[GreenKeys] OT: How Aussies keep our social distance

[Dave Horsfall]

(Checks carefully to make sure that "OT:" is in the Subject...)

On Wed, 8 Apr 2020, Roy Morgan wrote:

> Perhaps we can be for drifting far off topic during lockdown:

Indeed; it's a survival mechanism as long as it's not overdone (and is 
clearly marked as such).  And on one mailing list where I hang out, 
everything is considered to be on-topic except the subject of the list 
itself...  It's a list for propeller-heads :-)

> What's the difference between kangaroo and wallaby?

Sort of like the difference between lions and pussy cats; they will both 
bite and scratch, but only one of them has an attitude...  The wallaby 
(plural: wallabies, although occasionally I've been known to use 
"wallabii" but that's just me) is smaller than a kangaroo (in much the 
same way that llamas are bigger than frogs).  Their full name is "rock 
wallaby" because, well, unlike your average 'roo they can climb rocks...

> And what was that song I remember a scrap of:
>
> "Tie me kangaroo down, mate
>  Tie me kangaroo down ... "

s/mate/sport/ and it's from "Tie me kangaroo down" by Rolf Harris, who 
went on to become a convicted paedophile, got stripped of his "Order of 
Australia" award, and was removed from various honour rolls.  We Aussies 
don't talk about him in polite company...  Whilst on the subject (albeit 
off-topic), like the Australian anthem one verse is no longer sung:

     Let me abos go loose, Bruce
     Let me abos go loose
     Oh they're no flamin' use, Bruce
     Let me abos go loose.

Can't think why...

-- Dave VK2KFU, down-under and down to earth