Do we really have such trouble recognising celebrities in Geelong?
On rock quiz TV show Spicks and Specks last week, Scared Weird Little Guys’ Rusty Berther revealed he was in a local hot chicken shop only days earlier when a fellow customer called him Ricky.
“Rusty,” he corrected the man.
No, Ricky, the man insisted, Ricky Gervaise!
Not to be outdone, fellow panellist Uncanny X-Men’s Brian Mannix said he too was mistaken in the same shop for someone else – SBS movie reviewer Margaret Pomeranz!
The TAC is running a How Safe is Your Car? campaign, driven, literally, by a Ford motoring around town with the slogan emblazoned all over.
The only problem is that it reads like “How … is … Car” from behind because the words ‘Safe’ and ‘Your’ are in yellow on a white bumper bar, making them almost impossible to read without exteme tailgating.
Which makes the answer to the rhetorical slogan: Safer Than Yours.
Controversy continues as City Hall looks to offload Old Geelong Gaol, in line with the recommendations of a Jeff Kennet-led company.
But the job might be a little harder after Channel 7 brekkie show Sunrise sent Geelong gal Rebecca Maddern home to report on the gaol – and she came up with enough ghost stories to shiver anyone’s timbers.
Ghost tours are a regular feature at the gaol, the memory of which even sent chills down the spine of Pentridge H Division toughnut Chopper Read who spent time early in his career at the old Myers St Hilton.
Hopefully the tales don’t spook prospective developers.
Activist group Surf Coast Air Action was proudly spruiking its human sign on the beach last weekend, calling for the closure of Anglesea’s coal mine and power station.
Over 500 attended, the group claimed in a press release to publicise the event.
Trouble is, the release’s accompanying photograph clearly showed only 300 present.
To avoid casting doubt on anyone’s numeracy, we’ll just call it a rounding error.
