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[Davros]

Someone should write a fictional book based on his life.

Seems like a decent bloke, but he looks like he may not be off the slippery slope just yet. But reckon Derek H may have tried to keep pace on the piss drinking stakes and got a little left behind or is he always like that?

[pridmore]

a book about his life would be great, I'd read it... for sure, even know the guy who could write it...

[SDC]

Derek H may have tried to keep pace on the piss drinking stakes

DH doesn't drink mate.

[Davros]

There you go.

[Davros]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wkqKpduy-Vo

Rips. Hows the song.

[damo666]

That was beer in the brown sanga.

Sad to see any soul 'go off the tracks' for any reason/s. But if the man is happy with his lot, what else matters?

Hmm...Wooly - do you reckon he's really happy with where he is?

[Davros]

Probably similar adulation at their time but different paths taken.....

http://www.korduroy.tv/2011/another-day ... h-part-two

[daryl]

He's in a position I think of as comparative heaven, call it a pipe-dream but getting serious shit dumped on you after pouring your heart out over something, not getting enough surfs in, when the rewards of playing a responsible part in 'society' don't cough up and you get diarrhea'd on, doesn't make it seem worthwhile not to drop out.

[Nick Carroll]

Probably similar adulation at their time but different paths taken.....

http://www.korduroy.tv/2011/another-day ... h-part-two

Not even close davros.

Wayne was hailed as a Messiah for nigh on a generation by people from West Oz to San Diego. The weight of adulation he carried makes Herro's look like a 500g bag of frozen peas from Coles.

[Davros]

Would you say the most respected surfer Australia has produced or is that to difficult to answer or shouldn't even be approached.

[Nick Carroll]

Yeah, I wouldn't go on that one!

[brendo]

SBB would be 'surfer to most appear in sunday papers social pages'

[Skipper]

I think Herro looked rather dapper in his plaid jacket.
Not the slightest bit derro. Heaps smarter attire than some crusty surfbrand hoodie or off the rack ripaquikbong coat.

As far as seeing him as sad and or depressing....that'd be a reflection on the observer equating some kind of success as a measure of happiness. Sad is any number of other incidents that befall a person. The untimely loss of a parent or child. Being stricken with cancer. Loss of life and incurable disease are truely sad occurences that people encounter everyday throgh no fault of their own.
He's alive and seemingly doing fine. What's gone is gone. There's nothing really sad about that. If his health woes wereto cut his life short, it'd be sad for his closest. But for the casual observer, we have no connection and therefore only impose our expectations on what could have been, as opposed to what is.

[jimmy]

Would you say the most respected surfer Australia has produced or is that to difficult to answer or shouldn't even be approached.

That'd have to be Stuart Bedford Brown, wouldn't it?

Yep.. He was top notch.. Closely followed by Kingsley Looker..

[Beanpole]

I reckon he's got a bit of style to him myself. Pushing the Bukowski envelope a bit but hey the guys a wranger. How many red heads have made it in surfing?
Or is that just a red Hering?

[jimmy]

I reckon he's got a bit of style to him myself. Pushing the Bukowski envelope a bit but hey the guys a wranger. How many red heads have made it in surfing?
Or is that just a red Hering?

Mick Campbell?

Surfing has progressed since then but he makes Shane look like a Trev.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ksir2D0VZAg

[PeepeelaPew]

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[Beanpole]

I know all the red headed QLanders just play football. Fatty Vautin, Tate, Tallus, Mal Meninga.