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Last updated on August 5th, 2017 at 03:32 pm

For the next few days I’m in Salzburg, Austria driving (riding?) one of these. If you’re among this site’s thriving Austrian readership, I suggest we meet at Stiegl Hell. Meanwhile, topical open threads beckon below.

Posted by Tim B. on 05/18/2007 at 12:08 PM
    1. Gaia wept.

      Posted by paco on 2007 05 18 at 12:10 PM • permalink

 

    1. You’re gonna be driving a burp?

      Posted by Spiny Norman on 2007 05 18 at 12:12 PM • permalink

 

    1. This brewpub has an extremely casual atmosphere. Despite the doomsday name, it offers an array of the world famous Stiegl beer and a simple décor with hardwood floors.

      All the best bars have hardwood floors.  Easier to sweep up the glass after a fight.

      Posted by Tex Lovera on 2007 05 18 at 12:50 PM • permalink

 

 

    1. So do you get confuse between Austria and Australia?

      I can almost imagine

      Local: So where are you from?
      Tim: Australia
      Local: Oh, you’re local!

      Posted by Rajan R on 2007 05 18 at 01:28 PM • permalink

 

    1. PW, are you close enough to Salzburg for a mug o’ beer with Tim?  Or does wronwright need to let go of the TARDIS keys?

      Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2007 05 18 at 01:49 PM • permalink

 

    1. #6: Heck, RJ, with the Tardis, Tim and PW could blow the froth off a few with Emperor Franz Josef, while smoking some of Freud’s cigars.

      Posted by paco on 2007 05 18 at 02:07 PM • permalink

 

    1. So do you get confuse between Austria and Australia?

      What, you’ve never seen Die Parliament Haus der Austr^al^ia?

      Posted by Dave S. on 2007 05 18 at 02:42 PM • permalink

 

    1. Look for Mozart on the radio.

      Posted by rhhardin on 2007 05 18 at 03:48 PM • permalink

 

    1. Dinner vs breakfast: Chicken before the egg?

      Posted by Lydia on 2007 05 18 at 04:06 PM • permalink

 

    1. And while you’re there please find out if that Danube thingy is really blue.

      Posted by yojimbo on 2007 05 18 at 04:22 PM • permalink

 

    1. A trike?  Didn’t they pretty much ban those things in the U.S. because they’d roll over and kill the driver?

      Posted by Bruce Rheinstein on 2007 05 18 at 04:35 PM • permalink

 

    1. Tim, just get a bike.

      Posted by Young and Free on 2007 05 18 at 05:15 PM • permalink

 

    1. Looks like the car that Mr Bean would always nudge in his telly series, but going in reverse.  I’m talking of a Reliant Regal.

      Posted by Stevo on 2007 05 18 at 05:35 PM • permalink

 

    1. Salzburg is a nice place to visit.  Most people think of a singing Julie Andrew’s swirling around on the top of a hill.  Anyway, I thought the Salt Mine tour a treat (Salz = salt) and downing a Stein or several is another enjoyable thing to do.  Cheers’n’beers …

      Posted by Stevo on 2007 05 18 at 05:54 PM • permalink

 

    1. That thing looks cool. I imagine the 2 wheels upfront make it more stable than a traditional trike.

      Austria? Well g’day mate!

      Posted by paulris on 2007 05 18 at 05:56 PM • permalink

 

    1. Yeah Tim, get them to throw another strudel on the barbie for ya.

      Posted by CB on 2007 05 18 at 06:07 PM • permalink

 

    1. I’m jealous, Tim.  (About Salzburg, not what you’re driving.)

      Old Salzburg is a beautiful city – some of my best memories of Europe are from there.

      Hope you make some great memories there, too.  Tip a glass of wine and munch on a wurst (or some schnitzel) for me.  😀

      Posted by Barbara Skolaut on 2007 05 18 at 06:19 PM • permalink

 

    1. Jealous, jealous, jealous and NOT of Salzburg! That Can-Am Spyder looks hot. I want one!

      —Nick

      Posted by The Thin Man Returns on 2007 05 18 at 06:24 PM • permalink

 

    1. I don’t know about that thing.

      Posted by dean martin on 2007 05 18 at 07:22 PM • permalink

 

    1. Oh, Tim, the sacrifices you make.

      (It’s a dinky for Science’s sake!)

      Posted by kae on 2007 05 18 at 07:30 PM • permalink

 

    1. #17 CB

      I bow before you for that one.

      I think the only word Australians and Austrians pronounce in common is “beer”. Make the best of it, Tim.

      Posted by brett_l on 2007 05 18 at 07:31 PM • permalink

 

    1. As an aging and progressively creakier biker, I have to say that thing at least looks studlier than a Gold Wing (The Olds 88 of motorcycles…)

      Posted by richard mcenroe on 2007 05 18 at 07:58 PM • permalink

 

    1. 19 Jealous, jealous, jealous and NOT of Salzburg!

      I’m jealous he’s humping an Austrian bike and not me.

      Posted by 1.618 on 2007 05 18 at 08:09 PM • permalink

 

    1. #24
      I thought it was you.

      I don’t think you should place yourself, humping and bike in the same sentence.

      You do know what a “bike” is?

      Posted by kae on 2007 05 18 at 08:13 PM • permalink

 

    1. 1.618

      I’m jealous he’s humping an Austrian bike and not me.

      Well my dear, put on three wheels.

      Posted by El Cid on 2007 05 18 at 08:14 PM • permalink

 

    1. Bike is the abbreviation for town bike.

      Posted by kae on 2007 05 18 at 08:15 PM • permalink

 

    1. LOL Hi E-cid..

      Posted by 1.618 on 2007 05 18 at 08:20 PM • permalink

 

    1. ewwwwwwww oh, a bike..  No, I’m not a bike chick at all. Tim have you found a bike overseas?

