One Good Day In North Queensland

[echnidna]

I bin readin Banjos despatches from the Boer War.

and I come upon this pearl of wisdom

According to Banjo Patterson (who was a cockroach-lander)

the One Good Day In North Queensland is the day you leave.:D

[Bob38S]

Just goes to prove that we are all entitled to 1 mistake.

Bob

[journeyman Mick]

Almost right,
it's a good day in North Qld any day a southerner (including those from south of, say, Townsville) depart for more southerly climes. :D

Mick (who's not really a xenophobic red neck :q )

[bumnut]

:clap3:Similar to that wise old guru who once said that the best thing to come out of Victoria was the Hume Highway at Wodonga

regards
bumnut
I bin readin Banjos despatches from the Boer War.

and I come upon this pearl of wisdom

According to Banjo Patterson (who was a cockroach-lander)

the One Good Day In North Queensland is the day you leave.:D

[Blocklayer]

Shutup Mick!
Agree with em. Don't give the game away!
Theres to many bloody Mexicans up here already.

There's cyclones, crocodiles, red necks, dengi fever and Pauline Hanson to deal with up here. Terrible place.
Southerners would be well advised to steer clear.
:cool:

[journeyman Mick]

Sorry Blocklayer,
what was I thinking!:doh:
Banjo was right, and besides the cyclones, crocodiles, red necks, dengi fever and Pauline Hanson, there's killer jellyfish, leptospirosis, stinging trees, wild pigs, tuberculosis and ross river fever just to name a few of the local unpleasantries. Just to be on the safe side, if you really, really need to come to Queensland (and let's face it, who really does?) it's best to stay south of Bundaberg.

Mick

[echnidna]

peanut anyone :p

[Bleedin Thumb]

Mick I went up back up to Kuranda about 3 years ago after spending a bit of time up there in the late 70's - early 80's. Almost made me cry. What the hell happened to the place.

The funky little village shops had turned into one big souvenir shop and the markets were full of shysters selling goods made in China.

The bottom pub has taken the place of the top pub.

Even my favorite mushroom paddock was gone!

There is no god.

[echnidna]

it's best to stay south of Bundaberg.

Mick

and North of the Murray :cool:

[Black Ned]

Bleedin Thumb - Age 27?

"Mick I went up back up to Kuranda about 3 years ago after spending a bit of time up there in the late 70's - early 80's. Almost made me cry."


You were probably crying the first time from a wet nappy.

[Bleedin Thumb]

I was 97 last week. I have a rare congenital age defect. It fluctuates wildly with my mood.

I find that my ever changing appearance tends to frighten people hence the facial covering seen in my avatar.:wink:

[Felder]

Banjo was right, and besides the cyclones, crocodiles, red necks, dengi fever and Pauline Hanson, there's killer jellyfish, leptospirosis, stinging trees, wild pigs, tuberculosis and ross river fever just to name a few of the local unpleasantries.

Don't forget Cliff Rogers! Just the thought of him gives me the heebie-jeebies!

[Bob38S]

Sorry Blocklayer,
what was I thinking!:doh:

............. Just to be on the safe side, if you really, really need to come to Queensland (and let's face it, who really does?) it's best to stay south of Bundaberg.

Mick

Steady Mick, I'm in Maryborough - you know - the same place name that those Vic's stole and claim for themselves :o:D:D

We get lots of Mexicans coming to Hervey Bay [about 30Km away] - they usually come with a clean shirt, $100, stay 3 months and change neither :;

- ever seen their number plates

"Victoria on the move" - yep, and we know where they are/should be going :roll:

"Victoria the place to be" - yet they can't take a hint :no:

Bob

[JackoH]

Now you're being nasty, Bob.! I've given up on Qld for the winter. They've ruined the coastal strip all the way up as far as I'm concerned with inappropriate and excessive development.
Won't be going north of Ballina in future.
Incidentally, you banana benders like our Mexican dollars!

[Bob38S]

Nasty [in jest only] :U:U

Seriously your comment re development is all too true :~

re the $$$$$$
- we take all sorts of currency here :U

- unfortunately, yours like ours, are in reality, now only worth pesos compared to the rest of the world :C:C:C

[Bleedin Thumb]

Don't forget Cliff Rogers! !


Since they got rid of the tick gates he's their last line of defense isn't he?

There should be a warning sign at the border.:U

[journeyman Mick]

Bleedin,
yeah the toursit $$ and chasing thereof has wrecked the village centre and its atmosphere. Can't really see why toursits come anyway, you could transplant everything they see to somewhere else and it wouldn't really make a difference. It's still a great place to live, but my trips into the village are very short, just a quick visit to the corner store or the newsagency. There's been an absolute fortune spent on streetscaping the main street, paid for out of a toursit levy. Doesn't really benefit anyone other than the shopkeepers though, and most shops close around 2 when the toursits leave. The latest folly was thousands spent on streetscape lighting, which looks wonderful, but you could shoot a cannon down the main street after dark and be guaranteed not to hit anyone.

Mick
(PS, in other words, stay where you are, you won't like it here, we're all strange and the wildlife will eat you :D )

[Blocklayer]

Careful of those Mexicans Mick

I heard they drink the water from their toilet bowls :C

[echnidna]

Na we just export the toilet water north so ya breweries can make beer fer ya :oo:

[Bob38S]

Na we just export the toilet water north so ya breweries can make beer fer ya :oo:


Now that surely is the unkindest cut of all - and this coming from a state which coined the expression of pi55 when describing what could loosely be described as beer.

Had some of that Vic Bitter tested at the lab - result came back as "This horse is unfit for work" :o

[womble]

Na we just export the toilet water north so ya breweries can make beer fer ya :oo:


umm...you have no water down south, backflip beattie has resurrected the old plan of sending our water from our rivers so you can have some...:q

[Doughboy]

Now now you QLDers can't criticise VB (not that I drink it) when you guys have to name a beer XXXX, because ????? was taken..... and what is the Eumundi crud? Horse Dog Cat and Pig all mixed up and tinned! :p

The best thing you have going for you is the road south and Pauline Hanson, you sure you still feel lucky, huh punk?:oo:

Pete

[Blocklayer]

Doughboy

From Canberra ay

Where in America is that exactly?

(guys? punk?)

[Doughboy]

That little bloke John W Hobbit takes a job and then can't be bothered to live where it is based.

Are we American-ised hell yes and I am not sure if it is a good or bad thing.

Still, Qld does have some things going for it. My mother-in-law lives up there and I love her when she is in QLD and I am in Canberra.

Pete

[Cliff Rogers]

I'm back, phones & internet have been off for a week, what did I miss? :?