Road Sign

There is a road sign on Williamstown Road that says:
NO ROAD MARKINGS
NO OVERTAKING
UNLESS SAFE

Does this mean that if there are road markings, you can overtake even if it is not safe?

[dino]

tall grass

tall grass
Originally uploaded by NTRMonjoy.

Never before have I had a garden with grass this long. What with our mower breaking, then expecting to move out any day, it didn't get cut and the grass kept growing and growing. Somewhere in there is a hosepipe, a concrete path, a retaining wall and a complete patio set of table and chairs. Trudi, where are you?

2 picnics

We've been for 2 picnics this Easter break, yesterday at South Melbourne beach and today just locally at Sandridge. And how different they were.... cycling along to South melbourne (we didnt quite make it to st kilda), we were sheltering against the retaining wall, and 3 separate sets of people all decided to sit on the edge of the wall just where we were, the last lot with about 50 million kids all screaming and feeding seagulls. Still, we did get to watch the lifesavers doing their practice runs, rescuing volunteers in wetsuits. The weather was great, and I nearly went in the sea but got put off when I saw dog poo at the edge of the water.

Today we packed up some easter-egg-sandwiches and sat facing the building site at port melbourne. It was a lot quieter but also colder - we need one of those beach tents like they have on Kath & Kim. Does anyone know where we can buy one of those?

We also disconnected the bore water pump, and washed our white rug and sofa cover in readiness for moving (10 days to go!)
[dino]

Happy Chocolate Day

Well, the easter bunny (or is it bilby) has arrived, Joe got white lindt (yeachh), I got nice ones.

Last nights show was very frantic, we had no programme support and were running around answering phones and getting emails (we love the feedback but please come back Luscious Ken & Babydoll). The comments we got included "play more country and metal","don't play that metallica song any more, very dreary","Tex is single", "I am secretly listening in my bedroom","play the dirty song","hi to bugs, bondi and tnt", "don't play the dirty song","I demand to hear Nirvana vs Destiny's Child","Nikki Webster please", "No, not that Webster creature" , "was Dido playing on stage", "I'm drinking Martini and reading Robin Hobb"
And once again, we almost missed the email from Craggles, it went in to the wrong folder somehow.

[dino]

Joe blogs again..

Despite what you may think, I do still remember how to use the Blog.
I've just been preoccupied recently and not got round to posting.

Dino and I just revamped the JOY NTRM pages, a few new photos etc. so have a look.

[Joe]

Neighbours

Has anyone noticed that if anyone ends up in hospital in Neighbours, someone else will fall sick very very soon? There always seem to be at least 3 different people in hospital at once. Its like once they have built the set they must get the wear out of it. Bit like if Miss Marple arrives in your village, you can be sure that someone will get murdered soon.

Not that we watch Neighbours ya understand, but we do love Suse's scarves (that have a life of their own), and Stingray's liberal use of the expression 'spiggin' (what does that actually mean??)

[dino]

Movies

26 Things the Movies Taught You...

1) Large, loft-style apartments in New York City are well within the price range of most people- whether they are employed or not.

2) At least one of a pair of identical twins is born evil.

3) Should you decide to defuse a bomb, don't worry which wire to cut. You will always choose the right one.

4) Most laptop computers are powerful enough to override the communications system of any invading alien society.

5) It does not matter if you are heavily outnumbered in a fight involving martial arts: your enemies will wait patiently to attack you one by one by dancing around in a threatening manner until you have knocked out their predecessors.

6) When you turn out the light to go to bed, everything in your bedroom will still be clearly visible, just slightly bluish.

7) If you are blonde and pretty, it is possible to become a world expert on nuclear fission at the age of 22.

8) Honest and hard-working policemen are traditionally gunned down three days before their retirement.

9) Rather than wasting bullets, megalomaniacs prefer to kill their archenemies using complicated machinery involving fuses, pulley systems, deadly gasses, lasers and man-eating sharks, which will allow their captives at least 20 minutes to escape.

10) All beds have special L-shaped cover sheets that reach the armpit level on a woman, but only to waist level on the man lying beside her.

11) All grocery shopping bags contain at least one stick of French bread.

12) It's easy for anyone to land a plane, providing there is someone in the control tower to talk you down.

13) Once applied, lipstick will never rub off- even while scuba diving.

14) You're very likely to survive any battle in any war unless you make the mistake of showing someone a picture of your sweetheart back home.