      Posted by 1.618 on 2007 05 18 at 08:21 PM • permalink

 

    1. My mum is overseas at the moment we have a house in New Zealand.

      I requested the oroton packs on the plane, they fab.

      Posted by 1.618 on 2007 05 18 at 08:23 PM • permalink

 

    1. ‘re

      Posted by 1.618 on 2007 05 18 at 08:24 PM • permalink

 

    1. While you’re over in that part of the world, see if you can pop over the border and try one of these.

      Posted by Grimmy on 2007 05 18 at 08:36 PM • permalink

 

    1. Didn’t The Grauniad or someone once helpfully point out after Schwarzenegger’s election in Gollyfornia that Hitler wet his first nappies in Austria?

      Posted by JDB on 2007 05 18 at 09:59 PM • permalink

 

    1. Austria? Well g’day mate!

      No, no, no –  g’tag mate.

      Posted by Dave S. on 2007 05 18 at 11:31 PM • permalink

 

    1. Right wingers gathering in Austria, eh? Where have I read about this before?

      Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2007 05 18 at 11:31 PM • permalink

 

    1. #20 – if I was driving one of those, I’d be making machine-gun noises all the time.

      Posted by Dave S. on 2007 05 18 at 11:33 PM • permalink

 

    1. First pictures of Tim in Austria.

      Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2007 05 18 at 11:41 PM • permalink

 

    1. #20 dean martin,  Looks like a bumper car.

      It just seems to me that our fearless leader is absent a lot these days.  It’s like . . . I don’t know . . . like he has a life or something.

      Beware the helots.  Have fun.

      Posted by saltydog on 2007 05 19 at 12:52 AM • permalink

 

    1. Saltydog, I reckon it’s since he’s been hob-nobbing with the bigwigs, you know, John Malkovich and elected representatives and all. I’m sure he wasn’t gallivanting around the countryside world like this before…

      Maybe he has got a life.

      Posted by kae on 2007 05 19 at 12:57 AM • permalink

 

    1. #37 Tim is looking pretty butch there with his dear friend.

      Here’s one for when he’s a little older.

      Posted by Margos Maid on 2007 05 19 at 01:23 AM • permalink

 

    1. So that’s who stole my trike!

      Posted by saltydog on 2007 05 19 at 01:34 AM • permalink

 

    1. Give my respects to Wolfy.

      Was planning a Salzburg trip last year. Then my better half left her positive pregnancy test in front of my coffee jug. But I’ll get there, if it’s the last thing I do.

      Posted by Dminor on 2007 05 19 at 01:51 AM • permalink

 

    1. Latest Tim pic. Jeebus!

      Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2007 05 19 at 02:09 AM • permalink

 

    1. #43,

      1.618 finally got Tim Tam to take her out on a date!!!

      Posted by Pogria on 2007 05 19 at 02:18 AM • permalink

 

    1. Infidel Tiger,

      Obviously Tim’s partaken in a few brews and picked himself up a lady.

      He’s gonna be pissed when he wakes up and sees what a cow she is.

      Posted by Ash_ on 2007 05 19 at 02:20 AM • permalink

 

    1. #45 – As Tim once remarked to me “I’ve never gone to bed with an ugly women, but I’ve woken up next to a few”.

      Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2007 05 19 at 02:22 AM • permalink

 

    1. . Ihave go

      Posted by 1.618 on 2007 05 19 at 02:23 AM • permalink

 

    1. Please don’t..

      Posted by 1.618 on 2007 05 19 at 02:24 AM • permalink

 

    1. I want to die now.

      Posted by 1.618 on 2007 05 19 at 02:25 AM • permalink

 

    1. Oh, 1.6, don’t be like that.

      We all love you.

      Posted by Ash_ on 2007 05 19 at 02:34 AM • permalink

 

    1. #49 –

      Cheer up, 1.618. I have it on good authority that the bloody cow wouldn’t give Tim the milk unless he bought the dairy. Well, he might be a cucumber sandwich short of a garden party, but he’s not that stupid. He dropped her at the next village and high tailed it. So she couldn’t follow him he changed transport too. Latest pic of Tim.

      Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2007 05 19 at 02:34 AM • permalink

 

    1. 50? really, I thought you all hated me. I was crying my eyes out. I feel like that cow ugly and horrible.

      Posted by 1.618 on 2007 05 19 at 02:45 AM • permalink

 

    1. #43, Pog, that was just mean.

      Infidel, that was just sick.

      What have you guys been drinking?

      Posted by saltydog on 2007 05 19 at 02:48 AM • permalink

 

    1. We’re all grown ups here (well, most of us).
      Grow up, 1.6.

      It’s a quite pretty cow, and useful. I know someone with a cow who used to steal the chook food, she’d crawl under the trailer and eat it.
      And she could open the home-paddock gate, too!

      Posted by kae on 2007 05 19 at 02:49 AM • permalink

 

    1. No, 1.6. We really do love you.

      You don’t need to be sad.

      Posted by Ash_ on 2007 05 19 at 02:49 AM • permalink

 

    1. I don’t look like one, I look like Michelle Pfeiffer but a bigger size but hey, I can get back down to a 10 instead of a 12. I used to get anxiety attacks because my x boyfriend said I was ugly and didn’t like what I wore. It was horrible, it triggered me. I guess that’s why I hate burquas for women thought of by men.

      I’m sorry, I love you all heaps.

