So you might be wondering what is with the title of this blog.  Well, I'll start the story by saying that I was one of a few privileged people to spend last weekend on the snowfields up at Thredbo.  As a reward for their ongoing involvement with Microsoft, Tyson arranged for the the Australian Student Ambassadors to spend the weekend learning how to do some damage to themselves on the OZ ski slopes.  He of course needed assistance managing them (sure, if only this were true), so he called on myself, Nigel, Nadine and Brisvegas girl.

Anyway, now that I've set the scene, here is how the title came about.  On route from TechEd to the mountains (approximately a 3 and a bit hour bus ride), we were discussing everything from computers to cars to snowboarding to.... well a whole bunch of sport/technology/cars topics (generally thought of a guy-stuff).  Anyway, it turns out that Nadine is a total boys-girl.  So mid way through the bus ride it turns out that Nadine likes a particular type of music (or at least I think we were talking about music at that stage).  One of the student Ambassadors comes out with this ripper line: "Me too! Hey, we should date", which of course is line one of the worlds worst pick-up lines. 

So, of course, this became the running joke for the weekend. Everytime someone came across that they liked/did/were intereste in etc, that matched with someone else, of course out rolled this line (regardless of whether the other party was male, female, in on the joke or whatever).

The funniest thing about this was that after arriving home (having stupidly missed my flight - that is whole story in itself, but all I can say was "it's not my fault", well it probably was, but that resturant really shouldn't have opened up especially for us and made those illusion shakers....), I explained this whole thing to my girlfriend.  Of course, these things never sound that funny when you repeat them.  However, later that night, it turns out that we both wanted to go see something at the theatre, so out rolls the line "Me too! hey, we should date".  After about 10 minutes of literally rolling around laughing (in a public place), we realised that we were starting to get really wierd looks so we calmed down, but it was just sooo funny.

anyway, this whole story is probably not funny at all to anyone who wasn't there, so I'm wondering why I bother.  I hope that it makes you laugh.

Oh, just one last thing....Yes I did pay Brisvegas Girl $20 for going straight down the kiddie slope into the rubberised fence, just for a laugh.  I still laugh hesterically everytime I think of it, just a pity we don't have live footage....