to any Austalians....

[Thaddeus J. Van Gilder]

This may be a dumb question, but my students want to know...

Are Platypusses common?
you know, are they often road pizza?
or are they a rare thing that hardly ever see?
And, lastly, do they live in salt water or fresh?

Thanks alot..This is just way beyond my experience.

[Donn]

They're all sleeping now, so I'll speak for them.

"The platypus is wholly protected throughout Australia. Although common, it is listed as vulnerable due to the continuing degradation of suitable water bodies caused by daming, drainage and pollution. The illegal netting of fish also causes many platypus deaths. "

"Platypus will not swim through culverts as the water flow is too uniform. They will cross the road instead and are often hit by traffic while doing so."

"Platypus live in burrows that they dig on the banks of fresh water rivers, lakes or streams."

http://www.dpiwe.tas.gov.au/inter.nsf/WebPages/BHAN-53573T?open

[nedL]

http://www.australiagift.com/toy_stores/new2/platypus-1.jpg
I hear Shane keeps a few as pets. :D

[Art Read]

And, according to Patrick O'Brian anyway, they carry quite a whollop in a hidden, poisonous "stinger" by their tail. Ouch.

[NormMessinger]

Stinger by the tail? Um, I think it is a spur on the hind leg.

Donn?

--Norm

[Donn]

Give that man a kewpie doll!

"The male has a spur on the inner side of each hind limb, which is connected by means of a hollow groove to a poison gland. This spur is used to inflict wounds on natural enemies and other males, and may possibly play some part in mating. The poison is capable of inflicting a very painful injury to humans."

Same link as above...

Actually, 'inner side of hind limb' is pretty 'close to the tail.' ;)

Wonder what part the spur plays in mating!?

[ 05-02-2002, 01:07 PM: Message edited by: donnwest ]

[Dave Fleming]

"Wonder what part the spur plays in mating?"

Oh Oh, I ain't agoin' there for anything.
:D

[John Gearing]

One of the few mammals to use poison! See also shrews on the poison issue.

[Biofish]

OK... when those guys wake up i want to know somthing too..

Are their Outback Steakhouses there?.. Did they REALLY invent the bloomin onion.?

How many times a week to they eat steak.?

and finaly, does a woman with a american accent drive them sexualy crazy like a woman with a Aussie accent does here?

Rob

[Mike Field]

Okay, I'll weigh in as the first Aussie.

Thanks for finding that dope, Donn. Despite what they might say, the only platypus I've ever seen in my 50+ years have been swimmimng in tanks -- not in the wild, and not flattened on roads. They may be common (although not as common as the article seems to imply,) but they're certainly not commonly seen, not even in tanks -- you have to go searching for them. I doubt if I've seen half a dozen in my life.

They live in freshwater, having a burrow in the side of the creek (above waterlevel, but with an underwater entrance.)

I guess anything else one might want to know about them can be found in an encyclopaedia.
________

Rob -- what's an Outback Steakhouse? Maybe Dingo or someone will weigh in with contrary information, but I've never heard of one.

I'll have steak at least a couple of times a week normally. But the price keeps going up -- I have to pay about $35 for a full scotch fillet these days, and I'm eating more seafood as a result,,,,

For your last question, a resounding Yes to the first part (as long as the voice isn't on TV, when we don't notice it,) but I can't answer for the second. However, I have it on quite unimpeachable authority that Aussie male voices affect Yank women like that too.

[ 05-02-2002, 10:19 PM: Message edited by: Mike Field ]

[WRB]

Um... South American accents maybee. Unfortunatly, the most common source for a female American accent here is CNN... they are so "Keen" that they just give you the Sh***
Never actually seen a dead platypuss myself....

[Bernadette]

don't know about any men or women with american accents but i'm wondering if the .."to any Austalians..." is meant to be spoken with a lisp...?!just kidding!!!
don't personally like the american 'brassy' accent but then again the australian accent is 'weak' by comparison and that is why many australians who go and live in america soon find themselves speaking with an american accent. an american living here in australia will invariable retain their accent for life.
seen only one maybe two platypus in the wild and never as road kill. we got lots of wallabies and kangaroos dead on the roads here. if you hit them it's a big problem if they smash through the windscreen as they will thrash about in the car causing harm to people. it's a real downer when any animal gets hit by a car and our laws here say we have to stop and help the animal or make sure it is dead and not leave it to die a horrible death.

