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Big Gorilla


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Hi Bruce. I must be getting Ol' Timer's Disease !!!Thanks. Try this one !!

 

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I'm not old, I've just been young a long time....Ken

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Is it Ken Rosewall



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Not Ken Rosewell..  He's an American Pop Singer rising to fame from 1950s onwards. He's now 90 years old !!



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Is it Johnny Mathis

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BG, which post are we meant to guess?



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It is Johnny Mathis Bruce. Over to you...

John Royce Mathis (born September 30, 1935) is an American singer. Starting his career with singles of standard music, Mathis is one of the best-selling recording artists of the 20th century. He became highly popular as an album artist, with several of his albums achieving gold or platinum status and 73 making the Billboard charts.

Mathis has received the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award and has been inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame for three recordings. Although frequently described as a romantic singer, his discography includes traditional pop, Latin American, soul, rhythm and blues, show tunes, Tin Pan Alley, soft rock, blues, country music, and even a few disco songs for his album Mathis Magic in 1979. Mathis has also recorded seven albums of Christmas music. In a 1968 interview, he cited Lena Horne, Nat King Cole, and Bing Crosby among his musical influences



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Ineedabiggerboat wrote:

BG you posted the exact same pic on Dec 10. I could cheat and post the answer but I wont. How about you post a new one

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Not sure if you know Dicko put a blue emoji represents a ridiculing and mocking response. Its quite rude.

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Ineedabiggerboat wrote:

Not sure if you know Dicko put a blue emoji represents a ridiculing and mocking response. Its quite rude.

 Only in your mind!



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Big Gorilla wrote:

Hi Bruce. I must be getting Ol' Timer's Disease !!!Thanks. Try this one !!

 

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 BG, is this post still active? Has got a bit confusing.



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Its not rocket science

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who is this?



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Big Gorilla wrote:

Hi Bruce. I must be getting Ol' Timer's Disease !!!Thanks. Try this one !!

 

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 This could be Frank Sedgman, Tennis ace.

 



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Ineedabiggerboat wrote:

who is this?

 Looks like a young Neil Armstrong, the US astronaut.



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Yes it is Neil Armstrong who needs no bio explanation

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Well known Aussie.

Best of the photo I could locate.

 

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A famous sportsman born in Qld.



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Is it Kerrod Walters

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Ineedabiggerboat wrote:

Is it Kerrod Walters

 Not him. But, from a similar mould.



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Kevin?

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Ineedabiggerboat wrote:

Kevin?

 No, not Kevin Bloody Wilson. disbelief



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A clue may help.

"Australian former professional sportsman who played in the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s, and coached in the 1980s and 1990s. He became a commentator for television coverage of the sport."



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Played rugby Union & League. Father played League also.



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Even has a statue of him erected in Brisbane.

 

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"Home is where the Den is parked, Designer Orchid Special 21' towed by Jeep Diesel Grand Cherokee Limited"

"4x250W solar panels, 360w solar blanket, Epever 80A charger and 4x135Ah Voltax Prismatic LiFePO4 Batteries".
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The King, Wally Lewis

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Ineedabiggerboat wrote:

The King, Wally Lewis

 Yes it is!

Over to you.

 

Personal information

Full name

Walter James Lewis

Born

1 December 1959 (age 66)

Hawthorne, Queensland, Australia

Playing information

Height

182 cm (6 ft 0 in)

Weight

95 kg (209 lb; 14 st 13 lb)

Position

Five-eighth, Lock

Club

Years

Team

Pld

T

G

FG

P

197883

Fortitude Valley

111

71

11

4

249

198384

Wakefield Trinity

10

6

0

0

24

198487

Wynnum-Manly

55

26

9

2

124

198890

Brisbane Broncos

46

20

11

0

102

199192

Gold Coast

34

6

3

0

30

 

Total

256

129

34

6

529

Representative

Years

Team

Pld

T

G

FG

P

197987

Brisbane

 

5

5

0

27

198091

Queensland

38

7

1

2

30

1981

South Queensland

1

1

1

0

5

198191

Australia

34

11

0

2

45

Coaching information

Club

Years

Team

Gms

W

D

L

W%

198687

Wynnum-Manly

32

25

1

7

78

199293

Gold Coast

44

7

1

36

16

 

Total

76

32

2

43

42

Representative

Years

Team

Gms

W

D

L

W%

199394

Queensland

6

2

0

4

33



-- Edited by Dick0 on Thursday 19th of February 2026 07:34:54 PM

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I have nothing to offer, someone go for it.



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I'll give it a go:

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That would be Robert Stroud

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Robert Stroud it is. Over to you :


 
Robert Stroud
Robert Stroud Mug shots of Robert StrouRobert Stroud
American criminal and ornithologist
 
 

Robert Stroud (born 1890, Seattle, Washington, U.S.died November 21, 1963, Springfield, Missouri) was an American criminal, a convicted murderer who became a self-taught ornithologist during his 54 years in prison, 42 of them in solitary confinement, and made notable contributions to the study of birds.

At the age of 13 Stroud ran away from home, and by the age of 18 he was in Juneau, Alaska, working as a pimp and living with a dance-hall girl. An argument over the girl led to his fighting and killing a man. Pleading guilty to manslaughter on August 23, 1909, he was sentenced to 12 years in federal prison on McNeil Island in Puget Sound. After stabbing a fellow prisoner and proving generally troublesome, he was transferred to Leavenworth Prison, Kansas (1912), where he continued to be a loner but began to educate himself, taking university extension courses. On March 26, 1916, he stabbed and killed a guard and was tried, convicted, and sentenced to hang; but on April 15, 1920, President Woodrow Wilson commuted his sentence to life imprisonment in solitary confinement.

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Robert Franklin Stroud
Byname:
Birdman of Alcatraz
Born:
1890, Seattle, Washington, U.S.
Died:
November 21, 1963, Springfield, Missouri (aged 73)
Alcatraz Island
Alcatraz IslandAlcatraz Island, in San Francisco Bay, California.

Thereafter, mostly in solitary confinement, he began raising canaries and other birds, collecting laboratory equipment, and studying the diseases of birds and their breeding and care. Some of his research writings were smuggled out of prison and published; his book, Strouds Digest on the Diseases of Birds, published in 1943, was an important work in the field. In 1942, however, Stroud was transferred to Alcatraz, where he was allowed to continue his research but was denied further right of publication. In 1959 he was transferred to the Medical Center for Federal Prisoners at Springfield, Missouri, where he spent the last four years of his life



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Since light travels faster than sound, some people appear bright until you hear them speak.

 
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