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“Also, of course, koalas are known for their nasty tempers.”
Best not to try and hold one. You might get away with it but they’ve been known to pee on people who hold them. And kangaroos can be very dangerous if you annoy them enough. If you’re walking the dog, and the dog does anything at all to annoy the ‘roo it’ll probably come after the one it can catch, you, and show you who’s boss.
I seriously doubt that a kangaroo would mess with Colin. He is, after all, a wolf. Kangaroos must be smart enough to recognize a fearsome predator (TM) when they see one, even though dingos are pretty thin on the ground these days and thylacines even thinner.
I just checked, and it’s a fact that there has never been a documented kangaroo attack on a large American man who was walking a 35+ kilo Border Collie.
Yeah, the ‘roo wouldn’t be able to catch Colin, who would be very well advised to run far and fast. But the ‘roo would have no trouble catching a world class sprinter, let alone you or me.
I seriously doubt that a kangaroo would mess with Colin.
Unless the kangaroo was wearing a baby bird mask then Colin would be dragging you as he ran away.
Oh, come on. We all know that kangaroos don’t hurt people. There are, what, something like two documented kangaroo attacks on human per century? You’re just trying to scare us and keep all those pretty Aussie girls for yourself.
Bob, you’re forgetting that the average Aussie would never admit to getting their butts kicked by a kangaroo. That’s why there is so few documented cases! I bet it happens all the time!
True.
I always forget what wimps Aussies are.
Joss Whedon interview
I ordered a half-dozen or so e-books from O’Reilly last week, all but one Linux-related, mostly for work. I like that they gave me a choice of formats, so I took the .pdf ones. The one that was not Linux is on digital photography, so I can learn how to do it, fly to Oz, and take pictures of numerous Aussies getting their asses kicked by dingos, roos, koalas, platypus’s, and saltwater crocs. Then I will fly home and show them to my cats for a laff.
OFD wrote:
…and take pictures of numerous Aussies getting their asses kicked by dingos, roos, koalas, platypus’s, and saltwater crocs.”
Very few Australians own donkeys so it won’t be easy to show them being kicked.
RBT wrote:
“You’re just trying to scare us and keep all those pretty Aussie girls for yourself.”
Yeah right. Very few Aussie girls will have anything to do with a Yank, they have far too much common sense for that. Nicole Kidman being one of the few exceptions.
[snip] Very few Aussie girls will have anything to do with a Yank, they have far too much common sense for that. [snip]
Not the experience of any US Navy man with liberty call in Perth in the last 70 years or so.
All the Aussie girls I’ve met who’ve married well have told me that they don’t miss the blokes back home.
And by “married well”, I mean to a Canadian. Or someone that actually still speaks the Mother Tongue! 😀
Yeah, it’s true. The last time I looked, Australia was a large net exporter of pretty girls, and both the US and Canada (why do I always want to type “Canadia”?) are large net importers.
Which reminds me of how in the 1960’s I entirely missed the point of the Beach Boys’ California Girls. For years (decades, maybe), I thought they were wishing that all girls could be like California girls, rather than wishing that girls from all over the world would relocate to California.
Well, Canada does a fair job of exporting our home grown talent south of the 49th, to my horror! And to be fair, I know a couple of Canuck girls who moved Down Under to marry Aussie blokes. Mind you, they had terrible taste in men when they were in Canada, too. At least none of my ex-girlfriends turn Aussie on me!
I didn’t get “California Girls” until David Lee Roth did his cover, at which point I realized that he loved ALL the girls, but that the ones in California had the added benefit of being “easy”.
I had a boss in the early Eighties who married a Cannuk female. One of his best friends, also a Cannuk, had given him two references to be shown to the parents of prospective girlfriends: one really positive and glowing, the other highly negative. Not exactly sure of the rationale. He was a nice chap but died early due to being a heavy chain smoker.
Duffer, the Perth girls were Kiwi exiles. They’re so desperate for male “companionship” after their experiences at home that they’d date a chair if it asked nicely. But they drew the line when Canadian ships visited. They did have *some* standards.
Greg, our ships aren’t capable of making it all the way to Australia. Nice try, though! 😀
Negative reviews are the prime criterion for export, BTW. Get too many, and it’s the US. Combine it with poor judgement, and expect to be sent even farther south.
<i.Combine it with poor judgement, and expect to be sent even farther south.
I don’t remember any songs about “Alabama Girls”. Guess it was hard to sing with only one tooth in your mouth.
Ray, Ray, you shouldn’t make such ridiculous statements. Alabama is famous for growing pretty girls. For example, the original cast of Charlie’s Angels had two Texans (neither of whom was even remotely pretty) and a pretty Alabaman.
I’ll let you decide which are which.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/ca/Charlies_Angels_cast_1976.JPG
I thought they were all pretty nice looking, but Kate was always my favorite.
And she almost buried the ‘Bama in her voice.
Oh, Farrah and Jaclyn were definitely attractive, but I certainly wouldn’t call them pretty. Just crop out everything but their faces and you’ll see what I mean.
Ray, Ray, you shouldn’t make such ridiculous statements.
I guess they were from the parts of Alabama where the water was better. When I drive across the state line into Alabama I have to stop at the welcome center and bust out a tail light and a tooth.
Seriously, I have to make fun of Alabama. It is a requirement of living in TN. Especially during football season.
I thought they were all pretty nice looking, but Kate was always my favorite.
Here I thought I was strange because when I was a teenager I had a poster with my favorite Angel, and it wasn’t Farrah or Jaclyn. Which is kind of strange, because I have a thing for blondes.
You were just showing better taste in women than is common among teenagers. Kate Jackson was not just the prettiest of the three, but far, far prettier than either of the others.
FFM wasn’t good in that picture but the other two were stunners.
OFD is entirely agreed on the subject of Kate Jackson back then.
http://greenobles.com/data_images/kate-jackson/kate-jackson-02.jpg
And now.
But how many of those teeth are real?
But how many of those teeth are real?
Don’t know. But I have to admit to having a fake front tooth. An implant. The original was busted playing racquetball with a rookie (big mistake). Some serious surgery to repair the mouth and gum. Eventually lost the tooth.
Also lost a molar. Had a large cavity when I was a 15. Tooth lasted until I was 50. Then the filling failed resulting in a root canal (yee-ouch). That lasted about a year then the tooth cracked and could not be saved. Had the tooth extracted. An implant was not an option because of the stress on those teeth. A bridge was offered but that would require grinding down two perfectly healthy teeth on either side. I declined that option. Other option was to just let it go which I accepted.
Back in my grandparents days they all had false teeth by the time they were 40. Today there is no reason adults cannot have their own, healthy teeth until they die. There are exceptions of course for unusual circumstances.
Then you have the meth-heads. Their teeth just rot out, in short order, less than a year. I have no sympathy for them and wish their heads would also rot at the same speed.
Their heads *are* rotting at the same speed within that same year. We got us a few up here, but the main hard drugs of choice would seem to be the prescription stuff and heroin.