In his youth, Jonar Nader was a regular contributor to several segments on the Hey Hey It’s Saturday television show on Channel Nine. After more than a decade, Jonar wrote to Daryl Somers to share his latest book, being ‘Prentice Hall’s Illustrated Dictionary of Computing’ which has since gone on to a third edition, and sold around the world. Further below is a transcript of the video.
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Male Speaker: From the studios of channel 9, entertainment center of the galaxy and a relay around the globe through Melbourne, Sydney, Canberra, Brisbane, Hobart, Adelaide, Perth, Darwin and New Guinea welcome yet another two hours of zany mad-capped stick on Hey, Hey, It’s Saturday with Daggs and the dregs. And now, folks, let’s hear it for the host, Daryl Somers.
Daryl Somers: You always get a headache and you’re just doing the start of a show. Had a letter.
Ossie Ostrich: Had a letter?
Daryl Somers: Had a letter from a guy who watched us many years ago and he wrote to us. He said, ‘You may recall that 13 years ago, I wrote to your “What cheeses me off segment”.’
Ossie Ostrich:
Daryl Somers: What a great start to a letter!
Ossie Ostrich: Yes.
Daryl Somers: Isn’t that a great start to a letter.
Ossie Ostrich: He’s still waiting for an answer, isn’t he?
Daryl Somers: Yes, the thing is I do recall.
Ossie Ostrich: Yes?
Daryl Somers: Yes. He wrote in to complain about how difficult it was for kids to understand what news readers were saying due to their overuse of difficult long words.
Ossie Ostrich: Oh, yes.
Daryl Somers: Now, you and your team acted out a special skit to exaggerate this problem. Interestingly, Prentice Hall, the Paramount thing – communications company have just launched my book called Prentice Hall’s Illustrated Dictionary of Computing. Now, that’s the computer book this guy has put out.
Daryl Somers: But …
Ossie Ostrich: It will be exciting, real funny.
Daryl Somers: Yes.
Ossie Ostrich: It’s a must to everybody’s library.
Daryl Somers: Yes. And the thing he wants to come on the show and be on red faces as a judge.
Ossie Ostrich: Right.
Daryl Somers: And – because it says, you know – what does it say? Now, the thing that cheeses me off is the fact that Hey Hey It’s Saturday mainly caters for viewers who are mad about entertainment. Well, what about technology? I would like to appear on your show and re-live that skit and show you how difficult it must be for people of my generation who didn’t grow up with computers to understand computer terminology.
Ossie Ostrich: What’s his name again?
Daryl Somers: As much as I – his name is Jonar C. Nader.
Ossie Ostrich: Oh, Jonar, stiff.
Daryl Somers: Basically, yes.
Ossie Ostrich: Yes.
Daryl Somers: But, didn’t you get a lot of national exposure after your book then …
Ossie Ostrich: Yes.
Daryl Somers: … Jonar.
Ossie Ostrich: Yes, yes.
Daryl Somers: There you go. How are you, Redmond, are you coping with the season?
Male Speaker 2: No.
Male Speaker 2: Not at all.
Daryl Somers: What? You not?
Male Speaker 2: I was trying to do a ‘Hey, Daryl’ before we got that book. I was just going to say that yes, hold it up, thank you. We’ve already got Deane Hutton on the show. Why do we need two dweebs?
Daryl Somers: Now, come on. He’s probably backstage there though. Which would be a shame because he’s not on until next week …
Male Speaker 2: And that’s where he should stay.
Daryl Somers: But he’s probably back …
Male Speaker 3: I think it’s fantastic. It’s sort of like an episode of Beyond Grecian 2000.
Daryl Somers: Hello, the boys are going out.
Male Speaker 3: Sorry, no. That’s all we’ve got. That’s about it. That’s as funny as we get, Daryl.
Male Speaker 2: It’s an equity thing, Daryl.
Daryl Somers: Okay. Off they go. The boys are leaving. Okay, we’ve given Jonar C. Nader a big plug, Mike Brady a big plug. Legacy have got theirs already, That man there is Paul Norton. He has a band and a very beautiful wife Wendy Stapleton up there. And there ‘When We Were Young’ as the number, go for it, Paul!
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