[ 05-03-2002, 03:44 AM: Message edited by: Bernadette & David Hedger ]

[Wild Dingo]

Your not complaining about having to stop and help the roos you hit over to the "other side" are you?... me? I go outta my way to hit them fellas just so I can help them get over there!!... Then they help me by feeding me some great tucker!! :D

Steakhouses? nope!... I suppose one could "infer" that the roadhouses out behind the black stump could be seen as "steak houses"... but then I dont think much of what they serve could be called steak in the traditional sence... more like any old bullock that was around when meat was needed... I had a "steak" once at the Turkey Creek Roadhouse that was definantly goat... looked like goat smelt like goat and tasted like goat but was advertised on the menu as "prime Northern Territory porterhouse steak"... it was goat! at $18 a serve... tourists lapped it up!! :D

Platypus's... never seen one in the wild... only in the zoo... sure havent had one as roadkill... as I understand it theyre getting pretty rare and scarce and then I think most of them are over your way Mike?

Women with American accents drive me crazy???? mmmm depends I guess... most times I really go troppo over a woman with that deep down southern drawl... other times the accent just plain drives me nuts! Can be soooooooooo downright irritating and grating!... Must admit I dos like that South African accent... oh and the Canadian one... mmmmm and the irish aint to bad... oh okay and I dont mind the sweeds... mmmmm actually there aint too many accents I dont mind! ... most times its a great inititator of conversation and that leads to..... oooohhhhh mmmmmmm okay that was back when I was single huh?! :rolleyes:

Accents?? I aint got one!!! I talks Aussie! Its you fellas gots the accents! My speaking sounds just fine to me whereas I get all muddled with you hamericans!! :D

Some folks reckon that Aussies dont talk like old Paul Hogan did in Croc Dundee and Ive had some Yanks actually have a go at me over it... but really its a matter of where youve been raised... most Aussies in the city dont use or have the real Aussie okker lingo in them... others who have been born raised and lived in the outback all their lives do...

So you may know a few Aussies and they probably dont speak like croc dundee but that doesnt mean that there aint the Aussies in the outback that do speak just like he did does it?...

Elaborate? oh what the heck okay I will just cause you insist! :cool: ... I had a workmate at the last place I worked who was from New York... he spoke with one of them hamerican tv presenter accents ... And yet another septic tank mate ;) I had in another job was from Alabama or Missisippi or somewhere down that way... and No way would I ever say they sounded the same... talk the same... or have the same accent... they didnt...totally different and totally foreign! :D

Same in Aussie... you got your citified fellas and you gots your bushies... then you gots your real way outback bushies! all Aussies... all different... Tell you what!... if you went to say Meekatharra WA, Victoria River NT, Emerald QLD or even Oodnadatta SA, you would hear Croc Dundee and it aint an effected accent... yet go to the city and you rarely ever hear it... same with the American...

Ohhh and we dont all have big pop eyes or talk all excited either!! some of us is pretty laid back you know

Oooops platypussies! :D

Take it easy
Shane

[Ron Williamson]

Shane
By "big pop eyes and all excited"were you talking about that aerial skier cutie from the olympics?
Which Canadian accent do you like?We've got about 7.
R

[doorstop]

