Re: Down Under Traditions

02 September 2004, 12:59

cr500

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.

02 September 2004, 15:28

robz

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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

02 September 2004, 16:25

416SW

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.

02 September 2004, 20:30

derf

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

02 September 2004, 16:00

Bad Ass Wallace

That would be right Nitro X, shoot the bloody Easter Bunny and sfuff the rest of us gettin any eggs!

02 September 2004, 18:31

416SW

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.

02 September 2004, 18:53

Hog Killer

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

02 September 2004, 18:09

Hog Killer

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 ??

02 September 2004, 20:06

roo1

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

Rosco

03 September 2004, 00:58

Far Canel

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.

03 September 2004, 04:21

Hog Killer

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.

Hog Killer

02 September 2004, 18:00

Bakes

Thanks Rob, I'll look forward to them comming in the mail. The build up has started and the fish are starting to bite

03 September 2004, 04:43

NitroX

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That's him. That's the Easter Trophy rabbit.

03 September 2004, 04:41

NitroX

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By the way, roo1, calling a TEXAN, yank is not taken kindly.

You all look alike to us.

02 September 2004, 21:08

416SW

For BAW
Easter is cancelled

04 September 2004, 10:46

Richard Kymble

Tucker is a classic bit of Australian slang ï¿½ 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. Itï¿½s first recorded in Tom Brownï¿½s School Days (by Thomas Hughes) and from then on turns up in many school stories ï¿½ especially the Frank Richardsï¿½ 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 weï¿½re talking 13th century here) a tuck was a fold made in clothing, and the verb ï¿½to tuckï¿½ meant to fold the end of a piece of cloth and ï¿½tuck it awayï¿½ out of sight. Well, food that you swallow also disappears, goes out of sight, and so (by extension) it was said to be ï¿½tucked awayï¿½. And then that which was eaten (or ï¿½tucked awayï¿½) came also to be called ï¿½tuckï¿½. However, it seems that only in Australia was the extra syllable added, so that food grew from being ï¿½tuckï¿½ 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.

04 September 2004, 13:33

derf

I sent you a PM BAW. derf