Kevin's Watch

Captain Boomerang (George "Digger" Harkness) is a fictional character from a fictional country in the DC Comics Universe.

Rock wasn't meant to be soft. In fact, there are no naturally occurring soft rocks. No matter how soft you think a rock is, even pumice, chuck it at someone's head and see if they don't complain.

dw

Little River Band

defining "AUSTRALIAN" soft rock...

Speaking of Australian bands, anyone hear of Silver Chair? The band named after a sorcerous torture device from Narnia? Yeah, me neither, I was just making it up

sgt.null wrote:Buggering???

oh bother...

Holsety - loved the poem. I know there is a clue buried in there somewhere......

I prefer rewards to family, rewards don't mind being shown off...

family gets annoyed at being on my shelf...

Aaahh.....
That sucks.....

Well, my friends used to compliment me endlessly all the time. Jesus Christ reborn at one point, perfect, blah blah blah. Bullshit.

They said I, who would argue for peace between Israel and Palestine, with my heart behind it, might be working for Mossad. A joke, but still...

Imagine how I felt, hearing that. It's why I've stopped trying to tell the truth about any one thing, and just chase whatever catches my fancy until it's out of reach.

You might see Midnight in Paris in commercials as the #1 feel good movie of the summer. I recently articulated a variety of desires, then fixed on the desire to write a book. My parents and grandmother took me to see the movie, in which the universe passes a man by as he triees to write a book. The happy ending is that he drops the book and ends up with a woman. I am still writing the book of acceptance of the universe, not a particularly original idea. I will drop it when I see something better, if I don't die first.

Orlion wrote:Speaking of Australian bands, anyone hear of Silver Chair? The band named after a sorcerous torture device from Narnia? Yeah, me neither, I was just making it up

that is Silverchair - obviously a grunge band from Seattle...

sgt.null wrote:

Orlion wrote:Speaking of Australian bands, anyone hear of Silver Chair? The band named after a sorcerous torture device from Narnia? Yeah, me neither, I was just making it up

that is Silverchair - obviously a grunge band from Seattle...

My god... so everything I imagine comes into being? Well, besides completely absurd impossibilities like Australia... kangaroos... ha, honestly...

look at a kangaroo - does it seem real? special effects. just like the Piltdown Man...

Koala bears are the biggest hoax in history, like Steve Irwin.

Loremaster wrote:Koala bears are the biggest hoax in history, like Steve Irwin.

we had koalas at the Houston zoo - did not move once. turns out they needed repair.



Kobie is a robotic Koala Bear created by the Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute of Korea. It can react to touches, voices, and even recognize human faces. Kobie is the most technological robotic pet made in Korea. They hope that this toy will help to better create a smarter, friendlier, and more affordable humanoid robot.


Kobie uses sensors hidden inside his furry frame to detect light, sound, touch, and shift his posture. These sensors send a wireless signal to a server nearby, like a personal computer, which then analyzes the data and sends orders back to Kobie. His reactions are extremely lifelike, when the light is bright he squints’ his eyes, when he is touched roughly he shows fear, and when he is yelled at he hides his head. This robotic pet can actually figure out whether he is liked or not.

Loremaster wrote:Koala bears are the biggest hoax in history, like Steve Irwin.

OTOH, Tasmanian Devils must be real...have you ever heard them?
NO ONE could make that up.

Loremaster wrote:Koala bears are the biggest hoax in history, like Steve Irwin.

Well, Lore clearly ain't from Oz anyway since NO ONE in oz would ever refer to a koala as a koala BEAR!

Devils are cool:


Spotted Tiger Quolls are better...coz they're spotty!

For my part, I'd like to admit that the entire history of New Zealand is an elaborate ruse designed purely to provide a suitable place to shoot Lord of the Rings, The Last Samurai, and other blockbusters. It's ideal- a land mass that is really, really good at looking like the ideal version of other land masses.

Any suspicions people had after the fiaso with The Hobbit can now be confirmed- New Zealand is a wholly owned subsidiary of Time Warner. This should further clarify my inability to get to this years E-fest; film industry contracts are a bitch.

As for our long-standing rivalry with the fictional nation "across the ditch"....well, it's simply a case of "Oceania has always been at war with, er, the other part of Oceania!"

:someone needs to drag Montresor and Dorian in to the conversation, if either could be talked in to posting outside of GT on occasion:

Vraith wrote:

Loremaster wrote:Koala bears are the biggest hoax in history, like Steve Irwin.

OTOH, Tasmanian Devils must be real...have you ever heard them?
NO ONE could make that up.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=gg1rRXDZjAk

after long research that is all i came up with...

sgt.null wrote: www.youtube.com/watch?v=gg1rRXDZjAk

after long research that is all i came up with...

It's even better in Spanish

By the way, this thread reminded me of another made up place... the fictitious land of Idaho.

rigel : thank you fo rboth links, as they support my assertion.

1] the "Tasmanian Devil" is real a Mexican children's cartoon. plays during the Sabado Dias programming block.

2] they are lying about Idaho, so they can certainly lie about a supposed country in the middle of the ocean.

Australia, isn't that what happens when you take the left at Albuquerque?

lurch wrote:Australia, isn't that what happens when you take the left at Albuquerque?

as in made on a film studio lot? yes. but they need to keep tourists going to this magic land for some reason...

i suspect veggiemite may hold a clue.

You know they market Marmite here in NZ as more "kiwi" than Vegemite? And we have been told for decades that "Kiwi kids are Weet-Bix kids?" Both made by Sanitarium- an Aussie company.