I recently read a blog from All Men Are Liars and while I don’t agree with all of the rules listed here, it gave me the idea to add to them from my perspective.

There are certain rules I am accustomed too, here are some of them. You should familiarise yourselves with these in case you are lucky enough to meet me in real life.

1. If you get into a shout in a bar with me and its your turn to shout, you go buy the freakin beer as soon as I finish mine….. not when you finish yours.

2. If you find yourself falling behind in a shout and you want to pull out because you realise you have made a fatal error in getting in a shout with me, no problem! Purchase your owed round and announce your withdrawal from the shout. You will be called a blouse but you will get over it.

3. Wearing Speedos when you swim in my presence is banned.

4. Giving me crap for urinating in a cubicle is banned, I use them for a special reason…… you know the song.

5. Sidling me when on fire with some pog is banned. If you sidle me, you die.

6. Do not touch my food when I am eating. I am not to be trifled at meal times.

7. Do not ever expect me to line up or pay a cover charge for a night club… EVER

8. You don’t by drinks for random chicks you have just met. Unless they are a friend of a friend, even then its borderline.

9. I don’t walk around night clubs, they walk around me.

10. If we have to walk anywhere and its more than 300 meters (the average length of my tee shots) I would prefer it if we called a cab.

11. Unless its 21°C or less then it is indeed hot.

12. If you get into a shout in a bar with me and its your turn to shout, you go buy the freakin beer as soon as I finish mine….. not when you finish yours. Yes, It is that important.

Can anyone think of any other rules for the boys?

Today I am off to Melbourne for a 2 day training course, Yes! It takes 1 hour to drive to the airport, well at 7:00am in the morning it does. I have to line up to check baggage, in Brisbane airport that’s another hour. Its then two and a half hours of action packed excitement on the plane. I can’t tell you how much I enjoy it. Then you can enjoy the wait as baggage handlers take great delight in tossing your belongings all over the shop getting your gear onto the carousel. Then it’s off to a cab for another ‘dangerous’ journey.

I find it interesting there is so much business travel that goes on in this country. I reckon a large percentage of these hours wasted waiting for and flying in planes could be easily avoided by telephone calls, video conferences and email. You have some national manager who is getting paid $250,000.00 a year and he spends a large chunk of his working week flying around in planes cut off from his staff. I doubt they enjoy it and I just am not sure it is all that necessary.

Am I completely of base here or is this corporate travel culture a necessary requirement and I am the ‘notasmartman’ of the day?

Will report in tomorrow morning from sunny Melbourne.

My new sponsor…. I look forward to my free Pizza

The chicks in this are reasonably good looking. I bags the one on the left……

Its all I hear about every time I turn the TV on or accidentally tune into a commercial radio station. Maybe it has something to do with her name ‘Winehouse’ it sounds like a nice place to go, curl up with a glass of wine and have a kip.

Well, I will tell you who she is. She is reasonably talented singer who has married some bloke (who is now in jail) and she is on all sorts of drugs and alcohol. Just another self absorbed entertainer, alcoholic junkie that the media seems fascinated with….. That’s it, she hasn’t cured cancer and as far as I am aware hasn’t adopted any refugees from Botswana

On a completely unrelated topic……….

Does anyone have a shirt I can borrow? What a day Saturday, from start to finish I lost money. The TAB must have been rubbing their hands together as long shot after long shot came home to win.

Ricky Hatton had Floyd Mayweather’s fist tattooed to his forehead yesterday. For future reference Ricky, you should lead with a jab not a hook, it’s a sure way to get knocked out.

ZERO for the DAY 

Greggle’s makes his debut on notasmartman.com with a lot of pressure on him.

Brisbane

Treble by 50 CENTS (Races 5, 6, 7) – GOOOOOONNNNNEEEEEE
5. Easy Rocker, The Chanster (? Message) /
6. Spur me on, Piccohi, Picture Book, Broms Girl /
7. Omnitrader, Legendary Man, Umaprince, Diamondsondinside

Race 6 – No.16 Broms Girl by $10.00 the win – GOOOOOONNNNNEEEEEE
Race 7 – No.9 Diamondsondinside by $10.00 the win – GOOOOOONNNNNEEEEEE
Race 8 – No.4 October Sky by $14.00 the win – GOOOOOONNNNNEEEEEE

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Fat-Simon makes up for last week and punts today against Maximus who returned ZERO.