Platypus... never seen as roadkill, I have seen a few in the wild, a canoe or kayak is a great way to see them, but lady luck has to be grinnin' at ya! Roos, Emus, possums, bloody wombats, a few koalas and nowhere near enough cats seem to be our roadkill over this way. I have never known anyone sad enough to actually eat any but I know of a greyhound trainer(?) who collects roos for dog meat... but then a dog racer is only about two points smarter than the roadkill he collects in my book.
What the hell is an "Outback Steakhouse"? Closest to that round here is the local Shell roadhouse where you can get a week old meat pie, a stale Lamington and a can of coke for breakfast. Of course we do have some very nice, silver service restaurants for the civilised...
We have a Sheila living here with an American accent, she drives everyone wild....... no-one can stand the bitch! Mind you, it wouldn't matter what BLOODY accent this sort had, she would still piss off everyone! We also have a Canadian person of the female persuasion, she gets called upon for school sports day when the loudspeaker breaks down 'cos her yell can blow out the windscreen of a Toyota Landcruiser at a range of 4.5 kilometres.
Pop eyes? Got them the other week when I got the insurance bill for my Ute!
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[ 05-03-2002, 07:25 AM: Message edited by: doorstop ]

[Thaddeus J. Van Gilder]

Wow!!!! Kangeroo roadkill!!!! that Is so Kewl!

That is way better than the deer and the possum roadkill we get around here!
And Koalas too!!!!!
That must be the Kewlest road kill of all!!!!

[Wild Dingo]

Originally posted by Ron Williamson:
Shane
By "big pop eyes and all excited"were you talking about that aerial skier cutie from the olympics?
Which Canadian accent do you like?We've got about 7.
RThe blonde honeybuns?? geeez mate no flamin way!
That girl is downright dangerously gorgeous...... mmmmm if only I was single!! :D I reckon I could just about handle freezin me gronicles off just to be near that little lady!! :cool:

I meant that goose brained dipstick Steve flamin Irwin! :mad: drives me ratty!

Now how did I know someone was gonna say that about your accent! The french canadian one??? Go on say theres three of them!! :eek: I know the one I meant!! :rolleyes: Must be me accent again eh?

Best roadkill?... definantly... absolutley... without question... turtle!... fresh of the tyre! excellent! galahs just too damn tough 28 aint to bad but the feathers are the best part of that thing bilby I still gotta try... one day you little buggar your gonna cross a road in front of me and...... WHAM!!! Bilby stew!! :D

Oh roos not bad either... stuffed with a couple of young tender bungarras and covered with a nice honey ant sauce! fairdinkumbewdycobber!!!

Take it easy
Shane

[Thaddeus J. Van Gilder]

by the way...

what does "fairdinkumbewdycobber!!! " translate to in above the equator English?

[NormMessinger]

Outback steak houses are a mid range chain of restaurants done up in what they think is an Australian (I did it! ONLY ONE "i"!) theme. Women's toilet is labled "Shelas", men's "Blokes", stuff like that. The food's not bad if you can stand the loud "music" which is deafinatly NOT Australian in either of the two here in Omaha. They are popular. You'll wait for seating most any evening after 5:30 or so.

--Norm

[Donn]

I like the food, especially the onions, but I could only take the inside of the place once. They have carry out (at least here they do) and we pick it up a couple of times a month.

The TV ads are horrible, all ending with the tagline "No rules, just right" or some such nonsense.

[Mike Field]

Um,,,, Norm,,,, not enough i's in "Sheilas," mate.

Maybe time for a check-up with your ophthalmologist about this i-trouble you're having?

[NormMessinger]

Man, that's not the only trouble I have. I wouldn't have finished college if Phylllis had spend hour grilling me from a 6th grade spelling book. But then, in this case, I've never been in the ladies toilet so why would I care how it's spelled. You?

--N smile.gif ;) tongue.gif redface.gif :rolleyes: :eek: R M

[paladin]

The "Outback Steak Houses" were started by some fellas that had a row and split with their partners at "Chili's"...The "bloomin Onion" has been around by one name or the other from Chili's to I think an earlier originator or farther back version of one of the more popular "Texas Style" steak houses.........The only thing "Australian" about them is the play on word games.....

[Wild Dingo]

Sooooo..... your sayin you fellas have what are proporting to be "Aussie outback steak houses"?...

sooo tell me do they sell meat pies? do they have sangas? vegemite? billy tea? emu or roo steaks? buffalo steak? croc steak? grilled goanna kidneys? whichetty grub stew? honey ant spead?

