Mango Madness

[Cliff Rogers]

It happens every year.....:rolleyes:

[journeyman Mick]

Cliff
all the poor unfortunates that don't live in the tropics have no idea what you're talking about.;)

Mick

[Robert WA]

Best done in bathers, in a bath tub.
That is the particular madness you are talking about, Cliff?

[maglite]

Bathers????

[JDarvall]

Do you mean, people wanting mangos so much, some go around the suburbs pinching mangos from private houses, tip toeing around all the flying fox crap......Some, even make up their own mango hooks to pull them down off the trees....Professional mango theives. Though, they know how to run when they see me bolting towards them with me cricket bat. Like, bloody hell some cheeky buggers gonna steal my mangos !!! no way no how.

[Iain]

?

[namtrak]

Mango Madness is leaving the tropics and moving to Albury and then paying over $3 for a dodgy mango and over $10 a kg for lychees the size of peanuts! That's madness

[Wood Butcher]

Was in the fruit and vege shop lsat week and they had the same mangoes laid out in two different spots in the shop. Near the entrance $2.99 each, further down the shop near the back $1.99 each. The mangoes were labeled the same type!! Work that one out?!?

P.S. was the same the next day too!!

[Iain]

I go to Dandenong market most weeks, last week I scored a box (29) avocados for $5.00.
The fruit and vege shops were selling them for $2.50.
Use about 10, give some away, still in front:D
At 17.25c each, $2.50 is not a bad mark up, now if I could sell my work for that......................

[Termite]

At 17.25c each, $2.50 is not a bad mark up, now if I could sell my work for that......................

Iain, there could be a good reason why you don't. If I remember correctly in the last pics I saw of your work, the project was surrounded by horse crap. :D

[Iain]

Which is preferable to some of the bull crap found on this forum:p :p
Anyway, they were not really WW ventures, just money savers for daughter and someone wanted to see piccys.

[Cliff Rogers]

It's an affliction that happens every year at about the same time as the mango season....
the only relationship it has to mangos is the time of year.

This article explains it.... http://news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=74672

It seems to be spreading like our Cane Toads. :D

[Iain]

So you are sitting in front of your PC stark bollock naked while taking prozac????

[AlexS]

Just back from Bleak City, and found a couple of mangos growing in the compost bin. If I transplant them, how long will I have to wait before I get useable timber?

[Cliff Rogers]

... If I transplant them, how long will I have to wait before I get useable timber?

All depends on what you want to make out of it. ;)

[Robert WA]

Bathers????


"Swimmers", "togs", whatever. I am, originally, from SA and "bathers" is the word in that State.

[Cliff Rogers]

through to the keeper..... whoosh. :D

I think maglite wanted to know why you were wearing anything at all. ;)

[AlexS]

All depends on what you want to make out of it. ;)
Well I transplanted them today, so guess I'll just have to wait & see. Perhaps a refectory table with a slab rolleyes:

My grandparents place in Minnie St. used to have a huge old mango tree, beautiful fruit if you could beat the flying foxes. It's gone now, hope it went to a good home - ie furniture maker.

[Cliff Rogers]

2 more disappeared from the side of James St. yesterday. :mad:
They were on the side of that Caravan park just near the Railway lines.

When I went past they had been hacked into 2,375,446 blocks suitable for turning bowls out of.... :(
I was in a hurry & I'd get killed if I went home with any more timber...:rolleyes:
twice if it was mango 'cos there are still 2 slabs in the freezer that I was reminded about on the weekend.:o

[Robert WA]

through to the keeper..... whoosh. :D

I think maglite wanted to know why you were wearing anything at all. ;)


Dahhhhhhhh! I was having a senior moment.

[womble]

2 more disappeared from the side of James St. yesterday. :mad:
They were on the side of that Caravan park just near the Railway lines.

When I went past they had been hacked into 2,375,446 blocks suitable for turning bowls out of.... :(
I was in a hurry & I'd get killed if I went home with any more timber...:rolleyes:
twice if it was mango 'cos there are still 2 slabs in the freezer that I was reminded about on the weekend.:o


ah yes, good old cairns where the old trees and buildings are knocked down to be replaced by the latest palms and tuscan style units...

[bsrlee]

Of course, if you live in the mid-western suburbs of Sydney you can get stabbed to death by mango thieves, as happened to an unlucky homeowner a couple of years ago.

[knucklehead]

I've been up north a couple of time during this time of year.
Every time the locals have been behaving quite strangely. After each outburst of public weirdness someone feels obliged to tell the blow-ins that its just a case of mango madness. Which is supposed to explain all.

Funny thing is after a trip to Cairns in June (no mangos in site) I am quite convinced that its all rubbish....... they are just nutty all the time!

[barnsey]

Down here we call it Schoolies around this time of year. For the rest of the time it's just tourists who don't know the difference between a rip and a trip and venture into one after the other:rolleyes: