The Virginity Emails

Sometimes I can't believe I get paid to do the stuff that I do.

Like this week.

We're urging our customers to 'leave their message' on the inside of our Wicked Campers, to create a bit of a culture and attach some history/wisdom/character to each van.

One method we're using to encourage this is asking customer's to write in the vans 'how they lost their virginity'. We've incorporated this idea with an online competition, asking the public for their virginity stories. The best (most ingenious; yet true) stories will win a free Wicked 7 day roadtrip from Cairns to Sydney.

Well! I've never been so excited to check my email before...

The stories I've received so far are so intriguing! I do have my 'favourite' stories, but to keep it fair the Evangelism Panel will read all the entries at the end of each fortnight to select the roadtrip winner.

Here's a snippet of a story I received yesterday.

When i was 16, I broke up with my boyfriend of a year. After id broken his heart and he was sitting on the edge of his bed crying (yes, well he was only 16) I asked him if I could lose my vplates to him. Even though he was waiting for marriage (religious reasons) but I really wanted to have sex for the first time with him, not some random idiot.

So he gave up his virginity to me that day, only to have his mother walk into his room not expecting her religious son to be doing me from behind on the bed. Not such a good moment. After that afternoon I was never allowed to go back into that house. And she never believed him that it was the first time hed had sex either. Oops.

So i broke the poor guys heart, stole his precious virginity and got him grounded for a long long time. all in the space of about 4 hours...

How did you lose your virginity? Tell us here!

The Great Noosa Campout

Mary and I spent the morning in Noosa, at the media launch for 'The Great Noosa Campout', a 3 day event held over the easter holidays.

As I'm a bit struck for time I'll post some photos of the Noosa Campout van tomorrow, but I wanted to upload this footage from the launch. The major of Noosa, Bob Abbot spoke about the festival and gave Wicked Campers some lovely feedback! It's all here in this video.

Snaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaake!

You know what it's like on a Monday morning...you usually stagger into work, mourning the weekend and can't function until you have a shot of caffeine. This Monday morning started out like the norm and then at 9.10am, Ross our graphic designer yelped out from the bathroom. "F*ck!""... (pause)... "SNAKE!".

A massive green tree snake was patiently waiting for Ross outside the bathroom. Ross slowly shimmied his way past the imposing creature, and fortunately the snake slithered down the stairs. This photo attempts to capture the snake as it made its getaway; unfortunately he was a very camera shy snake.

It took awhile to get over the surprise, and we were trying to stop laughing in order to figure out strategies to keep the snake out, when we spotted something else slithering on the office floor. A massive lizard! The snake had obviously been trying to catch his breakfast from our office floor space.

A hilarious morning and a great way to start the working week! Hopefully there are no more similar surprises in stall later this week, though I reckon this would be the perfect time to slip a fake spider on someone's unsuspecting desk.

Father Ted in Australia!

Wicked are collaborating with the Tedfest festival down in Parkes, NSW. This is a completely unique festival and looks amazing if you're a fan of the cult TV show "Father Ted".

For those who don't know what Father Ted is, Wikipedia can help:

Father Ted was a situation comedy television program produced by the British television company Hat Trick Productions which first ran from 1995 to 1998 on Channel 4 in the United Kingdom. It starred Dermot Morganin the title role as the Irish Catholic priest Father Ted Crilly, and was set on the remote fictional Craggy Islandparish off the west coast of Ireland.The show follows the lives of Ted and his fellow priests, Father Dougal McGuire (Ardal O'Hanlon) and Father Jack Hackett (Frank Kelly), who are exiled on the island, living together in the Parochial house with the fourth main character, housekeeper Mrs. Doyle (Pauline McLynn).

The Tedfest van will feature as part of the Paddy's day festival in Sydney this weekend, so grab a pint o' guinness and wave your shamrock flags as it swings by!

Tedfest are putting on a fabulous deal for all Wicked punters:

- 3 Tedfest tickets for the price of 2 (saving of $250!)

If you're booking a Wicked Camper for the Tedfest festival you also get a wicked 5% discount (direct bookings only)! Ah, 'tis the luck of the Irish.

Our Wicked grafitti guy did an impressive job painting up the van, check it out:

2010 Sydney Mardi Gras: The Homo Float (sponsored by Wicked Campers)

The theme for the 2010 Mardi Gras was the 'History of the World'. Wicked Campers sponsored a group called 'Homo' who were celebrating the history of the moustache. A 4WD Delica was painted up with various moustached characters from history (Ned Flanders, Charlie Chaplin, etc).

Check out their fabulous footage in this quick 5-minute clip. The costumes at the parade are incredible!

A big hi-5 to Sister Mary who slogged away for weeks getting the float ready, gathering participants and creating dozens of sparking, hairy, and just plain hot moustaches.

Topless Swedish ladies

Thursday at work started like any other day in the office - a few phone calls, some emails, faxing to be done, a couple random requests... but at 10.30am I received a call from the Brisbane depot, telling me to 'come over urgently' and to 'bring the video camera'.

On arrival, I was greeted by 2 swedish girl's at the depot, who were topless and had been painted by our indigenous artist Nathan! Nathan, along with most of the depot staff were grinning like cheshire cats. I was given my mission: That I'd be in the car with a photographer from The Courier Mail and we'd be driving into the city to take footage of the girls (who would be flashing the public through the sun roof of one of our Wicked vans)!

Our car arrived first at Post Office Square in Brisbane (one of the most busiest pedestrian crossings in the CBD) and camera's were stealth-positioned at the go. A few minutes later the Wicked van appeared... it stopped at the pedestrian crossing and the girl's stood through the sunroof and started waving at the unsuspecting public! The reactions were priceless - most people laughed, or were shocked/ gobsmacked. After all, it was midday on a Thursday.

After about 20 seconds of putting on a show the girl's quickly yelled our expletives and lowered themselves back into the van.

The reason? A policeman proudly walked in front of the van and signalled for it to pull over. You couldn't script it any better, this would make fantastic footage! The cop was with our driver for a good 10mins, but our driver only received a $100 fine, for "Travel with vehicle with part of body outside of window". Not bad, considering what else he could've got them for.

Variety is the spice of life and that's why being a Wicked Evangelist is so much fun!