Rich Andrews wrote:

Patrick Turner wrote in news:40150693.BB32D6D3
@turneraudio.com.au:



John Stewart wrote:

Mark Harriss wrote:


Phil A won!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (the race, not the OZ Bucks)
JLS

Funny you should mention this, but Phil's state of
New South Wales and my neighbouring northerly state of
Queensland have a fierce 3 match round of football known
as "State of Origin" each year. The two sides are known as
"Cockroaches" and "Canetoads" respectively.

Patrick Turner's territory, the ACT, is surrounded by Phil's
eg: surrounded by cockroaches on all sides.

Regards
Mark Harriss

There are Cockroaches in this part of the world too. Luckily I live
just a bit north of their range. Seems the Winter here is just enough
to keep them out. Last three weeks has been in the range -15 to -25C.
Supposed to get warm today at -7C, but snow like hell.
(Probably doesn't snow much in Hell. The fuel cost would be outtta
site).

BTW, what is a Canetoad. Check one below.....

A- Marsupial
B- Monotreme
C- Amphibian

There is no prize!!!!!!! Cheers, John Stewart

Citizen Kane Tode is a pestulential type of guy who originated
in Sth america but who was sent over to Oz to control insects who have a
sweet
tooth in the sugar crops.
His decendants number millions, and the only good Kane Tode is a dead
one.

Actually, political rumour has it that the yanks secretly let Kane Tode
loose from a submarine parked off beach near Cairns,
in order to ruin the tourist attractions of Oz and make Oz a less
desirable
tourist destination.
The Todes have had an appalling effect on the wildlife, and dead birds,
roos
and lizards pong the landscape, because Kane Toad is extremely poisenous
to
eat.
Todes or no Todes, there has been little effect on the World Trade talks
going
on right now, with US
sugar farmers ill prepared to accept Oz sugar imports to the US.
The Todes might do some small good to rid Oz sugar farms of pests,
and that's where the guys in the sub really pharked up, they
were supposed to make Oz sugar less competively produced
than the US sugar....subsidies notwithstanding.

Patrick Turner.


Patrick,

Us Yanks like the Brits just slightly more than you do. We found their
actions insufferable, so we kicked them off this continent.

We saved ourselves the cost of few civil wars, and still we can't get the
national accounts to balance.
The damage to out ego is that we have a delightful little ol
lady who doesn't baulk at dissmissing incompetent governments
from time to time.
All that money saved by not warring with Mother England
has been used to make sugar production cheaper, eradicate roaches,
and reverse the ravages of the kane todes, mainly by furious driving
at night with wide tyres fitted to the 4wd country vehicles.

One could

argure that accompilishing that was a trivial task as one little brown
dude dressed in a bit 'o twisty rag named Gandi did it after we did.

Yes, good ol Ghandi. Sterling chappy.
But the Indians are not getting very far in trade talks with the US,
or in the race against cockroaches.


Anyway, we would have never brought those nasty critters to your shores.
I would look across the puddle for clues. (:)

Maybe it was a German sub that brought them,
But I distinctly saw some suspicicious behaviour one night
while fishing on a Cairns beach in 1943.

Maybe it was the chinese. When faced with some pest,
each person is ordered to catch each one around them,
and since there is one person per sq metre in china,
the roaches and frogs don't stand a chance.
I reckon the roaches could have arrived on the same sub.

I think they have special golf contests in NT, where
they see how far and accurately someone can hit a kane tode's head.
Definately a game for the brave, and most heat resistant folks,
and neck to toe plastic suits are required.

We have now got some african ant colonies on some island up north
and they have simply devastated the tourist appeal.
These critters aren't as deadly as the bull ants and jumping jack ants
of Oz, but the afro ant colonies make up for it with vastly higher
populations.
Just how 20 million ants can act as one deadly seething hungry beast must
be evidence of the effectiveness of a universal dogma.
In 100 years, I doubt much of our native fauna will be surviving....
But there will be plenty of gum trees growing overseas,
maybe because all of ours will have been felled for wood chips and houses,
which make the cockroaches feel at home.

Patrick Turner.