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Post by marinermick on Feb 14, 2006 8:30:26 GMT 10
had a good chat to donny at the leagues club on saturday night, true legend who's Don Parkes when he's at home? Peter Parker |
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Post by striker 9 on Feb 14, 2006 9:59:44 GMT 10
ok... who's Peter Parker ?
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Post by honey soy on Feb 14, 2006 10:12:56 GMT 10
ok... who's Peter Parker ? Isn't he Spiderman's secret identity? |
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Post by striker 9 on Feb 14, 2006 10:21:47 GMT 10
Peter Parker it's also an up and coming Seattle pop band named after Spiderman's alter ego.
Don't know how much you know about music inductry?
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Post by alicia on Feb 14, 2006 13:10:40 GMT 10
Bands these days can't think of their own names so they have to steal others who already have identity crisis's of their own. What's the world coming to?
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Post by striker 9 on Feb 14, 2006 13:15:00 GMT 10
also the standard of music is less than original.......
r/t listening to "ten years after" ..now that is a band worth listening to! (maybe you don't know it eh?)
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Post by pom pom on Feb 15, 2006 22:11:48 GMT 10
donny is a good bloke, he just came up and started talking to me about the socceroos and if i was going over to watch them and stuff. but to re ask jimmys question- does anyone know when hes going to get a haircut?
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Post by Keith Saffron on Feb 16, 2006 12:12:47 GMT 10
Maybe he's waiting for the mariners to win the a-league before shaving his head in celebration???  |
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Post by Grunta on Feb 17, 2006 15:21:51 GMT 10
I heard you're gonna shave your red pubes ;D
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Post by Ursus on Mar 8, 2006 15:35:10 GMT 10
Not like the good old days with Jethro Tull and Uriah Heap.  |
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Post by kevrenor on Jun 16, 2006 12:57:10 GMT 10
Good one Donny! There's an article below on Donny Parkes in Germany. Photo shows him trying to the turn the already yellow shirted Covers to the light side! Happy birthday mate! www.smh.com.au/news/aussie-update/diehard-don-sees-his-support-bear-fruit/2006/06/15/1149964673754.htmlDiehard Don sees his support bear fruit Storytime .. superfan Don Parkes holds court. Photo: Tim Clayton Matthew Hall in Oehringen June 16, 2006 THERE was a birthday party at the Socceroo fans' campsite in Ohrnberg on Wednesday. Don Parkes turned 72 and celebrated by drinking an apple juice with Australian fans a generation or two, or maybe even three, younger than himself. Parkes, a former ground announcer for the St George-Budapest club in Sydney, turned up in Oehringen's main square late on Tuesday afternoon. He had travelled to Germany from Woy Woy on his own. Before finding the campsite, Parkes spent Tuesday night, the eve of his birthday, on a spare bed in an Oehringen hotel room. Ted Smith, who played football for Australia at the 1956 Olympics, took pity on him and offered to share his room. "We gave them a few drinks so they both got a good sleep," said Andre Krueger, the German Socceroo fan who took on the role of matchmaker. Back in Australia, Parkes is a member of his local A-League club, the Central Coast Mariners and is patron of The Marinators, the team's supporter group. Local rivalries were set aside on his birthday at the campsite, where he held court in front of a group of Sydney fans, members of The Cove, entertaining all with tales of travelling the world watching the Socceroos, from Canada to New Zealand, and now Germany. "On many occasions I was the sole Socceroo supporter," Parkes said. "There were the officials, the players, the media, and there was me. I was the only one in the group paying my own way. But I never lost faith in Australia. I knew qualification could happen, but I never thought it would happen in my time." The Sydney fans sang Happy Birthday for Parkes at Ohrnberg. No one realised it, but we were watching a changing of the guard. The blokes who supported "soccer" when it was a sport for "sheilas, wogs, and poofters," can move on happy. The use-by date of the nay-sayers, those who probably still use the term, is also looming very, very, large. |
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Post by alicia on Jun 16, 2006 13:00:53 GMT 10
So he just flew over there with no where to stay?  That's our Donny. |
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Post by brett on Jun 16, 2006 13:09:55 GMT 10
MAN I LOVE DP!!!
Great write up too Matthew Hall.
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Post by honey soy on Jun 16, 2006 13:10:12 GMT 10
That's the nicest article. Good on ya Donny!
I might be wrong but I thought on the Awards night (the day he'd booked the ticket to Germany) he said that he bought a package, flights, tickets and accommodation. He also said it was expensive.
Hope he's okay. It sort of sounded like maybe he got a tiny bit lost.
Now, SBS should interview him.
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Post by marinermick on Jun 16, 2006 13:20:12 GMT 10
That's the nicest article. Good on ya Donny! I might be wrong but I thought on the Awards night (the day he'd booked the ticket to Germany) he said that he bought a package, flights, tickets and accommodation. He also said it was expensive. Hope he's okay. It sort of sounded like maybe he got a tiny bit lost. Now, SBS should interview him. media spin donny is OK and he can certainly look after himself |
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Post by marinermick on Jun 16, 2006 13:25:58 GMT 10
hehe, 72 years old
he gets younger every year
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Post by pom pom on Jun 16, 2006 14:50:12 GMT 10
we love you donny,we do....
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Post by Perm on Jun 16, 2006 15:08:36 GMT 10
happy birthday Donny. i treasure every time i get to speak to that gentleman.
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Post by Melsy on Jun 16, 2006 15:17:13 GMT 10
Good on him and Happy Birthday Donny, you are a champ.
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Post by omni on Jun 16, 2006 22:34:44 GMT 10
Great article, one of the best to come up on my Central Coast Mariners news search.
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