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posted 02 September 2004 12:59
Since my birthday is in December ,it is usualy a barbeque at the local beach. Always hot weather and sunshine. Perfect weather for downing the amber fluid. Only 2 minutes walk to my local beach and about 10 minutes back after a few brews.
 
Posts: 618 | Location: Singleton ,Australia | Registered: 28 November 2002Reply With Quote
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posted 02 September 2004 15:28Hide Post
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I'm usually at work on my birthday. But in our house the birthday boy or girl doesn't lift a finger all day.



Bakes,
Must be your special day every day.
I'm a newsagent, so I get to spend my birthday wrapping newspapers.
ATTENTION DRIVEL ALERT!!
Bakes,
I'm planning to tie your flies tomorrow, Good Lord willing and the creek don't rise(as a farmer friend says)
So with a little luck you can let me know the results in a week or so.
rob
 
Posts: 462 | Location: Coogee, Australia | Registered: 26 February 2002Reply With Quote
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posted 02 September 2004 16:25Hide Post
Well since 1986 I have taken a week or 4 holidays and gone hog deer hunting. Hog deer season is for the month of April only. Two years ago I manged to spend 26 days out of 30 hunting. This year was only 2 weeks.
It is not my birthday just a liitle present to myself.
 
Posts: 787 | Location: Melbourne, Australia | Registered: 15 January 2002Reply With Quote
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posted 02 September 2004 20:30Hide Post
Bad Ass, If you are really bummed out about not getting your fair share of Bunny eggs, send me your snail mail address and I will send you some Genuine Okanagan Rattlesnake eggs as a substitute. And it would be my pleasure for the entertainment that your posts have given me. No bull, 1 address will yield one package off eggs. derf
 
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posted 02 September 2004 16:00Hide Post
That would be right Nitro X, shoot the bloody Easter Bunny and sfuff the rest of us gettin any eggs!
 
Posts: 1785 | Location: Kingaroy, Australia | Registered: 29 April 2002Reply With Quote
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posted 02 September 2004 18:31Hide Post
Was waiting for that one. The hog deer is from India - the foothills of the Himalayas. Proper name is Axis Porcinus, about the size of a sheep on long legs, normal stag has 6 points like a sambar.

The deer in my avatar pic is a hog deer hind (for some reason female hog deer are called hinds not doe's)

heres a pic of a nice stag, think I got the pic from museum site.





While were on the subject of cross breeds here is a pic of a meat eating antler wearing rabbit and it's antlerless mate which is why I need a 416







They tried to getting rid of the carp (an introduced speacies like all our deer) by splicing in deer genes instead of getting rid of the carp they ended up with freaks like this. Which I had to use a 90lb bow on.





While they were breed the meat eating rabbit they fooled around with hares as well with this result.





All this was inspired by the guy in the USA playing around with cat genes which resulted in this.

 
Posts: 787 | Location: Melbourne, Australia | Registered: 15 January 2002Reply With Quote
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posted 02 September 2004 18:53Hide Post
416SW,

Thanks for your reply, that answered the hog deer question.

The Aussie gene splicing program copied what is sometimes found in our southwestern desert areas. That is our Jackalope, a natural cross between a jack rabbit and a pronghorn antalope. Sorry I do not have a picture on file, but a Google search should produce a good example.

I believe that your lab created, Aussie versions must be a lot tougher if a 416 is needed to bring one down. (Solids or soft points?)

You must practice a lot to be able to use a 90# bow for fishing.

Hog Killer
 
Posts: 4553 | Location: Walker Co.,Texas | Registered: 05 September 2003Reply With Quote
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posted 02 September 2004 18:09Hide Post
Hog Deer, is this some kind of Aussie cross spieces breeding program??

Buck deer X Sow swine??
Boar Hog X Doe deer??

Do they graze or root for their "tucker"??

Do the males have antlers, tusk, or both??

What are you up to down there??

Hog Killer

PS: How did food/meal come to be called "tucker" in OZ ??
 
Posts: 4553 | Location: Walker Co.,Texas | Registered: 05 September 2003Reply With Quote
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posted 02 September 2004 20:06Hide Post

Hogkiller
You Yanks are sad puppies!!!!
I reckon there in the same category of Yeti's etc.
Good for a laugh.

Rosco
 
Posts: 40 | Location: Tasmania, Australia | Registered: 21 June 2004Reply With Quote
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posted 03 September 2004 00:58Hide Post
Hog Killer,

"What's a tuckerbox?" do I hear you ask? Tucker is an Australian word for food.

"He's off his tucker" for example means that he is not eating and may be sick. "Get into your tucker" is an invitation to start eating (almost a cheeky form of saying grace). The tucker box was a box in which the travelling pioneers used to hold the important items of food like salt and flour.
 
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posted 03 September 2004 04:21Hide Post
Far Canal,



Thanks for the history lesson, I have asked several Aussies how food/meal became "tucker", they did not know. Asked Big Bad John and his mob, they just shrugged their shoulders.



By the way, roo1, calling a TEXAN, yank is not taken kindly. Kind of like calling an Assie, a kiwi.



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posted 02 September 2004 18:00Hide Post
Thanks Rob, I'll look forward to them comming in the mail. The build up has started and the fish are starting to bite
 
Posts: 8106 | Location: Bloody Queensland where every thing is 20 years behind the rest of Australia! | Registered: 25 January 2001Reply With Quote
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posted 03 September 2004 04:43Hide Post
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That's him. That's the Easter Trophy rabbit.
 
Posts: 10138 | Location: Wine Country, Barossa Valley, Australia | Registered: 06 March 2002Reply With Quote
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posted 03 September 2004 04:41Hide Post
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By the way, roo1, calling a TEXAN, yank is not taken kindly.




You all look alike to us.
 
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posted 02 September 2004 21:08Hide Post
For BAW
Easter is cancelled
 
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posted 04 September 2004 10:46Hide Post
Tucker is a classic bit of Australian slang � where tucker means food and the container in which you carried your food was your tucker box or tucker bag. Hence, the word turns up in bush ballads about dogs sitting on tucker boxes, X miles from Gundagai. This use of tucker is first recorded in Australia in 1858. At about the same time in England the shorter word tuck is recorded, also meaning food. It�s first recorded in Tom Brown�s School Days (by Thomas Hughes) and from then on turns up in many school stories � especially the Frank Richards� stories about Billy Bunter of Greyfriars (who was always after tuck). And this use of the word tuck is the reason that canteens in schools are called tuck shops. It appears that this usage developed as follows: originally (and we�re talking 13th century here) a tuck was a fold made in clothing, and the verb �to tuck� meant to fold the end of a piece of cloth and �tuck it away� out of sight. Well, food that you swallow also disappears, goes out of sight, and so (by extension) it was said to be �tucked away�. And then that which was eaten (or �tucked away�) came also to be called �tuck�. However, it seems that only in Australia was the extra syllable added, so that food grew from being �tuck� to being tucker.

There is also a theory that the word was taken from the surname of a missionary who agreed to cross the desert with a tribe of aboriginals. The black fellas knowing full well that food would be in short supply, walked their 'Tucker' in about half way and then promptly ate him and continued on their way.
 
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posted 04 September 2004 13:33Hide Post
I sent you a PM BAW. derf
 
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