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)

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Flying Tadpole

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