The Aussie Humour Thread

[Smuteye John SASS#24774]

10 hours ago, Buckshot Bear said:

 

 

There's a handy mnemonic for occasions like that.

 

"When in doubt, buckshot will work it out."

[Chickasaw Bill SASS #70001]

I be thinking , y'all have a shortage of good critter control. folks 

 

 CB 

[Eyesa Horg]

10 hours ago, Buckshot Bear said:

 

 

It's just a blank to me

[sassnetguy50]

4 hours ago, Eyesa Horg said:

It's just a blank to me

A family filming a large snake traveling from the house to a tree.  The kid says Dad can get that.  The mom adamantly says NO.

[Rip Snorter]

I'd have sure been building a roaring fire in the fireplace!

[Smuteye John SASS#24774]

54 minutes ago, Rip Snorter said:

I'd have sure been building a roaring fire in the fireplace!

Or burned the house down. (insert shudder here)

[Eyesa Horg]

Aw, saw that video previously. It's just a blank video on this thread on my phone!

[Texas Joker]

And the vorpal sword went snicker snack!

Edited September 15, 2023 by Texas Joker
Otto didn't read through the looking glass

[Rip Snorter]

Actually, I liked the verbal sword.  Can be used at will, anywhere.

[Sedalia Dave]

12 hours ago, Eyesa Horg said:

It's just a blank to me

 

Here is a screen shot.

 

[Buckshot Bear]

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[Buckshot Bear]

Three sweet Australian treats that can’t be beat: the lamington, neenish tart and the vanilla slice with passionfruit icing.

 

 

 

[Buckshot Bear]

[Buckshot Bear]

[Buckshot Bear]

[Buckshot Bear]

The ubiquitous Aussie fly strips......don't think they ever worked all that great, but everyone had 'em.

 

[Buckshot Bear]

[Alpo]

[Rip Snorter]

2 minutes ago, Alpo said:

Obviously a snow job!

[Injun Ryder, SASS #36201L]

1 hour ago, Alpo said:

 

Russian road sign! 

[Cold Lake Kid, SASS # 51474]

On 9/19/2023 at 6:40 PM, Buckshot Bear said:

 

UNLESS, you have a cat!

[Buckshot Bear]

Bernhardt Otto Holtermann (29 April 1838 – 29 April 1885 was a successful gold miner, businessman, politician and photographer in Australia.

Perhaps his greatest claim to fame is his association with the Holtermann Nugget, the largest gold specimen ever found, 59 inches (1.5 m) long, weighing 630 pounds (290 kg) and with an estimated gold content of 3,000 troy ounces (93 kg), found at Hill End, near Bathurst, New South Wales.

This gave him the wealth to build a mansion in North Sydney, which is now one of the boarding houses at Sydney Church of England Grammar School (known as the Shore school)

Early life

Holtermann was born in Hamburg, Germany. He emigrated in 1858 to avoid Prussian military service.

He departed Liverpool aboard the ship Salem and reached Melbourne in August after a journey lasting 101 days.

Mining

After working at a variety of jobs, he teamed up with Ludwig Hugo 'Louis' Beyers. They began prospecting around Hill End, New South Wales. Years of unrewarding labour followed. On 22 February 1868, Holtermann married Harriett Emmett, while Beyers married her sister Mary.

In 1871, the Star of Hope Gold Mining Company, in which he and Beyers were among the partners, struck rich veins of gold. On 19 October 1872, the Holtermann Nugget was discovered. Not strictly speaking a nugget, it was a gold specimen, a mass of gold embedded in rock, in this case quartz.

Holtermann attempted to buy the 3,000-troy-ounce (93-kilogram) specimen from the company, offering £1000 over its estimated value of £12,000 (about AU$1.9 million in 2016 currency, AU$4.8 million on the 2017 gold price), but was turned down, and it was sent away to have the gold extracted.

Disheartened, he resigned from the company in February 1873.

