You know you grew up in Darwin when....

noundz · Post by **noundz** » Sat Aug 08, 2009 9:04 am

you fellas may have won a game or 2 in the juniors, but I am going back to the 80's in the senior league (not that I was playing for them....too young) but Doug Kelly and Co ran amok

I played junior footy for St Marys and did boarding school at St Johns

You know you grew up in Darwin when you prefer the wet to the dry

ghound · Post by **ghound** » Sat Aug 08, 2009 2:05 pm

Did Yowie (Brently Hughes) play for them Noundz apparently he was a gun in the Katherine league in those days.

rossco · Post by **rossco** » Sat Aug 08, 2009 6:38 pm

Aahh, Doug Kelly - more formally known as 'The Legend'. What about Charlies, he used to get you so full of red wine while waiting for a table you could sometimes forget why you went there in the 1st place !

Kevin Kevinson · Post by **Kevin Kevinson** » Sat Aug 08, 2009 10:33 pm

you grew up in noonamah if you havent seen a dentist in your whole life

noundz · Post by **noundz** » Sun Aug 09, 2009 8:08 am

Pretty sure Yowie played for the Roos, Southern Districts, Katherine Souths (crocs) and represented the Territory a time or two

....so yeah, he was a bit of a gun

.....so were his brothers, I played with them while Yowie coached Kath Souths

You know you grew up in Darwin when if you put sneakers on, people thought you were going out

ghound · Post by **ghound** » Sun Aug 09, 2009 10:04 am

You know wou wre born in Darwin when your dad tell you he used to love hanging around fannie's and dicks and raging in the cage and it doesn't scar you for life.

Rug · Post by **Rug** » Wed Aug 12, 2009 1:26 pm

This was the standard fishing rig. 6hp Johnson was the donk.

Mullaking · Post by **Mullaking** » Wed Aug 12, 2009 2:08 pm

You know you grew up in Darwin when

You were born here and didnt leave

Kevin Kevinson · Post by **Kevin Kevinson** » Wed Aug 12, 2009 11:43 pm

you knew you were born in noonamah when your daughter, wife and grandma all work behind the bar on tuesday nights...

my last noonamah joke didnt get a bite, maybe this one will...

grumpy · Post by **grumpy** » Thu Aug 13, 2009 9:03 am

"Where the hells Noonamah"

I'll tell Deano your making fun of him Kevin K he'll have you put off tap

Used to go there for the Sunday arvo band session a billion years ago.

dodgyone · Post by **dodgyone** » Thu Aug 13, 2009 8:53 pm

grumpy wrote:"Where the hells Noonamah"

I'll tell Deano your making fun of him Kevin K he'll have you put off tap

Used to go there for the Sunday arvo band session a billion years ago.

Tough bloke that Dean. I saw him get T-Boned in his Landcruiser Trayback at 100kmh. Threw him out of the car and onto the road and he hopped up and walked away.

punter · Post by **punter** » Fri Aug 14, 2009 8:26 am

leave my local alone KK!!!

Goat Island · Post by **Goat Island** » Fri Aug 14, 2009 6:34 pm

Must be getting old,[58 on Sunday,] arrived in Darwin late 72 building Casuarina highschool [now CSC]Then Darwin community college, [now CDU] then Darwin cinema, and it had a Roof, now long gone. Only trafficlights in town were at pedestrian crossing outside Parap primary. When leaving flat in bishop st. after 7 years, could not pull out key, as it was rusted in, never once took out key, same with car,THAT'S WHY I NOW LIVE HERE, SAME DEAL. Darwin nightclub, opposite where DIX later came was open till 6 am.PERFECT, we didn't start work till 7.
Dolphin was the "headoffice", never left till closing time,unless you wanted to see a movie at drive in,usually had to go a few times as we usually had to get woken by attendant wanting to know if we wanted to get out before they closed the gates.

Thanks Jason for starting this, brings back heaps of good memories, I know I'm not born here but still trying to grow up here....Cheers Kai.

Post by **Matt Flynn** » Tue Mar 21, 2017 6:46 pm

good old thread, this one

theodosius · Post by **theodosius** » Tue Mar 21, 2017 7:25 pm

... when the first thing you bring up in conversation with someone you've just met is how long you've been up here for, cyclone, the place has changed, too nany people blah blah blah

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