      Posted by 1.618 on 2007 05 19 at 02:50 AM • permalink

 

    1. Yaaawwwn

      Posted by Pogria on 2007 05 19 at 02:52 AM • permalink

 

    1. 1.6, a 12 is fine. Most men love a chick who looks healthy, and a 12 is healthy.

      Your ex didn’t deserve you.

      Posted by Ash_ on 2007 05 19 at 02:54 AM • permalink

 

    1. #53 – Just tap water today, but considering how low the dams are I might have to start boiling it before ingesting.

      #52 – You aint ugly and horrible. And since no one else will stick up for her, either is the cow.

      As mum has always told me “It’s all fun and games until someone cries and you end up in Gitmo for 5 years”. Now play nice.

      Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2007 05 19 at 02:54 AM • permalink

 

    1. #59
      I stuck up for the bloody cow!

      12 is fine, I wish I was a 12.
      I’m getting there, though.
      But I’ll be old.
      And there ain’t nothing I can DO about that.

      Posted by kae on 2007 05 19 at 03:00 AM • permalink

 

    1. I’d also like to inform the female commentariat that the Infidel’s ideal women is built like an icy mountain road – lots of dangerous curves… although she won’t have guide posts, warning signs or require snow chains, but that’s another story.

      Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2007 05 19 at 03:00 AM • permalink

 

    1. And how old would this voluptuous dangerously curved woman be?

      Posted by kae on 2007 05 19 at 03:03 AM • permalink

 

    1. #62 – I don’t discriminate too much, but I must warn that the zimmerframe parking around my lair is atrocious.

      Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2007 05 19 at 03:11 AM • permalink

 

    1. Good, I have a chance – no zimmer frame… yet.
      But I’m going deaf.
      And can I bring my guide dog?

      Posted by kae on 2007 05 19 at 03:16 AM • permalink

 

    1. #64,

      no good for you Kae.

      It’s electric scooters or nothing.

      Have you ever tried to dink on a zimmer?

      Posted by Pogria on 2007 05 19 at 03:21 AM • permalink

 

    1. Pog, what are you on about?

      I don’t need a zimmer, or an electric scooter… just hearing aid and guide dog.

      Posted by kae on 2007 05 19 at 03:28 AM • permalink

 

    1. #66,

      Not YOU Kae,

      Infidel tiger.

      Posted by Pogria on 2007 05 19 at 03:29 AM • permalink

 

    1. I like trike.

      Posted by Abu Chowdah on 2007 05 19 at 03:30 AM • permalink

 

    1. Oh, I see.
      I thought that IT was talking about all his ladyfriends taking up the parking area with zimmer frames. Silly me.

      Posted by kae on 2007 05 19 at 03:33 AM • permalink

 

    1. I’m going to do a “Where is Paco”.

      bye.

      Posted by 1.618 on 2007 05 19 at 03:43 AM • permalink

 

    1. Do you really have to 1.6?

      We’ll miss you too much.

      Posted by Ash_ on 2007 05 19 at 03:44 AM • permalink

 

    1. #63,
      Is this sort of what you’re describing IT?

      Posted by Pogria on 2007 05 19 at 03:52 AM • permalink

 

    1. Hello.  Helloooooo
      Is anybody there?

      Posted by Pogria on 2007 05 19 at 06:10 AM • permalink

 

    1. This one’s doomed.  All the disadvantages of a motor bike and car combined in one expensive package. And no particular advantages.

      Three-wheeled vehicles have been around since the dawn of motoring. They have never been popular, except where cheap-and-cheerful is required, and none has survived for long.

      There’s a reason for this.  It’s a really silly, impractical concept.

      Posted by walterplinge on 2007 05 19 at 06:19 AM • permalink

 

    1. Fond memories of Salzgburg.  Haven’t been in ages, but I can’t imagine anything has changed.

      That’s some good bier they got at Stiegl.  I remember being astonished watching chic Austrian matrons draining a pint on their lunch breaks.

      Good food, too.  And the cleanest damn b & b I’ve ever stayed at.

      Posted by R C Dean on 2007 05 19 at 06:27 AM • permalink

 

    1. Thank you, Thank you

      mwah mwah mwah

      Posted by Pogria on 2007 05 19 at 06:33 AM • permalink

 

    1. #74. Did you read the link in Tim’s post? Mentions a few advantages this design has over motorbikes.

      Just saying.

      Posted by Abu Chowdah on 2007 05 19 at 07:33 AM • permalink

 

    1. Seems I missed some drama.
      1.618, are you out there? If it’s any consolation, I was nicknamed Pugsley when I was in the Scouts. No fib.
      Come back.
      (Shameless Bribe Warning)
      If I found that guy with the photos at Subi Market again…?

      Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2007 05 19 at 07:40 AM • permalink

 

    1. Off topic, but so sweet:

      Wafaa Bilal moved his entire living room into the gallery and now spends 24 hours a day, 7 days a week over 30 days in an enclosed space, and his only companion is a paintball gun hooked up to a Web cam, which can be aimed and fired by people who go to this Web page.

      Posted by Dan Lewis on 2007 05 19 at 07:56 AM • permalink

 

    1. Swinish, I would have preferred your nickname over mine. I was HamHock. I’m still not sure why.

      Posted by Ash_ on 2007 05 19 at 07:59 AM • permalink

 

    1. Might I suggest a stop in Belgium? See here for why!

      More seriously, I recommend stopping at Mozart’s childhood home, on Getreidestrasse. Well worth a visit, if your musical tastes run that way.

