Russell Brown and Muldoon
Had a very fun night last night. I had rsvp’d to the Wellingtonista Award Night. The Wellingtonista is a great read – excellent example of a community blog, and always fun. So I figured their awards would be fun, plus Public Address were having a celebrity quiz night set in when Muldoon was Prime Minister era.
I had a incredibly frantic day and was 75% keen to just go home and sleep, but felt guilty that as I had rsvped, that would be impolite. So I went along at 7 pm.
Around five minutes after I got there, Russell Brown comes up to me and says something along the lines of “Sean Plunket can’t be located, so how would you feel about filling in for him”. Now this had a bad case of deja vu. I initially appeared about as enthusiastic as one would be for fire walking, but did ask exactly what role was Sean meant to be playing, and upon learning it was just to be a member of one of the teams, I happily agreed.
The other team, labelled the left team due to their position on the stage, was led by Marion Hobbs. Our team captain was Graham Reid, plus myself and Stephanie.
Russell has the actual questions in the quiz over at Hard News. Go give them a go.
We won the quiz. One section was naming songs from the 1970s played backwards. I couldn’t even get them played forwards but my teammates could. However I did do quite well on the politics section despite being eight when Muldoon took office. It was great fun.
I turned the trophy, a Muldoon toby jug, into my personal drinking vessel for the night. It is truly a hideous thing, and I am going to proudly show it off before returning it 
Was lots of good people at the function I enjoyed catching up with. My only regret is I spent so little time actually talking to the Wellingtonista crew myself – I really do love their blog.
Well done to Public Address, Wellingtonista and sponsors for a good night.
Graham and myself with the winning trophy. It is almost scary!
December 7th, 2007 at 12:29 pm
Yeah, we should have said hello, but it was a full on night & I can confirm that almost all the Wellingtonista are quite seedy today….
Hadyn got himself photographed with Giovanni Ribisi!! I myself, said something inane to Bret McKenzie. Details escape me….
December 7th, 2007 at 12:53 pm
Crickey, what an ugly mug!
December 7th, 2007 at 12:55 pm
Yeah the cup’s not a pretty picture either
JJ.
December 7th, 2007 at 1:25 pm
i was surprised as hell to see you drinking a pina colada… should have been single malt whisky to honour the old guy’s memory!
and… i’ll have that antique toby jug back when you’re finished showing it off!
bloody national party, they’ll knick anything that ain’t nailed down
December 7th, 2007 at 4:32 pm
did you find out what was going on in that head DPF.
Many, many secrets.
December 7th, 2007 at 4:34 pm
Just think that they will make Tobey jugs just like that after Helen Clark in the very near future.
When they do appear you should keep your “Helens Mug” it in a safe place as it will soon become valuable. The vast majority of them will be smashed on sight.
December 7th, 2007 at 4:51 pm
God I miss piggy -hehehe – give em hell – hehehe .
December 7th, 2007 at 4:54 pm
“Crickey, what an ugly mug’
How would you know roger nomer,doh brain , as you crack every mirror you ever look into. Mirror mirror on the wall is the fucking ugliest of them all ? clue one at the weakest stink master mind lemon competition . Its start with the letter H ? Answer gnomer pile please ?
December 7th, 2007 at 6:23 pm
Bye Bye Dad! Look foward to seeing you in two weeks!
Love nome
December 7th, 2007 at 6:56 pm
That’s really cool.
December 8th, 2007 at 1:44 pm
Dick Hubbard as a toby jug would be competitive with toby jug Muldoon.