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Castle Courtyard => Liar's Bench aka... Pickle Barrel => Topic started by: Templar on September 18, 2010, 01:50:49 PM
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I HAVE A FEE QUESTIONS FOR MY FRIENDS DOWN UNDER....I AM ALWAYS TRYING TO LEARN MORE ABOUT MY FRLLOW KNIGHTS WHILE EXPANDING MY HORIZONS:
1...DO YOU LOOK UP OR DOWN TO SEE THE STARS ???
2...DOES YOUR BOOMARANG ALWAYS COME BACK ???
3...WHAT DOES YOUR DIDGERY DO WHEN IT DOES ???
4...WHEN UFO'S LAND IN YOUR CORNFIELDS---WHICH WAY ARE THE CIRCLES ???
5...WHEN WALTZING MATILDA,DOES SHE EVER LEAD ???
6...WHAT DOES THE NAME" AUSTRALIA "MEAN ???
7...DO AUSTRALIANS LIKE BEER ???
8...IS "FOSTERS" REALLY AUSRALIAN FOR BEER ???
9...IF THAT IS TRUE--WHAT IS AUSTRALIAN FOR "WHISKEY" ???
10..WHERE IS NED KELLEY'S ARMOR ???
YOUR SERVANT AND FRIEND ................THE TEMPLAR(http://)
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8...IS "FOSTERS" REALLY AUSTRALIAN FOR BEER
Foster's is the crap beer that we don't want to drink.
So we send to all you silly buggers instead.
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It is only one time a year I meet a word I never met before and YOU DID IT
question nr 3 what the fuck is a didgery
http://www.maryjanesgarden.com/strains/didgery-boo.php
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I BELIEVE A DIDGERYDO IS AN INSTRUMENT USED BY THE ABORIGONIES TO COMMUNICATE ......
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I BELIEVE A DIDGERYDO IS AN INSTRUMENT USED BY THE ABORIGONIES TO COMMUNICATE ......
Ah the internet never said it was a cellphone ;D
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Whoa, I'm staying out of this one! LOL :)
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Try these sites for some info about didg's.
http://www.ididj.com.au/theDidjeridu/timeline.html
http://www.users.on.net/~didgedist/didgi_lp.htm
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I want a didgerydo (original) but can't afford the shipping on a large one! I know the Aboriginals would love to see what a Hoosier can do with one.
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THANK YOU NEVOL FOR THE WEBSITES----GREAT INFORMATION----COULD I ASK WHAT A BOOMARANG WOULD COST---I MIGHT BE INTERESTED IN OWNING ONE-----I DON'T PLAN TO HUNT WITH IT BUT MY LOVE OF HISTORY AND CURIOSITY PUSHES ME TO ASK....COULD YOU LET ME KNOW PLEASE AND I DON'T WANT ONE MADE BY A CHINESE ABORIGINE ::)
YOUR FRIEND AND SERVANT.............SWAGMAN TEMPLAR
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8...IS "FOSTERS" REALLY AUSTRALIAN FOR BEER
Foster's is the crap beer that we don't want to drink.
So we send to all you silly buggers instead.
AS THE VIRGINIAN SAID IN THE GREAT WESTERN "WHEN YOU CALL ME THAT--SMILE"(http://)
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I'm always smiling, Joe. ;D ;D ;D
As for the boomerang, I wouldn't even know where to buy one around here.
We have no souvenier shops close by and if we did , I would just about
guarantee they would be made in China. At work I deal with country customers ,
so I might have to ask them. I'll get back to you on that.
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Hillbilly boomerang; Get a big old ham bone with plenty of meat still on it and sling it out to a stray dog and tell him to get away from your place. I guarantee he will always come back. ;D ;D ;D
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1. We look up, of course, but the direction we're looking when we look "up" is the opposite to the direction you northerners are looking. I haven't seen the Big Dipper, Polaris or Cassiopeia since I visited Canada in '83 - they're all always below the horizon from here.
2. I haven't tried since primary school. I kind of learned the knack, but I'd have to re-learn it to give a demo these days.
3. I appear to be lacking sufficient social context to answer that question. I used to play the trumpet when I was younger, so I can make a passable noise on a didgeridoo since the mouth action is similar, but I never learned the aboriginal technique of breathing in through your nose and out through your mouth simultaneously, which you need to have in order to play the didgeridoo properly.
