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About Tasmania, for Tasmanians? All sounds a bit incestual....

 

[Bean Long]

gplama wrote:

> About Tasmania, for Tasmanians? All sounds a bit incestual....

That's tautological isn't it!?

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[cfsmtb]

About Tasmania, for Tasmanians? All sounds a bit incestual....

Sounds like an old ad campaign recycled from the 70's/80's, something like "made in Tasmania by Tasmanians". As a kid I thought it was somewhat amusing and told Mum a bad joke about it. Dad didn't think like my turn as a comedian & I copped a right telling off.

 

[Donga]

On May 29, 3:32 pm, cfsmtb <[email protected]
mx.forums.cyclingforums.com> wrote:
> gplama Wrote:
>
> > About Tasmania, for Tasmanians? All sounds a bit incestual....
> >
>
> Sounds like an old ad campaign recycled from the 70's/80's, something
> like "made in Tasmania by Tasmanians". As a kid I thought it was
> somewhat amusing and told Mum a bad joke about it. Dad didn't think
> like my turn as a comedian & I copped a right telling off.
>
> --
> cfsmtb

Try us then! Out with it!

Donga

 

[cfsmtb]

Try us then! Out with it!

It was shite for starters & isn't worth retelling. (out of deference for mum & dad who were the butt of the joke)

 

[rooman]

It was shite for starters & isn't worth retelling. (out of deference for mum & dad who were the butt of the joke)

'tis OK, Tasmania has caused a few of us to cop it sweet... I muttered something about the "map" as a little tot and got an unkind biff from a big bro. seems he thought he knew what I was muttering, I just liked the applelike shape of it, he had other things on his mind...but he was a teenager and they "know" stuff...

 

[SteveA]

'tis OK, Tasmania has caused a few of us to cop it sweet... I muttered something about the "map" as a little tot and got an unkind biff from a big bro. seems he thought he knew what I was muttering, I just liked the applelike shape of it, he had other things on his mind...but he was a teenager and they "know" stuff...

From the House of Reps Hansard of 25 February 1987:

"Tasmania, you see, is the testicle of Australia, suffusing the mainland with strength and vigour. What a pity there is only one of them."

Now, who can remember who said it?


SteveA

 

[cfsmtb]

From the House of Reps Hansard of 25 February 1987:

"Tasmania, you see, is the testicle of Australia, suffusing the mainland with strength and vigour. What a pity there is only one of them."

Now, who can remember who said it?

Hodgman or Keating?

 

[SteveA]

Hodgman or Keating?

Hodgman was a good guess and close to identifying the correct person.

I believe that the culprit used to share a flat in Canberra with Hodgman.

Clue: He wore a chicken suit into parliament house

SteveA

 

[DeF]

cfsmtb wrote:
> SteveA Wrote:
>> From the House of Reps Hansard of 25 February 1987:
>>
>> "Tasmania, you see, is the testicle of Australia, suffusing the
>> mainland with strength and vigour. What a pity there is only one of
>> them."
>>
>> Now, who can remember who said it?
>
> Hodgman or Keating?
>
>

Harradine, surely?

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[rooman]

Hodgman was a good guess and close to identifying the correct person.

I believe that the culprit used to share a flat in Canberra with Hodgman.

Clue: He wore a chicken suit into parliament house

SteveA

ahah.........Goodluck ... (aka: Bruce) !!

 

[cfsmtb]

Hodgman was a good guess and close to identifying the correct person.

I believe that the culprit used to share a flat in Canberra with Hodgman.

Clue: He wore a chicken suit into parliament house

Bruce Goodluck. Next electorate over from us. Wonder if he borrowed the chook suit from Pam Clarke?

 

[Theo Bekkers]

SteveA wrote:

> Clue: He wore a chicken suit into parliament house

Don't they all?

Theo

 

[SteveA]

Bruce Goodluck. Next electorate over from us. Wonder if he borrowed the chook suit from Pam Clarke?

Bruce Goodluck.

Going back to the original quote - I wonder if Australia would be more balanced if it had 2 Tasmanias (testicles).


(And isn't it great working in a medical organisation - I can put the names of any body parts I like in an email and the filters at work let them through. If I write 'testicle' just once in an email to a mate at the Tax Office, the filters there block it and sent me quite strident warning emails in return.)

SteveA

 

[PiledHigher]

On Jun 1, 2:01 pm, SteveA <[email protected]
mx.forums.cyclingforums.com> wrote:
>
> Going back to the original quote - I wonder if Australia would be more
> balanced if it had 2 Tasmanias (testicles).
>
> SteveA

That's not the usual body part ascribed to tasmania!

And if it is Australia might be better if it hadn't been ripped off...

 

[cfsmtb]

(And isn't it great working in a medical organisation - I can put the names of any body parts I like in an email and the filters at work let them through. If I write 'testicle' just once in an email to a mate at the Tax Office, the filters there block it and sent me quite strident warning emails in return.)

What a load of bollox.

 

[SteveA]

What a load of bollox.

Who would want to send the word 'bollox' to the Tax Office?


SteveA

 

[Shane Stanley]

In article <[email protected]>,
SteveA <[email protected]> wrote:

> Going back to the original quote - I wonder if Australia would be more
> balanced if it had 2 Tasmanias (testicles).

But having only one keeps it on-topic for this ng...

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[cfsmtb]

But having only one keeps it on-topic for this ng...

Lance reference or are you being cryptic?