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Hi, Im Myst

I found this site but is very expensive. Bob Skurka I bet will know the best place to buy roo meat.

http://www.yourgourmetshop.com/site/688980/product/FF-KA02


There are more kangaroos than people.

Eastern grey kangaroo estimate population in 1996 was 10'000'000
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Eastern grey kangaroos distributed throughout most of the eastern third of the Australian continent, especially along the coast in damp forest and scrub. It has increased in numbers since European settlement due to pasture improvement, and the provision of watering points for stock.​
Red kangaroo estimate population in 1996 was 10'000'000
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Red kangaroos are distributed throughout inland Australia and occupy mixed habitats of open shrub lands, grasslands, malee scrubs, Mulga country, and desert absent from the wetter areas of eastern, northern and south-western Australia.​
Western grey kangaroo estimate population in 1996 was 3'000'000
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Western grey kangaroos inhabit 60% of western and southern Australia. The southern group can be found in South Australia, Victoria, and New South Wales. They live in woodlands, open forests, coastal heath land, open grassland, scrubland and also can be found on city outskirts and golf courses.​
Kangaroo numbers are increasing throughout Australia. They are now found in greater numbers than prior European settlement due to provision of pasture and additional water points. Since the extermination of its natural predator, the Tasmanian wolf, and because of its rapid reproductive abilities this animal has overpopulated. ​
 
I remember travelling through the night south on the "death highway" to make an early flight out of Sydney. White-knuckled on the steering wheel as I imagined a roo jumping in front of my little rental shitbox - ruining my flight plans. Getting more and more nervous with each dead roo carcass I passed on the side of the road.:thumb:

Welcome, Myst! Hey, I have some friends in East Gosford which is probably just a short jaunt from you. Good memories of pie shops and nights on the turps from trips down under...
 
Thanks for grading my attempt at the Austrailian version of the language, Vin & Myst! While Junkman and everyone else were playing with their childish :poke: decoding toy, I skimmed over a couple short lists of down-under terminology instead.

So I slightly cheated :o , but think my time was better spent......:D

I'm not getting on a flight or wandering around a specialty shop for it, but if I ever get the chance, I'd have try a kangaroo steak. Somehow my imagine has it tasting like a whitetail: tasty! Worst case, I bet it'd make great sausauge to go with gravy over biscuits (US style biscuits) or potatoes. :thumb:

Vegemite, on the other hand, has never sounded appealing, but I'd try it.
 
Myst said:
A flick mixer is a kitchen or sometimes bathroom tap.. here...

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I suppose hes explained the whole being pissed thing.. that seems to confuse Americans no end.
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Myst........ do you Aussies keep you water for coffee or tea in a water closet???? :hide:
 
I hate to digress. What was a black stump? :confused: I am still not clear on the flick mixer or why you would call it such a name. You guys ever heard of Grits? or scrapple? Delicious:confused2: Welcome aboard.
 
Junkman, no our water for tea and coffee comes from the flickmixer tap:whistle:

Water closet, is that the dunny?


mak2 said:
I hate to digress. What was a black stump? :confused: I am still not clear on the flick mixer or why you would call it such a name. You guys ever heard of Grits? or scrapple? Delicious:confused2: Welcome aboard.
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Grits, is when you drop you BBQ sausage on the ground

Scrapple is a cross between scrambled eggs and scrabble

Flickmixer is very self explanatory unlike [SIZE=-1]pedestal Faucet

[/SIZE] Black stump
"It basically means beyond the back blocks, far off in the backcountry, far from civilization.

Like other early Aussie sayings such as never-never country and beyond the Wallaby, beyond the black stump was an attempt to describe and give a sense of
place, to what many believed was indescribable - those endless plains of inland
Australia. And when people use the term two questions always arise; is there
a black stump? And if there is, where is it? Well there is a black stump, and you can find its remains at Blackall in central Queensland, over 1000 kilometres west of Brisbane


The saying came about after a group of surveyors arrived on Astro station near
Blackall, in 1887. The surveyors used a blackened tree stump as the base for
their measuring equipment. The equipment was so large the tree stump was the
most secure base around. The surveyors were at Astro station to take
longitudinal and latitudinal observations, which were to be used in the accurate mapping of inland Australia. From there they were able to fix the position of all the major towns of southern Queensland.


Before long people considered anything west of Blackall to be - beyond the black stump"
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daedong said:
Junkman, no our water for tea and coffee comes from the flickmixer tap:whistle:

Water closet, is that the dunny?



Flickmixer is very self explanatory unlike pedestal Faucet
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Vin,
A flickmixer, I assume, is a single handled lever faucet. Your Dunny is what we'd refer to as an indoor toilet or water closet. The pedestal faucet might be two handled.
 
Myst said:
Talking about weird things.. we have a few weird bits and peices for example Vegemite.. we live off the stuff.. our kids grow up on it. Yet its a yeast extract.. now how delicious does that sound *bletch*
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I've had Vegemite and *bletch* is making it sound good. WHICH IT ISN'T :whistle:
 
niam, niammmmm!! love it!! On fresh baguette w/a little butter....another version is Marmite....same thing!! Sat mornings with a giant cup of coffeeee...
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On a baguette with butter sounds delish! However marmite is crap.. im not a fan.. i think it tastes a whole lot different.