      Posted by Ian Deans on 2007 05 19 at 08:01 AM • permalink

 

    1. HamHock?
      Weeeeiiiirrrrrrrd.

      Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2007 05 19 at 08:11 AM • permalink

 

    1. Oh Christ, Dan, thank god you’re here.

      Posted by Pogria on 2007 05 19 at 08:12 AM • permalink

 

    1. #78,

      Hey Swinish,

      back in my youth, I had a boyfriend who used to be in scouts.

      He told me several stories about what goes on in the tents.

      Not “poofter” stories people.

      Scouts were very creative back in the 70’s and 80’s.

      Posted by Pogria on 2007 05 19 at 08:15 AM • permalink

 

    1. nite youse
      codiene and bed.

      Posted by kae on 2007 05 19 at 08:15 AM • permalink

 

    1. #84,

      especially when they were wreaking revenge on someone.

      Posted by Pogria on 2007 05 19 at 08:16 AM • permalink

 

    1. Nite Lady Kae.

      Posted by Pogria on 2007 05 19 at 08:16 AM • permalink

 

    1. Let me guess Pog. These stories often involved anal discharges and cigarette lighters, right?

      Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2007 05 19 at 08:17 AM • permalink

 

    1. Looks like I’m in for another of those conversations.

      Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2007 05 19 at 08:18 AM • permalink

 

    1. Changing the subject entirely: has anyone heard from Auntie KC lately?

      Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2007 05 19 at 08:19 AM • permalink

 

    1. #88,

      No Swinish,

      everyone knows about those things.

      I’m talking about REAL revenge.

      When your sworn enemy is asleep in his tent,

      and you slip in, ever so quietly, peer into

      his calm, sleeping face, turn around and

      Posted by Pogria on 2007 05 19 at 08:24 AM • permalink

 

    1. Swinish, I know it was weird. In fact, it was one of those things that are so weird at the end of the day you decide that finding out why is just not worth it.

      Posted by Ash_ on 2007 05 19 at 08:27 AM • permalink

 

    1. Suddenly I’m the centre of attention. Not quite the same as having your German girlfriend reading Das Kapital to you, but close enough.

      Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2007 05 19 at 08:34 AM • permalink

 

    1. Swinish, would it have the same effect as reading it to Greg Combet? Because if it does, I’m not reading Das Kapital to you.

      Posted by Ash_ on 2007 05 19 at 08:42 AM • permalink

 

    1. Bastard. I need me one of those.

      Or a T-Rex…
      http://tinyurl.com/3eyyav

      Posted by Tex on 2007 05 19 at 08:50 AM • permalink

 

    1. Nah, would more likely put me to sleep. German – it’s not like French, is it? More to the point, it’s not like a Frenchwoman speaking English. Even more to the point, it’s not like Isabelle Huppert in that Huckabees movie. ‘Pain – Cruelty – Meaninglessness…” Damn, she made those words sound sexy.

      Ahem.

      Well, has anyone heard from Auntie KC?

      Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2007 05 19 at 08:51 AM • permalink

 

    1. Swinish, French is sexy, Italian can be sexy, Spanish can be sexy, but German? No.

      And I haven’t heard from Auntie KC.

      Posted by Ash_ on 2007 05 19 at 08:55 AM • permalink

 

    1. I just checked the members list, she isn’t there. We go from Auntie Abdul to Auroviviorus (or something like that.)

      Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2007 05 19 at 09:07 AM • permalink

 

    1. #75 R C Dean:
      Also fond memories.  Once stayed at the hostel Naturfreundehaus on Monchsberg between the fortress and the old casino.  Now the place had a curfew, so one night I stayed in rather than go out, and drank with the owner’s son, Hans, a giant of a fellow.  We sat out the front overlooking the City.  Wunderbar.  His command of English was pretty poor.  Anyway, some young lady guests arrived after curfew.  Hans wouldn’t let them in, and went and collected their bags from their rooms, and placed them outside.  There was some screaming and yelling, then the girls left.  I then had one more drink with Hans before calling it a night.

      Posted by Stevo on 2007 05 19 at 09:21 AM • permalink

 

    1. Never made it to Austria.  Had more than my share of beerhall life in Munich.  By the way, did you know they built an exact replica of the Hofbräuhaus in Las Vegas?

      Posted by RebeccaH on 2007 05 19 at 10:24 AM • permalink

 

    1. #7 paco –

      Heck, RJ, with the Tardis, Tim and PW could blow the froth off a few with Emperor Franz Josef, while smoking some of Freud’s cigars.

      For everyone’s information, the Tardis is not a fucking Camaro that a bunch of guys can hop into for a fun night on the town.  It’s an official vehicle for the VRWC entrusted to me by some dude that I don’t actually know.  Until he comes back, which I hope is soon, I’m safeguarding it from the wanton debaucheries of the denizens that frequent this blog.

      Bring a properly completed Form RW1040, signed by Karl, for a proposed mission and yes, I can lend you the Tardis for 24 hours.  And don’t think you can fool me by keeping it out for weeks like paco and Stoop Davy Dave did when they went back to the Roman chariot races like they did 3 years ago.  They returned 3 minutes after they had left, or at least they made it seem like that.  Then they said they were home sick and didn’t want to stay out any longer than 3 minutes.  Except they had sun tans and straw in their hair.  And they were wearing togas and sandals.  As if they could fool me?

      Unbeknowst to them, I had a taxi chronometer installed inside the Tardis that recorded their usage.  I made them wash and wax Apaches for weeks because of it.

      And by the way, whoever borrowed the Tardis recently and left empty Roman Emporium cotton shopping bags and partially eaten pastries strewn around the floor will soon rue their lapse of judgment when I find out their identities.  I have detectives dusting down the Tardis for fingerprints as I speak.  Sticky fingerprints from what looks like honey and sugar.  It’s not a shopping shuttle bus girls.

