What Are Doing On This Lovely Friday?

[patrick0brien]

The Christmas carols don't make any sense because they were all written in the Northern Hemisphere

-Chundles

Oh, yeah. That's right. Down-under they're sung backwards and upside down.

 

[Tanglewood]

Bushfire Christmas.

We had a brushfire Halloween a few years back. It rained ash for about a week. It didn't make for a fun trick-or-treat experience.

 

[Chundles]

-Chundles

Oh, yeah. That's right. Down-under they're sung backwards and upside down.

Or we fix them up so that the animals are at least somewhat familiar....

On the first day of Christmas

On the first day of Christmas my true love sent to me.

1. An emu up a gum tree.

2. Two pink galahs.

3. Three jabirus.

4. Four kookaburras.

5. Five kangaroos.

6. Six platypuses.

7. Seven koalas climbing.

8. Eight possums playing.

9. Nine wombats working.

10. Ten lizards leaping.

11. Eleven numbats nagging.

12. Twelve parrots prattling

 

[Tanglewood]

Chocolate bars, yeah, but twinkies???

They're surprisingly good, if you can get past the feeling of your arteries hardening while you eat it.

 

[kretzy]

And there's always:

Dashing through the bush,
in a rusty Holden Ute,
Kicking up the dust,
esky in the boot,
Kelpie by my side,
singing Christmas songs,
It's Summer time and I am in
my singlet, shorts and thongs

Oh! Jingle bells, jingle bells, jingle all the way,
Christmas in Australia
on a scorching summers day, Hey!
Jingle bells, jingle bells, Christmas time is beaut!,
Oh what fun it is to ride in a rusty Holden Ute.

 

[yellow]

I'd be doing more working, but IT has my MBP to install some new software on it (lord knows they can't trust us users to do that sort of thing...).

It's nothing personal, I assure you. But doing it this way limits the "chair to keyboard interface" problems.

 

[patrick0brien]

Or we fix them up so that the animals are at least somewhat familiar....

Oh, tou-friggin-che!

LOL

You've had that in your back pocket just waiting for a stupid yank like me to fall in haven't you?

 

[Tanglewood]

On the first day of Christmas

I only get Day 3 in the song before people are yelling at me to shut up. Though I do like your version better. Pear trees and golden rings are so yesterday anyway.

 

[yellow]

Or we fix them up so that the animals are at least somewhat familiar....

On the first day of Christmas

On the first day of Christmas my true love sent to me.

[snip]

Somehow I thought the "5 golden rings part" would be..

5 GIANT ****ING SNAAAAAAKES.

 

[Chundles]

Bushfire Christmas.QUOTE]

We had a brushfire Halloween a few years back. It rained ash for about a week. It didn't make for a fun trick-or-treat experience.

Yeah, you guys have some nasty Brushfires eh? Sometimes they get on the news over here so they must be nasty, our bushfires are terrible things though. Most of our trees here require some sort of fire to effectively spread seeds and germinate so they've evolved to be as flammable as possible - they explode during fires because they're full of oil, it makes the fires not only enormous (we lost the equivalent area of most of your New England region a few summers ago in one contiguous area across the Australian Alps, Kosciuszko National Park and the Australian Capital Territory all in the space of about two weeks - the fire burnt I think 60% of the ACT in two days) and they're nasty too. HATE Bushfires.

 

[Chundles]

Somehow I thought the "5 golden rings part" would be..

5 GIANT ****ING SNAAAAAAKES.

You've just inspired a cunning plan....a plan as cunning as a fox who is Professor of Cunning at Oxford University.

 

[nightdweller25]

Since I'm 16 and my High School let everyone out on Wednesday and I went out yesterday, today is a big question mark. I might just have some friends come over. It's awesome to have no obligations. (MWUAHAHAHA!)

 

[Tanglewood]

Yeah, you guys have some nasty Brushfires eh?

