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Not an unusual Australian image ...
... except that this was taken in the main street of Gundagai (population 3700). Neighbouring houses are perfectly suburban. Locals report occasional sheep escapes.
In some parts of the southern hemisphere this would b X rated. (Baaaah)
Posted by surfmaster on 2008 03 16 at 08:15 AM • permalinkWarmening! Temperatures driving sheep to migrate!
Posted by Rittenhouse on 2008 03 16 at 08:19 AM • permalinki think Tim is trying to pull the wool over our eyes.
Posted by surfmaster on 2008 03 16 at 08:22 AM • permalinkI thought Krudd’s 2020 ideas summit was being held next month in Canberra.
Posted by eeniemeenie on 2008 03 16 at 08:35 AM • permalinkRudds people are having a few problems of late:
And please don’t mention Wollongong Council. Seems to be typical of a government in power too long................
Posted by surfmaster on 2008 03 16 at 08:42 AM • permalink"the main street of Gundagai,” like that’s supposed to make it more surprising. We’re talking about Gundagai here.
A really remote, small, legendary outback town where I wouldn’t be surprised to see kangaroos hopping down the main street.Posted by daddy dave on 2008 03 16 at 08:49 AM • permalink#16 - Nic, and they are not wearing lingerie.
Posted by surfmaster on 2008 03 16 at 08:54 AM • permalink#14 Surfmaster, the security vetting process is not new. It’s fairly standard practice for people who have access to sensitive or classified information. It just seems that the Labor staffers, who until now were gobbing off with only half the picture, are now going to have to undergo the process in order to “put them in the Mona Lisa” as one of my NCOs used to so elegantly put it.
The trick is not to try and catch people out for things they’ve done in the past, it’s to have the department aware of them so that there can be no attempt at blackmail in exchange for information. The information divulged in the interviews is not made public, in fact it isn’t divulged at all. It would just seem that these people have skeletons in the closet that they are not proud of. To be honest, I’m sure we all do, but it’s better to aknowledge them than have the potential for extortion.
Posted by Richard Sharpe on 2008 03 16 at 08:58 AM • permalinkAhh, or should I say Baaaaah - it looks like a bunch of (sheep-like) unionists who have lost their way - in the middle of downtown Gundagai.
Are they in search of the great free lunch and never-ending sickies and all the other lurks and perks they ( the unions) paid for during the election campaign?
Well, poor old Kev looks a little rattled of late, and Julia is obviously champing at the bit. So keep on looking and grazing on all that clover all you unionised sheep - Julia will soon be there to make your life glorious once again.
Locals report occasional sheep escapes.
Story as old as time.
Sheep goes baaaaaad. Has to take it on the lam.
Posted by joe bagadonuts on 2008 03 16 at 10:44 AM • permalinkLocals report occasional sheep escapes.
OK, whcih one of those ne’er-do-wells is Harold?
Posted by Spiny Norman on 2008 03 16 at 10:55 AM • permalink#22 Ash_
Now that wasn’t very nice. Why can’t we all just be friends.
Posted by Spiny Norman on 2008 03 16 at 11:02 AM • permalinkHow to Make the Best of
Annoying Uninvited Guests:Babe, set extra places,
We’ll need them for lunch;
My ex-girlfriend Baa-bra
Brought her rowdy bunch.Is there enough spread for
A luncheon buffet?
Don’t worry, just uncork
A nice cabernet.I’ll need to make peace with
Her great-uncle Max;
We’ll drink to his mem’ry,
Now hand me the ax.#s 1 & 3:
She’s NOT a goat! She tries to pass herself off as a goat, to look cool, but she ain’t fooling nobody.Posted by formerly Huck Foley on 2008 03 16 at 01:51 PM • permalink”... except that this was taken in the main street of Gundagai (population 3700).”
Well, that’s what happens when you live in a big old city with thousands of people in it. You get serious traffic congestion as is shown in the accompanying photo.
If you wish to avoid stuff like that, you have to live in a small town, like mine (Canyon, Ca.). If you choose to live in a metropolis, like Gunadagi, then you’ll just have to put up with people or sheep clogging the thoroughfares.
Posted by Dave Surls on 2008 03 16 at 03:58 PM • permalinkOooo - I wouldn’t get that close to them. They look like evil, feral sheep. Very dangerous critters. Descended from Vikings, prone to conducting a bit of rape and pillage.
