Geelong Football Club
To become a member of the Geelong Football Club you need a name, a birth date and an address.
In March 2007 my wife Rachel was in the family way. Thanks to an ultrasound, a planned caesar, and a stable household, for yet-to-be born Harvey I already had the three pieces of information. So with Rachel twenty weeks pregnant, Harvey became a member of the Geelong Football Club: in utero.
He is, to this day, officially the youngest ever member of the Cats.
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I once met a golfer, a psychiatrist by profession, who felt so dizzy and nauseous by the sight of a left-handed golf swing he had to turn his back whenever the ball was played.
Even high functioning people can become irrational as the vagaries of the brain hold them to ransom.
And there is nothing which prompts quite such an acute dysfunctional mental response as the Geelong Football Club.
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“Nauseated”. The word is “nauseated”, not “nauseous”. Read more »
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Gma says:
Thanks for the ticket Darren, it was an awsome game, I loved every minute. Glad you have decided to go to NZ again this year! Go cats for 2009, win or lose your true supporters, like all true supporters of footy clubs, will keep on barracking for you - ‘the… Read more »
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