When the Hill End Borough Council was constituted on 6 August 1873, Holtermann was elected an alderman of the first council.

In October 1874, Holtermann was elected an alderman in a special election for the Belmore Ward of the Borough of St Leonards.

He built a large mansion, "The Towers" in North Sydney, complete with a stained glass window depicting himself and the specimen. Located at a panoramic location near Blue and William streets, he resided there until his death in 1885 and its site is now the Sydney Church of England Grammar School.

He invested wisely and kept his wealth, allowing him to take up his true passion of photography.

Holtermann financed and possibly participated in Beaufoy Merlin's project to photograph New South Wales and exhibit the results abroad to encourage immigration.

The work was taken up after Merlin's death in 1873 by his assistant, Charles Bayliss. In 1875, Holtermann and Bayliss produced the Holtermann panorama, a series of "23 albumen silver photographs which join together to form a continuous 978-centimetre view of Sydney Harbour and its suburbs."

Some of the photographs, including the panorama, were displayed at the Philadelphia Centennial Exhibition, where they won a bronze medal. The panorama was also displayed at the 1878 Exposition Universelle Internationale in Paris.

Holtermann and Bayliss also made the largest glass plate negatives produced in the nineteenth century. These were made in Holtermann's tower in 1875, and three are held in the Holtermann Collection at the State Library of New South Wales.

Almost seventy years after Holtermann's death, more than 3,000 of the glass negatives created by Merlin and Bayliss were retrieved from a garden shed in the Sydney suburb of Chatswood. The UNESCO-listed collection of negatives, known as The Holtermann Collection, is housed in the State Library of New South Wales and presented in Gulgong Holtermann Museum.

Holtermann was also interested in patent medicine. He was proud of having cured fellow passengers on his 1858 sea voyage to Australia.

After he retired from mining, he wrote papers and devised formulae for medicines, and promoted and sold "Holtermann's Life Preserving Drops".

In 1882, on his third try, Holtermann was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for St Leonards, which he served until his death.

He died in Sydney, Australia on his birthday, 29 April 1885, of "cancer of the stomach, cirrhosis of the liver and dropsy",

leaving a wife, three sons and two daughters.

 

[Buckshot Bear]

Harry's Cafe De-Wheels 1974 with a special guest on Cowper Wharf Road, Woolloomooloo. Maybe Colonel Sanders was a bit tired of the secret herbs and spices and wanted a good 'ol Aussie pie. He sure is tucking in.

 

[Buckshot Bear]

[Alpo]

12 minutes ago, Buckshot Bear said:

Bernhardt Otto Holtermann (29 April 1838 – 29 April 1885 was a successful gold miner,

I believe you posted that a few months ago.

[Buckshot Bear]

17 minutes ago, Alpo said:

I believe you posted that a few months ago.

 

Just for you Alpo 

 

[Buckshot Bear]

[Alpo]

Good Lord. It looks like about a 20 oz bottle, so it should be about a dollar. Maybe a buck and a half of your money. Are cigarettes $4 each?

[Chickasaw Bill SASS #70001]

I done told ya , ya ortta , start growing you own tobacco 

 

  it will grow about any where , as long as it has water , closely related to tomato plants 

 

  I was told it would not grow in the Ozarks , but I grew a few plants , just to see they were wrong 

 

  a little hint , ya gotta start your plants indoors 

 

  CB 

[Buckshot Bear]

47 minutes ago, Alpo said:

Good Lord. It looks like about a 20 oz bottle, so it should be about a dollar. Maybe a buck and a half of your money. Are cigarettes $4 each?

 

Some ones taking the p#ss with that one. 

[Buckshot Bear]

[Rip Snorter]

As long as it was a topical application...

[Brazos John]

14 hours ago, Buckshot Bear said:

Some ones taking the p#ss with that one. 

A great Aussie-ism!  

Y'all sure can turn a phrase!

[Cold Lake Kid, SASS # 51474]

HEY Buckshot Bear!

Any truth in this?