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10-08-2005, 12:36 AM | #1 | ||
DPC PERFORMANCE Race prep
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Just interested to find out who people have worked for and how you were treated i have worked for a few and most seem to be fine although payment sometimes slow
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10-08-2005, 12:41 AM | #2 | ||
FF.Com.Au Hardcore
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Oh is all this about all i read famous people you have done and I was on to it but if it's work you are talking about and paid work at it too then I 've got notthing to share here
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10-08-2005, 01:18 AM | #3 | |||
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10-08-2005, 03:02 PM | #4 | |||
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10-08-2005, 03:35 PM | #5 | ||
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I once had lunch with some chap called Geoff Polities, and he tried to steal my party pies because they had run out. Silly man, NEVER come between me an my food and yes I will bite the hand that pays me......
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10-08-2005, 12:48 AM | #6 | ||
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this actually happenned a long time ago 1989. i was an apprentice doing some moonlighting as a toolmaker on the side i worked for 1 week for a spanish dude in penrith. then all of a sudden i went to work 1 night and there was another toolmaker thier working as well . he was a spaniard i think. anyhow after working with him for 1 hour i realised he couldn't machine very well . the boss came over and introduced him to me ( we were on seperate machines ) he's name was JESUS. i never got any work after that night . I WAS REPLACED BY JESUS.
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10-08-2005, 12:53 AM | #7 | ||
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I moved Rove, when I worked as a Jockey doing home removals for Allied Pickfords (The Carefull Movers). I packed his bedroom and office, he had some err, 'interesting sh!t'.
He was a ****er. Also did some work at some famous sex therapists practice, when I was doing builders labouring, we removed a chimney and a wall. I forget her name now though. :( |
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10-08-2005, 01:04 AM | #8 | |||
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10-08-2005, 01:17 AM | #9 | ||
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I repaired Tina Area's Laserdisc player when I was in Yr9.. Brother inlaw's father was rewiring her house and I somehow ended up repairing her Laserdisc player.. thrilling stuff :P
Besides that... Ohh yer ROVE isnt funny anymore and is anoying.. what the..? LMAO
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10-08-2005, 02:29 AM | #10 | ||
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I've served Peter Brock, Lisa McCune, Peter Rowsthorne and Glenn Archer at my work.
Oh, and Pippa and Micheal From Home and Away ;) |
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10-08-2005, 06:58 PM | #11 | |||
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10-08-2005, 07:22 PM | #12 | ||
Hmmm Gold!!!
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I've talked to Glen McGrath because we were importing a new pair of shoes the he wore when he broke some record (sorry, the memory has faded a bit....)
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25-03-2006, 02:23 AM | #13 | |||
Bring back the Phase
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25-03-2006, 06:50 PM | #14 | |||
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10-08-2005, 09:26 AM | #15 | |||
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Richest would probably be Kerry Packer's PC in his office when he was working on Park St. I thought his office was pretty meagre considering he makes more money per minute than I made per year. Funniest would probably been at JJJ when Paul, Mikey and Sandman were on the radio there. I'd say something embarrasing was printed on a printer that paper jammed and they were all milling around it when I arrived and wouldn't let me see what was written when I got it out. Hottest, tough one.. non-celeb, a PA working in Nth Syd with a short skirt and the skimpiest g-string imaginable that had no aversion to bending over. Celeb, can't remember her name but she was a sports presenter at ABC around 92? Very pleased I got her terminal working 20 mins before she was going on air. It's not often you get hugged by a customer. ;) Cheapest **** 'celeb' was a guy who was a lead singer of a pretty popular 80's band (won't say who it was) but I've seen him one off front a few bands since. Had a real nice house at St Ives and had a Faxswitch. It was a device that sat on the line and could detect whether it was a voice call or a fax call by the guard tones a fax generally sends down the line. We spent a good 20 hours trying to prove to him how it was working perfectly until he got a fax call in while I was standing near it and the fax machine wasn't sending guard tones so the Faxswitch had no way of knowing it was a fax machine. He demanded his money back. He didn't get it. : Coolest place I've been was on one of the Collins subs fixing a server in there. Sod living in it though! Still look after most of the broadcasting sites but because I go straight to the computer room now, you don't get to mingle with celebs as much. |
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10-08-2005, 08:56 PM | #16 | |||
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11-08-2005, 08:37 AM | #17 | |||
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10-08-2005, 09:33 AM | #18 | ||
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back in 1988 the construction company i worked for, operating out of Emu Plains NSW, got the contract for second fix on Kerry Packer's Elliston Station property. this place is right on the Hunter river near Scone with the Barrington tops national park overlooking it all. about once a week he and his missus would chopper in to inspect the work progress and generally he'd be happy. Kerry would take the time to have small talk with most of us whereas his missus would only talk to the site foreman.
He had presence, like you just knew when he walked into the room. i havn't come across too many people that had that. |
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10-08-2005, 11:22 AM | #19 | ||
FF.Com.Au Hardcore
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In the mid 90's I sold a PC to Peter Sterling, he was a nice guy.
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10-08-2005, 02:30 PM | #20 | ||
XB in parts...
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At MLC insurance I spoke Bob Hawke and the wife of the guy who took off to that spanish town (Mayorca sp?) after he ripped off Australia. Christopher and Pixie Skase I think it may have been (she was looking into his life insurance policy).
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11-08-2005, 01:56 PM | #21 | |||
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24-03-2006, 10:55 PM | #22 | |||
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Jason Bargwanna comes into my work alot, really nice guy..
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10-08-2005, 06:19 PM | #23 | ||
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done work for lots of current and ex politicians and PMs
some total ar holes some nice people |
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10-08-2005, 06:42 PM | #24 | ||
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Did some paving at Terry Wallaces house when he was coaching the Bulldogs
Nice bloke! |
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10-08-2005, 06:51 PM | #25 | ||
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I work with most of Australia's radio and tv traaffic reporters.
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10-08-2005, 06:46 PM | #26 | ||
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Wendy Harmer and Gretel Killeen , both at David Jones.......both were good to deal with..
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10-08-2005, 08:44 PM | #27 | |||
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I was always brought up to be a gentleman so I move aside as she's poked herself into the corner of the elevator to let her out first. I also seemed to make it to the side door first so I open it for her to let her through. She starts mumbling some obscenties under her breath while she looks at me sideways and by that time I was ready to give it to someone... So I calmly said to her... 'I don't normally hold doors open for guys, but seeing as you're such an ugly one I thought I'd give you a break...' Jamie (?) the guy who did Argo though, bloody champion bloke. Was a riot on Friday afternoon after work down in the bar when he was half ****ed and on a roll. |
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11-08-2005, 01:11 PM | #28 | |||
Formally knowen as EBus
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havn't worked for any celeb's but have meet a few, john farnham, absolute legend of a person, meet him cuz my cousin (now in Zinc, which played on the footy show as well) was the before act befor his jack of hearts show, allan langer, my grandparents know his parents! Daniel Heenan (plays for the reds) he's my cousin! and he's not famous but his brother is, met steve doohan at my mates' dads place, mate's dad grew up with mick doohan and have been best mates since they were kids. well theres my famous encounters, all top blokes.
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25-03-2006, 02:40 PM | #29 | |||
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25-03-2006, 02:47 PM | #30 | ||
not here much anymore
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Didnt exactly "work for", but had the fun of going for a race for Ross Noble last night. Also got free tickets to his show, and his mobile number so we can tee up races whenever he's back in town :.
Really nice guy, very funny too.
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