4. Very little corn is grown in Australia - it's mostly wheat and sorghum. Corn need too much irrigation for Australia's arid conditions. As for UFOs, the Min Min Lights in northern Queensland are Australia's most famous aerial apparitions. They don't leave circles behind, but they scare motorists. Scientists say they think they're headlights bouncing off of a peculiar atmospheric inversion layer. Witnesses reckon if that's the case, it's the freakiest inversion layer they've ever seen. Personally, I think perhaps they've all had too much XXXX (see answer 8 ).
5. "To waltz your matilda" is an old Australian slang phrase meaning "to travel around from place to place with all your belongings, seeking work". The "matilda" is another nickname for the swag, or sack used to carry one's belongings.
6. "Australia" is derived from the Latin word for "south", australis. Early European mapmakers filled in the blank space on their maps in the southern hemisphere with a mythical southern supercontinent, and gave it verbosely long names like "Terra Australis Sanctus Spiritus" - Great South Land of the Holy Spirit - just to fill up all the blank space. Later Dutch explorers discovered and named the western half New Holland; British explorers named the eastern half New South Wales. It was British explorer Matthew Flinders, the first person to circumnavigate it, who first suggested the name "Australia" for the island as a whole.
7. So I'm told. I'm a fifth-generation teetotaler myself. From my observations, there are other countries that have just as ubiquitous a beer-drinking culture - Germany, for instance.
8. What's a Fosters? Here in Queensland they all seem to drink XXXX (that's pronounced "fourex"), a beverage that's apparently less popular south of the border. Non-Queenslanders like to tell this joke: Why do Queenslanders call their beer "XXXX"? Because they don't know how to spell "beer".
9. Again I speak from tee-totalling ignorance, but it's my understanding that "whiskey" is a drink for strange foreign folks. Aussies (and especially Queenslanders) that want something stronger than XXXX usually imbibe Bundaberg Rum ("Bundy").
10. Ned Kelly's armour (well, most of it) currently resides in the State Library of Victoria, which has it on display. The four members of the Kelly Gang all had suits of armour made for themselves, and the disassembled pieces seem to have gotten mixed up while in storage. The Victorian Police still hold most of the pieces from two of the other suits, while the fourth is owned by the descendants of Victoria's Police Commissioner at the time of Kelly's arrest. Ned Kelly's armour is protected by a special statute in the National Cultural Heritage Control List - it can never leave Australia's shores, under any circumstances.
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WELL SAP,I DID THIS QUIZ WITH TONGUE IN CHEEK AND I KNEW SOME OF THE ANSWERS BUT I AM REALLY IMPRESSED WITH THE SERIOUSNESS THAT YOU ANSWERED THE QUESTIONS AND I REALLY LEARNED A WHOLE LOT THAT I DID NOT KNOW ABOUT THE GREAT CONTINENT OF "AUSTRALIA"
IT WAS GOOD TO HEAR FROM YOU ALSO AND I HOPE NO OFFENCE WAS TAKEN AT MY SILLY QUESTIONS........I AM BANKING ON MY AUSSIE FRIENDS GOOD SENSE OF HUMOR....
AGAIN THANK YOU SO MUCH AND THAT HAMBONE TRICK WORKS WITH A TURKEY LEG ALSO
YOUR FRIEND AND SERVANT..........THE TEMPLAR(http://)
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Joe, I spoke to a friend of mine (he is Aboriginal) from a town called Derby, about 3 hours flight north of Perth.
I asked him about acquiring a boomerang and it just so happens that he is meeting with an Aboriginal artist tomorrow.
This is the same artist that designed the Wondjina for the 2000 Olympic games. See this link for more details about that...
http://www.blogster.com/anacoana/mythology-in-aboriginal-mining
I hope I can get back to you tomorrow about this.
Another friend priced some for me at Kununurra (that's about as far north as you can get in this State).
Basic carved one for $60 and painted one for $95.
The pic below is me standing next to a termite mound in Derby.
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THANKS FOR THE INFO--I WILL CHECK IT OUT---I AM STILL INTERESTED IN ONE---MAYBE ONE SIGNED BY YOU AND A COUPLE OF NEIGHBORS ??? ???
YOU KNOE THAT IF I SHAVED MY BEARD WE WWOULD LOOK SOMEWHAT RELATED...(http://)