The Aussie Humour Thread

[Rip Snorter]

5 minutes ago, Buckshot Bear said:

A couple of new ones! Useful!

[Alpo]

 

[Wallaby Jack, SASS #44062]

you gotta use REAL butter, non of that imitation stuff.

[Buckshot Bear]

Gathering outside McKune's Tattersall's Hotel in Kempsey, N.S.W. - circa 1916

Looks like a drive for volunteers to me.

 

[Buckshot Bear]

[Buckshot Bear]

The Big Merino made a short, but memorable journey 16 years ago. Originally built in 1985 and towering at a spectacular 15.2 meters (50 ft), this 97-tonne giant was carefully moved 500 meters down the Hume Highway in 2007. It stands proud as ever, representing the rich wool industry of the region. If you’re passing through Goulburn, NSW

 

[John Kloehr]

30 minutes ago, Buckshot Bear said:

The Big Merino made a short, but memorable journey 16 years ago. Originally built in 1985 and towering at a spectacular 15.2 meters (50 ft), this 97-tonne giant was carefully moved 500 meters down the Hume Highway in 2007. It stands proud as ever, representing the rich wool industry of the region. If you’re passing through Goulburn, NSW

 

While I doubt I will ever get down under, I appreciate you sharing this and other things. Evidence of rich history and tradition.

 

I also like all the painted grain elevators, keep posting stuff like this. Let this post serve as the hundreds of "likes" I have not otherwise clicked in those posts, I really do like them.

[Eyesa Horg]

50 minutes ago, Buckshot Bear said:

The Big Merino made a short, but memorable journey 16 years ago. Originally built in 1985 and towering at a spectacular 15.2 meters (50 ft), this 97-tonne giant was carefully moved 500 meters down the Hume Highway in 2007. It stands proud as ever, representing the rich wool industry of the region. If you’re passing through Goulburn, NSW

 

I'd  have been a bit uneasy pulling one side up on curb/sidewalk! Looks like a pretty good lean for an item that huge!

[Sedalia Dave]

 

 

[Buckshot Bear]

8 minutes ago, Sedalia Dave said:

 

 

 

 

Hadn't seen that before.....loved it!

[Forty Rod SASS 3935]

On 9/14/2025 at 7:48 PM, Buckshot Bear said:

You guys have to use American whiskey?  You don't make any of your own that's fit for human consumption?

[Buckshot Bear]

3 hours ago, Forty Rod SASS 3935 said:

You guys have to use American whiskey?  You don't make any of your own that's fit for human consumption?

 

Good come back.....gotta' pay that one!!!!

 

Here's a small selection of Aussie Whiskeys -

 

[Forty Rod SASS 3935]

5 hours ago, Buckshot Bear said:

 

Good come back.....gotta' pay that one!!!!

 

Here's a small selection of Aussie Whiskeys -

 

I recognize some of those from the Aussie flyboys we cross-supported in Vietnam.  Canberra bomber pilots, crews, and support people, they were.  Mighty fine folks, full of more fun and BS that almost any Americans, generous beyond description (except when I tried to get one of your lovely F-1 submachine guns), and tougher than most people will ever know.

 

I was a rum drinker in those days, (black Flag Jamaican dark rum it was) but a lot of our guys drank your booze and seemed to like it.

 

Now, beer is another story: you can't make any beer worth a gnat's pimple...but then again, neither can anyone else.  I found out that beer goes through so fast because there is NO CHEMICAL CHANGE from when it goes in and when it comes out.  It just gets warmer during its travels.

 

Hey, I have an idea: why don't you come up here for a visit and we can get together with boys and girls exactly like you.....except neither one of can speak English like they do inEngland, but that;s okay. too.  We'll make do.

 

Bring your own Vegamite.  No one here has ever seen or tasted any.

[Buckshot Bear]

11 hours ago, Forty Rod SASS 3935 said:

I recognize some of those from the Aussie flyboys we cross-supported in Vietnam.  Canberra bomber pilots, crews, and support people, they were.  Mighty fine folks, full of more fun and BS that almost any Americans, generous beyond description (except when I tried to get one of your lovely F-1 submachine guns), and tougher than most people will ever know.

 

I was a rum drinker in those days, (black Flag Jamaican dark rum it was) but a lot of our guys drank your booze and seemed to like it.

 

Now, beer is another story: you can't make any beer worth a gnat's pimple...but then again, neither can anyone else.  I found out that beer goes through so fast because there is NO CHEMICAL CHANGE from when it goes in and when it comes out.  It just gets warmer during its travels.

 

Hey, I have an idea: why don't you come up here for a visit and we can get together with boys and girls exactly like you.....except neither one of can speak English like they do inEngland, but that;s okay. too.  We'll make do.

 

Bring your own Vegamite.  No one here has ever seen or tasted any.

 

 

Love the invo, thank you! Aussie's make the BEST beer in the World....I'll bring a case of two  

[Buckshot Bear]

[Rip Snorter]

1 minute ago, Buckshot Bear said:

 

 

Love the invo, thank you! Aussie's make the BEST beer in the World....I'll bring a case of two  

A case or two?  With Aussies I knew, just hours!

[Buckshot Bear]

First car to reach the summit of Mt Victory - Mr J. Hemley in his car,

Circa 1920s

 

[Buckshot Bear]

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[Alpo]

Just now, Buckshot Bear said:

Wouldn't that be January through December?

 

 

Or is that a trick question, because there is no rabbit breeding season - it is against the law to breed rabbits.

[John Kloehr]

Just now, Buckshot Bear said:

"Today," The answer is always "today."

 

Red Skelton had a skit about training rabbits. He would give the rabbits a command, and if they did not do what was commanded, he would shake a stick at them.

