the king of baked potatoes

It all started on sunday night when I was innocently watching Rove Live, waiting for my mum to call me to pick her up from her night out. Rove was interviewing Myf Warhurst from triple j. As with all of the guests on Rove's show, he asks them questions to earn $20 in 20 minutes.

The clock is counting down, and there are about 5 seconds left, when Rove asks Myf, "Is Elvis still alive?"
She answered quite excitedly, "Yes! He lives in Bendigo!"
Rove cries, "wait! wait! stop the clock I want to hear this - What?"
The clock is stopped, and Myf explains that Elvis is indeed alive, and selling baked potatoes in the Mall in Bendigo.

At the time it was pretty funny, and in good Sammy tradition, it still was funny last night.

After telling this to my sister, and to Steff, which I'm sure both found it very amusing, I decided to play a little trick on my friend Trav. You see, Trav replaced his mobile a little while ago now, and with that I decided to play a bit of a "guess who" trick on him. It was fun for a while, but given the circumstances under which I was messaging him (and also I suspect, cheating), he soon worked out it was me (however his first guess was 'are you male?'). I guessed that he'd never think I'd be behind such a trick again. And so far, I think I'm right, as this secret will be revealed to him when he reads this post.

With my mothers phone I decided to send Trav a message: "Hey, you'll never guess what! Elvis is alive and well and selling baked potatoes in the Bendigo Mall".
A while later I got a message back from Trav informing me that he had indeed got a new phone and had lost his numbers so he didn't know who I was.
I was delighted to inform Trav that I was indeed Rove McMannus.

After this I went and packed for the long trip home, and got organised, while my mum went to work. After getting ready, I decided that I'd better see if Trav had anything to say, but I couldn't find the mobile anywhere..

I soon forgot about it, got in my car and went down to say goodbye to my mum. She said to me, "Some Trav guy messaged me, and he said 'Say Hi to your mum for me'" (that is a famous quote Rove says at the end of each of his shows).