Sat 28 Apr 2007
This week:
* Why we hate our neighbours.
* Big Canadian things versus big Australian things.
* A parenthood update.
Sat 28 Apr 2007
This week:
* Why we hate our neighbours.
* Big Canadian things versus big Australian things.
* A parenthood update.
April 29th, 2007 at 12:49 am
Egad!!! I didn’t expect you to come out with a new episode so soon! I still haven’t called in with my voicemail (although I do have notes for it). Oh well. At least I get first comment.
April 29th, 2007 at 2:33 am
YAY! A new show already!! I haven’t listened yet, but WOO HOOO!
-V
April 29th, 2007 at 4:38 pm
I was going to comment about the Mall of America, what I believed to be the biggest mall in North America, but I stand corrected. The Mall of West Edmonton has had that title for a long time and was the largest in the world until 2004. Now it is 4th largest in the world, Mall of America is 19th, but number one is South China Mall at 7.1 million square feet and room for 1,500 vendors. I say “room” because apparently a lot of its stores are still empty.
On the dinosaurs in Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure, also one of my favorite movies of all-time, they’re actually in Cabazon, California, and Tim Burton had them specially lighted with different colors at night for the movie.
April 29th, 2007 at 11:01 pm
Hi Muffintot! I heard her! She’s cooing with an Aussie accent too!
May 1st, 2007 at 6:03 am
Rod Hull and Emu are on YouTube. So far, “Emu and the Beanstalk” is the closest to what I remember on American TV.
Emu is so not Big Bird!
May 2nd, 2007 at 7:57 am
Gail - good find! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qg3d51BhdKI
If you substituted some unsuspecting celebrity’s testicles for the beanstalk, then that’s roughly what it would have been like to have gone on a TV talk show with Rod Hull and Emu in the 1980’s.
May 5th, 2007 at 3:27 pm
Sorry for the late post. I’m glad you got some enjoyment from the tourist fromage! I hadn’t seen some of those I sent. The only one I can remember that started with a “p” or “g” was the “Giant Perogi”. But that’s like a dumpling filled with potato or cheese. There’s a large Ukrainian population in that area of Alberta.
A “Yabby” is a crayfish up here.
I’m glad you got both packages, the first was supposed to have been there in October! It was lost somewhere for awhile.
Oh ya, as for Rod Hull’s death, I suspect FOWL play!
May 13th, 2007 at 2:31 am
Pokies
Re Show # 58 Bushfire Barbecue Edition
With reference to the word pokies, this is a true-true (Trini words for Fair Dinkum) story.
I had only been in Australia a few days, when my flat mate invited me to go with him to the RSL to play with the pokies.
By the look on my face, he realized that I was baffled, so he went on to explain that you put money in the pokies and played with them.
Well my shock was because of the word pokies, you see in Trinidad, pokie is a semi-polite word for pussy, twat etc.
As a by note some other Trinidad words are: nanny, poonkanounce, poonkie, and my personal favorite mecum fleur.
Larrikin
May 13th, 2007 at 3:08 am
Australian First
The Brabham name is synonymous with Grand Prix motor racing and to this day, Sir Jack Brabham, the first driver in history to be knighted for his services to motorsport, remains one of racing’s most popular personalities.
The triple world champion is the only Formula One driver to have won a world title in a car of his own construction – the BT19 – which he drove to victory in 1966. The following year the Brabham team won its second successive world championship when New Zealander Denny Hulme drove the BT20 to victory.
Other Australia and Melbourne Motorsport Trivia:
• Motorcycle World championship final round each year is in Phillip Island, just outside Melbourne
• The F1 world championship begins each year at Albert Park, the center of Melbourne
• Mick (Michael) Doohan is only person to win 5 consecutive World Championships:
o 1994 Honda Team HRC 1st
o 1995 Repsol Honda Team HRC 1st
o 1996 Team Repsol Honda 1st
o 1997 Team Repsol Honda 1st
o 1998 Team Repsol Honda 1st
• Other WORLD RECORDS (all 1997)
o Most 500cc grand prix wins in season – 12
o Most 500cc grand prix pole positions in season – 12
o Most 500cc successive pole positions – 12
o Most 500cc grand prix points in a season – 340
May 13th, 2007 at 2:08 pm
Bob’s Yer Uncle will be the Featured Podcast of the Day for Sunday. It should appear on the Podcast Pickle site at 3 am EST (about three hours from now). I hope you like the description I wrote for it:
One of the most underrated couplecasts on the net. Aussies Zan & Jana discuss a multitude of topics. Foreign correspondent Uncle Bob keeps the minions of orthodoxy at bay while spacecat Gleek, infant Muffintot, and hordes of nameless chickens cheer them on.