 

Well, he had a couple rabbits which were stubborn and it made him mad, so he locked them in the barn for a while. When he opened the barn door, he found more rabbits than he could shake a stick at.

[Buckshot Bear]

5 minutes ago, Alpo said:

Wouldn't that be January through December?

 

 

Or is that a trick question, because there is no rabbit breeding season - it is against the law to breed rabbits.

 

[Buckshot Bear]

[Buckshot Bear]

[John Kloehr]

Found it, about 3 minutes in:

 

 

 

[Blackwater 53393]

On 9/14/2025 at 9:48 PM, Buckshot Bear said:

Y’all obviously ain’t never encountered none of ‘em ridge runnin’ hillbillies from around middle Appalachia!!

 

Most of ‘em sober up a couple times a year just to get a buzz on fer a day or so!!

 

I heard tell a vampire bit one of ‘em and died of alcohol poisonin’ on the spot!!

 

 

[Buckshot Bear]

12 minutes ago, Blackwater 53393 said:

Y’all obviously ain’t never encountered none of ‘em ridge runnin’ hillbillies from around middle Appalachia!!

 

Most of ‘em sober up a couple times a year just to get a buzz on fer a day or so!!

 

I heard tell a vampire bit one of ‘em and died of alcohol poisonin’ on the spot!!

 

 

 

[Rip Snorter]

7 minutes ago, Buckshot Bear said:

 

Just for the record - 

Showing results for banjo player in Deliverance

The banjo player in the 1972 film Deliverance was Billy Redden, a 15-year-old local from Rabun County, Georgia, who was cast by director John Boorman for his distinctive appearance, described as resembling an "inbred from the back woods".
 Redden, who could not play the banjo, performed the iconic "Dueling Banjos" scene with Ronny Cox using a special shirt that concealed a real banjo player, whose arms were slipped around Redden's waist to play the instrument.
 The scene, which features the song "Dueling Banjos" composed by Arthur "Guitar Boogie" Smith, became one of the most memorable moments in cinema history, though Redden received minimal compensation and no residuals for his role.
 After the film, Redden worked various jobs, including as a dishwasher and at Walmart, and later returned to acting in films like Blastfighter and Big Fish, where he again played banjo players.
 In 2024, a GoFundMe campaign was launched to help Redden with medical bills, highlighting concerns about the lack of recognition and financial support he received despite the film's lasting fame.

[Forty Rod SASS 3935]

3 hours ago, Buckshot Bear said:

 

 

Love the invo, thank you! Aussie's make the BEST beer in the World....I'll bring a case of two  

Not on my account.

 

I never did drink beer and gave up drinking alcohol of any kind 25 years, 9 months, 18 days, 20 hours, and 25 minutes ago....but thanks for the offer.

[Injun Ryder, SASS #36201L]

[Buckshot Bear]

1 hour ago, Injun Ryder, SASS #36201L said:

 

 

OMG she is so cringeworthy...........please no!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Buckshot Bear]

[Buckshot Bear]

On This Day

Monday, September 20, 1880. : Australian pioneer in physical therapy for polio sufferers, Sister Elizabeth Kenny, is born.

Australian nurse Elizabeth Kenny was a pioneer in physical therapy. Born on 20 September 1880 at Kelly’s Gully, a township just west of the New South Wales town of Warialda, her family then moved to the small town of Nobby on the Darling Downs, near Toowoomba, Queensland.

An accident during her teenage years, in which she broke her wrist, sparked her interest in anatomy. Whilst recovering, Elizabeth keenly questioned her doctor and mentor, Dr. Aeneas McDonnell, about the workings of the human body. Though untrained, in 1911 she began working as a bush nurse in the area, even starting up a hospital in nearby Clifton. At the outbreak of World War I, she volunteered to serve as a nurse. Due to the dire need for nurses, the untrained Kenny was accepted to work on soldier transport ships, and the experience she gained in this venture earned her the official title of “Sister”.

Sister Kenny continued to work as a nurse after the war, and even improved the design of stretchers used in ambulances on the Darling Downs. Marketing the stretcher as the “Sylvie Stretcher”, Kenny gave the profits to the Australian Country Women’s Association who managed sales and manufacture of the invention. Her initiative gained the attention of a family on a cattle station near Townsville, who arranged for her to come and care for their daughter who had been disabled by polio. Her methods of care and treatment enabled the girl to completely recover. She gradually achieved acclaim for her methods by the many polio-stricken children she treated and cured, but criticism from the medical fraternity for her lack of training.

Unlike other methods of the time, Kenny’s treatment opposed immobilising affected limbs with casts or braces. She advocated treating children during the acute stage of polio and using hot compresses. However, doctors would not permit her to treat patients until after the first stage of the disease or until muscle spasms had ceased. Instead, she designed a programme of passive exercises to stimulate function.

Kenny’s pioneering methods were gradually adopted by more physicians as she travelled to the USA to promote them. During her 11-year stay in America, she opened numerous Kenny Treatment Centres. Although her processes were criticised by many doctors, her dramatic results in affected children spoke for themselves. Her lasting legacy is her methodology for rehabilitating muscles, which formed the foundation for physical therapy, or what is commonly known as physiotherapy.

Kenny returned to Australia in 1951, and died on 30 November 1952. Her grave lies in Nobby Cemetery.

 

[Alpo]

I thought magpies had white on them.

 

Is this an albino magpie? (Obviously, in a place like Oz, where the seasons are reversed and people walk around upside down, an albino would be solid black. Right?)

 

[Blackwater 53393]

On 9/18/2025 at 8:22 PM, Buckshot Bear said:

 

 

Attair is one o’ them city guys what tried ta’ hang with the mountain Williams!! 🤣

 

If ya’s ain’t used to it, the stuff ‘round these parts ‘ll do that to ya’!!!