Melbourne
Race 6 – No.7 Drizzle by $15.00 the win – GOOOOOONNNNNEEEEEE

Sydney
Race 6 – No.7 The Fangsta by $20.00 the win (in the wet???) – GOOOOOONNNNNEEEEEE

Brisbane
Race 7 – No.11 Willy Leica by $15.00 the win – GOOOOOONNNNNEEEEEE

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Tongue subs for the Toaster as Toaster is in the repair shop.

Tongue’s bets to follow are no good and he is – GOOOOOONNNNNEEEEEE

Brisbane – Extra Double – GOOOOOONNNNNEEEEEE
Race 3 – No.8 Scoot into
Race 4 – No.10 Calchris by $10.00

Perth – All Up – GOOOOOONNNNNEEEEEE
Race 1 – No.1 Dark Target into
Race 7 – No.5 El Presidente by $40.00 (assumed the win)

The Fangsta continues to train well. It is a tough race but with a good barrier draw he should be a good each way chance.

Field details for Rosehill on Saturday are as follows:

Race 6-4.30 SUNCORP BUSINESS BANKING HANDICAP 1200 M

Of $50000 Of $50000. 1st $32500, 2nd $10000, 3rd $4500, 4th $2000, 5th $1000. Apprentices can claim. Field Limit: 18+4 EM

No. Horse Trainer Jockey Barr Wgt Pen RTG

1 BODGIE Paul Perry H Bowman 6 59.5 (70)
2 CHIEF HENNESSY Gwenda Markwell L Cassidy 14 59.5 (70)
3 HELLBOUND LUJAIN Kylie Gavenlock J Parr (a1.5) 5 59 (69)
4 SLIPPERY SLY Brett McLaurin 3 59 (69)
5 FEROCIOUS Gerald Ryan T Clark 15 58.5 (68)
6 STONEAGE ROMEO Clinton McDonald N Rawiller 7 58.5 (68)
7 THE FANGSTA Kim Waugh B Poulus (a3) 4 58.5 (68)
8 CINNAMIC Bede Murray T Angland (a1.5) 10 58 (66)
9 EDDIE RAPIDO Greg McDermott P Wells (a2) 9 58 (66)
10 MR BLUE SKY Adam Duggan 12 57 (64)
11 LIFT ME UP Kylie Gavenlock G Buckley 2 56 (62)
12 DANCING HAVANA Gai Waterhouse B Shinn 1 55.5 (64)
13 PAMPAS Patrick Webster M Bell 13 54 (58)
14 GUN EAGLE Anthony Olsen 11 53.5 (57)
15 MR MELOV Jim Louizos Ms K O’Hara 8 53 (56)

This looks a nice race for Mr Gilly and if he finally gets some luck in the run he should be very hard to beat.

Field details for Kembla Grange Saturday 8th December are:

Race 4-3.25 WOONONA MAIDEN HANDICAP 1600M

Of $11000 Of $11000. 1st $7150, 2nd $2200, 3rd $1100, 4th $550.
Apprentices can claim. Field Limit: 14+4 EM

No. Horse Trainer Jockey Barr Wgt

1 MR GILLY (NZ) Kim Waugh A W Robinson 7 58
2 SMOKEY HAZE Brian Young J Lee 10 56
3 BLU HORIZON Kylie Gavenlock Dale Spriggs 6 55.5
4 COURIER Tim Murphy Ms L Meech 8 55.5
5 GENERAL ROSS Gwenda Markwell C Agnew 11 55.5
6 GENEROUS GERARD Diane Poidevin-Laine 3 55.5
7 LEFT HANDER Bede Murray K Sweeney 4 55.5
8 PEACE PALACE Kristie George P Rowe 2 55.5
9 SOHO Les Tilley 9 55.5
10 THE BIG TOP Les Tilley 5 55.5
11 VERA’S SCONES (NZ) Gwenda Markwell Ms B Honeysett (a4) 1 55.5

Speaking of smart sporting marketing ploys…… Is this what is missing from Rugby League today?

…. I miss it           What do you think?