15) Should you wish to pass yourself off as a German or Russian officer, it will not be necessary to speak the language. A German or Russian accent will do.

16) When they are alone, all foreign military officers prefer to speak to each other in English.

17) The Eiffel Tower can be seen from any window in Paris.

18) A man will show no pain while taking the most ferocious beating, but will wince when a woman tries to clean his wounds.

19) If a large pane of glass is visible, someone will be thrown through it before long.

20) If staying in a haunted house, women should investigate any strange noises in their most revealing underwear.

21) Word processors never display a cursor on screen, but will always say: "Enter Password Now."

22) Even when driving down a perfectly straight road, it is necessary to turn the steering wheel vigorously from left to right every few moments.

23) All bombs are fitted with electronic timing devices with large red readouts so you know exactly when they're going to go off.

24) A detective can only solve a case once he has been suspended from duty.

25) Police departments give their officers personality tests to make sure they are deliberately assigned a partner who is their total opposite.

26) If you decide to start dancing in the street, everyone you meet will know all the steps.

port of melbourne

port of melbourne
Originally uploaded by NTRMonjoy.

our hometown, especially for John of PM

Sing a Rainbow

Hello to everyone at Rainbow Cafe Australia, some great quizes and games online, its completely addictive, it even drew me away from The X Factor last night! Anyway, I asked for 5 SMS topics for Not The Real McCoy , and here was the response:

1.Sms-ing while under the influence.
2.Sms-ing smutty suggestions to wrong number.
3.Sms-ing votes for Nikki Webster.
4.Sms sex-talk while driving a car.
5.Sms ads from mobile phone company.

We'll have to try them out on the next show...
[dino]

Ropable

I heard the word 'ropable' used in conversation today [ropable=very angry]. I thought that it was just a made up word from Kath & Kim (oh no, they actually say gropable, does that mean the same thing?)

If I'm gonna become an true blue Aussie citizen, I'll have to learn the lingo otherwise I'll be the daggy raw prawn which wouldnt be grouse

hoo roo!
[dino]

Sticks II

Sticks
Originally uploaded by NTRMonjoy.

and this is what they look like if you buy 3 sets of sticks

Sticks

Do you need sticks? Following on from the NTRM accommodation recommendation (ISIS apartments in Domain from $2.5 million), comes another cheap and cheerful product: sticks. For only $1524 you can get a bundle of sticks to adorn any lounge room, for sale now from Corporate Culture Australia. Or you can really splash out and buy a whole chair for $13134. Bargain!
[dino]

Jerry Springer

The Jerry Springer Show is even more sordid than I'd remembered. I took the advice from Shaz to catch up daytime TV, and Jerry Springer is on almost as often as The Simpsons. And they really do live in trailer parks. And what is it about the women flashing their breasts? To really get into the mood, I feel like I should be wearing a soiled nylon dressing-gown, eating white bread or pop tarts and have a tooth missing. Hang on, make that a chromosome missing. I'm going to have a long hot bath and play some classical music to recover...

Am I the sickest boy in Melbourne?

...cos I am off work sick again. Finding it difficult getting over my throat infection, and having a flu vaccination on Friday probably didn't help. So I have spent a lot of the past few days sleeping.

We also have a revision to the NTRM restaurant review of Waterfront. We went along to get a sandwich at the cafe on the pier at the weekend, but they were not serving food cos their kitchen was being renovated. Then I remembered that just outside Waterfront was an outdoor cafe, so wanted to check out what they had. It was mainly seafood, they had some sushi but the display cabinet was right in the sun, so we thought hmm, how fresh is that gonna be? Joe then saw that they had a sushi bar just inside the restaurant (with seats round the counter), so we went in and asked if we could sit there. They said 'sure', but then just left us there with no menus or anything. So for about 5 minutes we were sitting there wondering if we were supposed to be there. Then there was confusion over the size of the California rolls, which I thought were the most expensive and least tasty sushi I'd ever had. The one redeeming feature was the sushi chef who was very good-looking bit of rough. But overall, we did feel like we had sat down in a window-display at Myer and then asked to be served....
[dino]

Spitting Greeks and Wifebeaters

...were just two of the topics discussed last night on Not The Real McCoy. We discovered that both Ken and Babydoll give good service and Michael-the-night-nurse became a grandfather (we played a different Nikki Webster to celebrate). Oh, and Tex and Warren are apparantly lesbian sisters and so cannot share a sofa.

