Topic: The South Side Dive Bar

[Cvillechopper]

It's even harder to convince them they understood you wrong after you kill a bong...  The song told me to...

[nickjtc]

The Aussies are really quite nice people. Even if they call Brits 'Pommie Bastards'. Please explain the origin of that expression, Terry.

[nickjtc]

Marching forward to 2900 posts.....looks like I've got some catching up to do from my absence.

[troppo]

The Aussies are really quite nice people. Even if they call Brits 'Pommie Bastards'. Please explain the origin of that expression, Terry.

I`m not terry but since my last post seems to have stirred up a bit of interest i`ll answer the questions as best i can....
When the british where still shipping convicts over here they had P.O.H.M (Prisoner Of His/Her Majesty) therefore the name POHM or POM came into being for the English and the word bastard can mean many things over here, from mate all the way to something i really shouldnt type here lol.
As for a Billabong, its a pond or a dam, usually well frequented by animals due to australia being the driest continent on the planet so a swagman (you might call them tramps) would tend to gravitate to them for fresh (if illegal) meat, the squater is tha aussie version of a rancher or large landholder and the troopers were early police. The jumbuck the swaggy had in his tucker bag (food bag) is a large generally male sheep.
So there you go, Waltzing matilda is the story of a suicidal homeless thief....
But it is still the publicly preferred national song.
To have a convict in your family tree in australia is an honour, its known as aussie royalty lol.
I still wonder why you foriengers dont understand us

[nickjtc]

I still wonder why you foriengers dont understand us

Because the definition of Australian foreplay is "Brace yourself Sheila."??

[sandcastcb750]

Sounds like "tie me kangaroo down"??

Once upon a bilibong................

can't remember the rest

[nickjtc]

[Spoken:]
There's an old Australian stockman, lying, dying,
and he gets himself up on one elbow,
and he turns to his mates,
who are gathered 'round him and he says:

Watch me wallabys feed mate.
Watch me wallabys feed.
They're a dangerous breed mate.
So watch me wallabys feed.
Altogether now!

Tie me kangaroo down sport,
tie me kangaroo down.
Tie me kangaroo down sport,
tie me kangaroo down.

Keep me cockatoo cool, Curl,
keep me cockatoo cool.
Don't go acting the fool, Curl,
just keep me cockatoo cool.
Altogether now!

Take me koala back, Jack,
take me koala back.
He lives somewhere out on the track, Mac,
so take me koala back.
Altogether now!

Let me Abos go loose, Lou,     *
let me Abos go loose.
They're of no further use, Lou,
so let me Abos go loose.
Altogether now!

Mind me platypus duck, Bill,
mind me platypus duck.
Don't let him go running amok, Bill,
mind me platypus duck.
Altogether now!

Play your digeridoo, Blue,
play your digeridoo.
Keep playing 'til I shoot thro' Blue,
play your digerydoo.
Altogether now!

Tan me hide when I'm dead, Fred,
tan me hide when I'm dead.
So we tanned his hide when he died Clyde,
(Spoken) And that's it hanging on the shed.
Altogether now!

[BobbyR]

The Aussies are really quite nice people. Even if they call Brits 'Pommie Bastards'. Please explain the origin of that expression, Terry.

I`m not terry but since my last post seems to have stirred up a bit of interest i`ll answer the questions as best i can....
When the british where still shipping convicts over here they had P.O.H.M (Prisoner Of His/Her Majesty) therefore the name POHM or POM came into being for the English and the word bastard can mean many things over here, from mate all the way to something i really shouldnt type here lol.
As for a Billabong, its a pond or a dam, usually well frequented by animals due to australia being the driest continent on the planet so a swagman (you might call them tramps) would tend to gravitate to them for fresh (if illegal) meat, the squater is tha aussie version of a rancher or large landholder and the troopers were early police. The jumbuck the swaggy had in his tucker bag (food bag) is a large generally male sheep.
So there you go, Waltzing matilda is the story of a suicidal homeless thief....
But it is still the publicly preferred national song.
To have a convict in your family tree in australia is an honour, its known as aussie royalty lol.
I still wonder why you foriengers dont understand us

We Americans understand you very well. It's the so called civilized nations(the ones that started 2 World Wars) that think we are "quaint" in a demeaning way.

[nickjtc]

We Americans understand you very well. It's the so called civilized nations(the ones that started 2 World Wars) that think we are "quaint" in a demeaning way.

Discuss......

[Terry in Australia]

I'm back, what's been happening?

