This is Timmy Mallett. Not sure if that’s his real name, but it would be cool if it is. For those below a certain age, this man will be a relative anomaly and a complete irrelevance to their everyday life. For those of my generation and slightly older, this is the man responsible for making the term wackiness a prominent part of our everyday vocabulary. Not that we didn’t say it before, but no one man has championed the cause as he has.
Apparently he was big on the Saturday morning ratings, but I never watched television on Saturday mornings. What I do remember him from is the holiday children’s programmes that he presented in the mornings of TV-AM. According to the constant refrain of his programme we were Wide Awake to be a part of the Wide Awake Club thus making it a Wacaday. More importantly for me he was the host of the seminal earth shattering televisual experience that Mallet’s Mallet the word association game (what on earth was the word ‘association’ doing in a children’s programme?) where you’re not allowed to say this, or this or you get the mallet. This of course will be nothing but nonsense unless you know it, but hopefully this useful video will help out.
Now about this time, you’ll be wondering, why is this here and not in the other place, but there is method in me madness and that method is to further outlined in a future blog entry about heroes. Here’s where I’m coming from, I’m reading a book about a certain personality, who was heavily influenced by Timmy Mallett, but not in this stage of his career. Find out more about this person and how Timmy Mallett has had a huge effect on my outlook of what’s important to me with no reference to word association games. (Although the game is good and is right up there in my opinion with the ‘Yes/No/Black/White’ game.)
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