Goodbye Strop

Australian comedian and businessman John Cornell best known as Paul Hogan’s sidekick Strop — has died at the grand old age of 80 after a long awful battle with Parkinson’s disease.

Cornell who was born in Kalgoorlie and brought up in beachside township of Bunbury, was surrounded by his family, including his wife and television personality Delvene Delaney and children, at his home in Byron Bay in NSW.

This fella was withdoubt a “true egalitarian”, now I had to look that big word up and it said... 'believing in or based on the principle that all people are equal and deserve equal rights and opportunities'. Now fairdinkum I couldn't off said anything better then that, and it really summed this top bloke up. Off-screen he was smart enough to be Paul Hogan’s manager, helped mastermind Kerry Packer’s World Series Cricket and produce the super mega-successful Crocodile Dundee films. As for the Crocodile Dundee movie it had a $8.8 million budget, but with several hundred mates of Cornell and Hogan — including Packer and cricketers Lillee, Greg Chappell and Rod Marsh, they came up with the moolah. And made Australian history as the second-highest-grossing release in the US that year, after Top Gun. All up grossing $328,203,506 million... crikey!