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Taddy stated: I set them keeping tabs on the Roseworthy possums, to get
rid of harry Butler ideas (yes, that long ago) and discover that happy furry cuddly native animals were lethal hateful spitting beasts with five razor blades on each hand and every one aimed at you. You had to teach people at uni level that possums are nasty SOB's????? OZ is a very strange place. Everyone here knows that from childhood on.... -- katysails s/v Chanteuse Kirie Elite 32 http://katysails.tripod.com "Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea." - Robert A. Heinlein |
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katysails wrote:
You had to teach people at uni level that possums are nasty SOB's????? OZ is a very strange place. Everyone here knows that from childhood on.... I've known a few city boys who didn't know, wouldn't believe it when told, and had to find out the hard way. Most recently a neighbor who tried to pick up a "dead" possum he found on his porch (the thing had come up there to eat his dog's food) and had to get stitches plus a tetanus shot. If that's not scary enough, his insurance company refused to pay for a rabies shot series and he shrugged it off... DSK |
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Doug related: If that's not scary enough, his insurance company refused
to pay for a rabies shot series and he shrugged it off... He didn't kill the thing and lop off its' head for the State to examine????I don't go near a "dead" possum without a shovel in my hands..... -- katysails s/v Chanteuse Kirie Elite 32 http://katysails.tripod.com "Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea." - Robert A. Heinlein |
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katysails wrote: Taddy stated: I set them keeping tabs on the Roseworthy possums, to get rid of harry Butler ideas (yes, that long ago) and discover that happy furry cuddly native animals were lethal hateful spitting beasts with five razor blades on each hand and every one aimed at you. You had to teach people at uni level that possums are nasty SOB's????? OZ is a very strange place. Everyone here knows that from childhood on.... A:Yes. B:Yes. C:At last, an area where the US education system works well (?) At the time, the top-rating show was Harry butler "In the Wild", a softer, gentler and more intelligent forerunner of the Crocodile Hunter. In each show, Harry B would shove his hand into all sorts of horrible holes and pull out some bitey scratchy sublethal or wholly lethal furry rodent or lizard or snake with comments like "look at this little fella" and said lethal fella would look appropriately cute as Harry B communed with it. Mind you, being shoved in a freezer for a few minutes before being placed under some rock before filming assisted in developing an amenable personailty in the wildlife. The first-year students, half fresh out of school, had a lot of unlearning to do. (BTW if you visit Oz, just remember, before picking up a venomous snake, large fanged monitor lizard,toothy water rat (mandatory sailing content), slashing possum or piddling koala, check that it's been in the freezer beforehand so that its true personality shines through while you handle it) -- Flying Tadpole ------------------------- Faint echoes, sometimes inaudible, of the newsgroup's glorious past are downloadable at http://music.download.com/internetopera |
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too busy steering? She didn't want any. Said she needed more tan.
