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HomeGazetteTake ten

Take ten

with Barry Spencer, TAB/Sports Bar attendant, Castello’s Pakenham Hotel.

What is something people don’t know about you?
I was arrested at the USA/Mexican border for an invalid passport and detained for six hours!

What has been the most memorable moment of your life?
The birth of all of our 12 grandkids and now three great-grandchildren.

If you had to choose, what would your last meal be?
Lamb cutlets washed down with a Coonawarra shiraz,

If you could witness any event, past, present or future, what would it be?
Sir Edmund Hillary’s ascent of Mount Everest.

What is your favourite television show?
Any sports program except basketball!

What is your favourite book?
Any true life crime history.

You are hosting a dinner party and can invite six guests, dead or alive. Who would they be?
My wife Lorraine, John Cleese, Don Bradman, Betty Cuthbert, Al Capone and Sir Doug Nicholls.

What has been your most embarrassing moment to date?
Being arrested again in Malaysia for the same reasons as in the USA!

If you could live in a particular era, which would you choose?
The Roaring 20s.

What was the first or best concert you have ever attended?
The Beatles, Melbourne.

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