The gent on the left really is Fatso. No that isn't me, but we're related. The funny little man on the right is H.G. Nelson (aka, Greg Pickhaver) and part of the comedy duo, Roy and H.G. Fatso was their mascot on a show called The Dream which was a satire on sports commentary that ran during the Sydney Olympics.Nanohedron wrote:
Wombles! What's up with the avatar? Is that really you?
The Dream was hilarious. Amongst many running gags, they'd do commentary on sports that really get little coverage and also some that get a little too much coverage. So weightlifting and Greco-Roman wrestling got well-covered. When commenting on weightlifting, they'd talk as though every failure to make a lift was due to the contestant forgetting what to do next. They invented a rather racy vocabulary all their own for gymnastics. Certain moves got to be known as the battered sav, the 'hello boys' and the 'honey, I'm home'. I'll leave it to your imaginations to guess which.