W.O.M.B.A.T.

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Feb. 4
Hey JUBBLY! Maybe we don't have Groundhog Day because we don't have groundhogs? How about we bring in Wombat Day? 
Elaine Brisbane where its almost dry Q, Australia

ELAINE - WOMBAT DAY! Well, as you know I take everything very seriously so I looked at a piccy of a Wombat, and guess what? Im sure it was Stan Ogden!!!! Really!!!! It was him Im sure, so without further ado - Elaine and Jubbly name today, Thursday 4th February 1999, WOMBAT DAY!!!!!! um so now what do we do elaine? Retreating slowly.......

whispers goodbye 
Jubbly Sloshing around on the Rainshine Coast, Oz

Still on the subject of accents!! CLEMENCE, the actor playing Colin Barnes Des's brother, sounds very Geordie to my ears, much more so than Des ever did! I also saw him recently in a Catherine Cookson drama and he used the same accent, and very convincing, so I have to assume that he is indeed from Geordieland! TERI and LINDA, I could never forget the most luscious Geordie of all....our own Robson!! He is incidentally from Hexham which is a lovely town not far from Newcastle and which also lays claim to Rowan Atkinson ('Mr Bean')! If anybody has been watching the comedy series on TVO "The Thin Blue Line" starring Rowan as a policeman (and very funny btw), you will have noticed that the police Station is in a fictional town called Gasforth, which makes me wonder if it is based on Gosforth, a suburb of Newcastle?!! Too much like sheer coincidence to me, when realising that our Rowan helps write the series! (He definitely does not have a Geordie accent and is quite posh!) 

Off to bed to dream about Robson.....bye,
Andrea Windsor, Ont, Canada

Jubbly and Elaine, you cannot just up and decide that you're going to have a Wombat Day. It has to go through the Aussie Parliament or something... Anyway, what would it signify, hmmm? Have you even thought of that? Groundhog Day is a deep and time honoured tradition and there is a purpose to it. I suspect your fervor is born of petty jealousy and a need to play one-upsmanship. Tut tut!!! Besides, the day you chose happens to coincide with R Ian's birthday and I don't think he's going to like sharing his special day with a wombat!!!! And furthermore, why a wombat? Why not a possum? I mean, have you two thought about this at all??? 
Anita Ottawa, Canada

Off Corrie topic: Sorry, can't recall who the person was who was talking about Robson Green, but I love that guy. Man, was he fabulous in the most recent film I saw on TVO here, I believe it was called Prince of Hearts - Cyrano themed; he loved Tara Fitzgerald but helped the young royal woo her. The scene where he was on stage in the university production as Cyrano saying the lines which mimicked his real feelings, wow, he is great. Those eyes, that voice. Is it because he has a Geordie accent? Maybe. He's probably like Sean Bean though, and can do another type if required. BACK TO CORONATION STREET, what I want to know is: When is Curly coming back???? bye, *___* Mary Jane
Mary Jane Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

Just popped in LATE at night to wish RIAN CHARNLEY a GOOD HAIR DAY for his natal day - let the hair flow free where'er it be... And keep those horrible jokes coming you devil you! Whoever was asking, Groundhog Day seems to be a little local North American celebration and none too ancient at that. No groundhogs in these parts, but plenty of WETAS and I henceforth will celebrate February 4 by putting food out for the wetas. I won't declare it their day, they've got big enough heads as it is. NANCY: I'm behind with my email, but don't fret, I'll get there. Cheerfully,
Dale Wellington, New Zealand

ELAINE & JUBS: LOL! I don't care what the others think, Wombat Day has a certain ring to it!! 
Mags London, UK

JUBBLY: One joins Alcoholics Anonymous to stop drinking and Gamblers Anonymous to stop gambling. Good grief, girl, why on earth would we want to join a group called Robson Green Anonymous? The very thought chills.... I say what this world needs is more of whatever the heck it is that R.G. has!!!!
Linda from Dawson City

Because LINDA - some people here (and this is an anonymous programme so I wont mention ANDREA'S name) have an obvious Robson Green addiction problem. When I confronted Andrea with this (btw she was actually using another name on coro_street at the time hmmmm ?) she became very agitated and refused to admit she had a problem at all - ergo she was IN DENIAL!!!!! Ergo - the programme
ROBSON GREENS ANOYMOUS is formed. Do you too deny an addiction luvvie? C'mon you can tell me, it wont go any further! :-)

How many times have I accessed this GB today - NOT ONCE I TELL YOU, NOT ONCE!!!!!!!

