Bindi, iirc, was named after one of their favourite crocs. Baby Rob, I presume, was not - but who knows?
Re: burny death - we very nearly started 2006 by burning the house down. I choose to think of this as an
auspicious
beginning to the year, inasmuchas the conflagration was heard and scented and put out before it had time to become an inferno. (Result of a candle in a table centrepiece full of holly and assorted burnable things being lit around 9pm, burning steadily throughout the meal and then being left in the back room while we drunkenly toasted the new year in the front room. My father is being very "I always SAID candles were a bad idea" about it all. Bless him. And VERY many housepoints for Eva, the lovely German girlfriend of my parent's friends' son, who was the first to realise that there was a fire happening in the back room.
Ooh, Fay, that's scary. Next time, don't forget the marshmallows.
No, he had to go to the nearby village after getting sprayed while he wasn't wearing the sunnies at all. 'Twas a foolish thing. He admitted up front that he didn't have the experience with spitting cobras, but didn't bother acting like it.
Ah well, it has been a while since I saw that. My memory is not the most accurate and does not improve over time. Yet I believe my assessment of "You dipshit, put down the damn snakes, we got the point ages ago," is a reasonable one.
Fay, so glad that you are all safe and well. Holiday fires are so much worse than false alarms, even if the false alarm results in talkings-to by one's boss.
I always had a couple of problems with Steve Irwin, not least the notion that Americans were getting their impression on Australia from this guy
Him and Yahoo Serious. Always leaving bad caracatures of Aussies in American heads...
Andi is cutting up fabric and commencing to sew while wearing her tiara.
Steve Irwin, not least the notion that Americans were getting their impression on Australia from this guy
So you're saying we should go back to Paul Hogan?
No way am I answering the phone now because they both seem to be getting more obnoxious as the evening goes on.
Nicole, I'm sorry that I added to the obnoxiousness. Dave and I called to wish you a happy new year.
I really don't think it's possible for you to add to any type of obnoxiousness, sj. Truly. Impossible fete. You're just too damn kind.
Sorry for not answering, though. I had just stepped outside to watch the fireworks. I'm glad you had a great time last night and I feel all priviledged that you were thinking of me. In my own timezone even!
Happy New Year, Bitches!
Neither one impresses me. I say we nominate billytea as the next spokesperson for Down Under.
Sorry for not answering, though. I had just stepped outside to watch the fireworks. I'm glad you had a great time last night and I feel all priviledged that you were thinking of me. In my own timezone even!
I wasn't really expecting you to answer, and I was more than a little afraid to wake you. As for thinking of you, of course I was!
I always had a couple of problems with Steve Irwin, not least the notion that Americans were getting their impression on Australia from this guy (people kept guessing I was English because I didn't sound like him).
Yeah, you don't to that, "that's not a kinfe, THIS is a kinfe" thing either. I really have my doubts.
I'm watching this Diane Keaton TV movie.
After ten minutes of "witty" dialogue establishing the soon-to-be-snuffed-all-too-young character as happenin' and fun she is croaked in a car accident and is last seen hanging upsidedown, dead, in the car with her sobbing gay best friend. Now we'll spend a few hours watching the freind and the mom bond for no discernable reason.