For our US friends, when you read of a “town destroyed by bushfires”, it’s a euphamism for “town sacked and torched by feral sheep on the rampage”. The media are very good at covering it up, given how we have to protect our friendly tourism image and all that.
If you come for a visit, whatever you do, don’t look at the sheep. If they start to stare at you, just run. Don’t back away - just run.
Posted by mr creosote on 2008 03 16 at 04:16 PM • permalinkAsh_
Spiny NormanYou are both bad people....
Which means I shall now be allowed to post this in retaliation.Meanwhile I think this is a documentary on what mr creosote is talking about.
Posted by thefrollickingmole on 2008 03 16 at 05:14 PM • permalink#18 You were actually waiting to show that? How on Earth did you come across it? Confess! What were you searching for when you came across that? Also, this video shows many people have to much time on their hands.
Posted by Wimpy Canadian on 2008 03 16 at 06:06 PM • permalink#22 Ash_, you are evil. That’s the second time you’ve had me waste a chunk of my life expecting to get out of that particular infinite loop of rediculousness.
Posted by Wimpy Canadian on 2008 03 16 at 06:09 PM • permalink35. Not only that Ive seen the movie as well. I used to shear the bloody things, so any movie that shows bad things happening to them is fine by me.
The movie isnt actually that good, but it does have some good laugh out loud moments.The feral greenie bloke who becomes a weresheep is worth the price of the video rental alone.
Posted by thefrollickingmole on 2008 03 16 at 06:27 PM • permalinkAshe_, Frillicking, and all others who have caused me to spend an hour watching Montey Python sketches on U-choob:
Posted by Wimpy Canadian on 2008 03 16 at 07:02 PM • permalinkHeh. The neighbors here in Florida have had their shrubberies eaten and swimming pools fallen into when my flock of sheep have found a gate the UPS man or meter reader left open.
Posted by SwampWoman on 2008 03 16 at 07:07 PM • permalinkThe canoe joke is, in fact,m a Canadian joke, not an ozzie one
Posted by Wimpy Canadian on 2008 03 16 at 07:12 PM • permalinkOne of my favourite towns. The left likes to paint rural people as a bunch of illiterate slack-jaw rednecks but the streets of Gundagai were named after poets - Ovid, Hemans, Byron and Pope. Great view of the countryside from the top of Mount Parnassus, which gives the town some of the steepest residental streets in rural Australia.
Did you eat in the Niagara Cafe with all its original art deco fittings? The fact it pays homage to Labor leader John Curtin’s visit in 1942 can be forgiven. The owners, at least in April last year, were delightful people.
In all seriousness, I really miss living in a small town. I live in a city because I must, not because I take pleasure in it.
We see racoons & armadillos & possums, a black snake now & again, used to hear chickens, but that land was sold for industrial development - no one raises any cool animals near me anymore.
<sigh>
#31: Ok. I think I finally understand where that weird Aussie accent comes from. Y’all spring from an entirely different evolutionary path, doncha?
Grimmy - haven’t you heard that the DNA spirals the other way in the Southern Hemisphere?
Posted by s.r.intulom on 2008 03 16 at 08:18 PM • permalink#19
"skeletons in the closet”
Labor likes to keep skeletons in the closet so they can get into parliament and the public service.
Who should be out of the closet?
Again who helped USSR in the 1940s?Posted by stackja1945 on 2008 03 16 at 09:05 PM • permalink#42 - Contrail, I’ve had the odd coffee in the Niagara. The most interesting part that I read about Curtin dropping in is that he dropped in with two other cabinet members - I think they were something like the Treasurer and the War Minister - so they were probably the three most important politicians in the country..... and they were driving themselves around sharing one car.
No advisors. No retinue. Not even a bloody driver.
Posted by mr creosote on 2008 03 17 at 06:55 AM • permalinkUnderstand Prime Ministers didn’t think themselves important until Whitlam. Menzies often travelled by tram in Melbourne.
Was thinking about this when it was announced the RAAF was retiring its last 707. Whitlam was the first PM to demand a private plane for international travel. When his twin-engine RAAF BAC One-Eleven suffered an engine failure on the way to NZ he then demanded a four-engine plane, initially hired Qantas 707s. Qantas had to paint out “Australia’s Overseas Airline” and replace it with the large word “Australia” when carrying Whitlam. The airline later adopted this as part of its colour scheme (it was a government owned airline).
When Qantas announced it was selling the 707s to became an all-747 airline, even Whitlam baulked at hiring one of those. Instead, the RAAF bought some of the 707s.
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