;)
Jubbly queensland, Oz

One thing, before I go, I think we should have an RGN -- Robson Green Notorious Society! Cheers!
Mary Halifax, Canada

Okay Jubbs and Elaine - have your wombat day but for heaven's sake, what does it stand for?

Silly questions dept: Who is Robson Green?
Anita

Feb 5
Now if anyone's wondering about the ROBSON GREEN ANONYMOUS group which jubbly runs, it's very efficient and long-lasting. After just one meeting - we all stood up and recited the extent of our obsession - bookmarking his websites, taping his TV shows, stalking him, hiring a hit man to murder his wife etc - we had RG Aversion Therapy. I won't describe it, for the sake of our younger readers, but suffice it to say I expect my hair and fingernails to grow back any day now and I can go to sleep without the light s on already. And I practically NEVER go to http://www.robsongreen.com/ any more. If only I wasn't haunted by the though of jubbly putting us all off him so that it cleared the field for HER.... oh dear, perish the ignoble thought.
Dale Wellington, New Zealand

As you know I don't come here very often, but was just passing..... ANITA: You don't know what W.O.M.B.A.T. stands for? Strewth, well it's.... oh go on, Elaine, you tell her!! ROBSON GREEN is a Geordie actor - he was in Reckless and Prince of thingo summat. He is a REAL GEORDIE as opposed to Dez who wasn't Cannylass/Andrea taught me how to check LOL). I have never seen him act but
Cannylass realized my fetish (not addiction) for Male Geordies and put me on to him (so to speak - cor I wish she really had lol!!!) I saw a book on him in London when I was there and droooooooled so much I got strange looks!!!! As for the Robson Green Anonymous programme (Step. 1. Admitted we were powerless over Robson Green and that our lives were unmanageable) well there are quite a few anonymous people who have now joined ... Cannylass of course, Mary from Halifax, Linda from the Yukon, Mary Jane who is in very deep denial too, Teri, a few others, and TVor who has kept very quiet since we started this RGAnon programme!! And I am only here of course, to keep things in order, should anyone get too silly!!
Jubs (just passing) Queensland, Oz

Who is Robson Green? WHO IS ROBSON GREEN? Well, actually, I shouldn't be so rough on you, Anita. If it were not for the kindness of my sister in forwarding videos on to me I would still be in the dark as to the identity of possibly the sexiest man on the face of the earth. Beg, borrow, or (if needs must) steal something with him in it and you will be as hooked as the rest of us, I am sure. >:-)

As you will all notice, I hardly ever drop in here, either. Ta-ra
Linda from Dawson City

Hey Jubs! I am not in deep denial. I openly and freely admit, I am an R.G. addict. Is there anything wrong with that? OK, so I would have a fit if I missed seeing him in a show that was broadcast, and freak out for a couple of days. Who wouldn't? You can't say that's obsessive, can you???? 
Mary Jane Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

Hi all! Many thanks for the BD greetings from one and all - but to have to share this day with a WETA, which, I gather is some sort of wingless, horny grasshopper peculiar to NZ .let me rephrase that - a horned grasshopper that can only go walk-about. Not to mention that I share it with WOMBAT day which was a wholly unilateral decision of Jubs and FR .though I suspect that FR simply let Jubs get on with it.

