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Wednesday, March 10, 2010
echnids and wombats
Without googling, does anybody know what echnids and wombats are?
Garrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrry?
Cousins of the Koala? Players of the didgeridoo?
Eaters of the Vedgimite samich?
Gary. You always bring a smile to my face
Gloria
4 comments:
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said...
are you doing some new, weird facebook thing that you need to know such "special" information? :-)
or this an after-effect of your loopy drugs for the big C???
When I did my sometimes rare appearance post on your return from the NIH, my foreign language obviously caused some confusion. My fault. I apologise for thinking you'd be familiar with echnidas and wombats because after all, Punxsutawney Phil is a mate of mine.
I was speaking in riddles by drawing the parralel between your new Spring and Easter with New Life; a new life for you Jim and a resurgence of the combative Gloria to make sure the pain specialists in Pittsburgh don't stuff you around (as the saying goes). Hence the emergence of the echnidas and wombats.
Easter is synonymous with new life as is spring. It's a great time for northerners. However, Downunder, Easter is different ... it comes in the autumn,(Fall as you say), when it's cooler, dull and the natural environment looks ready for a rest after hot burning summers.It's a time when our Tachyglossus Aculeatus and Vombatus Ursinus just want to crawl in a forest log and sleep.
Maybe to save the energy on the Google Machine, I can tell you the Echnida is a native OZ animal (a long snout, fur and spiny anteater - like a hedgehog in your terms - although here 'hedgehog' is an icecream - a monotreme with great survival skills since the time of the dinosaurs - up to 40cm long and weighing up to 7kg. (Do I have to convert for you as well?). The parallel is with Jim's survival skills.
The Wombat is another native, very cuddly like Gloria. A herbivore, marsupial (that's the wombat, not Gloria), looks like my mate Punxy Phil on a supa dose of steroids. It has a 33 day oestrous cycle whatever that means.
Life is very simple really. We like to think so eh!
4 comments:
are you doing some new, weird facebook thing that you need to know such "special" information? :-)
or this an after-effect of your loopy drugs for the big C???
Talk to you soon,
K
oh, nevermind, I just went back an entry and got the comments...
with facebook, I never know what "hobby" you'll start pursuing next :-)
G'day Gloria & Jim + Support Team >
When I did my sometimes rare appearance post on your return from the NIH, my foreign language obviously caused some confusion. My fault. I apologise for thinking you'd be familiar with echnidas and wombats because after all, Punxsutawney Phil is a mate of mine.
I was speaking in riddles by drawing the parralel between your new Spring and Easter with New Life; a new life for you Jim and a resurgence of the combative Gloria to make sure the pain specialists in Pittsburgh don't stuff you around (as the saying goes). Hence the emergence of the echnidas and wombats.
Easter is synonymous with new life as is spring. It's a great time for northerners. However, Downunder, Easter is different ... it comes in the autumn,(Fall as you say), when it's cooler, dull and the natural environment looks ready for a rest after hot burning summers.It's a time when our Tachyglossus Aculeatus and Vombatus Ursinus just want to crawl in a forest log and sleep.
Maybe to save the energy on the Google Machine, I can tell you the Echnida is a native OZ animal (a long snout, fur and spiny anteater - like a hedgehog in your terms - although here 'hedgehog' is an icecream - a monotreme with great survival skills since the time of the dinosaurs - up to 40cm long and weighing up to 7kg. (Do I have to convert for you as well?). The parallel is with Jim's survival skills.
The Wombat is another native, very cuddly like Gloria. A herbivore, marsupial (that's the wombat, not Gloria), looks like my mate Punxy Phil on a supa dose of steroids. It has a 33 day oestrous cycle whatever that means.
Life is very simple really. We like to think so eh!
Luvs ya's all.
Gazza
Oh my goodness. I'm dying laughing here. GARY, YOU ARE A NUT. That's a good thing.
Love ya back
Wombat
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