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Robbie: So I was asked to do this emceeing gig at Wave Aid in 2005. The organisers wanted me to intro Missy Higgins in front of 50,000 people. I was terrified.



Lindsay: I bet.



Robbie: Anyway, I get out on stage and I've got this whole little speech figured out. And everyone's staring at me. And I talk a bit about Missy and intro the song and I'm just about to say: 'Ladies and Gentlemen, Missy Higgins' when I look down and see Michael Chugg glaring at me. And doing the universal hand gesture for 'stretch it out'.



Me: He wanted you to pad? Why?



Robbie: I don't know! There must have been some technical difficulties or something. So I've got nothing left in my speech and I can't just keep talking shit about Missy Higgins. And I'm totally faltering. And then someone in the crowd yells out 'do the wave'.



Lindsay: So?



Robbie: So....I did.



Me: Wait a minute. You led a mexican wave at a tsunami benefit concert?



Robbie: Two of them.



Lindsay: Two waves?



Me: What the hell's the matter with you?



Robbie: I don't know, I panicked! I didn't even realise how wrong it was until halfway through the second one!



Me: So have the organisers for the Holocaust Remembrance Day been in touch?



Robbie: Not yet, no.





*long pause*




Robbie: Still, it filled time til Missy Higgins came on.




52 comments.

Comments

17Apr10:50
helen hellbound said...
Oh geez what a tool.
17Apr10:52
Rach said...
Bahahahahahhahaha. And yet, that seems like the exact kind of thing I would do if I were in that situation.
17Apr10:55
James said...
omg that is hilarious! poor robbie
17Apr10:58
Anonymous said...
Ask him about the time he hurt his leg at the Bum Puppets show...
17Apr10:59
J said...
He didn't come out in boardshorts and a bit of zinc over his nose, did he?
17Apr11:04
Anonymous said...
hahahahahaha..

oh robbie...
17Apr11:11
ChuggChaser2005 said...
I think Robbie is lucky to have survived the Glare of Chugg. That hand gesture could have meant a whole lot of things.
"I'm going to put you in the stocks if you make a tsunami joke," perhaps..
17Apr11:14
swy said...
Faux pas or timely affirmation of shared purpose? Methinks it canny of the Buckmeister to remind the crowd why they were there just before the tidal wave of boredom that is Missy Higgins rolled in. Official stats indicate there was a 27% decrease in violent hair pulling and troubled sleep episodes as a result.
17Apr11:28
Anonymous said...
From the Wave-aid Wikipedi entry: Then female concert goers were encouraged to show their breasts on the giant screens, which led to some women having their shirts pulled up by surrounding audience members against their will

Mexican wave? why not, sounds in character with the event. Did Missy H show her boobies? Don't know I wasn't there...

17Apr11:50
funkycoldmedina said...
Holocaust Remembrance Day? OK everybody hold your lighters in the air......
17Apr11:54
waddywaddy said...
It's OK. They're only banned at the cricket.
17Apr12:04
homer said...
robbie buck, michael chugg, tsunamis, mexican waves and boobies? give me 15 minutes and i'll come up with a conspirisory theory.
17Apr12:12
call them anything else but that said...
i hate the word boobies.
17Apr12:16
I like... said...
boobies.
17Apr12:24
Troy said...
Well it was Chugg who suggested a youngish lady who was a top a young man to show 'us ya tits', if I may quote. I do remember Robbie introducing Missy though and it was much funnier now than then.
17Apr12:37
Verucasalt said...
My ex went to Waveaid, and was telling me who he enjoyed, and when he mentioned the Finn Brothers had played, I genuinely asked if they had done "Six Months In A Leaky Boat"...(I had seen them a few months earlier and they had opened with that one). It was pointed out to me that it probably wasn't the most appropriate tune to open with for that particular gig...
17Apr12:53
Anonymous said...
call them anything else but that said...
i hate the word boobies.


Better than "norks", "jugs" or "big personality". Kind of sweet really...

hugs and puppies to you.
17Apr12:59
Anonymous said...
just proves what a gimp R.Buck really is
17Apr13:25
Eliot Ramsey said...
I don't get it. You mean, he wanted to avoid embarrassing Missy Higgins?

What would have been the point of that?
17Apr14:00
Heather said...
I am stumped as to what I should say.
17Apr14:03
This is a snorefest.. said...
Can anyone pinpoint exactly when this blog jumped the shark?
17Apr14:13
Anonymous said...
no-one's forcing you to read it, snorefest.
17Apr14:16
amen said...
i agree - boobies is prehaps my least favourite term.

there's something so...juvenile about it
17Apr14:28
Anonymous said...
Wave Aid. A charitable event for eighties fashion victims.
17Apr14:29
Homer said...
I'm still thinking.
17Apr14:33
JoJo said...
Laughing so hard I'm afraid I might be touching cloth.
17Apr14:45
Anonymous said...
poor robbie.

just like ricky gervais at the di rememberance concert last year.