By-the-by, I HAVE heard of the W.O.M.B.A.T.S - a group so secret that their meetings are held INSIDE termite mounds, the attendees wearing balsa clothing. Well, you can imagine how fast the meetings are adjourned W.O.M.B.A.T.S stands for (you must forget this as soon as I tell you):

The Welsh Opossum, Marsupial and Badminton Admiration Theatrical Society

I'm led to understand that they have some very strange ideas on shuttlecock reform ..Would you care to address this issue, Jackie? 
Ian

ANITA, ANITA! Such a suspicious nature. There is no deep mystery to Wombat Day, nor is it some subversive plot to oust the common or garden groundhog from his weather forecasting moment of glory! No! Wombat Day is the day nominated to honour and respect one of God's furry little creatures unique to this land. Next month we will have Quokka Day and of course you have all heard of the Easter Bilby. Possums have far too much attention already so they have no chance but the Numbat is there with a shoe in. Of course these DAYS aren't official yet, but as soon as I get the petition started and find my Local Member it's a cert! I can picture the celebrations now... Kiddies dressed as the Marsupial of the day...Speeches in Parliament... The Wombat Cup.. The Numbat One Day International.. Quokka Soccer is banned naturally so that's out. But the possibilities are endless!! I think we are on a winner here JUBBLY! As for yesterday's weather? Im not sure, but I've a horrible feeling it means we're turning into Melbourne. ARRRGH> 
Elaine Brisbane Q, Australia

Look - I'm going to have to come clean here - there was a very embarrassing problem yesterday - WOMBAT DAY! As secretary of WOMBATS and Hon'orny President of ROB GREEN ANON, I had two meetings to attend. To cut a long story short, I got the mixed up. As you know, both meetings require blindfolds and well..... strewth it was shocking, we had wombats running around with pieces of coal, Robbo addicts, umbrellas up and puffing on sugar cane. Well, I was just passing....... off to the 12 step programme for people addicted to 12 step programmes now. 
Jubs Queensland, Oz

Jubbs: Was that Honorary President or Horny President -- it was hard to tell from the abbreviation you used. I just watched all of Touching Evil last night and Prince of Hearts tonight and I'm going to rewatch The Gambling Man tomorrow and then Saturday I think I'll watch Reckless -- oh no I can't Linda has my Reckless tapes -- oh my God! Can you tell my Husband is out of town skiing. R.G. Anonymous save me

no wait I don't want to be saved. 
Teri Farkas Edmonton,-

Really ladies, I'm sure this Robin Greenson is very nice but what must the menfolk think? All this drooling, etc. Snap out of it, already! Terry, knowing R Jubbs, it could be either or both! ;-)
Anita Ottawa, Canada

I guess Anita's right. I mean -- there is probably a Robson Green chat room somewhere. Re: cones' post about Zoe and Heaven's Gate. That's exactly what I thought when she started getting into the Foundation so heavily. So I went onto a Web site that had updates from the UK and that's how I accidently found out about Des, two months in advance of when it was shown in Canada. I was so upset that I vowed never to look at the spoilers again. Right, that's easier said than done. I've already found out something else I wish I didn't know. bye *__* It is a relief to go online and find other Corrie types out there. 
Mary Jane Hamilton, ON, Canada

Robson Green? Wombat Societies? Oh, you crazy mixed up kids!!!

OK, I have to admit, I also have no idea who Robson Green is. He must be quite something though, to inspire such devotion (dare I say...dangerous obsession???) in people from both hemispheres. Perhaps someone should warn him.

Jubbly, Mary Jane, Linda, Dale, Andrea and Teri: I said WARN, not WARM ;o)

Climb all 12 steps to e-mail. 
Clemence Calgary, Canada

OOOPs spelled his name wrong at the end. I guess that's the effect he has on us lol. Or me anyway!
Felix

Sung to the tune of the Mickey Mouse Club 

FOR THE LOVE OF ROB 

Who's this guy we've come to love 
We've seen him on TV 
R O B S O N * G R E E - N 
Oh Robson Green 
You make use scream 
Forever will you make us ladies sigh, sigh, sigh, sigh 
Come along and join the club 
With Jubs and family 
R O B - S S O - N, lots Robson PLEASE!!!!!!