Scotty "katysails" wrote in message ... Lisa gooped me up with lotsa sunblock, but she got burnt :o Why didn't you reciprocate? -- katysails s/v Chanteuse Kirie Elite 32 http://katysails.tripod.com "Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea." - Robert A. Heinlein |
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funny how the weak-kneed pussy fem liberals always whimper about normal
people ''needing'' GUNS. Who said anything about 'needing' a gun? Don't fear the GUN. guns are fun. they're a useful tool. get over your fears. SV .... On 21 Jun 2004 10:31:12 GMT, (Bobsprit) wrote this crap: Nope, I was taught how to sew and that only weak people needed guns. |
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katysails wrote:
He didn't kill the thing and lop off its' head for the State to examine???? Nope. he tried to pick it up, it tore the beejeezus out of him (lucky it didn't get his neck), and he dropped it (of course) and it ran off into the woods. That was idiotic enough, but to shrug off the possibility of rabies is moronic IMHO. It's been too long since "Old Yeller" was aired.... ... I don't go near a "dead" possum without a shovel in my hands..... I keep a small stock .22 shorts for just such occasions (and of course, a shovel). Nobody misses a 'possum except possibly the owls. What's even funnier is the reaction of these suburban geniuses to the presence (or even the mention) of snakes. DSK |
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"Flying Tadpole" wrote: FYI Toads used to be pithed for frankensteinian biology experiments, particularly dealing with hearts and nervous systems. Take one live toad, preferably a cane toad, hold firmly by the back legs so that it doesn't fly across the laboratory on the up swing, swing around one's head then bring it down hard so that the head cracks against the edge of the laboratory bench (not so hard that its head snaps off and flies across the laboratory). Toad should be unconscious or dead after that. Ignore movement. Sever the backbone at the neck then with a probe push up the spinal nerve conduit and pulp the spinal nerve and the cerebellum. Ignore movement while doing so. Dissect out the heart, suspend between supports, flood with saline and apply various stimulants. Watch it beat. dissect out other bits of nerve and muscle, apply electrodes, charge, watch responses. The most revolting thing I was forced to do as an innocent student. We had to bring in our own frogs for that class. My partner brought in a dead, dry, perfectly flattened sample of road kill. We had a heck of a time making the abdominal cut on that sucker and commenced giggling...our biology teacher was pithed. Seahag |
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Taddy related:
(BTW if you visit Oz, just remember, before picking up a venomous snake, large fanged monitor lizard,toothy water rat (mandatory sailing content), slashing possum or piddling koala, check that it's been in the freezer beforehand so that its true personality shines through while you handle it) That's ok...we don't refrigerate our skunks...or our porcupines...and you'd be hard pressed to find a freezer big enough to stick a Michigan brown bear in, let alone the argument that would ensue over the stuffing...the coyotes are reclusive enough in Michigan that most never see one, but you do hear them at night...i'm sure there's a fool out there that would think they're cuddly...and then there's the Mississauga rattler who does like to hide in the leaves and doesn't make a very large sound so you get bit about the same time you hear the rattle....we just let idiots go out there and become more projects for the Darwin Award people.... -- katysails s/v Chanteuse Kirie Elite 32 http://katysails.tripod.com "Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea." - Robert A. Heinlein |
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Nobody misses a 'possum except possibly the owls Speaking of owls, my 10 y/o granddaughter just did a section in her science class where they "investigated" the fewmets of owls to see what their dining habits were....she thought it was neat until I suggested that the bones were very much like Skipper the missing hamster..... -- katysails s/v Chanteuse Kirie Elite 32 http://katysails.tripod.com "Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea." - Robert A. Heinlein |
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"katysails" wrote: Taddy said: You and Seahag need to watch your timing when singing chorus.... Great minds think alike.....we're just not always in tandem.... So how was our timing? Seahag |
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"katysails" wrote in message
... Nobody misses a 'possum except possibly the owls Speaking of owls, my 10 y/o granddaughter just did a section in her science class where they "investigated" the fewmets of owls to see what their dining habits were....she thought it was neat until I suggested that the bones were very much like Skipper the missing hamster..... Oh, that is so cruel. We had ducks as youngins, when they got big, Dad got rid of them one day, Mom made fried chicken that night. ;o |
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fear the GUN. guns are fun. they're a useful tool. What use is a gun? Can't you afford to buy meat? Can't you throw a straight punch? How useless are you? Oh, right. It's Scotty Potty. RB |
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Scotty Potty wrote...
