Day 05 of the Grumpy Old Men Tour

by Lee Hopkins on June 11, 2009 · View Comments

G'day! Thanks for returning!

What’s been bigger than Ben Hur? The sheer joy of being on The Grumpy Old Men Tour, that’s what!

Here’s the video of our final day, where we wrap up what the tour has meant to us and thank some of the uncountable numbers of fine folks who have made this trip such a blast.

We know we’ve inadvertently missed some names out, for which we are truly sorry!

Both I and Allan would finally like to thank our closest allies: our partners. Without the support and forbearance of Vicki (Mrs BetterComms, the CFO of BetterComms World Domination Enterprises) and Christine, we hate to think how much trouble we could have gotten into!

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