Buckshot Bear
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20 hours ago, Alpo said:
They have these at Mickey D's down under?
Macca's down here tried it out -
McDonald's Australia launched "The Serious Lamb Burger" and a "Taster" wrap in August 2012, featuring a 100% Australian lamb patty, beetroot, and aioli. Developed over 18 months to target local tastes, the limited-time menu item was initially popular but was removed from the menu in 2013 due to slow sales.
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..................or two or three or .............................
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which is better - skip a dose or double dose?
It would GREATLY depend on the medication Alpo.
Take care mate, OK.
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12 minutes ago, Alpo said:
Okay. What does it do?
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1 minute ago, Alpo said:
Still waiting on the explanation of the wire strainer.
It just makes total sense to me.
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What do you call a kangaroo with no tail?
A hopless case.
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What do you call a lazy kangaroo?
A pouch potato
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Sundays are always a little sad,
but the day before it is a sadder day.
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5 minutes ago, Injun Ryder, SASS #36201L said:
I gotta' remember this....I can get some milage outta' this!!!!!!!!
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I've had my Ruger SR1911 .45acp apart at least a hundred times now, I haven't made a scratch yet putting the slide stop back in place, but I sure can't say it's an easy process for me.
Is there any secret sauce method???
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1 hour ago, Eyesa Horg said:
Thanks for sharing that first run mate! That was way cool. 😎
Thanks Eyesa
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1 hour ago, Alpo said:
"Bog extractors". We might have a similar piece of equipment here in the States but not by that name. So what is it?
You've never been constipated???
Australian Usage: In Australian slang, "a bog" can specifically refer to the act or an instance of defecating.
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This is a OKMO B02 which is a miniature engine copy of a 1.5 HP Seager Olds Hit & Miss Gasoline Engine that I received last week, and this is its first run.
The Seager Olds were a hit-and-miss stationary engine produced by the Seager Engine Works in Lansing, Michigan, between roughly 1908 and 1912, following the reorganization of the Olds Gasoline Engine Works.
It's a very good miniaturised working model -
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19 minutes ago, Wallaby Jack, SASS #44062 said:
........ wallabys however .......
Red Neck Wallaby
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‘DARING ROAD TRIP’ - female motoring pioneer and pilot Gladys Sandford.
Daily Telegraph.
THE tyres were good, the car was sound and Gladys Sandford was confident of her mechanical skills as she planned to drive from Sydney to Perth, Darwin and back in March 1927.
Years later, she admitted she was less diligent in her selection of a driving companion.
After advertising in New Zealand for another woman to join the trip, Sandford recruited Stella Christie, daughter of a car dealer, then found out she could not drive
From March 4, 1927, to July 25, 1927, the pair squabbled their way around Australia, Sandford recounted decades later, camping in the fold-down seats of Sandford’s Essex 6 coach which arrived with her from New Zealand on March 1, with 17,700km on the clock.
Sandford set out from the obelisk in Macquarie Place, Sydney, at 1pm on a Friday afternoon, her 26th birthday.
Growing up at Hawke’s Bay, Sandford skipped music lessons, preferring to tinker with car engines. She was a schoolteacher at Napier when she married widowed car salesman William Henning in June 1912.
Joining Henning’s Auckland car dealership, he taught her to drive in three hours so she could deliver vehicles around New Zealand.
She followed Henning and her older brothers to serve in World War I, sailing to Egypt with the New Zealand Volunteer Sisterhood in 1916.
As an ambulance driver she transported injured soldiers to a hospital in Giza. From May 1917 she drove ambulances in England, transporting wounded soldiers arriving from France and Belgium.
Sandford’s husband and two brothers were killed in the war. She was discharged in January 1919 with near-fatal influenza and awarded a Member of the Order of the British Empire in 1920 by King George V for her services.
Back in Australia, at Darling Point in 1920 Sandford married Squadron Leader Frederick Esk Sandford, an Australian serving with the Royal Air Force and a friend of her late husband.
They lived in England, India and Egypt until she became ill and returned home to family in New Zealand in November 1923. In October 1924 he wrote to say a sick wife “was no use to him” and he did not intend to live with her ever again.
Sandford’s itinerary went from Sydney to Melbourne, Adelaide and Perth, where she hoped to proceed along the West Australian coast to Darwin. If rains had set in, she would return to Adelaide, then head north through Central Australia to Darwin, and return to Sydney via Queensland and Brisbane.
Sandford and Christie carried “tinned foods and flour, a frying-pan, a billy and a gridiron, blankets and a mattress, canvas waterbags, a tomahawk, fencing wire and a wire strainer, a set of bog extractors, a Red Cross outfit, a revolver, and four suitcases of personal luggage. Their only spares were two spark plugs, a coil and a soldering iron”.
As they travelled about 17,800km, Sandford’s repairs included reassembling the vehicle engine and short-circuiting the Transcontinental telegraph-line to contact technicians on the one occasion she needed mechanical assistance.
Granted a divorce in November 1928 on grounds of desertion, Sandford’s ex-husband was killed in a car accident in December 1928.
She settled in Sydney in 1929 and in World War II founded the Women’s Transport Corps, training almost 400 members in military drill, driving and maintenance.
Sandford also worked as a censor for the Department of the Army, joining the Repatriation Department after the war. She died at Concord in 1971.
