World's most famous Australian

[Iain]

I think it should go to that unknown stalwart of art, the creator of the Freddo Frog, known to all

[Sturdee]

Like him or not, Greg Norman would have to be worth a vote. What he did for Golf in this country wouldn't or couldn't have been acheived by 20 others.. just my opinion...

Yes in his heyday he was great for golf club memberships. When he was winning tournaments, every time he won a major it garanteed a 100 new members.

Great for golf clubs but still only a golfer and not in the class of people that Pah1 nominated.


Peter.

[Daddles]

Yes in his heyday he was great for golf club memberships. When he was winning tournaments, every time he won a major it garanteed a 100 new members.

Great for golf clubs but still only a golfer and not in the class of people that Pah1 nominated.


Peter.

Dunno Peter. I'm no golfer or golf fan (it's a good walk ruined), but I believe Greg Norman has done a lot promoting the game, working with youngsters and charity work outside of golf. He's more than just paid swinger. But yeah, he can't compete with the creator of the Freddo Frog (my little daughter's vote).

Richard

[reeves]

and the tastiest ---!

SKIPPY !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[jackiew]

I think it should go to that unknown stalwart of art, the creator of the Freddo Frog, known to all

do they have freddo frogs outside australia? or are they another product like tim-tams and lamingtons which are region specific? anyway freddo frogs are just an expensive way of buying chocolate so they are only a boon to their manufacturer and sweet shops.

[Daddles]

do they have freddo frogs outside australia? or are they another product like tim-tams and lamingtons which are region specific? anyway freddo frogs are just an expensive way of buying chocolate so they are only a boon to their manufacturer and sweet shops.

Hah. Jackie, it would appear that you have never offered a child a choice between
'chocolate' and a Freddo Frog. The Freddo gets it everytime. I have to drag my little princess past them in the supermarket. In a service station, she will go straight to the Freddos. She can sense them hidden in the bowels of delis as we drive past.
And then there are the giant Freddo's. Well. Just how chocolaty can a three year old get? Give her 200gms of Freddo frog and 500 gms will be smeared on her face, with a similar amount inside. Obviously some child magic that I have lost in my dotage. But yes, mere chocolate does not compare with a Freddo Frog.

Cheers
Richard

[Sturdee]

Dunno Peter. I'm no golfer or golf fan (it's a good walk ruined), but I believe Greg Norman has done a lot promoting the game, working with youngsters and charity work outside of golf. He's more than just paid swinger.

Richard,

I'm not a golfer either, but I worked for a Golf Club for 11 years and my opinion of the game and its adherents is even lower than most non golfers. Everyday the same story from them about how they missed a put by so little. :eek: The whingers they were. :eek: Best days were when it poured rain and was too wet for them to play. And it was originated in Scotland where it never stops raining.

I can't comment on the Great White Sharks charity work away from golf but all his time in promoting the game was paid for by his sponsors. DAMHIK. :mad: IMHO He was just paid swinger.

BTW I think your daughter is right.


Peter.

[Daddles]

It's hard to argue with you Peter. I've known some dedicated golfers who hated the Shark, but there always seemed to be an undertone of sour grapes. Who knows? I may indeed be wrong, but he's such a big name I hope I'm not.
There seem to be a lot of prats in golf - those who are there to be seen by those who matter ... to them. I've even known blokes who hated the game but played it to suck up to the bosses (who were govt managers for god's sake, not even real aristocracy). On the other hand, there are those who truly love the game and approach it as a sport. I worked with a bloke who was only a stroke or two per round off being able to make a living (? - his description) as a pro. Like everything, many prats spoil it for everyone else.
Yes, I have played it. Played two seasons at the Leura Golf Club. For those who know the course, if you slice the ball, it usually disappears over a cliff. My crowning glory was the day I broke 100 strokes ... on the first nine holes. I believe the techinal term is 'hacker'.
Nowadays, I believe golf to be best enjoyed on the television - I can turn it off there.

Cheers
Richard

[Zed]

you nasty anti golf weenies! Daddles - you deserve a reddie but your safe! damn!

[Daddles]

you nasty anti golf weenies! Daddles - you deserve a reddie but your safe! damn!

Ah thank you Zed. If I remember rightly, I only struck two good drives in the two seasons - the first time I ever swung at a ball and eighteen months later when I was sick of using the right club for a par three hole and chose a longer one ... only to hear that magic 'click' and see the ruddy thing soar over the trees the other side of the green.

Cheers
Richard

[silentC]

On the other hand, there are those who truly love the game and approach it as a sport.

SWMBO's handicap is 5.3. Do you reckon she's in it for the sport

[Bob Willson]

I don't think of golf as a sport. It is just a glorified game. How athletic or even fit do these people need to be? I mean, Bob Hope was still playing it when he was a frail old fart. No, the word 'sport' is much misused nowadays to include any old pasttime when people compete against one another. Pretty soon we will have things such as a doughnut eating contest or a sand castle building contest in the Olympics.

[silentC]

Fortunately, the compilers of the Macquarie dictionary don't agree with you there, Bob:

sport
// (say spawt) noun 1. an activity pursued for exercise or pleasure, usually requiring some degree of physical prowess, as hunting, fishing, racing, baseball, tennis, golf, bowling, wrestling, boxing, etc. 2. a particular form of pastime. 3. (plural) a meeting for athletic competition. 4. the pastime of hunting, shooting, or fishing with reference to the pleasure achieved: we had good sport today. 5. diversion; recreation; pleasant pastime. 6. playful trifling, jesting, or mirth: to do or say a thing in sport. 7. derisive jesting; ridicule. 8. an object of derision; a laughing-stock. 9. something sported with or tossed about like a plaything: to be the sport of circumstances. 10. Colloquial (a term of address, usually between males): g'day, sport. 11. Colloquial one who is interested in pursuits involving betting or gambling. 12. Biology an animal or a plant, or a part of a plant, that shows an unusual or singular deviation from the normal or parent type; a mutation. 13. Obsolete amorous dalliance.

[Termite]

I Pretty soon we will have things such as a doughnut eating contest or a sand castle building contest in the Olympics.

Why not? They rank right up there with synchronised swimming.

[jackiew]

Why not? They rank right up there with synchronised swimming.

synchronised swimming is harder than it looks. You might as well add some of the ice skating and the gymnastics into the same bucket of non-sports because half the time the reasons for one person/team "winning" and another "losing" are completely non obvious to the majority of the spectators.