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OT: Even in Queensland the punchline is in the tail
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Sent to me by a friend in Melbourne. Many Australians view Queensland
as a lawless wild west frontier where anything can happen -- and does!
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The crocodiles and taipans don't taike any notice of bells and pepper
sprays.
There is no need to talk in riddles Andre, us sothernerners know the real
aligators
in queensland are the real estate agents trying to sell swamps to people
as a bit of paradise in shonky deals.
Patrick Turner.
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Considering the amount of sunshine most other Australians already
receive (measured in the astounding incidence of melanomas), even in
Melbourne with its semi-Mediterranean climate, I have never understood
the fascination with having a piece of Queensland.
Is the humidity, the mosquitos, the crocs, etc, really greener? Or is
the green only stemrot on the braincells of those who swallow that
"Australian Everglades" hokum? Don't they say that of the twenty most
venomous animals on earth, nineteen live in Australia? Perhaps they
should add, "and 17 of those prefer Queensland". Add sand in your
underpants, and you can keep Queensland!
Of course, people who have not travelled in Australia, who look at a
map and see huge wheatfields and a gazillion sheep, don't grasp that
Australia is really just a handful of cities on a tiny, intermittent
green coastal fringe and the rest as sparsely populated, and hostile to
humans, as outer space.(From Darwin round the top to Perth on one
three-day driving stretch we saw not another soul.) Given that the base
population is English, with it's yearning for a cottage in the country,
and no place with enough greenery to put it except Queensland, that
might explain something about real estate agents growing rich selling
unreclaimed marshes.
Andre Jute
Out into my own little bit of precious sunshine!
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