May 13th, 2007 at 8:35 pm
Happy Mother’s Day Jana!!
Muffintot, giv’er a kiss for us.
May 14th, 2007 at 8:23 pm
Aww, thanks Kevbo! And thanks Tvindy for our Podcast Pickle plug. It made me and the hordes of nameless chickens chuckle. We’ll be back next week.
May 15th, 2007 at 12:49 am
Hmmmmm, how does one get to be a featured podcast on Podcast Pickle? I smell a good opportunity for shameless self-promotion.
May 15th, 2007 at 9:49 am
Ryan, for the next few months, I get to be the one selecting the daily featured podcasts on the Pickle. So far, I’ve never actually listened to Radio Free Marist. I’ll make a point of checking it out in the next few weeks.
May 18th, 2007 at 10:39 am
Larrikin
I know the big banana, the big pineapple, big cow in Queensland
Was thinking “Ah I have got them they won’t know the big cheese in Begaâ€â€¦â€¦..but you did so I got caught on that one.
The big Marino Goldburn, big Golden Guitar Tamworth, big Orange in Tenterfield………….you have stumped on these as I rode through these three places frequently and don’t know about their big things.
Are u familiar with any on these places in NSW all fairly close to each other except for the first one which is closer to Bega:
Tilba Tilba
Nowra
Berry
Kangaroo Valley
Mossvale, Mittagong and Barowl
Kiama
Wollongong
Robertson Falls
You asked about the island where the Bounty survivors settled…..Pitcrain Island. There are some that think that Fletcher Christian snuck back to England and did not die there.
May 18th, 2007 at 11:03 am
To Bee or not to Bee that is Tivindy’s question
The bee’s in North, Central and South America are/were European bees.
Someone in South America cross bred Africian bees with those in South America, because the had higher honey yields.
But these African bees are very aggressive and have come to be known as “Killer Beesâ€
They are systemitically wiping out the Europen bees in the Americas and have migrated to the Central and North America.
They also attack humans and are very aggressive. They have become a big problem and have really screwed up honey production.
I have had a personal encounter with them.
I had been back in Trinidad from Australia only a few months.
One Saturday morning I was ironing while watching TV and there was this odd humming and buzzing. The next thing I knew the room had thousands of these bees in it and they had started to build a nest less than 3 ft from the door.
When you squash one of them, they release chemicals which send out an attack signal to the rest of the swarm.
I rushed into the bedroom and locked all doors and windows and stuffed towels in cracks under the door.
As luck would have it I had just bought a mobile phone that week, as I lived in a remote place with no telephone. I managed to contact the Ministry of Agriculture. A small miracle as Government offices in Trinidad don’t answer the telephone Mon – Fri far less on a weekend.
The Min of Agriculture people arrived later that day and disposed of them.
I tell you, I have dived commercially, owned 8 motorcycles, raced go-karts and cars………..But this was deffinately the closes scrape I ever had and I was scared silly…..I had the feeling that I had no control on the outcome…………Scary or rather Scared Shitless
See the attached link http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Africanized_bee
May 18th, 2007 at 11:56 am
Question for Jana
The bus trip Melbourne / Sidney, this would be via the Hulme Highway and arrive in Sydney around the Parramata, Homebush Area correct.????
I rode Wollongong to Melbourne a few times but used the Costal road.
The Hulme I only know between Sydney and Southern Highlands Area. Mittagong, Barowl, Mossvale
May 18th, 2007 at 8:22 pm
Larrakin, you should ask how Uncle Bob would have handled that situation with the killer bees.
May 21st, 2007 at 10:46 am
There’s a podcast called Old Time Radio Serials which has been running a series of stories called Journey Into Space. One of the characters, makes the comment, “Whew! So Bob really is our uncle after all!” They were set in the far future of 1971, and aired in the mid-fifties.
http://dpvideo.podomatic.com/archive
I can’t find the beginning of the entire series, but this link is the beginning of the current story.
May 23rd, 2007 at 7:17 am
Gail……
Are you a big fan of OTR?
I’ve seen “Bobs yer uncle” used all over the place since I started listening. Its amazing what you miss when you aren’t looking for it.
May 23rd, 2007 at 11:12 am
phibes72….Oh my, it really is tomorrow in Australia!
When I read that Dick Van Dyke said, “Bob’s yer uncle” in the film “Mary Poppins,” I knew why it was a familiar saying. I’ve heard it all my life.
As for OTR, I wouldn’t say a BIG fan, but definitely a fan. “Journey Into Space” is probably my favorite, it’s such a product of its time. “The Story Lady” would be second, although she doesn’t run as a separate feed, and I have no idea where or when she comes from.