Monday, November 18, 2002 2:54 pm 

Dr. Finbar Lops the Limbs off a Loquacious Locust 


The hours and days have rolled around, and here we are again. Time for 
another monologue. As a result of last week's excesses we have 
decided, in the interests of balance, to keep this one short(ish).

LAST WEEK

We visited the Yak and trialled some new material (thanks to Jeremy R. 
for coming along). We played and our audience decided to turn their 
hearing aids down. Oh dear!

THIS WEEK

The Dr. Finbar Trio breaks new ground by not playing at the Yak 
Speakeasy. That's right. Tell all your friends and neighbours, 
because we can scarcely believe it ourselves! This week we play at the 
Tramway Hotel, 165 Rae St., Fitzroy North. Acts start at 7pm.

THE DR. FINBAR COMPETITION Mk. II

We are pleased to announce that we have received a total of 0 entries 
thus far. This may be good news for you, since if you enter you might 
win by default. Otherwise we'll just have to keep the mystery prize 
for ourselves. The competition closes this time next week.

Admittedly, one person did send in a guess by email, though of course 
that doesn't count as a proper entry. His response to the 
question, "How many sugar packets are on the shelf?" was "rabbit". 
After we advised him that this might not belong in the category of 
plausible guesses, he amended his answer to "duck". We hope he has 
someone looking after his finances, because we suspect he may have some 
difficulty reading his bank statements.

That's it for now. We hope you're feeling fine & manage to have a week 
devoid of superfluous eccentricities,

The Dr. Finbar Trio.