      Posted by wronwright on 2007 05 19 at 10:51 AM • permalink

 

    1. If you get a chance stay a night or two here in Dienten:
      http://www.uebergossenealm.at/

      If you keep going as far as Graz there is no finer hotel restaurant than this:
      http://www.austroinfo.at/haeuserlimwald/Default.asp?ProduktID=1

      I’ve been there most every summer 1982 – 2004, the Legensteins (owners) are charming, their house is peace and rest. Mention kiwi the opera dog for a surprise.

      Should you work your way down to the border of Hungary, after a spectacular ride with castle views you may end up on Jenersdorf where there is a five star restaurant featuring edwardian era viennese cooking (I’m sorry I can’t describe it any better – think “Duchess of Duke Street” live)  The Wirtin cooks with her own hands things that will make you faint but the prices won’t:

      Gasthof-Seminarhotel RAFFEL
      Hauptplatz 6, 8380 Jennersdorf
      Tel. 03329/46622
      seminarhotel.raffel@aon.atr

      Here’s a review in german if my swooning dithyramb doesn’t suffice:

      http://www.medienhaus-krois.at/index.php?article=174

      Sample “ Bei Raffel zu speisen ist ein nahezu orgiastisches Fest der Sinne für den Gaumen und die Seele”
      To dine at Raffel’s is an almost orgiastic festival of the senses for your palate and soul.”

      Posted by kiwinews on 2007 05 19 at 11:52 AM • permalink

 

    1. It’s a really silly, impractical concept.

      “This situation calls for a really foolish, self-destructive gesture… and we’re just the guys to do it!”

      walterplinge—you and Car & Driver both miss the obvious. It’s impossible to bring a pony keg to the rally on a regular motorcycle…

      Posted by richard mcenroe on 2007 05 19 at 12:30 PM • permalink

 

    1. o/t, as if there were a real topic:

      Terry Lane must be shitting a brick right now.  Remember Jesse MacBeth?

      Posted by RebeccaH on 2007 05 19 at 01:04 PM • permalink

 

    1. More repression from the BusHitler Regime, eh RebeccaH? Dissent must be not silenced!

      Posted by Spiny Norman on 2007 05 19 at 01:27 PM • permalink

 

    1. Spiny Norman—Unless you’re going to get it all.  IVAW is still active…

      Posted by richard mcenroe on 2007 05 19 at 01:33 PM • permalink

 

    1. Just a little Indymedia moment there…

      Posted by Spiny Norman on 2007 05 19 at 01:52 PM • permalink

 

    1. Hmmm…  Though I’m a hard core BMW rider, I’d be very interested in one of those.

      Posted by Hucbald on 2007 05 19 at 03:18 PM • permalink

 

    1. OT and Call Me Insensitive but check out the pic then scroll down to comment #36 at this link.

      Posted by richard mcenroe on 2007 05 19 at 04:48 PM • permalink

 

    1. I laughed until I… well, until I stopped laughing. I’m kind of tired right now.

      We have softshell turtles here in Florida. They don’t look half-melted like that creature, though. They do sort of look like those parasite creatures in that old Star Trek episode. Here’s an image of the turtle—they have these funky anteater-like noses. True story: I was walking home from work in my old neighborhood and I found one of these things on the sidewalk. It was just sitting there, like it had wandered out onto the concrete and didn’t know what to do from there. It rolled its little yellow eyes at me as if to say, “Are you going to eat me?” However, it didn’t look (or smell) like chocolate, or anything else edible, so I picked it up and put it on the grass.

      Not that I would eat anything made of chocolate or anything else if I found it on the sidewalk.

      I’m real tired right now.

      Update: for Chrissake, Wikipedia’s urls suck.

      Posted by Andrea Harris, Administrator on 2007 05 19 at 05:35 PM • permalink

 

    1. My fifteen minutes of fame have finally arived, courtesy of Gina Elise.
      In The Field, page 12.

      Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2007 05 19 at 07:13 PM • permalink

 

    1. GREG ATKINS. Swinish, is that you?

      Posted by El Cid on 2007 05 19 at 07:38 PM • permalink

 

    1. Got me.

      Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2007 05 19 at 07:47 PM • permalink

 

    1. #110

      That would be “tribbles”.

      Posted by Dan Lewis on 2007 05 19 at 07:53 PM • permalink

 

    1. HERE IS A MAN WHO HAS BEEN ONE THE MOST WONDERFUL SUPPORTERS OF THE “PIN-UPS FOR VETS” CALENDAR PROJECT !! GREG ATKINS FROM AUSTRALIA IS ONE VERY GENEROUS MAN WHO SUPPORTS OUR TROOPS AND OUR HOSPITALIZED VETERANS. HE SHOWS US ALL WHAT A GOOD FRIEND THE AUSTRALIANS CAN BE TO STAND BY OUR BRAVE MILITARY HEROES. THANK YOU SO VERY MUCH, GREG, FOR YOUR WONDERFUL AND POSITIVE LETTERS, YOUR PURCHASES OF SEVERAL CALENDARS FOR YOUR FRIENDS, AND FOR CREATIVELY PUTTING TOGETHER A SCREENSAVER OF MY CALENDAR PHOTOS. I AM The United States of America is SO VERY HONORED TO HAVE THIS SUPER “AUSSIE” IN MY OUR CORNER, BACKING THIS PROJECT. THANK YOU, GREG, FOR ALL YOUR KINDNESS. I ABSOLUTLEY LOVE THIS PHOTO THAT YOU SENT WITH THE “PIN-UPS FOR VETS” CALENDAR.******* IF ALL THE AUSTRALIANS ARE AS NICE AS YOU, THEN I AM ON MY WAY FOR A VISIT “DOWN UNDER” !!! WITH MUCH LOVE AND APPRECIATION TO MY BEST AUSSIE FAN…..ALL OF AUSTRALIA, SHOULD BE PROUD OF A MAN SUCH AS GREG ATKINS….GINA ELISE !!

