Buller to purchase FC / Hotham.
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01/04/09 09:29 am -
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In a stunning overnight development, owners of Buller Ski Lifts Rino and Diana Grollo have come to an arrangement with James Packer's Arctic Capital to purchase the Falls Creek and Hotham ski resorts.
However during due diligence it was decided that Falls Creek due to it's chronic lack of gravity will be repositioned as a Snow Play, XC resort with the world's highest Duck Pond and generator of inane press releases.
BSL's General Manager Laurie Blampied is quoted as saying "This is a wonderful development for skiing. We will be able to offload all the bogans and ferals to their spritual home at Hotham, get rid of all the tobogganners to Falls Creek and continue to concentrate on serving Melbourne's elite. Don't think of coming if you're not in an X5, ML or Cayenne"
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01/04/09 09:38 am -
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- [ Re: CarveMan]
 Haha classic.
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01/04/09 09:40 am -
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- [ Re: Luken]
It should be very good..... I saw the press release, and they are going to have a common season lift ticket for all three mountains, plus the same season parking ticket. 
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01/04/09 09:46 am -
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- [ Re: Sandy]
 Wait for it though, the FC chip on shoulder gang will be arriving soon to take you to task....
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Buller, my home mountain, fun as, but as flawed as any out there.
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01/04/09 10:01 am -
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- [ Re: Hunter]
So the Buller wanchors will still be safe in Wanchorville without the pesky scum from Hotham and FC, sounds like paradise on earth.
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01/04/09 10:22 am -
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- [ Re: rangerider]
C'mon, at least make it believable... 
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...your milage may vary...
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01/04/09 10:46 am -
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- [ Re: Hobber]
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01/04/09 10:48 am -
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- [ Re: sperks]
That was a joke? Looked legit to me. 
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01/04/09 10:56 am -
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- [ Re: rangerider]
What's an ML !?!!? 
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01/04/09 11:01 am -
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- [ Re: PG]
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Gone Fishn'
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01/04/09 11:08 am -
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- [ Re: CarveMan]
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I don't do PC
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01/04/09 11:08 am -
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- [ Re: Claude Cat]
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01/04/09 12:27 pm -
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- [ Re: Hunter]
 Wait for it though, the FC chip on shoulder gang will be arriving soon to take you to task.... naaah - they're out summer skiing on the FC Glacier
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Ski the Dark Side.
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Man with big stick
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01/04/09 12:32 pm -
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- [ Re: CarveMan]
 I was so tempted to copy and paste that into our current news headlines 
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I'm a smudge on this place.
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01/04/09 12:37 pm -
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- [ Re: Ian D]
Just Do It 
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Come at me ese!
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01/04/09 12:41 pm -
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- [ Re: Doonks]
Too late Doonks ... it's already past noon!  But would have been funny!
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A tenacious duck
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01/04/09 12:42 pm -
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- [ Re: Flakey]
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paddling on the pond of a life with eels
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I so have my ski legs now ...and an ass like steel. But am back to Africa!
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01/04/09 12:47 pm -
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- [ Re: Dr. Wood Duck]
classic...thanks for the laugh
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01/04/09 12:48 pm -
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- [ Re: Doonks]
Carveman, that is the best post I've read in all my years on this website!
Go on Ian, post it in your news headlines. It's not like any of the "Big Five" resorts advertise with you anyway, so you won't be alienating any advertisers!
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01/04/09 12:49 pm -
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- [ Re: Dr. Wood Duck]
 that is gold CM!!
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01/04/09 12:53 pm -
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- [ Re: kasto]
Too late team, it's after midday now. Glad y ou got a chuckle out of it. I was actually surprised at the lack of AFD high jinks today.
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01/04/09 03:14 pm -
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- [ Re: rangerider]
So the Buller wanchors will still be safe in Wanchorville without the pesky scum from Hotham and FC, sounds like paradise on earth. Yes. Yes it does.
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01/04/09 03:39 pm -
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- [ Re: CarveMan]
No its not paradise.. I don't have a whanchor SUV and therefore I'd be barred entry!  Maybe Julia Gillard would give me a lift up the hill on her Q5 roof-rack.
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01/04/09 03:47 pm -
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- [ Re: CarveMan]
What still concerns me though is the hoards of bogan day trippers from Melbourne infiltrating the resort as they do year after year. Maybe they could be moved on to Baw Baw.
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01/04/09 03:48 pm -
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- [ Re: PG]
No its not paradise.. I don't have a whanchor SUV and therefore I'd be barred entry!  Maybe Julia Gillard would give me a lift up the hill on her Q5 roof-rack. Sorry PG, no German car no entry.
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01/04/09 03:53 pm -
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- [ Re: rangerider]
What are you talking about? X5's and ML's are allowed in.. I'm sure they don't mind some povvo Audis making up the mix.
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01/04/09 04:08 pm -
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- [ Re: PG]
This just arrived from someone in marketing at one of the 'Big 5' resorts:
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01/04/10 12:37 pm -
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- [ Re: PG]
No its not paradise.. I don't have a whanchor SUV and therefore I'd be barred entry!  Maybe Julia Gillard would give me a lift up the hill on her Q5 roof-rack. If you bring some lego and spaceships then yes 
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01/04/10 01:00 pm -
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- [ Re: Julia Gillard]
It's not April here yet so you had me briefly with the subject line. 
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01/04/10 01:20 pm -
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- [ Re: Alex.C]
what a good idea  go Buller
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