'cept ricky's "stretching" was all elton john's fault - he was acting all diva-ish back stage.

stephan merchant paid out and paid back elton at some do later on, for his mate ricky.

i hope robbie has his own "stephen" to pay back chuggy.
17Apr14:52
call them anything but that... said...
jugs or norks no one seriously uses in real life unless you are channelling benny hill. but boobies, a lot of grown men say it for real, and i hate it.

tits is better. boobs is better. boo to boobies.
17Apr14:56
homer said...
what am I meant to be thinking about? Oh yeah....boobies.
17Apr15:10
crassass said...
At least there was no surfboard door prize.......was there?
17Apr15:10
amen said...
boobs is a bit better - tits is (are) best
17Apr15:12
elbarstardo said...
Who is Missy Higgins? Pop of Le Ginge's wife?
17Apr15:34
Jeremy said...
First one I've ever heard. (Stupid long drive up to Seymour. 5.30am? Screw you, scientific community that hasn't invented teleporters!)

I was a bit surprised you guys didn't push the web bloke harder on his frankly odd crime-fighting device.
17Apr15:40
Anonymous said...
Well "boobies" is actually a Ms Fits term as in:

Ms Fits said: Maybe I've just got mango boobies. That doesn't seem like such a bad idea to me. Why don't you look at the comparison and tell me what you think:

Yes, those really are my boobies. And can anyone tell me how to become a Sexologist when I grow up please?


Plus about 37 other references in posts found via "search".

call them anything but that... said...
jugs or norks no one seriously uses in real life unless you are channelling benny hill.


Don't shoot the messenger... I report on the strange habits of natives from the land of *jelly wrestling* and *lunch-time lap dancing*. Dangerous place, lots of wet concrete footprints and bond traders.
17Apr16:05
Anonymous said...
yeah but where did the accompanying photograph go?
17Apr16:27
Dataceptionist said...
I've always liked the term boobies.
Better than titties
But Booby Whirl sounds weird. Gotta go with Titty for that one.
Titty whirls everybody!!

17Apr16:27
Someguy said...
Perhaps no-one should have been surprised at Robbie's comments given that in 1999 he initiated the 'Cleveland Chop' at the StumpAid concert for amputees and that in 2000 he suggested to the curiously listless crowd at the Australasian Youth Heroin Recovery Conference that what they needed was 'a shot in the arm'
However, he was heard to rebut that if you don't like his approach then it's ‘tough synonym for breasts’ and also suggested after the WaveAid fiasco that 'those who objected should go to a Missy Higgins concert without my intro and grossly inappropriate crowd particiapation antics and see how good it is'.
17Apr16:30
alicia said...
LOL.

Literally.
:D

Did the crowd realize how wrong it was too?
17Apr17:39
Zarquon said...
(.)(.)
17Apr18:00
mark Silva said...
jumped the shark....? yep, i guess it has. but its still mildly amusing. like it always was....
17Apr18:20
KT said...
I was there, and I loved Robbie's intro! We thought he might have been stretching when he suggested the Mexican wave - although being at the SCG, and the Wave Aid gig, it seemed fitting.
I really hated seeing all those chicks getting their tops torn off - every woman who got on someone's shoulders copped it, just because some stupid scrubber decided it'd be a great idea to show 40,000 people (and TV viewers) her tits. Ugh. Then it got worse - men standing on their mates' shoulders, dropping their daks...
17Apr20:18
Rant Rambler said...
That was great... I'm still laughing... excellent...

... still laughing
17Apr22:48
dakini kundalini underpants said...
I like boobies. Both literally and linguistically. Tits is the worst I think but my fave comes from Black Adder when auntie referred to them as Devil's dumplings. Although itskind of hard to get into flowing conversation repeatedly which is my ambition. But I digress:
some tosser really announced"Get ya tits out" & some women actually abliged and others were flashed by their fuckwit friends and bystanders?
18Apr08:59
thecat said...
Off topic, but I feel dirty and have to share. I just woke up from a sex dream about K Rudd. Is this really bad??????
18Apr10:08
Benj said...
It sounds as if tops were ripped up only (or predominatly) on those women sitting on people's shoulders?

Perhaps, this act was born out of frustration with these stupid bitches blocking the view of those behind them?

If you're short, you know you're short. And you know you won't be able to see at a concert. Don't whine, and certainly don't block other people's view. Blame your parents for your bad genes.
18Apr10:32
Sam said...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1NvgLkuEtkA
18Apr21:25
call them anything but said...
titties are wrong. boobies are still wrong. i don't care if fits calls them that - i can still say it is wrong.

doesn't mean i don't like her.

amen to amen - boobs are better, tits are best.

boobies are to panties as tits are to undies.
19Apr14:23
meh said...
Snorefest - re jumping the shark, I was thinking the very same thing the other day. I think it has more to do with the commenters myself.
20Apr18:53
The Last Scientician said...
Jesus, what a kerfuffle.

Boobs, boobies, tits, titties, funbags, breasticles, chestnuts, knockers, boozies, bazoongas, mams, hooters, udders, beestings, baps...

Call them whatever you want. The modified thoracic sweat glands of the adult female Homo sapiens by any other name would seem as sweet
20Apr21:56
Bomba said...
In a land that has the Harold Holt Memorial Swimming Pool, I think Buck is on safe ground.
22Apr16:12
Godless Pinko said...
Thats not the worst of it. Lindsay sang a song at that concert that went something to the effect of.... "Soon are you...... Tsu -- na --- mi ...... Tsu -- Nar --- You .......... Tsu ----Na --- MEEEE!"
09May15:01
Josh said...
I'm laughing with Robbie, but it's that painful 'I understand the humiliation' kind of laugh.

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