting my towel at P.E. and drying myself very quickly with my jocks.
Like being the push up champion at P.E. in 69 and Macka saying well you ain't got much to push up BOY.
Like Mackas description of Robert Greenacre as a Metamorph and Greg Wayman as an endomorph in front of the class ,
both stripped to their shorts , something quite not right about that !.
Philip Weekly calling Robert henceforth Meta.
Doug McCallum drawing a picture of Paul Crowther with huge square glasses and Beatle hair on his maths book and getting sprung.
A later effort was a picture of me and Philip Weekly saying I looked like a Moose.
To this day I am still addressed as Moose by Doug McCallum and Don McColl or if really familiar MOOSA HEADS.
Millions more to come stick this on the web I have a good lawyer.
Tell Boonga to get a good lawyer himself cause I am suing for the busted nose he gave me in 70.
Kenton Savage was the boy who neally had me caned in 1966 after he hit me over the head with a ruler in Lorna Rice's class.
I turned around and socked him and Lorna caught me and then Ii was sent outside on the kerb of the classroom waiting for the Junior School Head Richard Stowell to spring me on his daily rounds.
The daily rounds were an early form of terrorism and if found outside the class he usually withdrew at rapid pace a golden cane from his cape at speed and whacked the living suitcase out of you in front of the class OUTSIDE in the corridor.
Was VERY scary when you were 8 or 9.
Fortunately for me he was in a conciliatory mood on the day and all I got was a talking too and I lost a lot of weight sweating it out.
It was winter as well and I had short pants on, do you remember who was first to have long pants in 69 and why ?
Funnily enough when we moved into Brooke Court, Eltham North, many years ago, I noticed a guy over the road with a crew cut it was none other than Kenton Savage himself, Kenton has since moved to WA, also known as wait a while.
By the way did Alastair Fairchild ever get over THE CHANNEL 9 feeling, do you remember that one?
Cadets, Uniforms, Casual Day, Orientation Night
Cadets, Uniforms, Casual Day, Orientation Night
Rifle range firing a BREN GUN getting dragged forward AND rule 303 - "hold it in to your shoulder or risk a dislocation "
I remember carefully lining up a target and running out after to retrieve it and THREE OF US WEASEL , SCOTT MOIR AND I were shooting AT THE SAME TARGET which of course became obliterated and two others virtually unmarked.
ALTHOUGH I THINK SOMEONE SHOT A SEAGULL !
Ron Sicree LIGHTING UP HIS BACKSIDE around the campfire on cadet camp.
BOONGA eating an entire TOFFEE LOG FAMILY SIZE ICE-CREAM on the milk bar stop at MANSFIELD on the return from CADET CAMP.
The issue of uniforms and the unique style of DICK NEWBURY MILITARY FASHION ... fashion week just past reminded me of this , especially the BERETS.
PASSING OUT PARADE with real passing out on the South Ground !
CASUAL DAY FASHIONS ...... Grant Scale and the genuine off the farm , sheep skin jacket , I reckon the blood and offal was still attached !
HSC ORIENTATION NIGHT 74 and Charlie Hewitt's beard !
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