Thursday, August 4, 2016

Hey Hey It's Ruggsy! How one Saturday can change your life


Look, if you had one shot, one opportunity to seize every rug you ever wanted, in one moment, would you capture it or just let them slip?

Picture this: His palms are sweaty, knees weak, arms are heavy. There's 90s patterns on his sweater already, his mum's gonna be so happy. He's nervous but on the surface he looks calm and ready to drop bombs on Hey Hey It's Saturday...

His name is dave 'Ruggdsy' Rugs.

We first encountered this Aussie legend when we asked the textline 'when have you been a winner but it's actually turned you into a loser? and got this:

Turns out it was 19 years ago today, on the 2nd of August 1997, That a 13-year-old David --it was just plain old David back then- found himself on a popular long-running Australian variety telebision show, being offered a shot at glory and prizes.

we tried to confirm the story and got this text from Rayn:



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