      (with liberties and without permission of Gina Elise, I made a few changes)

      Posted by El Cid on 2007 05 19 at 07:53 PM • permalink

 

    1. Oh, come ON! You people suck!

      I get ya talking about colored socks, but nothing.. NOTHING aboot chickens vs eggs?

      VRWChickenhawks!

      Posted by Lydia on 2007 05 19 at 08:07 PM • permalink

 

    1. PS… God Bless Our Troops

      Posted by Lydia on 2007 05 19 at 08:12 PM • permalink

 

    1. Thanks, El Cid. I should warn you and your fellow Americans though that if Gina does come visiting here, we won’t be letting her out in a hurry.
      Fair’s fair. Think of all the beautiful women Australia has given you – Nicole Kidman… Naomi Watts… Cate Blanchett… Russell Crowe…

      Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2007 05 19 at 08:21 PM • permalink

 

    1. errm, scratch Russell Crowe…

      Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2007 05 19 at 08:23 PM • permalink

 

    1. #116
      Oh alright.
      There is a Japanese recipe which uses both chicken and egg.  It’s called Mother and Child.

      Posted by lotocoti on 2007 05 19 at 08:24 PM • permalink

 

    1. 110.  Andrea, Vot, it looked like just another New York retiree confused by a butterfly ballot…

      Posted by richard mcenroe on 2007 05 19 at 08:32 PM • permalink

 

    1. Lotocoti! You the only ozzie up?
      And um.. yuck?

      Posted by Lydia on 2007 05 19 at 08:35 PM • permalink

 

    1. #122

      I’m vertical (up).

      Posted by kae on 2007 05 19 at 08:36 PM • permalink

 

    1. I’m here. For a bit.

      Just not sure what I’m here for a bit of.

      Posted by Nilknarf Arbed on 2007 05 19 at 08:57 PM • permalink

 

    1. #124

      Me too, me too.

      Posted by kae on 2007 05 19 at 09:06 PM • permalink

 

    1. Swinish, does this mean that we will have to widen the doors*?

      (to get your big head thru)

      Posted by kae on 2007 05 19 at 09:09 PM • permalink

 

    1. SwinishCapitalist

      It is I that must say thank you…Gina did now it is my turn. Thank you good friend. (although I must admit, I don’t look as good as she does…lol. HEY, christ, I’m a guy…I shouldn’t anyway)

      Yes, OZ has given us some fine eye candy….BUT, we gave you alGor, I mean what else do you want…LOL.

      Posted by El Cid on 2007 05 19 at 09:09 PM • permalink

 

    1. Nilk, how’s the jobhunting going? What happened to the design stuff (not enough work around? Noone spending on renovations? Huh?).

      Posted by kae on 2007 05 19 at 09:10 PM • permalink

 

    1. El Cid

      You can have Algore back.

      Gratis.

      Posted by kae on 2007 05 19 at 09:11 PM • permalink

 

    1. (to get your big head thru)

      HEY!, keep it clean, will you?

      Posted by El Cid on 2007 05 19 at 09:16 PM • permalink

 

    1. Doors, shmoors.
      All credit to James at Imagemaker Photography in Mount Lawley, cos that definitely isn’t the face I see in the mirror every morning. Thatface is surly, misanthropic, usually bleary too. James turned me into somebody’s favourite uncle. Must have been a magic camera.
      Al Gore? Forget it, he’s all yours and you’re welcome.

      Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2007 05 19 at 09:30 PM • permalink

 

    1. It’s impossible to bring a pony keg to the rally on a regular motorcycle…

      Not if you’re persistent. Hard, I’ll grant you, but nowhere near impossible.

      Regards,
      Ric

      Posted by Ric Locke on 2007 05 19 at 09:35 PM • permalink

 

    1. #109

      That is just so sick.

      And possibly the funniest thing I’ve seen here since this.

      Posted by geoff on 2007 05 19 at 09:39 PM • permalink

 

    1. Swinish, you forgot to mention Claudia Black!

      Lydia, I don’t oogle feathers on chickens.
      I don’t oogle shells on eggs.
      But I would like to oogle missred in
      those green “socks”.

      Posted by Franklin on 2007 05 19 at 09:41 PM • permalink

 

    1. Nite all. My golf and a few brews, have finally caught up with me.

      Posted by El Cid on 2007 05 19 at 09:45 PM • permalink

 

    1. #101

      I know NOTHING.

      MarkL
      Minionmeister to the VRWC

      <Ah, Sunday. Day of rest and recreational flogging down in the moonbat cage. Time to slip off the new Roman Army sandals, lay the new gladius to one side, put the feet up and relax with a huge plateful of double-cured Baetican ham sandwiches with Lutetian mustard and an amphorae of fine falernan wine. Hmm. AD 69 vintage! Wonderful>

      Posted by MarkL on 2007 05 19 at 10:30 PM • permalink

 

    1. Austria. Salzburg.

      Posted by nofixedabode on 2007 05 19 at 10:45 PM • permalink

 

    1. I hope 1.618 comes back. She was rather delightful, I thought.

      Posted by Dave S. on 2007 05 19 at 11:02 PM • permalink

 

    1. #138
      I find it rather annoying that she is treated like a pet by some here.

      Posted by kae on 2007 05 19 at 11:05 PM • permalink

 

    1. #110 Andrea.

