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    Once upon a time we had a public holiday called Show Day. The reason behind it was so that people from rural areas and working class families could enjoy a day out to the Royal Melbourne Show and inject a bit of cash into the economy. Not everybody went but it was still a good day off to spend with your family.

    Then our Premier at the time Jeff Kuntett decided we had too many public holidays and scrapped it. A few years ago Dan reinstated it and rebranded it as Grand Final Parade Day where the 2 teams who will be competing on Saturday in the grand final can slowly hoon down the street to adoring waving fans.

    So you might think why a day off (No one’s complaining) before a football game? Well my little essay explains why.

    • Taleya
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      Hands up who’s old enough to remember show day? 👋

      ^zig and zag haunt my nightmares

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          You think those bastards can be contained???

        • Thornburywitch
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          Weren’t they both? And a lot of rural shows as well. Remember going to the Show and seeing them there. I fully agree with @taleya that they haunt nightmares. Apparently one of them was a serious pedo but I can’t remember which. Both drank and you could smell the grog a mile away. The things that parents think kids like is one weird list.

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            They were the faces of Moomba until it was discovered one was a convicted pedo.

            I remember seeing them walking around ruffling kids hair and thinking no no no. I did not like them.

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              I’ve never really liked clowns. Creepy, even the innocent ones. But Z & Z were more than just creepy. The Commedia dell’Arte has a lot to answer for.

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      My obligatory “as someone who grew up in the country” bit: =)

      I’ll add to this that Show Day was only for Melbourne, it wasn’t a statewide holiday. At least with the GF day, everyone gets it.

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        Oh really. I didn’t know that Show Day wasn’t statewide. Interesting.

    • Eagle
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      And show day was Thursday wasn’t it?

      • CEOofmyhouse56
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        Wednesday or Thursday. I can’t remember.

        Edit: It was a Thursday