Do they cook on a half 44 gallon drum? over a camp fire? what sorta drinks do they serve? Fosters? XXXX? Bundy? Swan? Coopers?.....

mmmmmm am sitting here wondering if there is anything Aussie about them? do they speak the lingo cobbers? :eek:

Hey Mike!!... Maybe you me doorstop skuthorp and maybe Tony... hey! we could even ring old John in NZ in on this and he can toss in a couple of kiwi birds a few mutton birds and bobs ya uncle!!... What do ya reckon fellas shall we open up some good old fashioned competition???!!... Geeez we could even rope old Phil Young in as our legal weegle!!...

I got a mob of mates up north that can get all the roo emu and other critters we could ever need and send them over... even have a couple of mates in the Abattoirs in Derby and Wyndham who can do it all legal like... what say you??... crikey! we could even round a few of the sheilas up and get em baking a few lamos and pumpkin scones!!... geeez mates I can feel a new career comin on here!! :D :cool:

So whos got the mates at the breweries??... Its your shout!! May as well start early!! tongue.gif

Cornel harlan sanders eat ya heart out!... The Aussies are comin!! :D

Take it easy
Shane

[Donn]

Shane...here's their menu:

http://www.outbacksteakhouse.com/menu/

[Alan D. Hyde]

One of the original promoters of the "Bloomin' Onion" was, as mentioned above, a "Texas Steakhouse" called Lone Star Steakhouse. At first, their version of this menu item was called a "Tumbleweed," but now they refer to it as a "Texas Rose." Market research, no doubt.

Here's where the menu is on their website

www.lonestarsteakhouse.com/Default2.asp (http://www.lonestarsteakhouse.com/Default2.asp)

Alan

[Donn]

Whether they're Bloomin Onions or Texas Roses, I'm addicted to 'em. For some unknown reason, you can't get good fried onions on Long Island. I used to eat in a rib house in Cleveland, called Mimi's, who served onion bricks...shredded sweet onions formed in the shape of a big paver, and deep fried. Oozing cholesterol, no doubt, but wonderful!

[NormMessinger]

Think of the profit in those onions. What, a dime for the bulb, a couple of cents for the oil, two bits for over head and what do you pay? Iced tea is a better deal.

--Norm

[Donn]

I had to stop drinking iced tea :( ...too much caffeine. To tell the truth, I don't know what the Bloomin Onions cost...SWMBO always pays. ;)

[Wild Wassa]

In the Australian Capital Territory, within the Cotter River Catchment (Canberra's Water supply) it is still 'very' pristine. Mount Bimbirri and the Namigi Wilderness. In those dark, deep, 'crystal clear' pools (also the home of pan sized Rainbow Trout, the protected Galaxis and native Blackfish) just before sunset, those little monotremes can be found feeding. Floating on the surface, then diving for 15-30 seconds, a few bubbles rise, elsewhere, then they are back on the surface. There is not much to see because of their wet fur in the shadows over dark pools, it's their wake and bubbles that you notice. The feeling is special.

Last year our family with a freind from Brisbane, went on a twilight platypus veiwing tour (close to home). With a Park Ranger and half a dozen locals. The 'counter jumper' should have stayed behind the counter, handing out pamphlets on platypus. He spent all the time scaring off these timid animals, with his explainations as to why 'we' could'nt find them.

[JimJ]

Last year during the long weekend (Queen's Birthday holiday) we spent the Sunday night on Lake Wivenhoe, just to the west of Brisbane. Power boats are not allowed on this Lake.

On the Monday we rowed up Sandy Creek about 2 k. The creek is about 10 to 20 m wide. On the return and under sail we were treated to the sight of a platypus swiming along on the surface past the boat. It looked up at us, decided were not a threat and continued on its way on the surface.

Magical!

[Wild Wassa]

Thad, just adding to the answers and repeating some.

Platypus are common. They are 'not' considered endangered or threatened, today. Platypus are solitary animals.

Yes, they can be found as road kill but not often. Again Donn mentioned pollution but the biggest treat to platypus are floods. Being caught in fence wire along creek lines and in farmer's drains.

Platypus can be seen often. It's their feeding times that cause the misconception that they are rare. Platypus are nocturnal in summer. They retreat from the heat and glare. During winter the females feed all day.