Welcome Myst. It's nice too have another aussie in the house!

Nice Avatar!!!
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Doc, thankyou! I love the av too.. its really me (though a polar opposite to my looks :D

As to all the strange things that Americans eat, well, I don't know what half of them are, we don't have them over here. Peanut butter I have once tasted - NEVER AGAIN - YUK, YUK, YUK. Just typing about it makes me shiver! Kangaroo steaks, another yuk, sorry Aussies, or Emus - another yuk, but not so loud this time. Give me a beef steak (medium rare), chips, mushrooms, tomatoes (pronounced tomaatoes, not tomaytoes), or roast beef and yorkshire pudding, roast potatoes (potaytoes, not potaatoes - english pronounciation is totally daft!), boiled potatoes, sprouts, gravy.
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Ice queen where are you from that you have only tasted peanut butter once? It must of been a bad brand.. sure its thick and tacky but its scrumptious!

Some folks down here in the deep south of the U.S. fondly refer to them as "maters
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Cityboy that reminds me of Cars. Old Mater was someone you just wanted to take home to mum!

Welcome, Myst! Hey, I have some friends in East Gosford which is probably just a short jaunt from you. Good memories of pie shops and nights on the turps from trips down under...
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I live real close to Gosford.. i have a few friends their too.. it makes me so proud when i know someone came to visit my side of Aus! Getting on the turps? oh yes youve been to aus *sniggers*

Thanks for grading my attempt at the Austrailian version of the language, Vin & Myst! While Junkman and everyone else were playing with their childish decoding toy, I skimmed over a couple short lists of down-under terminology instead.

So I slightly cheated , but think my time was better spent......

I'm not getting on a flight or wandering around a specialty shop for it, but if I ever get the chance, I'd have try a kangaroo steak. Somehow my imagine has it tasting like a whitetail: tasty! Worst case, I bet it'd make great sausauge to go with gravy over biscuits (US style biscuits) or potatoes.

Vegemite, on the other hand, has never sounded appealing, but I'd try it.
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Your most welcome spiffy! Us Aussies are more than happy to help a fellow man ;) and no vegemite sounds like pus but its delectable!

Myst........ do you Aussies keep you water for coffee or tea in a water closet????
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Sorry junkman but im with daedong on this.. is a water closet a toilet? We keep the water for coffee or tea in a kettle!

Grits, is when you drop you BBQ sausage on the ground

Scrapple is a cross between scrambled eggs and scrabble

Flickmixer is very self explanatory unlike pedestal Faucet
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Daedong.. thats just what i thought!

I've had Vegemite and *bletch* is making it sound good. WHICH IT ISN'T
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Ohio.. i think vegemite is something you either you love or hate.. i think cause Aussies grow up with it we love it! Bletch? well if it floats your boat....



For those still confuzzled.. a flick mixer is a faucet (tap) that has one handle you can move up down or side to side to adjust your water pressure or your heat/cooling in your water flow.. it usually used in your bathroom but more than likely your kitchen
 
Myst said:
On a baguette with butter sounds delish! However marmite is crap.. im not a fan.. i think it tastes a whole lot different.
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CRAP!???? ahh, the senseless aggression......:o
 
AH HAH!! Now I know where I've seen that avatar!!! That's the little vixen on one of the "Myst" games!! I've never been able to get thru either one of them!!!:burp::burp::tiphat:
 
johnday said:
AH HAH!! Now I know where I've seen that avatar!!! That's the little vixen on one of the "Myst" games!! I've never been able to get thru either one of them!!!:burp::burp::tiphat:
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Just realized I have that game, but not the one with that picture [Materpiece Edition with a piction of an island on the box]. I finished the game with only a couple frustrating moments, but it wasn't really my type of game.....at the risk of sounding unsophisticated: give me Tetris or some of those mindless Popcap games and I'm content - at least as far as games go.
 
jakki.. i could of said doo doo.. is that a lil better ;)

johnday.. ive never played the 'Myst' games.. actually i was Myst online before them but i just plucked the av out of thin air.. if it is from the game that would be truly spooky!

spiffy .. lets hope they are not yeast infections.. those things can get nasty

Snowcat.. im elite? woo hoo i know i was created just for the elite ranks in life ;)

These arent my own pics but heres some of the lake anyhoo...

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some are a lil closer to my home than others.. but i will have to take a pic from my living room window to show you.. we get amazing sunsets over the lake here
 
Marmite is gorgeous, peanut butter is CRAP. Loo's, toilets, bogs, the little girl's/boy's room, or the crapper, none of which are for keeping the water in for coffee or tea, we use a tap or a water carrier! Incidentally the crapper came from Thomas Crapper who had something to do with inventing the water closet, I think. Any thing else daft that anyone can think of? I like the explanation of the black stump, I have often wondered about that.
 
Thank you Junkman for that piece of info., I still like the explanation anyway!
Funny how these names stick though - like **** to a blanket!
 
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