Funnies for Rob

[Flyfisher]

Er, wouldn't that be 'your back' ? Or,perhaps, 'your back's back'?

 

[CatherineB]

Ah - you're* back Penners. I was fearful you'd been trapped under something heavy.

*NB the very carefully placed apostrophe. 8)

I thought we weren't supposed to mention his back.

DON'T MENTION THE BACK!!!

 

[robgil]

Penners back? were you away somewhere Penners?

 

[FamilyWiggs]

Rob, I was getting (genuinely) worried - there was a gap in his postings of about 4 days and many many obvious joke opportunities were missed, when ordinarily he is on top of them in femto-seconds - even when on holiday in forin-parts.

Thankfully he is back (but we shouldn't mention the b-word! :roll: )

 

[FamilyWiggs]

Er, wouldn't that be 'your back' ? Or,perhaps, 'your back's back'?

Yes - hence my carefully placed apostrophe - otherwise it'd have been "Your back Penners" - which he doesn't like us to draw attention to!

 

[robgil]

dont mention his back guys , you know how he doesnt like to see it mentioned on the forum.
i too have been too busy to post lately , just very briefly on one or two occasions over the past few days.
it can be frustrating when you partially read through a thread you would like to contribute to but life pulls you away before you get the chance, or am i just used to spending far too much time on tinternet?

 

[Penners]

G'day mates!

Just got beck from a reepper treep to the inverted soide of the world, where the prawns are barbied and the lenguage is mengled.

Cultural tip: when an Aussie asks "Hare yew?", he doesn't want to know. He just wants you to ask him the same question.

Geographical tip: Tasmania is the little-known jewel in Australia's crown.

Gastronomical tip: the seafood is absolutely wonderful. The Aussie Floater* is not.

Driving tip: Never try a Melbourne "hook turn". You'll die (if only of embarrassment).

Budgetary tip: It'll cost you a hell of a lot more than you think it will. What? Everything!

Linguistic tip: It's a requirement that any word exceeding two syllables in length must be abbreviated and have either an "o" or a "ie" put on the end. Hence:

This ahvo (this afternoon)

Defo (definitely)

Ambo (ambulance)

Esky (a brand of picnic box called Eskimo)

Fisho (Fishmonger)

Kindie (kindergarten)

Ridgie (original)

...and so on ad infinitum (sorry - infie).

* An Aussie Floater is a deep bowl of lukewarm gravy with a meat pie literally floating in it. :x

 

[Moo]

Cultural tip: when an Aussie asks "Hare yew?", he doesn't want to know. He just wants you to ask him the same question.

It's the same in Norwich, except here they say "Y'orroight?"

 

[LadyArowana]

G'day mates!

Just got beck from a reepper treep to the inverted soide of the world, where the prawns are barbied and the lenguage is mengled.

Cultural tip: when an Aussie asks "Hare yew?", he doesn't want to know. He just wants you to ask him the same question.

Geographical tip: Tasmania is the little-known jewel in Australia's crown.

Gastronomical tip: the seafood is absolutely wonderful. The Aussie Floater* is not.

Driving tip: Never try a Melbourne "hook turn". You'll die (if only of embarrassment).

Budgetary tip: It'll cost you a hell of a lot more than thing it will. What? Everything!



* An Aussie Floater is a deep bowl of lukewarm gravy with a meat pie literally floating in it. :x

I do hope you didn't stop over in Singapore and fail to let me be a tour guide for you and Mrs P! I am quite fond of all the classic tourist destinations and have friends at most of the museums so I wouldn't have made you look at endless shoes and handbags ( although if Joce decides to pop over for curtain fabric we might have to investigate them )!

I'm glad you liked Tazzie, it isn't somewhere people think of as a holiday place and that's a shame. Even some of my Aussie friends havn't visited. Did you go to the small town in the centre that has the old mill and the wonderful dry stone walls ? Very PP.

 

[FamilyWiggs]

Duplicate post.

 

[FamilyWiggs]

G'day mates!

Just got beck from a reepper treep to the inverted soide of the world, where the prawns are barbied and the lenguage is mengled.