      Why would a turtle bother carrying around a softshell? What good is it? Isn’t the whole concept of a softshell turtle a repudiation of Darwinian theory itself?

      Posted by geoff on 2007 05 19 at 11:34 PM • permalink

 

    1. #133

      Still laughing like a drain

      Mohammad the pig-blowing Paedophile preeeesents!
      Islamotard Hint No. 133,468,539: Avoid crispy weird-beard syndrome!
      When setting fire to badly made petrol-soaked copies of US flags, it is wise not to:
      1. soak your right arm in petrol first, and
      2. stand underneath the burning rag

      ROTFLMAO

      Posted by MarkL on 2007 05 19 at 11:55 PM • permalink

 

    1. #133

      Karma.

      Posted by kae on 2007 05 20 at 12:17 AM • permalink

 

    1. #122
      Actually Mother and Child isn’t too bad, it beats rice & raw egg for breakfast.
      (Sorry about the late reply, there was a beautiful, seamless, Virgin Mary blue sky to be enjoyed. You can’t beat autumn in 27 south.)

      Posted by lotocoti on 2007 05 20 at 12:51 AM • permalink

 

    1. Anyone in the mood for Salad Fingers?

      Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2007 05 20 at 12:53 AM • permalink

 

    1. O/T – Bono: destroyer of Irish heritage and hypocritical plonker—

      Bono is usually the one leading protests against the rich and the powerful in his capacity as a tireless and vocal campaigner against Third World debt and Aids.

      Now, however, the rock star has found himself the target of campaigners who accuse him of using his wealth to threaten the heritage of his home city.

      The millionaire front man of U2 and his bandmate, The Edge, want to knock down buildings in the city’s historic Temple Bar district in order to expand a hotel they co-own with a local property developer.

      The Telegraph

      Posted by walterplinge on 2007 05 20 at 12:59 AM • permalink

 

    1. #128. Kae, trying to be a single parent and working evenings doesn’t work. Much as I enjoyed the designing, I need to look for other work. Something office-based and more compatible with a rugrat about to go into school.

      *sigh*

      On the plus side, I am good at it lol. Got an interview on tues morning.

      Wish me luck. I wrote an excellent covering letter, so my fingers are crossed.

      Posted by Nilknarf Arbed on 2007 05 20 at 12:59 AM • permalink

 

    1. #144
      Who needs free-to-air. Or cheap accommodation.

      Posted by lotocoti on 2007 05 20 at 01:25 AM • permalink

 

    1. #143 lotocoti. Oyakodon?

      Posted by flying pigs over mecca on 2007 05 20 at 01:39 AM • permalink

 

    1. #148
      NFI, it was a few years ago.

      Posted by lotocoti on 2007 05 20 at 01:58 AM • permalink

 

    1. #149 Just checked, it is.

      Posted by flying pigs over mecca on 2007 05 20 at 02:08 AM • permalink

 

    1. #147 lotocoti

      Thanks for that link. Found all this info on the possum from Tim’s yard.

      http://www.atomfilms.com/film/possum_death_spree.jsp

      Posted by CO² max on 2007 05 20 at 03:57 AM • permalink

 

    1. I just won a beer fridge.

      As I’m sure you all wanted to know.

      I tip me hat to ya, Swinish.

      Posted by Dminor on 2007 05 20 at 04:00 AM • permalink

 

    1. Oh, and David Hicks is back in Oz, via a half-million dollar private jet trip. Apparently he wants to become a zoologist… as soon as he finishes high school.

      Posted by Dminor on 2007 05 20 at 04:05 AM • permalink

 

    1. #151
      What more could you want: guns, chicks, possums o’death and enough pythonesque ultra violence to fuel 3 Hammer films (plus a thumb in the eye for the worministas)

      Posted by lotocoti on 2007 05 20 at 04:15 AM • permalink

 

    1. #152
      Tin arse.

      Full or empty?

      Posted by kae on 2007 05 20 at 04:41 AM • permalink

 

    1. #153

      Oh, and David Hicks is back in Oz, via a half-million dollar private jet trip. Apparently he wants to become a zoologist… as soon as he finishes high school.

      Did the flight attendants have big tits?

      Posted by flying pigs over mecca on 2007 05 20 at 05:06 AM • permalink

 

    1. #155. Empty, but not for long.
      #156. I’m sure I don’t know.

      Posted by Dminor on 2007 05 20 at 05:55 AM • permalink

 

    1. Dminor

      I just won a beer fridge.

      stick it in your surgery and crack a cold one each time a new patient comes in. By the end of the day you should be curing
      everyone.

      your bedside manner should improve, too.

      Posted by JonathanH on 2007 05 20 at 05:57 AM • permalink

 

    1. By bedside manner’s fuckin’ perfect, thank you very fuckin’ much, without no motherfuckin’ beer fridge.

      Posted by Dminor on 2007 05 20 at 05:59 AM • permalink

 

    1. Oh where, oh where has 1.618 gone?
      Oh where, oh where can she be?
      With her blonde hair long,
      And her love for Tim strong,
      Oh where, oh where can she be?

      Posted by Dminor on 2007 05 20 at 06:02 AM • permalink

 

    1. #139 Leave Betty…I mean 1.6 alone!

      Posted by dean martin on 2007 05 20 at 06:04 AM • permalink

 

    1. BTW my son Max, who is 11, came fourth in the ‘junior professional’ class at the Bangalow billcart derby today, open to all under 16. I’d love to say I made his cart myself, but I didn’t – a mate of mine put it together to run in the senior event and let Max borrow it for the junior.

      great day. No 2007 photos on the website yet. Hope they will appear as there were some fantastic carts.

