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Arks (Mr Robertson)

waldjake — 2015-04-27 02:27:36 UTC

He runs one of the local stores.

Coach's the local football team.

Garry cals hime 'Arks' because he says 'arksed' insted of asks and 'arksed' insted of asked.

"If I've arksed youse boys once I've arksed youse a thousand times, don't buggerise with the blody ball on them flanks, kick the bugger up the blody center." PG:3

Dumby Red

waldjake — 2015-05-11 01:33:58 UTC

RELATIONSHIP WITH GARRY:

Football team mate. They meet

in the change rooms at the local

football oval. At the start

of chapter 5 Garry

“hates his guts and spits on the ground to prove it”

Bob Black

waldjake — 2015-05-11 01:48:11 UTC

I don’t think that Gary’s dad is a very reliable or good dad."I walked into the kitchen. The whole tribe was there, sitting around the table, waiting for dinner to be served. Except for the old man, of course"."As usual, he was down at the pub. He only ate with us when the pub was closed".page 31"He's a big bloke, my old man. Well over 6 foot"I don’t think that Gary’s dad is a very reliable or good dad. He is always at the pub and only sits down to eat with the family when the pub is closed – Sunday and Christmas DayTo his credit though, he sounds as though he is a bit of a hard-worker because when they were fishing, his shirt was soaked with sweat and he hadn’t stopped all day, hadn’t slowed down.He used to be a bad boy and that is probably why Blacky’s mother was drawn to him.He used to drive a motorbike.He is from the city and is referred to as a ‘city slicker’.He fishes and is a good fisher, but cannot read the weather very well and doesn’t know the ocean as well as what his mate Mick does, but Mick couldn’t go when Bob went with Best-Team man and Black because he had one his back.He also might be a little bit greedy because even though he probably had a bit of an inkling that a stormwascoming and the well (where the fish are stored) was fullandGary was warning him, he still told them to keep fishing and kept fishing himself.He loves booze.He has a short temper and gets annoyed easily, especially by Gary when he tangles up the fishing lines and then can’t get them untangled.He has 8 children and is married to Gwen Black.

Darcy

waldjake — 2015-05-11 01:48:51 UTC

Old Darcy was a little bloke, jockey size, with a big nose, like a beak.’ P.G. 45‘Long khaki trousers, a long-sleeved khaki shirt buttoned to the wrists and sand shoes’.“Old Darcy was a little bloke, jockey size,with a big nose, like a beak. He always wore the same clothes, no matter whatthe weather – long khaki trousers, a long sleeved khaki shirt buttoned at thewrists, and sandshoes.” Page: 45.He also had hooks, swivels, lures and little coils of fishing gut too.Blacky and his family thought that Darcy was mad when he dressed like that in summer, but he never got sunburnt like Black and all his mates and family did.Every day Darcy would be fishing in his favourite spot at the end of the jetty.His house was full of things that he had found washed up on the rocks.Darcy would always refer to maggots as ‘gents’ because it was polite.He breeds maggots and has done ever since he retired and sold them to campers. Fifty for $1. He knows a lot about maggots.

Pickles

waldjake — 2015-05-11 01:50:05 UTC

Quotes:“Pickles wasn’t exactly ugly. The problem was his hygiene. His hair was like a rat’s nest. He never cleaned his teeth- they always looked like he’d just eaten a bowl of pond slime. His fingernails were filthy. He farted constantly and a Pickles’ fart would clear out a room in five seconds flat. And his undies had more skid marks than the Grand Prix circuit.” Page: 60."Pickles can make a noise with his throat, and only he can make it, which sounded like he was dredging something up from his feet. Then he would stop and spit it out. Ew."He was a hopeless footballer. He was always on the bench and sometimes if the team was in front by about twenty goals, Arks would give him a run in the last quarter. Pickles doesn’t really care because he wasn’t keen on playing anyway, but he did like to be in the team because you get to go to other towns on the weekend, and he could watch the girls play netball because he just wanted to perve on the girls’ undies.He is a local and is from the Port.Pickles has munga.He is a bit of a sleaze.

Thumper

waldjake — 2015-05-11 02:05:26 UTC

Quotes:

"He's the same size as Colin (who used to be Carol). When we played them they would cancel each
other out like King Kong versus Godzilla". Page 7

"If you multiply the thumpers mass (aproximatly 1 wheat silo)." Page 8/9

He sounds like he is quite large and like his food....

Blacky (Gary) is scared of him and avoids him at all costs.

2015-05-11 02:24:19 UTC