"We had ducks as youngins, when they got big, Dad sent them to college cuz they was smarter than me." |
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"DSK" wrote: Seahag wrote: Right now I'm working on the exterior teak. I finally got Cetol on the cap rail under the taffrail. AAAACK... Cetol?!?!? What's the point? Cetol is great once you learn how to use it. It's way more forgiving on older teak than varnish. I can't tell you how frustrating it is to put on 16 coats of varnish only to have the plugs and seams blow damn near every spring. F**k varnish:^) ... We've finally come up with a do-able plan for the mainmast support rebuild, so that might happen soon. The weather's getting pretty hot and sticky so I don't know how much I can do. What's up with mast supports? Are you switching to deck stepped masts? The main mast step is on the sole so there needs to be something between that and the keel besides 18" of air. There were a couple of loose chunks of oak, but we'd like something more likely to stay in place when the you know hits the fan. BTW was it Bill who filmed that footage of the Clintons snoozing at Reagan's funeral? I didn't see it but a couple of friends have mentioned it... priceless! Hahahaha, Prince Charlie was pretty out too, ya shoulda seen it! That was at the cathedral, Bill was on the porch of the Capitol, he did all the camera moves on Nancy and the coffin. Seahag |
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"Bobsprit" wrote in message ... Don't fear the GUN. guns are fun. they're a useful tool. What use is a gun? |
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Guns work on fairys? Do you need magic bullets? RB |
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On 22 Jun 2004 02:06:34 GMT, (Bobsprit) wrote this
crap: Don't fear the GUN. guns are fun. they're a useful tool. What use is a gun? Can't you afford to buy meat? Can't you throw a straight punch? How useless are you? I use mine as a paperweight. It keeps the liberals away. Pathetic Earthlings! No one can save you now! |
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they kinda came in handy to defend our country.
What use is a gun? I use mine as a paperweight. It keeps the liberals away. Pathetic Earthlings! No one can save you now! |
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In article , Flying Tadpole
wrote: Peter Wiley wrote: Ah, memories of trapping Rattus fuscipes in the national parks north of Sydney and various animals round Smiths Lake. We got a possum in a big trap one night. It wasn't happy. Another time we fooled a kookaburra into swooping on a rubber snake and trying to beat it to death on its tree. My first degree had a major in population ecology. I picked all the courses with good field trips. Rattus fuscipes was the furry friendly one. It was Rattus lutreolus that was the snakey sod. I didn't get my claws into students until 2nd year, but they had to do a natural resources equivalent to farm practice in first year. I set them keeping tabs on the Roseworthy possums, to get rid of harry Butler ideas (yes, that long ago) and discover that happy furry cuddly native animals were lethal hateful spitting beasts with five razor blades on each hand and every one aimed at you. Those students obviously didn't grow up in the country. Possums have 2 uses - dog food & rugs for the bed. I did admire the ones at Sydney Uni tho - they used to feed from the bins with complete insouciance. One of the few native marsupials which have made a (all too) successful adaptation to the suburbs. ALso spent many happy hours marching them through mangrove mud, and teaching them basic power- and row-boat safety (mandatory a.s.asa content) No mangroves in SA are there? Thought their geographic range was less than that. Certainly none in Tas. Mangroves are fun. Smelly, but interesting places. Was barra fishing in the Wessel Islands one time in a creek running thru mangroves and one of the guys spotted a croc. 4 people did a standing leap from the water into the dinghy in an ohnosecond. It wasn't very big but who knew where its mummy was.... We used to run sediment profiles offshore & up beaches, along with drift studies and the like. Anything to get out of sitting in lecture theatres. ANd yes, I had students like you. The main issue was not the rubber goods but the bongs. You wouldn't have lasted with our lot. Someone would have put a possum in your tent, or worse. Field trips involved mandatory drinking every night followed by crack of dawn trap runs to let the critters out, then breakfast. PDW |
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Seahag wrote: "katysails" wrote: Taddy said: You and Seahag need to watch your timing when singing chorus.... Great minds think alike.....we're just not always in tandem.... So how was our timing? Seahag Out by nine minutes. Seahag first off the mark: Sun 10:46PM then Katysails Sun 10:54 (both local TOA here). Next time, factor in the different packet routes and servers and get it properly simultaneous. -- Flying Tadpole ------------------------- Faint echoes, sometimes inaudible, of the newsgroup's glorious past are downloadable at http://music.download.com/internetopera |