      Posted by JonathanH on 2007 05 20 at 06:08 AM • permalink

 

    1. #160 Don’t worry, she’ll be back.

      Posted by flying pigs over mecca on 2007 05 20 at 06:08 AM • permalink

 

    1. make that billycart. PIMF

      Posted by JonathanH on 2007 05 20 at 06:10 AM • permalink

 

    1. In Bangalow, I’m sure billy-carts take on a whole new meaning.

      Posted by Dminor on 2007 05 20 at 06:13 AM • permalink

 

    1. #56 Was a reference to the letter Hicks wrote to his former roommate BTW

      Posted by flying pigs over mecca on 2007 05 20 at 06:14 AM • permalink

 

    1. I knew that.

      Posted by Dminor on 2007 05 20 at 06:17 AM • permalink

 

    1. #165 Are you referring to the Beatles song, Dminor? What did you kill, Bangalow Bill etc. If not my poor sunbaked brain is a little at a loss…

      Posted by JonathanH on 2007 05 20 at 06:18 AM • permalink

 

    1. #167 Just didn’t want to come across as having a breast obsession…

      Posted by flying pigs over mecca on 2007 05 20 at 06:18 AM • permalink

 

    1. #169. It was a bit of a WTF moment, but all is explained.

      #168. That’s it, JonathanH, I don’t believe you live near Byron Bay at all, or Bongalow for that matter. (That’s a hint).

      Posted by Dminor on 2007 05 20 at 06:23 AM • permalink

 

    1. I do live in Byron Shire and here’s a picture of me to prove it.

      Posted by JonathanH on 2007 05 20 at 06:30 AM • permalink

 

    1. #168. Ah, drug reference. I don’t smoke their drugs. I just sleep with their women.

      Posted by JonathanH on 2007 05 20 at 06:33 AM • permalink

 

    1. Talking of drugs my other son has to have his nightly fix of MSN now so I shall bid you adieu

      Posted by JonathanH on 2007 05 20 at 06:35 AM • permalink

 

    1. #171. That’s just your disguise, so the locals don’t stare. Can’t tell me you’re not all short back and sides. 🙂

      Signing off, now. I’ve got a delicate sleep cycle, you know. Step 1: brush my teeth. Step 2: lie down in bed. Step 3: pluck the 4th flower from the higher plane of consciousness. Step 4: sleep follows almost immediately. G’nite.

      Posted by Dminor on 2007 05 20 at 06:37 AM • permalink

 

    1. Nite D

      Posted by kae on 2007 05 20 at 06:41 AM • permalink

 

    1. Totally immature and OT: Cold virus hits cancer cells for six

      The coxsackie virus, which can cause colds in healthy people, has shown it can infect and fight certain cancer cells, in particular melanoma, breast cancer and prostate cancer.

      snigger

      Posted by flying pigs over mecca on 2007 05 20 at 07:28 AM • permalink

 

    1. Oh, and David Hicks is back in Oz, via a half-million dollar private jet trip. Apparently he wants to become a zoologist… as soon as he finishes high school.

      #153, on the news report I saw, his father also mentioned that Hicks was interested in ecology or a future in the environmental movement..

      So who knew that someone attracted to a fundamentalist religious cult which is interested in world domination and murder of unbelievers would also be an environmentalist?

      Posted by Art Vandelay on 2007 05 20 at 08:22 AM • permalink

 

    1. In no particular order, Dminor needs a beer for his fridge, 1.618 needs a hug, Nilknarf a new job, and I need to take my tablet.  What a day!

      Posted by Stevo on 2007 05 20 at 08:50 AM • permalink

 

    1. “So who knew that someone attracted to a fundamentalist religious cult which is interested in world domination and murder of unbelievers would also be an environmentalist?”

      Pim Fortuyn, killed by Volkert van der Graaf, an animal rights activist and muslim immigration enthusuast knew it, but he didn’t know it long.

      Posted by kiwinews on 2007 05 20 at 11:33 AM • permalink

 

    1. Dan Lewis, Andrea—actually, that would be “hortas”
      someone told me that…

      Posted by richard mcenroe on 2007 05 20 at 05:15 PM • permalink

 

    1. Ric Locke—Maybe not impossible, but the straw kept slipping out for me…

      Posted by richard mcenroe on 2007 05 20 at 06:04 PM • permalink

 

    1. #181—Well, of course. What you want is a few feet of Tygon® tubing. Proper preparation prevents poor performance.

      Regards,
      Ric

      Posted by Ric Locke on 2007 05 20 at 09:03 PM • permalink

 

    1. I loved Austria was there 10 yrs ago,  especially Wein

      Posted by hollingshead on 2007 05 20 at 11:56 PM • permalink

 

    1. A trike?  Didn’t they pretty much ban those things in the U.S. because they’d roll over and kill the driver?

      Those were the off-road ATV jobbies.  Much higher center of gravity, ridden by drunks and teenagers…

      Posted by richard mcenroe on 2007 05 21 at 12:29 AM • permalink

 

    1. #120- It’s beter known as Oyako Donburi, or “parent and child” donburi; rather nice with a goodly sprinkle of shichimi togarishi, and several bottles of Kirin or Asahi.

      Posted by Habib on 2007 05 21 at 02:51 AM • permalink

 

    1. Tim, I would absolutely love to link up with you in Salzburg (as it’s only a 5 hour drive or so from Heidelberg). But I cannot escape work right now, and especially since I’m “in the hole” when it comes to leave. I burned up way too much on emergency leave last year. Maybe I could interest you in a Heidelberg tour?

      Posted by Texas Bob on 2007 05 21 at 01:01 PM • permalink

 

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