PHOTO - Round Australia motorists Gladys Sandford (right) and Stella Christie in Perth, 1927.
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17 hours ago, Pat Riot said:
I cannot believe I forgot this sauce. I love this sauce on smoked chicken wings. It pretty much goes with any meat. It is not a hot spicy sauce. It’s more of a garlic sauce with the spice of hot peppers. Interestingly enough it doesn’t go well with Mexican food. At least it doesn’t for me. That is where the Tapatio shines.
I like this stuff as well.
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I went to boarding school with his son Sam, at one stage they had the largest cattle station in the world.
Bill Tapp - The Reluctant Pioneer Who Built a Northern Territory Legacy - He was known to be agonisingly shy and had a pronounced stutter.
Charles William Tapp, best known as Bill Tapp (2 June 1929 – 22 May 1992), was a pioneer and cattleman from Killarney Station in the Northern Territory of Australia.
Early life
Tapp was born in Sydney on 2 June 1929 and grew up in Vaucluse. His father was Earnest Charles Tapp, a radio technician in the Australian Navy and his mother was Sarah Ann (Sadie), a managing director of Rosenthal Australia – a German-owned department store in George Street, Sydney. He was an only child.
Tapp lived in a house with a tennis court and a maid during the 1930s and later became a full-time boarder at the Scots College in Bellevue Hill.
A champion sportsman and scholar, he represented his school in many sports, swimming, cricket, football, rowing, diving and played tennis at a state level. It is said that he played with, and against, Australian tennis champions Lew Hoad and Frank Sedgman.
He was known to be agonisingly shy and had a pronounced stutter.
While at Scots College, Tapp read the Ion Idriess book 'Cattle King' about Sir Sidney Kidman who owned large cattle stations in the Northern Territory.
The book had a lasting effect on him and he decided that as soon as he finished school he would become a cattleman. His mother Sadie secured a job as a jackeroo-bookkeeper on Elsey Station near the tiny township of Mataranka 400 kilometres south of Darwin, made famous by the book We of the Never Never.
Tapp settled into station life learning everything he could. He left Elsey Station a few years later to manage Rosewood Station on the Northern Territory-Western Australian border.
Two years later he established a droving business in the early 1950s, moving cattle from Alice Springs through Tennant Creek and Elliott along the Murranji Track.
In 1952 Bill Tapp and business partner Bill Crowson bought Montejinni Station. With Crowson's family, the business partners transported all their worldly possessions and their plant of horses up the Murranji to Montejinni.
With them was Aboriginal stockman and a young sixteen year old deaf man, Kenny Wesley. Simultaneously, Paul and Mick Vandeleur acquired Camfield Station and Leo Izod and Ivor Townshend Hall drew Killarney Station. These names formed the initials for the brands of CTT for Montejinni and ITH for Killarney.
Following a breakdown in the relationship with the Crowsons, Bill Tapp began talks with Izod and Hall about buying Killarney Station and reached an agreement in 1960 to pay £90,000, a Northern Territory record price for a cattle station at that time. He received title to Killarney in 1962.
The Cattle King
Tapp's empire at Killarney Station began under a bough shed at Mayvale Bore with a sign swinging off a post saying "COCKRAG DOWNS' (Toni Tapp Coutts states that 'Cockrag' means "broken down and uncared for"). His first stock camp consisted of brothers Jim Forscutt and Boko Forscutt, Joey and Alfie Russell, and Kenny Wesley. He worked tirelessly, mustering and building fences to contain the wild cattle. They lived on salted beef and black tea.
Tapp met his future wife June Clements, a divorcee with three small children Billy, Shing and Toni (Toni Tapp Coutts: who would later become his biographer), while staying at her mother's house in Katherine. After their first meeting, Tapp stated that he wanted to marry her. The courtship was short and sweet and June soon found herself out at Killarney Station living under a bough shed, a structure made from four tree posts with fencing wire slung across the top and branches thrown over to make shade. The bough shed was the kitchen, the office and doctors surgery. On 2 August 1962, Tapp wrote in his diary, 'Day off – got married today'. Bill and June Tapp went on to have seven more children, Sam, Joe, Ben, William, Caroline, Daniel and Kate.
Tapp went on to purchase Maryfield Station, Roper Valley Station and Mountain Valley Station.
Later life
Bill Tapp and June divorced in 1985. After years of mismanagement by agricultural company Elders, the Tapp family properties went into receivership in 1991. All three properties owned by the Tapps were advertised for sale. After a battle in the Northern Territory Supreme Court between the Tapps and Elders, Killarney Station and Maryfield Station were sold, but the Tapps were permitted to retain Roper Valley Station.
Tapp died on 23 May 1992 in his own bed on Killarney Station at the age of 62.
He was buried at the station on 3 June. A plaque on his grave reads:
Killarney stands as a monument to his vision and contribution to the Northern Territory horse and cattle industry.
Tapp's legacy was recognised by being inducted into the Australian Stockmen's Hall of Fame with his proud children accepting the award on his behalf.
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2 hours ago, Alpo said:
Now I know y'all's money is not worth as much as our money
Nope it's not at the moment.
But the average salary in the USA is $61,984 per year.
The average salary in Australia is $108.000 per year.
$108,000 AUD to USD works out at $76,756.68
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The Aussie Humour Thread
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