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Peter Wiley wrote: Those students obviously didn't grow up in the country. Possums have 2 uses - dog food & rugs for the bed. I did admire the ones at Sydney Uni tho - they used to feed from the bins with complete insouciance. One of the few native marsupials which have made a (all too) successful adaptation to the suburbs. Which seems to be changing. Oddly, the common brushie is starting to become a threatened species in Adelaide suburbs. A consequence of denser housing AND everyone pulling up their fruit trees. No mangroves in SA are there? Thought their geographic range was less than that. Certainly none in Tas. Lots. Big big stands in Adelaide, right round the top end of St Vincent Gulf, huge stands top end Spencer Gulf. Also: Westernport Bay incl Philip Island. SOuthernmost stands are on Wilson's Promontory. Mangroves are fun. Smelly, but interesting places. Was barra fishing in the Wessel Islands one time in a creek running thru mangroves and one of the guys spotted a croc. 4 people did a standing leap from the water into the dinghy in an ohnosecond. It wasn't very big but who knew where its mummy was.... Southern mangroves are less interesting: monospecific stands and no crocodiles. You wouldn't have lasted with our lot. Don;t you believe it. Someone would have put a possum in your tent, or worse. They didn't dare to. Field trips involved mandatory drinking every night followed by crack of dawn trap runs to let the critters out, then breakfast. So? at that stage, I could drink any student under the table and still give the appearance of being sober. Mooron will lend you the how-to manual, if you wish. -- Flying Tadpole ------------------------- Faint echoes, sometimes inaudible, of the newsgroup's glorious past are downloadable at http://music.download.com/internetopera |
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Horass uses fairies as paperweights... more info than we needed.
-- "j" ganz @@ www.sailnow.com "Horvath" wrote in message ... On 22 Jun 2004 02:06:34 GMT, (Bobsprit) wrote this crap: Don't fear the GUN. guns are fun. they're a useful tool. What use is a gun? Can't you afford to buy meat? Can't you throw a straight punch? How useless are you? I use mine as a paperweight. It keeps the liberals away. Pathetic Earthlings! No one can save you now! |
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In article , Flying Tadpole
wrote: Peter Wiley wrote: Those students obviously didn't grow up in the country. Possums have 2 uses - dog food & rugs for the bed. I did admire the ones at Sydney Uni tho - they used to feed from the bins with complete insouciance. One of the few native marsupials which have made a (all too) successful adaptation to the suburbs. Which seems to be changing. Oddly, the common brushie is starting to become a threatened species in Adelaide suburbs. A consequence of denser housing AND everyone pulling up their fruit trees. Plenty down here, I see them wandering about outside my windows. Something nailed a pademelon in my driveway the other night, I suspect a feral cat as none of the neighbours have dogs loose and I've seen a cat about. Time to bring a rifle down from NSW methinks. No mangroves in SA are there? Thought their geographic range was less than that. Certainly none in Tas. Lots. Big big stands in Adelaide, right round the top end of St Vincent Gulf, huge stands top end Spencer Gulf. Also: Westernport Bay incl Philip Island. SOuthernmost stands are on Wilson's Promontory. Ah, ok, I knew they were down to the NSW-Vic border (used to camp in Nadgee Nature reserve) but that lot were also (IIRC) a monoculture and getting pretty scrubby. Hope you lot treat the mangroves better than NSW (and esp Sydney) has. Wonderful filtration places and small fish nurseries. Mangroves are fun. Smelly, but interesting places. Was barra fishing in the Wessel Islands one time in a creek running thru mangroves and one of the guys spotted a croc. 4 people did a standing leap from the water into the dinghy in an ohnosecond. It wasn't very big but who knew where its mummy was.... Southern mangroves are less interesting: monospecific stands and no crocodiles. You wouldn't have lasted with our lot. Don;t you believe it. Heh. Someone would have put a possum in your tent, or worse. They didn't dare to. Heh. Field trips involved mandatory drinking every night followed by crack of dawn trap runs to let the critters out, then breakfast. So? at that stage, I could drink any student under the table and still give the appearance of being sober. Mooron will lend you the how-to manual, if you wish. Doubt I need it thinking of the jobs I've had & people I've worked with. Fishermen, cattlemen, miners....... learnt more than one trick to survive such 'social' encounters. PDW |
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they kinda came in handy to defend our country.
