Mad Muddy Max

[Stephen Whiteside]

Mad Muddy Max

I read that the current floods at Broken Hill have caused the filming of the new Mad Max film to be postponed until 2012.

© Stephen Whiteside 01.12.10

I’d like to see Max muddy.
I think he would look cool.
Ev’ry desert can get rain.
There isn’t any rule

That says Max has to live in dust,
His world forever dry.
Come on, fellas, take a risk.
I think it’s worth a try.

I’d like to see his sodden hair
Plastered ‘cross his face.
Couldn’t bashed-up motor boats
Across the waters race?

Of course, it’s not my money.
It’s fine for me to say
The audience could take it
If it went the other way,

If it went from dust to water.
I can understand their fear,
But the landscape now is ev’ry bit
As rugged and severe

As it ever is in drought time.
It would take a lot of skill
To flourish in a world like that.
There’s ample scope to thrill.

So come, you timid writers,
You’ve an opportunity
To show another side to Max.
You needn’t feel at sea. (Little joke here. Yuk! Yuk!)

Broken Hill’s not broken. (Another one! I’m really smokin’ now!)
That’s the way it is.
It happens ev’ry now and then.
There’s no need for a tizz. (Yeah, that rhyme’s a bit weak, I know.)

Hew the world to suit your ends.
Don’t be a fuddy duddy. (Even weaker…)
Show us Max is even MADDER
When he’s wet and muddy!

(I know I’D get mad if my costume got all wet!)

[Bellobazza]

Good'n Stephen...

To show another side to Max.
You needn’t feel at sea.

Is Mel to reprise his role?
Could be a case of 'Mel de mer' (Little joke here. Yuk! Yuk! )

Cheers, Will.

[warooa]

I don't think it takes much to get old Mel Mad these days . . . remember the film Wolf Creek, where they filmed it, it hadn't rained for 5 or 6 years and when they came to shoot, it rained for 3 days, so they just incorporated the rain into the script.

Quirky little poem, Stephen and nice side-line critique on your jokes . . . you been at the prescription cabinets again

Marty

ps nice pitcha Bellingen 'Pacific' Bazza

[Stephen Whiteside]

Hic!

[Heather]

What was it you said you were smokin' Stephen? You're a worry....

Heather