Platypus will live in brackish water but not salt.

Warren.

ps, A opalized platypus fossil has been found in Chile.

[Mike Field]

Originally posted by donnwest:
Shane...here's their menu:
Have you guys seen this menu? Walhalla PASTA? Are they kidding? Walhalla's still living in 1910 -- pasta? I can just hear them up there -- Wotheflaminellispastamatenevererdovit.

And since when has Walhalla been in the outback, anyway? It's only a two-hour drive from Western Port,,,,

(For that matter, what the devil is a "crawfish?" Do they mean crayfish?)

Nothing Aussie about this place I'm afraid, people -- just pure gimmick.

[Biofish]

Yes Crawfish ARE crayfish.... They are the same. It is said differently in different parts of the USA. Where i live we call them Crawdads.

Rob

[micksmanlyjunior]

I am also in ACT with wassa

I just want to add to the whole accent debate

No-one else in australia is as moronic and wanky as that crocodile hunter guy
he is an extremity of aussie okker and he's got a certified degree in dickheadedness

Mick

all aussies just for my reference, can you all state exactly ewhere you are from

[Ron Williamson]

Yer skatin' on thin ice there mate.To my six year old,he's a god. tongue.gif
R

[Wild Dingo]

Not ever going to be called backward about coming forward eh Mick



he is an extremity of aussie okker and he's got a certified degree in dickheadedness
Now can we have that in plain uncorrupted Aussie mate? :D :

Wassa... a bit of CLARITY mate... they ARE as rare as hens teeth over this way mate! If memory serves they are mainly in remoter wildreness areas of the south eastern coast of Aussie... so believe me if you come over here and expect to see one... FORGET IT! :(

For locale... Right now Im at the red dot... http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid19/pbb94ce030ee8765209e9af58ee7e3b9f/fdc2c184.jpg

Another for our offshore mates
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid19/p0235a4314bc55312a3fa475b92ee66f3/fdc2c185.jpg

And for other info if interested... this is where Im from... the small dot is where I was born and the larger dot where I was raised
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid19/p7e23299a91faf99b019837055f62e403/fdc2c187.jpg

And finally Ingadda Mission... where most of the hoons where born and bred
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid19/p1ef0d30a87559813de360891388039d7/fdc2c186.jpg

The lat and long stuff I aint done got yet!! hang on a tic and I'll hunt them up!... give me a few and I'll try to sort them pics out so you can see em!! :(

Take it easy
Shane

[JimJ]

No-one else in Australia is as moronic and wanky as that crocodile hunter guy he is an extremity of aussie okker and he's got a certified degree in dickheadedness At least he believes in what he does and puts his money where his mouth is!

[Aramas]

Platypi are very reclusive, and most people only ever see them in wildlife parks. People who are capable of sitting quietly for long periods of time might be able to see one if they're in the right place at the right time.
Some of my fellow Australians are Yanking your chains, so to speak. No one *really* speaks that way, but 'fair dinkum' roughly translates to 'no sh!t', bewdy (beauty) = 'kewl', and cobber = 'bro''. Imo the crocodile hunter should have his vocal cords severed before he sets back our international image several million years.

>Are their Outback Steakhouses there?.. Did they REALLY invent the bloomin onion.?
Never seen either here. Steakhouses are American. Here it's a tautology. It's like saying 'Beerpub'.

>How many times a week to they eat steak.?
Males left to our own devices pretty much eat one form of steak or another (beef, lamb, pork, veal etc.) every day, usually fried and on a bread roll. Women usually try to make us eat strangely coloured things that they refer to as 'vegetables', but I don't believe that they're actually food. It's all part of some fiendishly cunning plan to weaken us so we can't escape their evil clutches.
>and finaly, does a woman with a american accent drive them sexualy crazy like a woman with a Aussie accent does here?
They drive me crazy, but not sexually. American women could seriously benefit from a volume control and a subtlety infusion :cool:

[Art Read]

"American women could seriously benefit from a volume control and a subtlety infusion"

LOL! That gets my vote as best "line" of the day...

(Ouch! I just got clobbered...)