Terrorist bears in PA??? Will they crash their unicycles into your trailer? RB |
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consequence of denser housing AND everyone pulling up their fruit trees. Why are they doing that??? -- katysails s/v Chanteuse Kirie Elite 32 http://katysails.tripod.com "Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea." - Robert A. Heinlein |
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So how was our timing? Well, if he'd quit writing music in obscure timing patterns it would be better....my metronome is going crazy.... -- katysails s/v Chanteuse Kirie Elite 32 http://katysails.tripod.com "Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea." - Robert A. Heinlein |
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Next time, factor in the different packet routes and servers and
get it properly simultaneous. Taddy: : P''' -- katysails s/v Chanteuse Kirie Elite 32 http://katysails.tripod.com "Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea." - Robert A. Heinlein |
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katysails wrote: A consequence of denser housing AND everyone pulling up their fruit trees. Why are they doing that??? 'Cos they're all trying to be new-age yuppies, and mundane 1950s items like fruit trees in the back yard are deeply untrendy. Especailly as new housing is on very small blocks and has very large houses, hence nowhere to grow such things anyway. never mind, it'll all sort itself out ain the next 40 years as their children all terminate early from obesity resulting from the confined quarters and absence of open space. The australians posting in this newsgroup range from strongly deviant to extremely deviant from the suburban norm. From other things too Scotty, so snbip away. (mutter mutter) -- Flying Tadpole ------------------------- Faint echoes, sometimes inaudible, of the newsgroup's glorious past are downloadable at http://music.download.com/internetopera |
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one thing that always pithes me off, people build houses next to farmland,
then complain about the manure smell. And, they they cut down large tracts of forest, then call the development 'Thousand Oaks' and then the home owners complain about the deer wondering around the streets. AND......oh, never mind...... Scotty "Flying Tadpole" wrote in message ... katysails wrote: A consequence of denser housing AND everyone pulling up their fruit trees. Why are they doing that??? 'Cos they're all trying to be new-age yuppies, and mundane 1950s items like fruit trees in the back yard are deeply untrendy. Especailly as new housing is on very small blocks and has very large houses, hence nowhere to grow such things anyway. never mind, it'll all sort itself out ain the next 40 years as their children all terminate early from obesity resulting from the confined quarters and absence of open space. The australians posting in this newsgroup range from strongly deviant to extremely deviant from the suburban norm. From other things too Scotty, so snbip away. (mutter mutter) -- Flying Tadpole ------------------------- Faint echoes, sometimes inaudible, of the newsgroup's glorious past are downloadable at http://music.download.com/internetopera |
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in tune would be nice, also.
"Flying Tadpole" wrote in message ... Seahag wrote: "katysails" wrote: Taddy said: You and Seahag need to watch your timing when singing chorus.... Great minds think alike.....we're just not always in tandem.... So how was our timing? Seahag Out by nine minutes. Seahag first off the mark: Sun 10:46PM then Katysails Sun 10:54 (both local TOA here). Next time, factor in the different packet routes and servers and get it properly simultaneous. -- Flying Tadpole ------------------------- Faint echoes, sometimes inaudible, of the newsgroup's glorious past are downloadable at http://music.download.com/internetopera |
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OzOne asked Field trips involved mandatory drinking every night followed by crack tough crowd. Begs the question....If you woke up naked with a condom hanging out of your arse, would you tell anyone. Sounds like one of those, ''my friend has this problem'' questions. ;) |
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OzOne wrote in message ... On 22 Jun 2004 11:24:19 GMT, "Scott Vernon" scribbled thusly: OzOne asked Field trips involved mandatory drinking every night followed by crack tough crowd. Begs the question....If you woke up naked with a condom hanging out of your arse, would you tell anyone. Sounds like one of those, ''my friend has this problem and where are my condoms" question ;) Ohhhh OK. Good boy Ozzy, admitting your problem is the first step. SV |
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"katysails" wrote in message ...
