Cincinnati Shaper

[mite5255]

roflm ass off

Its very very serious Dave

[Rasper]

Here is an old newspaper clipping I found in my grandmother's desk after she died. From the looks of my grandfather, I would guess she was better off with him eaten and gone.



Richard

[mite5255]

My Grandfather was in that general area as a boy, and he told me about the incident

[Rasper]

My grandmother used to tell me about him. They were from Texas. She said he always said to her that there ain't nothing in Texas but sagebrush and hard work. And then one afternoon he read in a newspaper about some guys in Australia in a place called Pine Creek who were digging holes to put in a fence. And in one of those post holes they found gold. After he read that, Grandfather wasn't worth a damn. He couldn't work and he couldn't sit still. Finally, after a few weeks of that, he took Grandmother's savings from where she kept it hidden and caught the train to California and then the first boat he could find to Australia. That was the last Grandma ever saw of him.
I understand that the Australian insurance companies now offer drop bear insurance policies, but back then those kinds of policies didn't exist. And even if they had, one look at my grandfather would tell you he would not have paid for insurance. More likely he would have pulled a gun and robbed the insurance man.

[mite5255]

Yes mate, we did end up with a lot of fortune seeks back then, and they would of had a terrifying death, I think I would rather take on one of those monster Kodiak bears

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[Rasper]

We're lucky birds are only a few inches long. If they were as big as the average dog, human beings would now be extinct.

R

[mite5255]

We do have these little fellows http://birdlife.org.au/bird-profile/wedge-tailed-eagle

[Rasper]

You Ozzies must be a tough species to have survived drop bears, wedge tailed eagles, and taipans. Like isuzu diesels, you'll probably survive global warming and the nuclear holocaust as well.

(If you have never known an Isuzu diesel, lift the engine out of your pickup truck and drop an Isuzu diesel in. It will still be running when the last pieces of the truck have rusted away.)

Richard

[mite5255]

I had a Isuzu petrol car, two of them in fact, and they were great little cars.....Our emu's are a tough bird( large flightless bird like an ostrich)

Australia went to war with emus.

Not only that, but the emus won.

The Great Emu War was real, and it took place in 1932. Essentially, emus (large, flightless, seemingly brainless birds) had swarmed farmland in Western Australia that had been given to World War I veterans. They’d been tasked with growing wheat crops but 20,000 emus had made that task difficult. So they called in the military.

The war effort was led by Major G.P.W. Meredith of the Royal Australian Artillery, and involved two soldiers armed with 10,000 rounds of ammunition.

Turns out emus are very difficult to kill. They split into packs. They run super fast. They don’t follow normal patterns. At the end, the Major calculated one bird was killed for every 10 bullets fired upon them.

There were two major assaults in the Great Emu War and neither were very successful. The farmers called for military assistance again in 1934, 1943, and 1948 but were denied.

Eventually, the farmers just put up fences.

[dallen]

caught my first swarm of honey bees today. little suckers decided to take up residence in the back of my S10

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1o_TSfE ... sp=sharing