[ 05-31-2002, 12:54 PM: Message edited by: Art Read ]

[Wild Dingo]

Originally posted by Aramas:

Some of my fellow Australians are Yanking your chains, so to speak. No one *really* speaks that way, but 'fair dinkum' roughly translates to 'no sh!t', bewdy (beauty) = 'kewl', and cobber = 'bro''
Well Aramas mate Im afraid you are totally and utterly misguided or simply a few sandwiches short of a picnic.... You say "No one *really* speaks that way" yet you yourself use the colloquial "layabout" to discribe yourself in your profile. Why not couch potato? would say the same thing just not speaking "that way" if its so unaustralian and not done in your area of Aussie then mate Im sorry for you you dont know what your missing having to rely on idiots like Irwin for your understanding of the Aussie lingo.

To say "no one" you mean you know that for a fact that "no one" in Australia talks like a "typical" Aussie? Or just those people within your circle of acquaintance?... mmmmmm and how many people would that be?... well even if its several thousand although probably more like several hundred but we will be generous and say several thousand... theres a population in Aussie of something like 23 or so MILLION people and they dont all live in the cities!... So think about it mate theres a whole mess of people in Aussie you have no flamin knowledge of at all... Your assuming because your circle of aquaintances dont talk with an Aussie accent using colloquial lingo that "no one" does... which is wrong.

You havent put down where in Oz you reside either country or city... my guess would be city and rather doubtfull if youve spent any time out of the "smoke" in your life... if any at all it would be within cooee of the smoke anyways so not really the bush... If you had you would know and realize that many people do in fact really actually speak "that way".

I mean one can head down to Bunbury here in WA or Albany some miles distant from Perth and often refered to as "country"... and not find it... but go to Tenterton or some other outta the way place and it will whack you...

Or head north to Geraldton and you wont hear it but go out to Walkaway and you will or go a few hundred klicks inland to Three Springs, Que or Mt Magnet and you definantly will... go further north to Carnarvon and you will hear it at times but inland to Meekatharra and it will knock your socks of and bowl you over its as thick as Irwin could ever do it... and it aint affected like his is its just the way they speak out there...

I mean if anyone wants to stick their heads up their bums act like an ignoramus and say "no one really speaks that way" to me at least... as one who has lived out there most of my life... they dont know squat about their own country outside of the damn smoke! Sorry but that statement really shows your ignorance mate! :mad:

Dont mean to be rude Aramus but you're wrong... and well if you would heed a tad of advice... go buggar of outback somewhere further than the thunderbox near the back door... and you will see the real Australia... Lingo lifestyle warts and all... dont take a tourist trip on some stupid bus stay overnight in some motel or hotel and come say Ive been "outback"... go live there!!!

You know its often a common joke that there are "rednecks" and "hillbillys" over there in the States and theres folks that talk like Uncle Reamus or Uncle Tom... Excuse my American accent it needs work I know anyway they talk sorta like this... "Whyah ah jest bets thet thayre Aramus fellah dont believe thet theyah talks lak this over thayar in tha Whonited States of Hamerica"... but I bet theres people who do!

And its my bet that they dont affect the way they talk either... well if that can be so in the States then why would it be difficult to understand that there are Aussies who do in fact talk like Chips Rafferty or Croc Dundee?

Someone mentioned Aussie cultural cringe in another posting the other day... to me this denial of our Australian way of speaking is the biggest cringe of all...

Soon enough people like Aramus will have everyone believe that Australians never spoke in such a fashion and I mean why not just deny the quintisential Aussie ever existed? That would make it easier right?

Okay enough rant

Take it easy
Shane

[Wild Wassa]

Well G'day. How is every one.

Dingo I'm sorry to have missed your earlier question about the 'availability' of Platypus in you neck of the bush. I enjoyed the small maps.

I'm still shocked and cynical, over a recent Aussie Government report which was released about a week ago. I rang the ACT Parks and Wildlife Service in Canberra, to check on the platypus (not having seen the report).

The Platypus, 'is not' on the .... endangered, threatened or disturbed species lists in this country. 1,500 Aussie mammals and plant species are on the endangered list alone. 'The biggest threat comes from land clearing'. I think 'this site' knew this.