A consequence of denser housing AND everyone pulling up their fruit trees. Why are they doing that??? Most likely the OZ govt considers them dangerious and a hazard to its citizens. Joe |
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Well, yes! And I'm glad to see someone else believes in doing
things right rather than half baked. Sometimes I feel I'm just a lone voice crying in the wilderness as I attempt to guide peopel on this newsgroup into , ahem, more appropriate behaviour. Scott Vernon wrote: in tune would be nice, also. "Flying Tadpole" wrote in message ... Seahag wrote: "katysails" wrote: Taddy said: You and Seahag need to watch your timing when singing chorus.... Great minds think alike.....we're just not always in tandem.... So how was our timing? Seahag Out by nine minutes. Seahag first off the mark: Sun 10:46PM then Katysails Sun 10:54 (both local TOA here). Next time, factor in the different packet routes and servers and get it properly simultaneous. -- Flying Tadpole ------------------------- Faint echoes, sometimes inaudible, of the newsgroup's glorious past are downloadable at http://music.download.com/internetopera -- Flying Tadpole ------------------------- Faint echoes, sometimes inaudible, of the newsgroup's glorious past are downloadable at http://music.download.com/internetopera |
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Tell me about it...we're living right in the middle of such a
mess. Scott Vernon wrote: one thing that always pithes me off, people build houses next to farmland, then complain about the manure smell. And, they they cut down large tracts of forest, then call the development 'Thousand Oaks' and then the home owners complain about the deer wondering around the streets. AND......oh, never mind...... Scotty "Flying Tadpole" wrote in message ... katysails wrote: A consequence of denser housing AND everyone pulling up their fruit trees. Why are they doing that??? 'Cos they're all trying to be new-age yuppies, and mundane 1950s items like fruit trees in the back yard are deeply untrendy. Especailly as new housing is on very small blocks and has very large houses, hence nowhere to grow such things anyway. never mind, it'll all sort itself out ain the next 40 years as their children all terminate early from obesity resulting from the confined quarters and absence of open space. The australians posting in this newsgroup range from strongly deviant to extremely deviant from the suburban norm. From other things too Scotty, so snbip away. (mutter mutter) -- Flying Tadpole ------------------------- Faint echoes, sometimes inaudible, of the newsgroup's glorious past are downloadable at http://music.download.com/internetopera -- Flying Tadpole ------------------------- Faint echoes, sometimes inaudible, of the newsgroup's glorious past are downloadable at http://music.download.com/internetopera |
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Joe wrote: "katysails" wrote in message ... A consequence of denser housing AND everyone pulling up their fruit trees. Why are they doing that??? Most likely the OZ govt considers them dangerious and a hazard to its citizens. Joe That too. Public liability insurance payouts have been so huge that insurance is impossible to get now for a whole lot of things, and if i dug a bit, I'm sure I could find you cases where someone (probably a burglar attempting a break and enter) was awarded hundreds of thousands of doallrs because they slipped and strained their ankle on an apple core from a fruit tree in a backyard somewhere. This sort of litigation we picked up from the world's best teachers. -- Flying Tadpole ------------------------- Faint echoes, sometimes inaudible, of the newsgroup's glorious past are downloadable at http://music.download.com/internetopera |
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