A pair of very smart spectacles

Ordered a pair of spectacles on Ebay. They were meant to look like Elvis Costello meets Janine Haines, sans perm. Or this. Or maybe even this.

They don’t.

They look like  Stuart Littlemore with a hint of Jenny Kee.

So they’ve gone straight to the pool room. The Crikey pool room consists of a shelf full of shit souvenirs that people bring back from their various holidays along with other assorted items. There’s a Coffs Harbour Big Banana water pistol (in the shape of a banana), a pink dolphin holding a surfboard (Lombok), a picaninny doll (Thailand, inexplicably), a Day of the Dead tableau (Mexico), a wrestling mask (same place), and a rubber chicken (don’t ask.) There’s also a framed fax from Venise Alstergren that reads:

My Computer crashed but had to send this

Dear First Dog,

You’ve done it again.

I lurve ‘Mother Theresa in a can!’!

Did you strike some magic mushrooms under your MacDog mansion? Two strikes in two days. Fantastic.

Cheers

Venise

And finally, a football card featuring the Western Bulldog’s Mitch Hahn.

These glasses will sit on the pool room shelf until a team member needs to look very smart, ie during any kind of television appearance. Kind of like the funky black rimmed glasses that anyone from The Australian likes to wear when they talk to David Speers on Sky only much, much bigger.

Today Andrew Crook of the Sackwatch desk was interviewed by ABC 2 Australia Network* for an item about Sackwatch.

Unfortunately he refused to wear the smart spectacles and/or pose with a calculator, so our editor wore them in the background.

Watch for further appearances of the very smart spectacles in future.

*Andrew Crook can be seen on ABC 2’s Australia Network on Sunday morning at 11am.