G'day tax dodgers,
This post is to clear up my view of the riddle/challenge Bathory (the Watchtower vampire) put to the Farkelmeister (cult fighter par excellance) some time ago on h20.
Those not interested please tune out now. Bathory - I'm only posting this because you dragged me in from the sidelines.
OK The story in a nutshell: Bathory challenged Farkel to solve a riddle within 48 hours. If certain conditions were met Bathory would pay Farkel $2,500 (if my memory glands serve me right) So confident was Vampireman that Farkel was allowed a little help if he got stuck.
Farkel came back with the correct answer within the alloted time. (by all accounts he'd spent many hours dredging the depths of that magnificent cranium of his and come up with the solution .. we missed the mans wit and charm but life went on) Farkel won fair and square (to coin a freemason phrase)
By all accounts Bathory lost the bet and now owedd Farkel bigtime (well bigtime to farthingless Farkel .. no skin off multi-millionare Bathory's hooter .. according to his own publicity)
Bathory acknowledged the debt .. Farkel was in desperate straights so I (also skint at the time) pleaded with Bathory to at least send Farkel something. Bathory agreed, I went to Sydney, met Bathory (he's a fun guy, .. really .. mad as a cut snake .. but about as fun as any back alley cut-throut, mother murdering bastard i've met this side of the big blue mountains separating the latte drinkers from the real men .. oops i digress ..
Bathory emptied his wallet off almost $500Aust ($250US) and I rushed down to send an american express cheque off to Farkel in California. (and just made it home .. the bush beast sometimes runs on the smell of an oily rag .. thank mitsubishi)
Bathboy - I never said Farkel cheated or anything of the kind - if that was so why pay him any money at all? Bathory, to be blunt, I think the whole excercise crass and sick and did from the very begining (I don't believe in toying with people that way - money is kinda evil enough in our lives without playing funny bugger games like some marble tossing school boys) All jokes aside and with no ill feeling .. in my book you still owe Farkel $2,250US.
As it happens Farkel would love to come to Australia and I'd love to have the bloke stay with me a while. Trouble is I'm pennyless as a banicoot ... tell you what - you do the right thing .. buy him a return ticket and I'll put him up at my bush bolt hole. Hey we could give him a tour of sin city he'd never forget .. you'd redeem yourself and once again be free to sleep at night (albeit upside down in a cave
You can be a real funny guy Bathory .. even though we're opposite men in so many ways .. I love the bush, you thrive in the city. I chase wombats with cameras, you chase dollars with fast cars .. but at least we're both aussies who love 'the truth'
cheers, pontifix bruce
PS: I guess you'll be at the Superdome today listening to the wonderfull instruction from mother borg .. sorry you can't text me this time .. i'm phoneless (one step up from bro.farkel .. who's homeless :(