Topic: Only in Australia, chicken carcasses, crocs, and politicians

[BeSeeingYou]

 
DARWIN, Australia — A crocodile that picked the winner of the soccer World Cup has predicted Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard will be re-elected.

The saltwater croc named Dirty Harry made his choice Thursday in his enclosure in the northern city of Darwin when he snatched a chicken carcass dangling beneath a caricature of Gillard. Opposition leader Tony Abbott's chicken was left hanging.

Analysts say Australia's elections Saturday could be the closest contest since 1961 when a single seat decided who governed.

The crocodile used a similar technique to correctly predict that Spain would defeat the Netherlands in the World Cup last month. He joined an octopus named Paul in Germany, said to have correctly picked the winner for the final plus seven other games.

I am thinking this may start a new electoral phrase.  You don't lose an election anymore, it's just that " your chicken was left hanging".

[Terry in Australia]

Very good mate, but that croc's no psychic, most Aussies know that Julia Gillard will probably win regardless of what a pathetic job her governments done in the last 3 years, because she's a woman, and most of the female "swinging voters" in Oz will vote for her, just because she's a woman.

She and her factional cronies knifed the elected Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd, in the back in June to get his job (can you imagine your president being fired by his own party when he's still in office? Unlikely..........) because her party wasn't doing well in the polls, and now she wants the Australian voters to trust her. She's a self-described Marxist Communist and I wouldn't trust the #$%* as far as I could throw her.

That won't stop the majority of Aussie voters voting for her though, I'd love that croc to be wrong, but I think we're in for 3 more years of incompetence, record debt and unions running our country.

[Stev-o]

A croc named Dirty Harry: "I know what you thinkin!"

[petercb750]

Hey Terry.......I was wondering if you have an opinion on the election??? hahahah  Don't hold back!

Mate, as we know, they are all pretty well tarred with the same brush - even Abbott admitted "I don't always tell the truth" - FFS, we shouldn't be FORCED to vote for any of 'em. But I think you're right about Gillard - she'll probably retain government and the back biting and knifing will continue as always. She'll have to very careful but, she will always be under closer scrutiny than normal due to the way she got there.

But really, what sane minded rational thinking person would want to be a politician (or an AFL coach... )
Cheers
Peter.

[mick7504]

While we're on the subject of crocs, this is something for the boys to do while the girls go shopping. 
This is the Cage of Death at Crocosaurus Cove, right in the heart of Darwin.
Mick

[BeSeeingYou]

Very good mate, but that croc's no psychic, most Aussies know that Julia Gillard will probably win regardless of what a pathetic job her governments done in the last 3 years, because she's a woman, and most of the female "swinging voters" in Oz will vote for her, just because she's a woman.

She and her factional cronies knifed the elected Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd, in the back in June to get his job (can you imagine your president being fired by his own party when he's still in office? Unlikely..........) because her party wasn't doing well in the polls, and now she wants the Australian voters to trust her. She's a self-described Marxist Communist and I wouldn't trust the #$%* as far as I could throw her.

That won't stop the majority of Aussie voters voting for her though, I'd love that croc to be wrong, but I think we're in for 3 more years of incompetence, record debt and unions running our country.

Now be nice or you will get this thread exiled to the political forum.

[Hush]

Ha ha good job, we had to put up with Helen Clark for 9 years, once in women rarely want to give up power...look at the Queen!
You would be better off electing the croc into office, at least he would be honest.

[petercb750]

Or perhaps we could have let the croc choose a pollie rather than a chook - the one not eaten rules the country.

Hey Mick - that's one big croc - that cage wouldn't be strong enough for me no matter how strong it is - I just wouldn't get in it.

[simon#42]

Ha ha good job, we had to put up with Helen Clark for 9 years, once in women rarely want to give up power...look at the Queen!
You would be better off electing the croc into office, at least he would be honest.

we had a croc in power for eleven years once , oh no that was margaret thatcher. i always get those two confused

[Terry in Australia]

Now be nice or you will get this thread exiled to the political forum.

Yeah, sorry mate, I'll be good!

While we're on the subject of crocs, this is something for the boys to do while the girls go shopping. 
This is the Cage of Death at Crocosaurus Cove, right in the heart of Darwin.
Mick

G'Day Mick, my forward scout was almost eaten by an enormous salty up in Gove in 1999, my patrol were doing a sweep thru a lagoon near the surf life saving club and as the scout started walking up the bank on the other side he realised that the basketball sized depression in the mud beside him was the footprint of a big croc. We detoured around the lagoon and married up and then looked back to see the big bugger (all 20 foot of him) emerging from the water. Obviously he wasn't hungry, but for some reason, we didn't mind at all!

[mick7504]

G'Day Mick, my forward scout was almost eaten by an enormous salty up in Gove in 1999, my patrol were doing a sweep thru a lagoon near the surf life saving club and as the scout started walking up the bank on the other side he realised that the basketball sized depression in the mud beside him was the footprint of a big croc. We detoured around the lagoon and married up and then looked back to see the big bugger (all 20 foot of him) emerging from the water. Obviously he wasn't hungry, but for some reason, we didn't mind at all!


[/quote]How are you mate,
A Dan Wesson .44 strapped onto the hip is the only way to make things fair when it comes to these buggers.
Years ago we pulled one into the boat when we were netting upstream in the Mary River.
That's croc country up there and I'm glad that those antics are out of my system now.
Got a good feed of Barra though. 
Mick

[Terry in Australia]

Yep, that's right mate, i was reading a book about the bombing of Darwin by the Japs in WW2, more shipping was destroyed in this raid than in Pearl Harbor a few months before the Darwin raid, but it was impossible to get an entirely accurate death toll as the sharks and salt water crocs were having a field day and a lot of sailors who'd survived the bombings but were were in the water were taken, and the task of salvaging some of the damaged ships was further hampered by sharks and crocs who'd had a taste of humans and kept coming back to the wrecks looking for more. Cheers, Terry.