Yeah! Robson 

Sorry Anita :)
Felix 

FYI: As Anita rightly points out, yes there is a Robson Green chat room. I went there and you will never guess what I found!!!!! ANITA there chatting with all the so called RG fans about (you will never guess who?) KEN BARLOW!!!!! For hours and hours they chatted - Ken this and Ken that, and what a lovely rain mac he wears and didn't they just LOVE his teeth. Lord, it was so very sad...... So Anita, dear chum, youve been sprung, guess we will just have to add you to the RGAnon programme along with all the others..... Back to step 1 again ladies!!
Jubbly Queensland, Oz

IAN: As you are well aware, the whole Shuttlecock Reform was a cover up for the Cocked Shuttle running between San Francisco and Brisbane. What of course, you don't know, is that, before it actually reached here in its disguise as a telephone cable of course, La Nina in all her glory washed it over with her warm currents (pinched from my spotted dick no less) and sent our Cocked Shuttle off course to New Zealand!!!!!! Now, I do have a comment from W.O.M.B.A.T.s on this strange phenomonomenon, but it is top secret and hidden under my mattress with 'that' jar of Branston Pickle. Last I heard, the Cocked Shuttle was in fact heading overland to Wellington, N.Z. toward a strange lady, be-decked in leopard skin and holding a bottle of popped Ginger Beer.....................
Jubs again Secret Location, Oz

JUBBLY, I am so glad to belong to the RG anon, but I really don't want to be cured! What is step 2? And shouldn't we do something about ANITA wasting time talking of Ken Barlow (the man in the raincoat) in RG time!!! BTW, the last few postings have been very confusing, nay surreal! Shuttlecock expresses ??? do I sense storytime beginning again? And will JUBS, IAN, and DALE do the honours? Cheers, from a blustery, ice pellety maritimes.
Mary Halifax, Canada

Feb 6
FELIX loved the song...maybe we could persuade Robson to sing it for us (yes the man sings too!), and we could get some daft hats to wear when we attend these meetings! JUBBS; an RG chat room? Do they have RG quizzes too? Better start swotting! lol I fear that ANITA is a lost cause...Ken Barlow in his mac no less...yuck! BTW I agree with MARY, I don't want to be cured of RG addiction either! 
Andrea Windsor, Ont, Canada

I don't want to alarm fellow GreenGroupers, but local news channels are full of reports coming in about the Shuttle going off at half Cock and getting stuck high on our desert plateau as it made its way overland to Wellington. Straying onto a military firing range in the vicinity, it was accidentally detonated by wild fire. The resultant explosion could apparently be heard from as far away as Queensland - but I missed it as I was listening to a glass of very extremely poppy ginger beer at the time, and was easily confused. Did you know, when the wind is in the right direction and the moon is full, ginger beer picks up random radio frequencies? I was listening to Top of the Pops. That'll teach them to take on the might of the Green Machine. Thought they were redesigning a wussy little game, and instead found they had become involved in MORTAL WOMBAT. 

Life is more complicated than you ever expected.
Dale Wellyboot, New Zealand

This just in from the Distant Early Warning (DEW) line in Canada's north (for those in southern Ontario, that would be Newmarket!?) - "Shuttle accidentally detonated by wild fire - stop - poppy ginger beer picks up strange frequency of odd British radio station - stop - bizarre transmissions of unknown Robson Green surfacing - stop - Wombat mortally wounded in odd Australian ritual reminiscent of Inca sport torture - stop." I don't like the implications here. First, this Robson Green character appears to have captured the heart of several Corrie Street fans. What a diabolical plot! From Fred Elliot to Robson Green! I rest my case. I resolve to .aaccckkkkk - zzzzttttttt ..
Ian Spencerville, Ontario, Canada

MORTAL WOMBAT ROFLMAOPMP!!!! I haven't laughed so much at this thread since the (whisper) Branston Pickle society affair of last year. As for the Shuttle going off *half*-cocked, well they do say it's not the size, don't they? ;) 
Diane/tvor

Well I was telling my friend about the Robson Green/Wombat tales and the previous Branston Pickle business and she thinks there's a secret ingredient in Branston Pickle that isn't well known.... a hallucinogen! She also thinks we have WAY too much time on our hands. Who, Us? By the way, I do think RG is lovely but I have been spending most of my time lately in the Alan Rickman (#rickman on Dalnet) chat room! He may not be as handsome as RG but has a voice that sends shivers down me timbers! Strewth! And we DON'T talk about Ken Barlow there (spit ptooie). And I do apologize on behalf of my fellow Canadians in Whiarton who gave that fake groundhog a funeral the other day, perhaps they had got into the Branston Pickle! Such things don't bear thinking about. 
Diane/tvor

Oops - damn, look what I've trod in.

