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snaeksikn posted:perth was also really fuckin rad if you had a job during the mining boom. its gonna be funny when all these new high rise office and apartment projects finish and theres nobody able to buy them though This not a problem confined to the sunny cultural hub of perth
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Gough Suppressant posted:Told my partner about Carltons maritime tragedy and she asked the most pertinent question of all: "Why does Carlton have a hovercraft?" Because our mascot isn't an animal so they had to make him do something more than handstands and somersaults. They bought him a hovercraft. Then it went away since we stopped playing at Princes Park.
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# ? May 11, 2015 13:53 |
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The Freo Fuckwit had a hovercraft too, not sure if they even use him anymore.
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# ? May 11, 2015 14:05 |
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drunkill posted:Because our mascot isn't an animal so they had to make him do something more than handstands and somersaults. They bought him a hovercraft. Wasn't the Carlton mascot the one who actually did a backflip or something and landed on his own cape which basically choke/dragged him straight to the ground?
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# ? May 11, 2015 14:10 |
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I don't think he ever had a cape. "My hovercraft is full of eels"
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# ? May 11, 2015 14:30 |
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drunkill posted:I don't think he ever had a cape. I thought it was a reason why he got rid of the cape? Probably remembering it wrong but I remember some mascot as a superhero type did this. Freo's isn't a docker dude any more is he, its now an anchor with an eye or something. I used to think the idea of mascots was pretty outdated but I remember before the final against Norf last year there were swarms of kids who were getting around Skeeta. Skeeta is a bastard though because he scared the gently caress out of me at that match as I was lost in my own world texting my cousin to see where he was at before the game and got a massive hug from Skeeta totally unawares.
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# ? May 11, 2015 14:42 |
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If Skeeta is the one eyed anchor thing he looks like he fell out of a particularly bad lovecraft story and he should terrify everyone
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# ? May 11, 2015 15:00 |
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We still do have mascots, Johnny Docker (who was loosely based on Clive Waterhouse) now has a companion Jenny Docker: (Ignore the gnome in the middle)
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# ? May 11, 2015 15:07 |
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hiddenmovement posted:If Skeeta is the one eyed anchor thing he looks like he fell out of a particularly bad lovecraft story and he should terrify everyone Nah Skeeta is the Bombers mascot, a mosquito with WW2 style bomber costume. I couldn't remember why it was a mosquito so google tells me it was named after the Essendon mid field of 50s and 60s known as the mosquito fleet. Full name Moz Skeeta Reynolds. Although it seems the urban dictionary predictably offers some other definitions of the word.
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thepokey posted:Nah Skeeta is the Bombers mascot, a mosquito with WW2 style bomber costume. I couldn't remember why it was a mosquito so google tells me it was named after the Essendon mid field of 50s and 60s known as the mosquito fleet. Full name Moz Skeeta Reynolds. Although it seems the urban dictionary predictably offers some other definitions of the word. de Havilland Mosquito Bomber makes more sense to me, even though your current logo is clearly a Rockwell B-1B Lancer
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# ? May 11, 2015 15:25 |
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Yeah, essendon was a military airfield, mosquitos were built down in fishermans bend at the airfield and aircraft factories too.
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# ? May 11, 2015 15:31 |
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Johnny Docker definitely does nangs
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# ? May 11, 2015 15:46 |
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Spedman posted:We still do have mascots, Johnny Docker (who was loosely based on Clive Waterhouse) now has a companion Jenny Docker: Thanks for the upcoming nightmare E: I wish I was an AFL star. Then I too could get in a traffic bollard armed all in brawl over a taxi at early o'clock and walk away with no conviction because of feeling really remorseful about being caught on video type reasons. Spacman fucked around with this message at 16:13 on May 11, 2015 |
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NTRabbit posted:de Havilland Mosquito Bomber makes more sense to me, even though your current logo is clearly a Rockwell B-1B Lancer Yeah I always thought it was based on the name of an actual aircraft, I actually googled it more so to clarify what type when that came up instead. Speaking of mascots, when trying to find the Carlton guy backflipping onto his cape (which I'm now positive I got wrong and was some other mascot) I found this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjFpIHMNY3Y
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# ? May 11, 2015 17:01 |
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quote:The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) has announced it will appeal the AFL anti-doping tribunal's not guilty verdict regarding 34 past and present Essendon players. Here we go again
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# ? May 11, 2015 22:09 |
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Yay!
