Um, sorry. Did I freak people out...?
Nope. I just thought "Bill should be a news director" again.
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DavidS - Nov 11, 2002 10:41:09 am PST #328 of 9843
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
billytea - Nov 11, 2002 10:43:22 am PST #329 of 9843
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
Um, sorry. Did I freak people out...?
Speaking as a sometime consumer of ABC product, I think your suggestions are excellent ideas. They fit quite nicely with my impression of its image.
CaBil - Nov 11, 2002 10:44:14 am PST #330 of 9843
Remember, remember/the fifth of November/the Gunpowder Treason and Plot/I see no reason/Why Gunpowder Treason/Should ever be forgot.
Hah! Not an advertising creator Hec?
Actually, there is a local public access channel I have been thinking of joining, just so I could have access to equipment and maybe do something fun (news and opinion pieces for Public Access) or creative (hey, they have animation computers there!) but I look at all the current demands on my time and have a coronary...
EtA: Thanks billytea, I appreciate it. It was hard to come up with something with so little info to go by, glad I hit it...
All the while I was being hit by boxes last night at UPS :)
CaBil - Nov 11, 2002 11:03:10 am PST #331 of 9843
Remember, remember/the fifth of November/the Gunpowder Treason and Plot/I see no reason/Why Gunpowder Treason/Should ever be forgot.
billytea, I am just catching up with Natter.
I see there were carnivorous roos and man-eating eagles.
So how recently did these suckers die off?
billytea - Nov 11, 2002 11:15:44 am PST #332 of 9843
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
I see there were carnivorous roos and man-eating eagles. So how recently did these suckers die off?
The carnivorous roos, about 30,000 years ago IIRC. I could be out by 20,000 either side. It was, however, after the arrival of the Aboriginals. Haast's eagle died out only 500 years ago. Maoris arrived about a thousand years ago, IIRC.
CaBil - Nov 11, 2002 11:21:46 am PST #333 of 9843
Remember, remember/the fifth of November/the Gunpowder Treason and Plot/I see no reason/Why Gunpowder Treason/Should ever be forgot.
I assume the Maoris made it a high priority to get rid of the eagles that carried off their members on occassions...
billytea - Nov 11, 2002 11:29:10 am PST #334 of 9843
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
I assume the Maoris made it a high priority to get rid of the eagles that carried off their members on occassions...
It's a possibility. I should note here that it's really speculation whether the eagles would've attacked a healthy human. They probably wouldn't have had too much fear of us, having developed away from large mammals of any kind, and they'd have been able to do so. We wouldn't have been any bigger than their usual prey, the moas.
Here's where there would've been conflict anyway, though. Maoris hunted moas too, and in fact drove them to extinction - so they killed off the eagles' primary food source. (Plus, if they weren't in a sharing mood, they might have gone after the eagles just to remove the competition for moas.) After that, there wouldn't have been much else to sustain such large birds.
CaBil - Nov 11, 2002 11:35:37 am PST #335 of 9843
Remember, remember/the fifth of November/the Gunpowder Treason and Plot/I see no reason/Why Gunpowder Treason/Should ever be forgot.
Moas?
Not sure what they are.
Theodosia - Nov 11, 2002 11:36:52 am PST #336 of 9843
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
CaBil -- think Big Bird and you won't be far off. However, they were herbivores, so were probably pretty placid.
billytea - Nov 11, 2002 11:37:36 am PST #337 of 9843
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
Not sure what they are.
Large flightless birds. Not as big as Madagascar's elephant birds, but the biggest ones were bigger then emus. (Heavier than ostriches too.)