New recruits were Ms Stacy, and someone from Cleremont in QLD. Ben requested Ben, John of PM requested 50 Cent, everyone liked Bros and no-one liked Elvis vs Pink.

Rowie was on the Chateau Cardboard again... who knew?
[dino]

We're having a Brad Pitt night

....well, we're watching a movie with Brad Pitt in, its nearly the same thing. I had another sickie today, but will def be doing the show tomorrow night even if I have to join Trudi by being mute. I went to the doc today and got some Auntie-Biotics.

Just had a fright cos Tony the Greek from next door just came over without his teeth in. Think he'd had a few drinks and spat all over the front door mat.

No doubt we'll be having a marmalade-packed show tomorrow, haunted by Townsville witches? cackled to by bugs and geckos? mysterious programmers, craggly vets, nurses of the night and exes from texas can all be found from 9pm on 94.9FM - don't go meddling with that dial now!
[dino]

Sick - again

Dunno whats wrong with me at the moment, I'm sick again, so I'm doing the sensible thing for once and staying at home. I had a tickly throat all yesterday afternoon, and felt a bit pantsy this morning. It could be that I am working in our new building at work that is not finished yet, and they are still sanding and dusting (dust, anyone? no). Hope its not a cold, although 3 students on my course this week all have colds. Maybe I'll wear a gasmask to work tomorrow.....
[dino]

Do cats have nine tails?

This was a discussion going on at work last week. The reasoning goes as follows:

1. No cat has 8 tails
2. A cat has one more tail than no cat
3. Therefore, a cat has nine tails

Sorry 'bout last night.....

...bit of a mix up with the radio show, we were on air from about 9:40pm onwards, after the live broadcast from Mardi Gras, no-one quite knew what time it would finish.

Good news is that Ken & Baby Doll have returned (yayy!) to help us out anwering phones and taking SMS messages. Thanks guys, Joe doesnt need to be running around as mad as a mad thing any more. Welcome back longtime listener Hovik, who I'm sure must have taken out shares in Kylie M, and John of PM (skim milk stalker extrodinaire) who just caught the end of the show. Mystery Programmer is back from overseas but got flu, hope you're feeling better soon MP.

The discs spinning last night were Joe le Taxi, Cher Megamix, Missy Elliott Vs Nirvana, Bananarama Vs The Shamen, Tori Amos remixed and Greenday vs Oasis amongst others. Another great show (well, we enjoyed it)
[dino]

NTRM Restaurant Review II

I surprised Joe with dinner at Campari, the 3rd of the swanky restaurants at Station Pier, Port Melbourne. I had chicken penne with olives and tomato, Joe had goats cheese ravioli and we shared a rocket and parmesan salad (made with real rockets). We sat outside on the terrace, great for people watching and sheltered from the wind.

We have to comment on one of the waiters, wearing a very tight t-shirt to show off his pumped pecs, who spent the evening strutting up and down as if he was on a catwalk, admiring his reflection in the glass doors and completely ignoring patrons wanting to order food, pay bills, etc. It was quite comical. Each time he swished past he left a trail of strong cologne and superior attitude.

To finish we shared a plate of spanish doughnuts with dipping chocolate (that was GORgous). They had a big display of other cakes and pastries, but were out of all icecream and gelato..... {or maybe they hid it all when they heard we were there and saw our review of the pistachio gelato}.

A feature in common with the other Station Pier restaurants is having a supermarket-deli-type display of the uncooked wares that you walk past at the entrance. Is that an Australian thing??

The service was good, and the food arrived quickly, but they didn't make you feel as special as Waterfront (see last restaurant review). The portions were HUGE (and so were some of the other diners!). Overall, we give it 8 'Trudi Shoulderpads' out of 10.
[dino]

Sick

We were gonna see Cher in concert yesterday, but didn't go cos I got sick. I woke up fine, then just before I was going to leave for work felt really dizzy [insert humerous comment here], and very hot. Then ummed and ahhed whether I should call in sick to work. Being a teacher, I didn't want to let down my class, and I knew that my colleage that would normally take over was away on holiday. So I went in anyway, told the class I wasnt well and would be sitting down a lot. I also didnt have lunch just in case.
After work I kept saying to Joe that I could go, but he said it would be very hot and not have easy access to toilets. Actually, thinking about what Cher normally wears I reckon they must have to turn up the heating otherwise her nipples would be like bullets.
[dino]