[neil young]

i know karate

























and about 10 other Chinese words

[Cvillechopper]

I know High Karate.

[nickjtc]

I know High Karate.

Does that mean you smell nice??

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=380005776273&ih=025&category=11846&ssPageName=WDVW&rd=1

Oh, sorry, that's Hai Karate.

[Terry in Australia]

I know that when you have a crap after eating corn and you find what looks like uneaten corn in your crap you shouldn't eat it.............. 

[Cvillechopper]

I know High Karate.

Does that mean you smell nice??

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=380005776273&ih=025&category=11846&ssPageName=WDVW&rd=1

Oh, sorry, that's Hai Karate.

I smell like a hound coming in from a $h!t storm, but I KNOW High Karate, just don't use it
 

[nickjtc]

Okay, I feel better now.  Thank you.

Is that because of Aaron's  post here?: http://forums.sohc4.net/index.php?topic=31964.new#new

[Joel]

Is that because of Aaron's  post here?: http://forums.sohc4.net/index.php?topic=31964.new#new

Ahhhh!  It's here and I still don't have a bike!

[sandcastcb750]

I had corn for lunch........should see it this night??

If you guys are correct...

[Joel]

I had corn for lunch........should see it this night??

If you guys are correct...

That's the theory.  Let us know how it turns out.

[Klark Kent]

I had corn for lunch........should see it this night??

If you guys are correct...

That's the theory.  Let us know how it turns out.

no pics please
-KK

[mystic_1]

An excerpt from `Magic'   (by Guy Steele)

----
Some years ago I was snooping around in the cabinets that housed the
MIT AI Lab's PDP-10, and noticed a little switch glued to the frame of
one cabinet.  It was obviously a homebrew job, added by one of the
lab's hardware hackers (no one know who).

You don't touch an unknown switch on a computer without knowing what
it does, because you might crash the computer.  The switch was labeled
in a most unhelpful way.  It had two positions, and scrawled in pencil
on the metal switch body were the words `magic' and `more magic'.
The switch was in the `more magic' position.

I called another hacker over to look at it.  He had never seen the
switch before either.  Closer examination revealed that the switch
only had one wire running to it!  The other end of the wire did
disappear into the maze of wires inside the computer, but it's a basic
fact of electricity that a switch can't do anything unless there are
two wires connected to it.  This switch had a wire connected on one
side and no wire on its other side.

It was clear that this switch was someone's idea of a silly joke.
Convinced by our reasoning that the switch was inoperative, we flipped
it.  The computer instantly crashed.

Imagine our utter astonishment.  We wrote it off as coincidence, but
nevertheless restored the switch to the `more magic' position before
reviving the computer.

A year later, I told this story to yet another hacker, David Moon as I
recall.  He clearly doubted my sanity, or suspected me of a
supernatural belief in the power of this switch, or perhaps thought I
was fooling him with a bogus saga.  To prove it to him, I showed him
the very switch, still glued to the cabinet frame with only one wire
connected to it, still in the `more magic' position.  We scrutinized
the switch and its lone connection, and found that the other end of
the wire, though connected to the computer wiring, was connected to a
ground pin.  That clearly made the switch doubly useless: not only was
it electrically nonoperative, but it was connected to a place that
couldn't affect anything anyway.  So we flipped the switch.

The computer promptly crashed.

This time we ran for Richard Greenblatt, a long-time MIT hacker, who
was close at hand.  He had never noticed the switch before, either.
He inspected it, concluded it was useless, got some diagonal cutters
and diked it out.  We then revived the computer and it ran fine ever
since.

We still don't know how the switch crashed the machine.  There is a
theory that some circuit near the ground pin was marginal, and
flipping the switch changed the electrical capacitance enough to upset
the circuit as millionth-of-a-second pulses went through it.  But
we'll never know for sure; all we can really say is that the switch
was <magic>.

I still have that switch in my basement.  Maybe I'm silly, but I
usually keep it set on `more magic.'
------

[Joel]

Where can I get one of these switches?  It'd be great to have in my car.  Is there a "much more magic" version available?

[Klark Kent]

you need the mmm3000 three way toggle version.  very pricey, but then again we're talking magic here.
-KK

[mark]

I know that when you have a crap after eating corn and you find what looks like uneaten corn in your crap you shouldn't eat it.............. 

I guess finding corn in your crap is better than finding crap in your corn. If you do find crap in your corn, you probably shouldn't eat that either...... 

[neil young]

only here because i see i'm almost at 700
not that it means anything