[m i a o w] the cat

One of the things I like about this blog is that bit on the sidebar which is called Blast From the Past. It usually has in it something I posted one, two or sometimes even three years ago. So I clicked on it a few days ago and starting laughing at the pure synchronicity that sometimes occurs.

When we were at Meredith last weekend, we were down to our last five bucks and were feeling snacky. M decided to get a sausage in bread from the Meredith Tucker Tent, which is run by Meredith locals as a bit of a fundraising opportunity. He emerged about five or so minutes later looking pink and bemused, if not slightly frustrated.

“What happened?”
“I went in there and asked for a sausage in bread, and…”
“And?”
“And it happened to me…again…”
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M: I’ll have a sausage in bread please.

Sausage Guy: I know you mate. I know your face. Are you on TV or something?

M: No. I just want a sausage in bread thanks.

SG: Are you a Geelong boy mate?

M: [baffled] Um. No.

[The Sausage Guy has a sudden revelation]

SG: Hey. Hey! HEY! I know who you are!

M: [in a tiny, tiny voice] You do?

SG: [speaking to everyone in the tent] It’s a WIGGLE everybody! There’s a WIGGLE in the TENT!!

[Pandemonium ensues. M continues to bleat plaintively for his sausage in bread.]

M: Mate. Mate! I am NOT A WIGGLE.

SG: Yeah. Righto mate. You’re ‘not’ a Wiggle.

[He reverently hands over a sausage in bread.]

M: I’m really not. I-am-really-not-a-Wiggle.

SG: Yep. Riiiiiiight.

[M backs fearfully out of the tent.]

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Two days later I click on that days Blast From the Past and find this!

UPDATE: Thanks to Dennis we have discovered the Wiggle in question. It’s the YELLOW Wiggle.

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[…] I felt like a very bad person. A bad partner. I didn’t even come up with an excuse. I just said I was very sorry. Very sorry. And then he made me feel worse by driving me to the doctors, buying a bag of oranges, squeezing me juice, making guacamole for lunch and pesto for dinner and putting out a plate of kiwi fruit and mandarines with instructions for me to eat them all. He has finally been able to head over to the shed and I am sitting here feeling garlic and orange juice and antibiotics whisking around my interior. Thank you M - you are worth more to me than a showroom Humber SuperSnipe and a matching egg shaped caravan, and I shout it to the Internet. I would have you over the yellow Wiggle any day. Posted on October 9th 2006 in Humber […]

The under-estimation of M « [m i a o w] the cat typed this on Oct 09 06 at 2:49 pm

http://www.superkids.com/aweb/pages/reviews/multisub/preschoo/03/wigglebay/wiggles.jpg

Yellow.

Dennis typed this on Dec 15 05 at 11:32 am

I fear to confess but both Ruth and I went “He’s really … I don’t know … familiar looking. You know - he really looks like a Wiggle.” But we kept it to ourselves. Even though we’d both totally like to met Wags the Dog and Dorothy the Dinosaur. Can M arrange that?

kartar typed this on Dec 15 05 at 11:40 am

OH. MY. GOD.
I had never seen a picture of the Wiggles before. Thanks, Dennis, I just inhaled my headset. That guy actually looks like an annoyingly excited version of M! God. What do I do now?! His only consolation will be that his Wiggle likeness is holding a surfboard.

And Kartar and Ruth - I can’t believe you guys. You kept it to yourselves very well…but it would have been very timely if you had pointed it out. But maybe it’s better that you were subtle - he might be developing a complex. I’m off to practice my Wiggles Hand Dancing (after I pull my headset out of my throat).

b:p typed this on Dec 15 05 at 11:45 am

download and print http://www.allenunwin.com/images/largeimages/0733314708.jpg then leave it somewhere for M to find it

Alternatively, get him a yellow skivvy

Dennis typed this on Dec 15 05 at 11:55 am

OK OK. This therapist that i ‘happened’ to meet the other day has gently led me to the conclusion that…
yes, I may well look like the Yellow Fucking Wiggle.

M... iggle typed this on Dec 15 05 at 3:52 pm