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To start this off, here are the questions that need to be answered if you wish to claim this time honoured title, each tick 1 point:

Age questions:

1. Were calculators allowed when you went to school? An extra mark if they weren't invented then.
2. Did you play or support a team under the unlimited tackle rule? If you played seniors take an extra point.
3. What was the name of the first high rise in Surfers Paradise?
4. Describe the Coppertone billboard on Caville Avenue?
5. What really happened to Harold Holt?

Grumpy questions:

1. When you pick up the phone from a telemarker, you
(a) politely answer their questions
(b) slam down the phone without speaking
(c) use your best gutter language for 30 seconds without repeating yourself.

2. When somebody pushes into a queue in front of you, you
(a) let them in with a smile
(b) look at the person behind you with a shrug of the shoulders
(c) grab your walking stick and thrash the living daylights out of them?

3. When you get up in the middle of the night to pee (again) the first thought that enters your mind is
(a) I need to get back and finish that dream
(b) where is the bloody toilet
(c) I'll use this time to also have a Michael from my Searle?

4. When you see a young lady with it all hanging out and inked to he max, you wonder
(a) where was she thirty years ago
(b) what do her parents think
(c) all sheilas are wretched gossip mongers who should stick to cooking and the laundry.

5. When the Titans lose, you
(a) look for the positives from the teams worst performers
(b) search for the addresses of the coach and board members to deliver a non-ambiguous message
(c) login to the Forum and rant petulantly at all and sundry?

Feel free to add your own questions (after answering these as best you can). I nominate Diehard, Hail Sezer and Titan Pete to independently adjudicate a winner.

Disclaimer: these questions were taken from the Forbes Business website and any resemblance to the recent fan survey is totally coincidental.

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Originally Posted by Titanic

To start this off, here are the questions that need to be answered if you wish to claim this time honoured title, each tick 1 point:

Age questions:

1. Were calculators allowed when you went to school? An extra mark if they weren't invented then.
2. Did you play or support a team under the unlimited tackle rule? If you played seniors take an extra point.
3. What was the name of the first high rise in Surfers Paradise?
4. Describe the Coppertone billboard on Caville Avenue?
5. What really happened to Harold Holt?

Grumpy questions:

1. When you pick up the phone from a telemarker, you
(a) politely answer their questions
(b) slam down the phone without speaking
(c) use your best gutter language for 30 seconds without repeating yourself.

2. When somebody pushes into a queue in front of you, you
(a) let them in with a smile
(b) look at the person behind you with a shrug of the shoulders
(c) grab your walking stick and thrash the living daylights out of them?

3. When you get up in the middle of the night to pee (again) the first thought that enters your mind is
(a) I need to get back and finish that dream
(b) where is the bloody toilet
(c) I'll use this time to also have a Michael from my Searle?

4. When you see a young lady with it all hanging out and inked to he max, you wonder
(a) where was she thirty years ago
(b) what do her parents think
(c) all sheilas are wretched gossip mongers who should stick to cooking and the laundry.

5. When the Titans lose, you
(a) look for the positives from the teams worst performers
(b) search for the addresses of the coach and board members to deliver a non-ambiguous message
(c) login to the Forum and rant petulantly at all and sundry?

Feel free to add your own questions (after answering these as best you can). I nominate Diehard, Hail Sezer and Titan Pete to independently adjudicate a winner.

Disclaimer: these questions were taken from the Forbes Business website and any resemblance to the recent fan survey is totally coincidental.

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I love it...& i'm going to play

Age Questions, i can only say NO calculators were not allowed when i was at school...

I'll pass on the rest.

Grumpy Answers.

1. C , used to be every night until i disconnected the home phone.

2. It would be the same answer as question 1 because i haven't got my stick...Yet :eyebrows:

3. C , well it will be now :laugh:

4. D, i want to see what tattoo's are still hiding :p

5. C , then log back on when i'm sober up to see what i've written (thats why i stay away from Twitter after a bad game) :thumbsup:

Age questions:
1. Not sure, I sure didn't have access to one.
2. Nope.
3. No idea.
4. Tits 'n ****?
5. Retired in Tahiti.

Grumpy questions:

1. (d) Put 'em on speaker phone with volume just loud enough to here them hang up, once the realise no one is on the other end listening to their spiel, then hang up my phone once they're done.
2. (d) Tap 'em on the shoulder and make a point with them that they pushed in, then see where they want to take it from there.
3. (c) Definitely C!
4. (a)
5. (a & c) Depending on how bad they played.

