From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Jun 26 23:00:53 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA18983 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Fri, 26 Jun 1998 23:00:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [139.130.136.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA18964 for ; Fri, 26 Jun 1998 23:00:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.0/8.9.0) id PAA23335; Sat, 27 Jun 1998 15:30:37 +0930 (CST) Message-ID: <19980627153036.F23035@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Sat, 27 Jun 1998 15:30:36 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: John Birrell Cc: malartre@aei.ca, fpawlak@execpc.com, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Does it's true? References: <19980627145802.E23035@freebie.lemis.com> <199806270546.PAA16660@cimlogic.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: <199806270546.PAA16660@cimlogic.com.au>; from John Birrell on Sat, Jun 27, 1998 at 03:46:15PM +1000 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Saturday, 27 June 1998 at 15:46:15 +1000, John Birrell wrote: > Greg Lehey wrote: >> On Saturday, 27 June 1998 at 15:32:26 +1000, John Birrell wrote: >>> Greg Lehey wrote: >>>> In fact, you're thinking of Australia. Out here in the wilderness >>>> there's no street lighting, and in the darkness you could get eaten by >>>> a Tasmanian devil. >>> >>> But that'd be after dusk, when the "wildlife" comes out to play. >> >> Sure, that's what he said: after 9 pm. > > Try 5:30 pm in autumn/winter. Sure, but Malatre said 9 pm. >> Don't know that one. There's a Flat Kangaroo just near Bendigo, >> though. The kangaroos round here aren't much of a problem, at least >> not in the day time. First, our horses are (just) faster, and >> secondly they (the kangaroos) are scared of the devils. > > Stay away from Kangaroo Ground just outside Eltham in Vic then. There's at > least one kangaroo that jumps of a bank onto passing motorbikes and gets his > man every time. It doesn't matter how fast you can (or do) go. We used to have a rogue kangaroo like that round here a while back, but one day we got all the tried and trusted kangaroo hunters from the stations near and far together and we went and caught the bastard. Now if we could just get a couple of those devils. > And in some places, the only problem they have is their kids taking guns > to school. Duh. 8-) Right. They don't know how lucky they are. And here we're not even allowed a gun to protect ourselves from the devils. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message