Is Edna too OLD for Formula One?
Edna: Yes, Possums, I’m leaving it all. Going back to my roots. Moonee Ponds. One last fling
with Les and that’ll be it. Timing it to arrive when all that Formula One
nonsense is over. Last time in
Adelaide, I said to Eckie, “Why can’t you have your little races somewhere else
like Wagga Wagga?” so he plumped me
in a driver’s seat and I had the thrill of my life, Possums, believe
me. Oooh! All that vibration! I couldn’t say a word, could I?
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| I had the thrill of my life, Possums. |
But this year, I said, “Eckie, I’d like some peace and quiet, can’t you
have your little cars run quietly?
They sound like whining mozzies and
you can hear them all over Mellie, even in Moonee Ponds.” And you know what he
said? “Can’t. Shan’t. Won’t.” Cheeky
Eckie. So I said, “Eckie, if you can’t keep your cars quiet, I won’t turn up at
your tent to open your event. No matter how
many gladdies you give me. I’m going on a tour with Les. When you’ve cleared
out, then I’ll come back to
Melbourne.”
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Voice-over
Ozzie English which Dame
Edna captures so well in the monologues that she is so good at, can be
caricatured with cuddly Ozzie address terms like “Possums,” euphonious
aboriginal place names like “Wagga Wagga,” and chopping nouns and adding “-ie”
as in “Eckie,” “Mellie,” “gladdies,” and “mozzies.”
Edna also is a very effective
storyteller. Briskly she answers the wh5: what, who, where, when and why, often through
reporting the conversations she has and preceded by "You know what he said?" or "So I said..."
Edna turns DIALOGUES into MONOLOGUES.
She excels as a MONOLOGIST.
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