1. Calculators not permitted. (abbacus was). Office calculators required a power point. Personal (battery) models came a lot later.
2.Yes, played in the days when Bernie Pramberg (referee) was known as Cyclops at Neumann Oval.
3.First Highrise was Kinkabool (now a backpackers delight). Next was Allawah , (renamed recently) and Iluka. Then followed 10 the Esplanade (now gone) Then President Apartments.
4.Coppertone billboard had a little girl in a Bikini. Motorised White terrier was pulling down her Bikini bottoms.
5.Harold Holt was rumoured to have been abducted by a Chinese Submarine. It even got front page in the Courier Mail.

Grumpy Questions
I speak back to them in Esperanto. They then give up because nobody speaks (or ever really learned).

I am still big enough to say "back of the line buddy"

Must fill up the Scotch Bottles that I nicked from the Mini bar.

Maybe she should have got a tattoo on her Bum, that way she could have a really big tattoo.

Read the Forum, have a laugh at the same old crud from the same crusty few.


Now answer these questions.
A. Which Gold Coast Mayor delivered bricks to put into toilet cisterns to cut down water usage during the drought?

B. Beachcomber Hawaii Nightclub in Cavill Ave. was run by Bernard who?

C. Who were Brian Tate, Don Seccombe, and Joy Chambers.

Hahahaha (too old to write lol) the rumour was correct HH is buried in Wuxi ;) and can answer them all (geez Joy Chambers) but will wait to see who else pops up, was a Burleigh junior but played for the Panthers when your prop was called Moose.

1. Think big, vote Small.
2. Also developed Daydream Island.
3. Best viewed in black and white.

If it's the same Don Seccombe, I know who he was. But the other two have me stumped.

1/ No....(What is a calkulater?)
2/ Yes
3/ Buggered if I know....I can't remember if I had breakfast.
4/ Never saw the one at Caville, but they were everywhere back in the day....
5/ Bloody big Optopus ate him.

Grumps answers..
1 c)...Sort of.....Depending on my mood, I could string them along for a minute or I could just put the phone down and walk away (with my walking stick) or if it is one of those Indians that tell me my computer has a virus (I love those ones) I plead ignorance and pretend to panic and ask them to help me solve it...After they ramble on for a minute or two I then let fly with option C.
2 b) but...have the hook of the walking stick ready at the base of my feet to create a small drama once the 'said offender' takes a step forward.
3 a), b), c)
4 b)...you are on your own with c)
5 b) and c) and what TP said...I normally regret what I post after 10pm.


Never heard of Don Secombe, Brian Tate or Joy Chambers but Google told me!

1. Were calculators allowed when you went to school? An extra mark if they weren't invented then.
yes

2. Did you play or support a team under the unlimited tackle rule? If you played seniors take an extra point.
No

3. What was the name of the first high rise in Surfers Paradise?
No idea

4. Describe the Coppertone billboard on Caville Avenue?
I was from Brisbane

5. What really happened to Harold Holt?
He was a Chinese spy and was picked up by a Soviet submarine and dropped off.

Grumpy questions:

1. When you pick up the phone from a telemarker, you
(a) politely answer their questions
(b) slam down the phone without speaking
(c) use your best gutter language for 30 seconds without repeating yourself.

Unless they are from Australia.

2. When somebody pushes into a queue in front of you, you
(a) let them in with a smile
(b) look at the person behind you with a shrug of the shoulders
(c) grab your walking stick and thrash the living daylights out of them?

3. When you get up in the middle of the night to pee (again) the first thought that enters your mind is
(a) I need to get back and finish that dream
(b) where is the bloody toilet
(c) I'll use this time to also have a Michael from my Searle?

4. When you see a young lady with it all hanging out and inked to he max, you wonder
(a) where was she thirty years ago
(b) what do her parents think
(c) all sheilas are wretched gossip mongers who should stick to cooking and the laundry.

5. When the Titans lose, you
(a) look for the positives from the teams worst performers
(b) search for the addresses of the coach and board members to deliver a non-ambiguous message
(c) login to the Forum and rant petulantly at all and sundry?

My last name may be Newman but I can really be an Oldman sometimes.