I'll see if someone can figure this out. Once you do, guess what they do in Australia if they catch you hooning too much?

We used to drag race, cut doughnuts etc but I doubt they do that on the streets here much any more. I guess the kids have better things to do.

Dont know what they do to you in Australia - give you a medal?

Well, I didn't know what it was or what they would do, but I do now. Google is a wonderful thing.....I'll let someone else find out for themselves.

But, I hooned myself quite a bit when I was younger, luckily didn't cause myself or anyone else any serious injury.

Damm, and I thought this was the home of "Mad Max" next you will tell me there is no beer in australia either!!

Some Aussie can confirm this, but if you have a reputation for hooning, they take away the car you were hooning in, and crush it. I'm told it doesn't matter whether it is your car or you were caught hooning in someone else's car.

The local pastime seems to be king-punching people. Women king-punch women; men king-punch men; men king-punch women. I'm having a hard time understanding these people.

One other piece of "weirdness"? They've got beer, great beer, but practically no Outback Steakhouse restaurants outback. There are only four in the entire country. We've got more than that in Dallas.

They've got strange ideas of service. Many restaurants don't have any table service except to bring your food. You have to walk up to the front to order, and pay, then they bring your food when it is ready.

We wandered around the Swan Valley this weekend and stopped at a place. It said "wait to be seated". We waited about five minutes, then a waitress came by and said someone would be with us in a minute. About five minutes later another waitress came by, handed us menus, and told us to sit where ever we wanted and come to the front when we were ready to order. The place was packed, so there was about twenty of us trying to get an order placed. I dropped off the menus and we walked out. Life's too short for that crap.

Australia must have more vinyards than France, Italy and Spain combined; and get used to screw caps; the cork is on the way out.

I love this assignment, but it's taking some getting used to.

And here I thought "HOONING" was the sound a cow made when you tipped it over!!!!

What... WHAT... you've never gone COW-TIPPING???? It's a great sport and increases in excitement the more you drink. Eventually it degrades into a more exciting (and dangerous) form... BULL-TIPPING, in which you hear HOON!!!! before you tip it over. Also, you commonly hear one's last words in life... "here... hold my beer while I do this..."

Mike

Better than being found hung in the closet of your Bangkok hotel room with a rope around your neck and genitals.

Well theres always been those hollywood rumors about how well hung Frank Sinatra, Forrest Tuckerand Tom Jones were . Now you can add old David