Nostalgia

[LeichhardtTiger]

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Yep, back in the day, when we had two types of bread - sliced and unsliced!

 

[Halbrowne61]

That really was ghastly beer and undoubtedly the worst i have ever had in Australia (a pub near me used to serve it in the 60's and 70's)

Here here, I think it was collected from the gents and recycled !

 

[innsaneink]

In 1977, Kerry Packer discovered he could not use the Laws of Cricket. The MCC owned the copyright and they were not going to lend them to a breakaway competition.

So Packer rang a retired Australian captain and asked him to write a new set.

Richie Benaud did it. The playing conditions, the regulations, the whole framework, including the eight-ball over. A parallel rulebook for a parallel sport, written by one man.
And he had been getting ready for something like this for twenty-one years without knowing it. In 1956, while still playing Test cricket for Australia, Benaud arranged three weeks of training at the BBC in the gap between the English and subcontinental legs of the tour. Television had barely reached Australia. Nobody had asked him to do it.

Meanwhile, the man born on exactly the same date, sixteen years later, was doing the dangerous half.

Tony Greig was England's captain in 1977 when he began secretly signing players for Packer, from England, the West Indies and Pakistan. He lost the captaincy for it almost immediately. Then, when the administrators moved to ban everybody involved, Greig went to the High Court in London with Mike Procter and John Snow, and on 25 November 1977 they won.

Now the freakish part is what the two of them became afterwards.
On Channel Nine, Benaud was the voice of authority and Greig was the voice of the spectacle, and between them they turned television rights into the thing that funds the entire sport.

Wisden later wrote that without Benaud to legitimise it, World Series Cricket might never have survived its first difficult months.
Born on the same day, sixteen years apart.



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Fascinating

 

[Buttface]

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[tiger_one]

 

[tiger_one]

 

[tiger_one]

 

[tiger_one]

Ray Conroy on 2KY "1020 On The Dial". On 27 January 1965, in the Sydney "Daily Mirror".

 

[happy_tiger]

12 October 1964, Dawn Fraser wins her third gold medal in a row in the 100m Freestyle at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan

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And then steals the flag

And gets a 10 year ban from the ASU

Didn't realise they had made a Dawn Fraser movie....saw ita couple of weeks ago

 

[happy_tiger]

Yep, back in the day, when we had two types of bread - sliced and unsliced!

Really enjoy wholemeal bread ....just me I guess

 

[TopTiger]

 

[tiger_one]

Really enjoy wholemeal bread ....just me I guess

Champion @happy_tiger - it's all about the taste - and the crust!
I love bread and I've just discovered a honey and oats blend - yumm!