We've been fortunate the last two years in southern california, though in 2003 it seemed that everything was on fire. The largest wildfire in California history burned to with 2 miles of my house. It took out about 1,400 homes and all started because a hunter got lost in the backcountry and fired a flare off after 270 days of no rain.

 

[Peyton]

And there's always:

Dashing through the bush,
in a rusty Holden Ute,
Kicking up the dust,
esky in the boot,
Kelpie by my side,
singing Christmas songs,
It's Summer time and I am in
my singlet, shorts and thongs

Oh! Jingle bells, jingle bells, jingle all the way,
Christmas in Australia
on a scorching summers day, Hey!
Jingle bells, jingle bells, Christmas time is beaut!,
Oh what fun it is to ride in a rusty Holden Ute.

If that is a real song that is hilarious!! Hilarious either way, but I think I would pay for you to sing it and post

 

[Chundles]

On the first day of Christmas my true love sent to me.

1. A Redback on the toilet seat.

2. Two deadly Stonefish.

3. Three Inland Taipans.

4. Four White-Tailed Spiders.

5. Fiiiiive Great White Shaaaaaaarkssss.....

6. Six platypuses. (bet you didn't know they were poisonous did ya?)

7. Seven Tiger Snakes.

8. Eight Blue Ring Occys.

9. Nine Irukanji.

10. Ten Funnel Web Spiders.

11. Eleven Salt Water crocs.

12. Twelve baby-eating Dingoes
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[yellow]

LOL!!!

I approve of this song.

 

[Chundles]

We've been fortunate the last two years in southern california, though in 2003 it seemed that everything was on fire. The largest wildfire in California history burned to with 2 miles of my house. It took out about 1,400 homes and all started because a hunter got lost in the backcountry and fired a flare off after 270 days of no rain.

Nasty, the one I was talking about knocked out 500 homes in Canberra (national capital) in one night. Scariest thing I have ever seen and I saw it on the news...

Quick too, here's a gif. The residential areas are shown in yellow, the rest it basically bushland, mostly inaccessible.

 

[Josh]

12. Twelve baby-eating Dingoes
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HAHAHA!

 

[Chundles]

If that is a real song that is hilarious!! Hilarious either way, but I think I would pay for you to sing it and post

Oh it's a real song alright, we used to sing it in Primary (elementary) School.

 

[floriflee]

Got my first professional pedicure. I usually just do them to myself. I must say that I could totally get used to the pampering.

Picked up some vitamins, and the sister-in-law bought me our first baby toy.

Oh, and am working as usual while trying to stay awake....

 

[mactastic]

I get summer-y Christmases quite often here, despite it being winter. Just one of the side benefits of living in paradise...

As for what I'm doing today? Working for now, probably having a quiet evening at home tonight.

 

[emw]

It's nothing personal, I assure you. But doing it this way limits the "chair to keyboard interface" problems.

I know, but downloading an update to OmniGraffle Pro and installing it takes 2 minutes. Somehow, though, IT has had my MBP for going on 4 hours.

 

[yellow]

I must say that I could totally get used to the pampering.

I prefer Huggies myself.. it's a much better fit around my theighs.. minimizing embarassing leaks.

I know, but downloading an update to OmniGraffle Pro and installing it takes 2 minutes. Somehow, though, IT has had my MBP for going on 4 hours.

Ah.. well that's built-in "testing" then. Testing while at Applebee's eatting hot fudge brownies. Maybe we'll be done tomorrow.

 

[Applespider]

Just home after a drag of a trip back from work via the supermarket.

Now plan on grabbing something to eat and then chilling with a glass of wine and having a relatively early night since I'm completely knackered

 

[dcv]

It's 8pm and I just got home a few mins ago. Not out tonight as I'm feeling really pooped. I'm still in my work clothes (minus the boots as it's just too warm!), sitting on my roof terrace with my PowerBook and a nice chilled glass of rosé.