News From Melbourne

[El Presidente]

[Ken Gargett]

i remember many years ago as a student on a trip to melbourne with mates to an australian law school association conference, in the days before they got serious. 1980. mid winter. freezing. we all went along to richmond v carlton, end of first round and they were both unbeaten from memory - tigers went on to win the flag. 80,000 at the G. great game. we were right up the very top in the exposed section. so so so seriously cold. a couple of beers and we had to prove to all those weak as ... victorians how tough qlders were. so we stripped to our jocks and sat there for the game in our jocks. it was close to arctic weather but we were students and so we were so truly stupid. the slightly more sensible victorians thought it would be amusing to encourage us so complete strangers were buying us beers all game.

it is amazing we lived or were not arrested. though it was far from the dumbest thing we did that week.

[El Presidente]

...was it Bill Murray who said...

 

In alcohol’s defense, I've done some pretty dumb stuff while completely sober too.

[Cmelle]

Haha @Ken Gargett that is gold. 

Being from Melbourne, I can attest. We have had some really cold mornings this week.

Luckily I work nights and finish work at 2am. I get to head home and sleep during the peak of the cold instead of waking up and getting out of bed to go to work. 

[kinglingcheng]

lol thats funny 

[polarbear]

Not that much different to all the Victorians who die when they come up to Darwin for Christmas

[Ken Gargett]

amongst the other priceless moments our little band were responsible for, and even decades later most of it remains in the vault, were attending the cocktail party thrown for the conference by the victorian bar association and pinching (and of course wearing) the name tags provided for the members of the victorian supreme court (in our defence, we thought it was hilarious). some of the judges even wanted us to hand over the tags when they arrived. we refused of course. the only person who thought it was as funny as we did was "my judge's" son who was a barrister and a great mate of one of my best mates. to this day, when i see the judge mentioned in the press, or back in the old days when i read one of his judgements, i cringe and curl up up with embarrassment.

we also had a massive day at a friend's place and on the way home, made the bus stop so we could all take a leak. we thought it was okay as we were way out in the bush and no one would know. it was only when we turned around to get back on the bus did we realise that we on one of melbourne's main roads at peak hour and thousands had watched us.

for the lawyers amongst us, in the moot competition which was an abortion dispute, one of our number quoted his version of donaghue and stevenson to the court (which included some of the de-tagged supreme court members) and the famous snail in the bottle became the fetus in the womb - for non-lawyers, probably one of the greatest and most inappropriate stretches in legal history and the Qld team was unceremoniously booted out of the competition.

[Duxnutz]

I just walked back to my hotel in Hobart. 7 degrees. I'm still trying to find the old fella.