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Hi All
We had my brothers Bucks party yesterday. Hence my comic being online around midday rather than in the morning as usual. It was a great day. We went to the Cox Plate, one of the bigger horse races in the Melbourne Spring Racing Carnival. Being the big spender that I am, I placed 2 bets during the entire day and won $11.50. Yeah, I know what you're thinking, with that kind of money I've got it made. So I have put down a deposit for my solid gold house, and invested the rest in blue chip bonds.
During the Cox plate nothing overly exciting happened. We hung out, drank some beer (not my drink of choice, but when in Rome...), and hung out. It was a good adventure, and one of the guys in our group is an owner of a racehorse that has occasionally won some races. So he had lots of very interesting information and perspectives on the racing world.
After that we went to a pub called The Anglers Tavern where we continued to talk, eat and drink. It is on the Maribrynong river, and is actually quite a well known and popular pub in Melbourne. That was where our night turned from fun to fantastic. In Melbourne AFL (Australian Rules Football) is huge. And with so many teams and so many players, it is not uncommon to see a few around, especially in the cities night clubs, and popular areas.
 We met the guy pictured on the right, Nathan Lovett-Murray. Turns out he knows a few people that my cousin knows, or has worked with. My cousin is a dentist and spent some time in the Northern Territory helping to run a mobile dental clinic. He worked with Nathans sister, and knew his ex-girlfriend. So Nathan and another footballer, (Nathans Cousin) Andrew Lovett (picture below), were talking to us for a bit. They were both really cool guys, in fact, while we were talking to Nathan, a couple of young ladies approached him to talk to him. Initially he said hi and was friendly, but after just a few seconds he said "look sorry, I'm talking to my brothas here", and literally dismissed them. It was so awesome!
Anyway, while we were talking to him, he told us that recently he had been up to far northern Australia to visit remote areas and support those communities. He went fishing with some friends, and stayed on the beach till really late, so It was completely dark. One of his friends finally got a bite on his hand reel (so not even a fishing rod). While reeling it in the "fish" turned out to be a crocodile. It was about 1.5 meters long, and in the middle of the night with no lights, it was dangerous. Nathans buddy immediately threw the rell to a local who dragged the crocodile in and killed it. Well, not quite, while they all stood around the crocodile checking it out, it regained consciousness and made a dash for the water. They managed to catch it before it reached safety and really kill it. Well... not quite. They took it back into town and took it to their house to cook it and while taking photos etc, it managed to make one last effort and thrashed about while his friend was holding it. They ended up cooking it and eating it.
 Very interesting story! So Nathan told us he knows a night club where him and his mates hang out sometimes and he wanted to take us there. He said he would go talk to his friends and be back. Obviously, it is not usual to find an AFL footballer (minor celebrity) and have him invite 12 guys on a bucks night out on the town, so we didn't really have much faith in that. We continued our night and had a ball. We told the crocodile story to the guys who were not around at the time Nathan was telling it, and generally had fun.
Come 9.30pm, Nathan came round again and asked us what we had planned. We had decided to grab some food then head into the city, and wouldn't you know it Nathan was totally ready to join us. We walked down to a nice little pizza place, finished off a couple of pizzas, and talked. Nathan called a cousin of his to come over. He was apparently a footballer too, but I didn't know his name (I don't actually follow AFL at all). We hung out, had pizza, at which point Nathan re-told his crocodile story. We had all heard it before, but it was still entertaining, and he even handed around his cell phone so we could so the photos and video (where the crocodile thrashed about in his friends hands in their house), so there was no denying the truth!
Nathan and his cousin departed soon after, at which point we all marveled at the awesome bucks night my brother had managed to score! We went into the city, at which point I dropped out. Unlike everyone else, I lived in the city, and so being so close to home, I thought I may as well call it a night. It was a great day/night, and we all had an awesome time. For me it is further proof as to how friendly and down-to-earth Australians can be.
Oh, yeah.. there is a comic too!! This did not happen. Not at the bucks night, or any where, it came from the funny things people do when they are drunk. I have this theory, that you can see what people are REALLY like when they are drunk, because they lose their inhibitions and hang ups. So if someone is a happy drunk, they are naturally a happy person, if they are an angry Drunk, they have pent up anger inside them... so what if they get... ghetto?... like calling me their "brotha from anotha motha" :)
That's my eventful weekend
Overlord Ro
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