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1988 top ten aussie singles

this looks better..

Dave pointed me to this site, which has the top ten Aussie songs during my 18th year. A lot of pop songs, which I am slightly embarassed to say I enjoyed!
1 (I’VE HAD) THE TIME OF MY LIFE
BILL MEDLEY & JENNIFER WARNES
mmmm, not great


2 SIMPLY IRRESISTIBLE
ROBERT PALMER
things that make you go mmmm, remembered for its video clip, lets be honest…. but apart from that a heart stopping song.

3 THE FLAME
CHEAP TRICK
yeh, I liked it 🙂
4 GET OUTTA MY DREAMS, GET INTO MY CAR
BILLY OCEAN
yeh, I liked this too, its like admitting you watched ‘Dukes of Hazard’

5 I SHOULD BE SO LUCKY
KYLIE MINOGUE
sigh, yep, hummed along to this when no one was watching

6 PERFECT
FAIRGROUND ATTRACTION
Good song

7 WHAT A WONDERFUL WORLD
LOUIS ARMSTRONG

8 NEVER GONNA GIVE YOU UP
RICK ASTLEY
He had a booming bass voice for a pretty weiny looking guy

9 AGE OF REASON
JOHN FARNHAM
We all knew he was saying something serious, but did not really knew what it was, so pretended to be sophisticated and enjoy it anyway!

10 BETTER BE HOME SOON
CROWDED HOUSE
Great song, classic song, great great band….

stinking computers


Lesson for the inexperienced…. (namely me!)
Always have a back up.
This morning at church for some inexplicapable reason our main presentation computer started operating at close to 100% cpu capacity. This meant our presentation software would not work effectively.
I had to grab my laptop from the office and type in lyrics for the songs, on the fly……
sigh…….

Need to make sure that from now on we have a secondary computer with the service schedhule all ready to go.

And I need to find out why on earth my main computer is being a pain in the…. butt.

Its a beautiful day ….. Mind Dump

1. Freo, great win last night, Pav and Tarrant are working really well together. Hasleby is back to his best, Sandilands keeps getting more dominant, Bell is playing as good as he ever did when with the Roos. Great to see Peake back…. my favourite player.
2. I expect Johnson to get done by the tribunal, because thats what they do, make examples of Freo players, even if he was looking at the ball, and the Saints player was pushed onto his arm

3. West Coast are playing like front runners at the moment, and they really miss Kerr.
4. Judd should get done for eye gouging, but probably wont, see point 2
5. Its a great weekend when Freo win and the Weagles lose….(ha ha ha!!)

(Ps I tipped the Hawks to win!!)

Church sign colour

Phil Cooke is rapidly becoming a bit of a hero of mine, after presenting Christianity in the best possible light on Dentons Show “God on my side” Go to Rodneys site for a discussion of this.

Anyway, on his blog he talks about colours and the use of them in marketing material.

The distinct colour in our church logo is orange.

His take on orange is this,

“ORANGE – Orange is associated with vibrancy and the tropics, as well as warmth and contentment. It can instill a sense of fun and excitement. It implies health. It suggests pleasure, cheer, endurance, generosity and ambition. It can make an expensive product seem more affordable. It appeals to a wide range of people, both male and female.”

Sounds pretty good to me. I think most leadership decisions, including ones on how to present yourself, come from gut decisions. Good to see our church leadership made a good ‘gut’ decision on the church logo!

1988 pop music

What were the top songs in my prime, 18 years of age?

Here are the top ten according to Pop culture madness

1. What A Wonderful World* – Louis Armstrong *didn’t even make it in the top 100 when released in 1967!
Classic song, but did not register on my radar
2. It Takes Two – Rob Base & E-Z Rock
Now a dud tv show
3. Da Butt – EU
mmmmmm
4. Pour Some Sugar On Me – Def Leppard
Now your talking! Remember the one armed drummer??
5. I’ll Always Love You – Taylor Dayne
zzzzzzzzz

6. Sweet Child Of Mine – Guns N Roses
Turn it up loud! Juvenile, but great riff, can’t see the band being as good without Slash
7. Hot Hot Hot – Buster Poindexter
another mmmmmm
8. Just Got Paid – Johnny Kemp
Who?
9. Paradise – Sade
Only if your in the mood
10. Kokomo – Beach Boys
Beautiful harmonies….but not really my thing

Farmer may return early

The Australian reports on the Farmer return, with the most significant line being this one,
“Fremantle made it clear yesterday that any chance of him playing at AFL level earlier than round 12 was not the agenda, but Farmer could make a personal plea for an earlier return”

Alison Fan has got a petition together with about 300 signatures from lawyers of all people.
As tempting as it is to bring him back, we dont want to go down the road of another team we all know and dislike, and go soft on our players…..

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