Good god man, I hope your extended absence from these parts of late is because you took a sea passage there. Those long haul flights can be very bad for one's back, you know. :shock:

Never been antipodean - would love too.

 

[LadyArowana]

Good god man, I hope your extended absence from these parts of late is because you took a sea passage there. Those long haul flights can be very bad for one's back, you know. :shock:

Never been antipodean - would love too.

I am sure Mr P wasn't squashed into cattle class with the riff raff, but travelling in style in an A380 individual cabin!

 

[FamilyWiggs]

I am sure Mr P wasn't squashed into cattle class with the riff raff, but travelling in style in an A380 individual cabin!

Is that the one with the disintegrating engines? He's lucky to be alive!

 

[LadyArowana]

Is that the one with the disintegrating engines? He's lucky to be alive!

Yes :lol: but it still works with 3 and if there was someone like Capt Sullenberger at the controls probably OK with only one or two. Having said that I regard getting off any flight as nothing short of a miracle, I know the statistics and the science, but it never fails to strike me as an improbable thing to accomplish. I was supposed to be one one of the big birds Thursday night, but think Quantas still have them grounded. Better than a helicopter I suppose, only way I would do that again is if it's a search and rescue situation.

 

[Penners]

I do hope you didn't stop over in Singapore and fail to let me be a tour guide for you and Mrs P!

I assure Your Ladyship that our experience of stopover airports was limited to filing in through one gate, shuffling through a security check and back out through another gate to the same aircraft. Hong Kong on the way out and Bangkok on the way home. I was excited to discover that the two airports have slightly different coloured tiles on their floors.

We flew poor-person class, where the "individual cabin" is replaced by a seat that would have been adequately proportioned for my 4-year-old grandson, and where food is replaced by something that has been skilfully engineered to remove anything redolent of flavour, texture or nutritional value.

But yes, Tasmania is utterly wonderful. We didn't visit the place that you mentioned, but our week there was divided roughly between two centres (other than one night in fairly ordinary Hobart). We stayed first at Coles Bay in the stunning Freycinet Peninsula National Park. Then we moved on to the Cradle Mountain National Park (a World Heritage Site), which is also breathtakingly beautiful.

A view of the Freycinet Peninsula

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Coles Bay

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A Cradle Mountain waterfall

 

[Penners]

Skippy, spotted on her way to the old mine shaft (her joey is hiding behind her):

 

[Flyfisher]

What's that Skippy?
You're trying to say there's a little boy stuck down an old mineshaft?
Strewth, we'd better go rescue him!

 

[LadyArowana]

I assure Your Ladyship that our experience of stopover airports was limited to filing in through one gate, shuffling through a security check and back out through another gate to the same aircraft. Hong Kong on the way out and Bangkok on the way home. I was excited to discover that the two airports have slightly different coloured tiles on their floors.

I am glad I didn't miss you! If you are going that way again take a couple of days here and say hello.

 

[Penners]

Skippy (and her kangaroo friends, who actually come in something like 32 varieties) has a forward-facing pouch. The slightly more disturbing fact is that wombats (and koalas) have rearward facing pouches. It's initially a little freaky to see a wombat munching grass at one end, and then to spot another head doing the same thing, sticking out from the other end. :shock:

You can see the bulge under this lady's abdomen, where her pouch is:



Wombats are known as the "Bush Bulldozers". They have their own set trails for moving around, and they won't deviate from them. If you happen to be standing in the way of a wombat strolling down its trail, it will simply head-butt you out of the way. And, we were told, if you're unfortunate to pitch your tent across a wombat's trail, you're quite likely to be woken in the night by the wombie walking straight over the top of your tent, and you.

They're not vicious - just determined.

 

[Penners]

I am glad I didn't miss you! If you are going that way again take a couple of days here and say hello.

That's most kind, Milady. But we went principally because young Master Penners and his family are spending two years in Melbourne. Once they return (in about 6 months' time) we're unlikely to wreak such devastation on the holiday fund for the foreseeable future.