A MAN with pink hair wearing a pink bra and a tutu walks into the Walkabout Creek Hotel.
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This is not the opener for a joke, although it does have the potential to be one.
Brendan Edgerton, from Rockhampton, was greeted by “stone-cold silence” in the same pub renowned as the setting for Crocodile Dundee when he stopped for a beer.
The testicular cancer survivor left the pub with his cameraman Derek Abel and they drove to Mount Isa.
Mr Edgerton is travelling around Australia in two weeks raising money for breast cancer by hosting “RU2TUFF2TUTU” balls in various locations.
But it seems Mount Isa is too tough to tutu, because at least one pub Mr Edgerton contacted did not seem interested in hosting a ball for charity.
But he did visit several pubs across Mount Isa, encouraging donations to be stuffed down his pink bra.
He drives a Commodore called Bullet, which he once drove across the world in 300 days.
“This car is called The Bullet because it’s bulletproof,” Mr Edgerton said.
Bullet has an odometer reading of 437,000 kilometres and was bought by its current owner for $150 from a junkyard.
The air-conditioner has broken on the tour but has so far enabled Mr Edgerton to tour “bang on schedule’’.
Mr Edgerton left Brisbane on September 26 and aims to be in Broome on Thursday and Perth on Saturday.
He aims to arrive in Bathurst during the 1000 supercar race, on October 10.
Mr Edgerton said he had received mixed reactions on his tour so far, ranging from being ignored to being laughed at.
One Queensland pub also refused to let Mr Edgerton film his tour documentary in the venue citing public liability issues.
The tour was an alternative option for Mr Edgerton, who was intending to complete a Cannonball Run in Europe this year, which was scheduled to have a fancy dress event.
Mr Edgerton decided to dress in a tutu when inspired by a 1920s advertisement of a ballerina bonnet surfing on a Rolls Royce.
He bought the tutu, but the tour was cancelled.
His Plan B to host tutu-themed balls in Australia “snowballed’’.
Mr Edgerton has toured across Australia before, having taken part in recent events including 30 pubs in 30 days.
He also lived in Mount Isa for six months about 20 years ago,
“I spray painted in the day, I sung at clubs at night,” Mr Edgerton said.
