Wow! Our next door neighbour, Ted King, is on this episode!! How random. I remember when that trampoline arrived next door!!! Tough night - Barry Jones. Wow. Had no idea who he was up against at the time. The ads were also great. Thanks!!
Love seeing peoples mind getting blown... great story :) and here you are watching it nearly 40 years later on devices and platforms that weren't even conceived at the original time of filming, and one of only a few episodes picked out of the hundreds that were ever made that is still available to view today. I'm curious how you came around to finding this episode to watch in the first place? Was it accidental nostalgic browsing?
A Cabbage for .20c is now $5.60, according to the RBA inflation calculator it should be .65 c. Same goes for Lettuce which used to be .19c ea, now they are $4.50. Total change in cost is 225.0 per cent, over 37 years, at an average annual inflation rate of 3.2 per cent. So the real inflation rate is far greater than the RBA website admits.
Correct. I met Barry Jones MP several times during the eighties. This is definitely not him. His quiz days largely involved Pick a Box during the sixties. Barry Jones from Western Australia really reminds me of Avon from the UK sci-fi series Blakes 7.
Frig a dig... Don't you just love those dud pick-of-the-board prizes?? "Congratulations, Harry. You've scored yourself a beautiful set of fly swatters, valued at 76¢, from Buzz Off."
I'm amazed at what he looks like! I spoke to him at a science conference in 1990 when he was the Minister for Science. He was full hairy man then. He went full bananas very quickly!
I've always suspected that Jones might actually have been a little over-rated ..no question there are people who would beat him..he actually got stung by ACA one night, when he was one of the usual bludging rorting Labor government ministers...he was at a restaurant with some bunch, and he had his government limo wait out side for him, hours, the whole time on triple time or some shit, fuck knows what it cost taxpayers just to do it...and they fronted him about it, and the fucken almost Rudd-esque waffling that his response consisted of... ACA Do you think this is a fair go for taxpayers, Minister? Jones Well, bring me a taxpayer, and we will ask them. ACA Well, I'm a taxpayer, I'm already here, Minister Jones. and they reckon he always knew the answers...not that time.He was fucking stumped cold.