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# ? May 11, 2015 22:32 |
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Finally
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# ? May 11, 2015 22:35 |
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Funny the response from a lot of non Essendon fans already seems to be negative and are sick of it and just want it over, I agree, I was just getting to a point of remembering what it was like caring for footy again for the stuff that happened on the field. Really loving over this, over the process taking so long, over the club for bringing this on themselves, over the redundant stupid rear end views of people about it and feel so sorry for the players who must feel sick to their stomach waking up this morning to this. If I'm this over it surely there's some there who feel like giving the game away. On the plus side, maybe we'll start winning matches again?
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# ? May 11, 2015 23:29 |
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Can WADA give the bans out to the Essendon bigfooty board instead of the players? I'm sure that's a solution we can all get behind
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# ? May 11, 2015 23:37 |
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# ? May 11, 2015 23:47 |
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I'm so glad that the Australians paywall means I have never read a Patrick Smith article.
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# ? May 11, 2015 23:51 |
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Gough Suppressant posted:I'm so glad that the Australians paywall means I have never read a Patrick Smith article.
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# ? May 12, 2015 00:22 |
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I don't know who any of these people are. Thank Mr paywall
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# ? May 12, 2015 00:23 |
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Shmoses posted:If you use twitter or facebook to open articles from the Australian you don't need to worry about the paywall. It's great, I get to read Sharri Markson all the time for free Self harm is a serious issue, you should seek help
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# ? May 12, 2015 00:35 |
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Gough Suppressant posted:Here we go again ASADA-rama 2: Electric Boogaloo.
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# ? May 12, 2015 00:58 |
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burn essendon to the ground again
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# ? May 12, 2015 01:02 |
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snaeksikn posted:burn essendon to the ground again Can't we just launch Hird into the sun as an offering of tribute to just settle things? We can launch him from the True Value Solar Centre into the true solar centre.
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# ? May 12, 2015 01:12 |
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The guy who owns big footy will be happy, it should breath a bit of life into that click bait drug sub-forum.
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# ? May 12, 2015 01:28 |
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thepokey posted:Can't we just launch Hird into the sun as an offering of tribute to just settle things? We can launch him from the True Value Solar Centre into the true solar centre. Noice
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gay picnic defence posted:The guy who owns big footy will be happy, it should breath a bit of life into that click bait drug sub-forum. I haven't been on that forum since last year. I guess it is still garbage?
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# ? May 12, 2015 03:31 |
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Also someone needs to tell JiHird the subtle difference between "not guilty" and "not proven".
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# ? May 12, 2015 03:53 |
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My interest in this season was already beginning to wain given how poorly Richmond is performing. If it's going to be another 12 months of this I might just pack it in and watch more baseball instead.
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# ? May 12, 2015 04:35 |
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pkid posted:My interest in this season was already beginning to wain given how poorly Richmond is performing.
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# ? May 12, 2015 05:08 |
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pkid posted:My interest in this season was already beginning to wain given how poorly Richmond is performing. This season is interesting at the moment (it's not sustainable) if you can put your club aside because it really looks and feels like just about anyone can get the W any given week. Except for the GC, the Lions and the Blues. Having said that, I'm still watching the Hockey.
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# ? May 12, 2015 05:15 |
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As it seems more and more unlikely we'll go three in a row I'm not minding so much that the table has been flipped. As much as the Ross Lyon gameplan annoys me it wouldn't kill me to see Freo win their first, since it may be their last gasp with Pavlich/Sandlilands etc. (If it's a Sandgroper 1-2 that might be a bit much...) Maybe by mid-season the expected pecking order may reassert itself, but for now I'm kind of digging it. Aside from the losing to GWS part.
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# ? May 12, 2015 05:21 |
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Schlesische posted:Having said that, I'm still watching the Hockey. Yeah, I'm interested to see if he fucks up tonight as much as he did last year.
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# ? May 12, 2015 05:22 |
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Doctor Cave posted:Yeah, I'm interested to see if he fucks up tonight as much as he did last year. It's a crazy year, anyone could turn up and perform on the day* Except for Brisbane, Carlton, and Joe
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# ? May 12, 2015 05:25 |
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I'm sure you're all sick of hearing about the Saints win over the Dogs, but I'm sure as hell not. With that in mind: At half time Alan Richardson didn't have much to say but instead just wrote on the whiteboard "what are you going to do?". The more I hear about Richo the more I like him.
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# ? May 12, 2015 05:38 |
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It's an interesting season for sure, but I always like seeing one of the big Melbourne clubs not being total rat poo poo just for big crowds and big games. Currently the only one that isn't a total turd is Collingwood.
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# ? May 12, 2015 05:49 |
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You are, of course, referring to the Collingwood who knocked over three cellar dwellars and just got schooled by Geelong, who are middling at best.
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