Robson Green, he played Jimmy, 
He played Jimmy on Casualty, 
With a Wombat, Wapiti, 
Give a Weta wings
Robson Green he also sings 

The problem with Alan Rickman's voice, is that you have to turn the volume up to hear him, then race to turn it down when he's finished. Another actor's voice that I like is Patrick Stewart. As for the street, I think Ashley has the - WHAT? Oh you DID say nicest voice? Well, I think it has to go to the dear, departed Derek Wilton. 
Ian

Ken Barlow has the nicest male voice on The Street - this is true because I heard Anita on RGAnon telling everyone. Actually I agree with her too! I can't come up with a pleasant female voice, Rita I guess is the nearest, but for all her nastiness, Tanya had a lovely voice IMHO. 

Diane/Tvor, heavens luvvie, what sort of people are you mixing with outside of here? Strewth!
Jubblyjub

Wen fust Ah cum acrost this pehge
Bloomin' gnawmes weer awl t'rehge;
Aw sumtihmes rentin' peeves 'n' 'ehtes
'Genst lasses 'oo ne'er rinse theer plehtes!
'N' wen Ah ast 'em wots t'matta,
Theh'd seh "R Gehle's no' rinsed yon platta!"
Bu' tihmes've chehnged, as Ah've lehtly seen --
T'tawk t'deh's awl Robson Green!
Well, tha con seh it's naw buznuss o' mihne --
Buree's no' frum t'County Palatihne!
'N' as fer wombats, warrevva theh be,
Bring back t'bluddy gnawmes, sez me!

SRETFORRUD LANCASHEER LAD (aka C.F.)

Oh Frank, you're a daft 'aporth, Im choking on me brekkie here Lad!!!!! 
Jubs

My goodness - Robson Green and Alan Rickman in one day - my knees are getting all wobbly! RFrank: you've done yourself proud - another creation for my poetry collection! As for Corrie voices, I could listen to Fred for ages - but it's as much the delivery and range from bluster to sweetness as the voice that attracts me.
Lydia

Um, can anyone suggest a larger meeting for our RGAnon Recovery Programme please? 
Jubblyjub

Ooops, should read "meeting room" - knew I shoulda given the Branston a miss last night!
Jubs again

Feb. 7
Jubbs!!!! You know I was doing important research on that channel. Well, okay it was really some important undercover work for an important secret organization I belong to but the point is, it was meant to be kept quiet. All that stuff about Ken's raincoat and his teeth, that was code and I was collecting important information, for yours... ;-) Anyway, I do happen to think Ken has a very nice voice and in fact, I think he sounds a lot like R Tinkster. I never noticed that until my 12 year old heard the New Year's wav and mistook Alan for Ken!!! (Yes, he does watch - most days!)
Anita

MORTAL WOMBATS, GNOMES and ROBSON GREEN - yer daft aporths, you lot had me ROTFLMOPMP - wonderful, wonderful fun!!!! I needed the therapy, you lot ought to be prescribed on the National Health Service - wonderful tonic. Love and thanks to all of you!!! As for the drooling, us mature (hahahahahah! Like cheese!!!) fellas don't mind, I mean I think the Diet Coke Break advert is hilarious, so I'm all for it, after all we fellas drool as well, you know!!! Diana Rigg, Joanna Lumley, Tina Turner!!!! Sheesh!!!! How's about a POSSUM and AARDVARK DAY, Jubbsy??? Anyone rise to the occasion?
Tinky

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