It's the overall platypus numbers that 'only' count, their locations 'don't count'. Let's count the ones in overseas zoos then. They do! At least the platypie are safe. The sheep are OK and so are the roos. Although, if I was a roo I would'nt feel safe in this country.

Once upon a time, in my salad days a Wilderness Area was something to feel proud of as a nation. UNESCO even set the the minimum radii for the hub and two outer perimeters, with minimal disturbance within the outer perimeter, from fire towers and snig tracks. These figures have been eroded to suit developnent. There is not one area within NSW that fits UNESCOS criteria. Except for Kosciousko World Biosphere Region and only then in winter. Yet, we have 13 State Government Wilderness areas in NSW. The erosion of reality.

I finished 'restoring' my first boat today. An 11ft British Moth, the one with the suger/paint. Boat 2 will be finished in about a week and like the BM she can have another 3 months to cure.

[Tar Devil]

Someone mentioned Aussie cultural cringe in another posting the other day... to me this denial of our Australian way of speaking is the biggest cringe of all...
Shane, Mate, you wouldn't be referin' to me, now would ya? And I thought I wuz just gettin' edgycated.

Rednecks? We got 'em in spades here in western North Carolina. They'll drive you nuts with whatever version of english they speak.

And I've got an Uncle Tom, too. Some of you Oregonians mighta heard of him... he was chief of police in Portland for a while. Last time he came to North Carolina he asked me to show him some rednecks. I took him to Walmart.
That was the best I could do.

I'm bushed. Got in from Pennsylvania 'bout 11:00, just in time to tell my kids g'night. I'm hitting the sack.

Nhama yalala,

Phil

[Aramas]

Seriously Dingo, when was the last time someone said 'fairdinkumbewdycobber' to you? 1927? I'm not quite that old, but I'm working on it smile.gif
I occasionally hear someone say 'Are you fair dinkum?', 'You little beauty!', or 'G'day cobber (esp. in Tasmania)' and frequently cop a 'G'day, mate', but rolling them all up into one sentence and trotting them out like a performing seal is about as amusing as a fart in a space suit - which is to say, not terribly.
Admittedly I've spent most of my life in cities, usually in the company of comparatively educated people. However, my family are as rustic a bunch of barbarians as one could hope to meet, and even they certainly don't talk that way tongue.gif

[Trog]

Welp. If ah maght set heah ah spell wit'out y'all gettin' all appetite over tin-cup on meh...

Bob Warr Fants: sumpin' ta keep cattle in a pashtur.

Warr Plars: sumpin' ya cut a fants with.

Rat Naow: immediately.

Rat Cheer: in this here very place.

Rat Chonder: over thetaway.

Rat Tare: jus' south o' Rat Cheer.

Cheer: ah settin'-on thang.

Amulants: ah thang thet takes ya to the hospital when yore lag is broke.

Lag: Yore standin' on'em.

Syreen: ah noisemaker you put on an amulants so's folks will git out'ta way.

Ehr Ull: a man's first name.

Arrows: mistakes.

Far Angine: sumpin' that ya call when yore house is'a burnin' down. or up.

Punchard Tar: sumpin' thet goes flat when ya don't have a spare.

Texco All Compny: refineries.

Merkan Cissen: born in the U.S.A.

Puh Cons: Yankee folks call these delectable lettle goodies Pee-Cans. Now ain't thet a knee-slapper!

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Two Texan anglers a'settin' in a row-boat:

A!

whut?

M R Ducks!

M R not

O S A R! C M Wangs?
...
Wall B! M R Ducks!

:D

[formerlyknownasprince]

There are plenty of platupus out there. My brother in law has them in the creek on his 100 acre property. They used to be in the creek at Epping in Sydney until some wanker shot them out about 15 years ago. I'm sure there are other creeks in the greater Sydney area with them.

They are extremely shy and I've only seen a few of them.

Someone must like the crocodile guy - apparently his is the most syndicated show on TV. He is no worse than Judge Judy, Springer and what's her name? Nope - I don't watch any of them.