Alpine Opinion

Big birthday coming up

Posted in Personal/family by Ray Dixon on 27 July, 2011

It's hard to believe they're all the same bloke - click on image to enlarge (if you must)

My daughter, Corinna, is organising a big get-together of family & friends down in Melbourne for my birthday in September and she’s going to a lot of trouble, even putting together invitations that, on the inside, include this montage of yours truly through the ages. I dunno why I’m even putting this up here but I just want to point out a few things:

  1. Ignore the ‘Gary Lyon lookalike’ on the bottom right – it’s not me. 
  2. I have no idea who that bloke with the moustache is in the middle of the bottom row.
  3. The most recent photo of me is the bare-chested one on the bottom left, taken only last summer - yes it was!

Okay, you can ask (or guess) which birthday it might be. … but I will not tell.

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  1. Iain Hall said, on 28 July, 2011 at 6:07 am

    :)

  2. Rox said, on 28 July, 2011 at 8:34 am

    Must be a 50th. That “recent” photo of you is a real stunner – wow! The one that isn’t you is – sorry – a scream. Was it the 80s? We all had perms then Ray – no need for embarrassment.

    Crikey – you even looked like yourself as a baby. Thanks for showing us. Don’t expect us to reciprocate.

  3. Ray Dixon said, on 28 July, 2011 at 9:55 am

    I have no shame, Rox. Yeah, that does look like a perm – I can’t believe that look was ever popular. But the bottom left is the real me.

  4. Ray Dixon said, on 28 July, 2011 at 10:53 am

    Oh, as for your 50th guess … no comment but I’m flattered.

  5. Rox said, on 28 July, 2011 at 10:57 am

    It seemed safer than 60th

  6. Ray Dixon said, on 28 July, 2011 at 11:15 am

    40th would have been even nicer.

  7. Rox said, on 28 July, 2011 at 4:44 pm

    Keeping it real.

  8. Greg on his mobie phone said, on 30 July, 2011 at 2:52 pm

    I reckon it will be your next birthday mate. We think the second photo on the bottom row looks like Steve Bracks.

  9. Ray Dixon said, on 30 July, 2011 at 3:06 pm

    Bracksie!?!

    Yes, you’re right, Greg – it’s not me.

    And the moustachioed bloke is a 70s porn star. Again, hardly me.


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