Doghead's Cosmic Bar
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*giggles* They are better when ya make em with bubble gum.
Weigh anchor, ye survey dogs, for I make everyone walk the blank!
Weigh anchor, ye survey dogs, for I make everyone walk the blank!
*Feels Sonora's gaze as he heads for the herring* *Widens his one scarred eye in attempt to look more loyal and innocent*
Woof?
Woof?
Gee I think he was widening his one good eye (since he lost the other eye in a fight). Cats can never type well.
With all this talk of summer, I feel obligated to point out that some of us live in the southern hemisphere. It's going to be a long night.
I've always wondered how people deal with Christmas in the summer. Do aboriginals in the southern hemisphere have winter solstice festivals that celebrate snow and keep fires burning at this time of year?
Isn't it odd that man would stick with something artificial like a calendar, rather than something real like the seasons. I can't picture the Christmas seasons without winter. Oh it does get confusing!
The aborigines have more sense - 35 millenia have taught them that.
But the white man still eats roast turkey with all the trimmings, and a flaming christmas pudding on one of the hottest days of the year.
Go figure!
Witchety grub and brandy butter? Sounds good to me!
But the white man still eats roast turkey with all the trimmings, and a flaming christmas pudding on one of the hottest days of the year.
Go figure!
Witchety grub and brandy butter? Sounds good to me!
To the best of my knowledge (and granted it's hardly extensive) Australian Aborigines don't have specific annual festival type events. At least none that I can recall.
As for the Aussie Christmas, we have a pretty broad approach. Some people do go in for a more British based roast meat and flaming pudding approach certainly. Turkey isn't particularly popular in Oz, so it's more likely lamb or beef. A lot of people do a big barbecue and enjoy the outdoors. Some people do concede a little to the weather and just do big meals of cold-cuts and what have you. Lighter options like ham and fish and chicked crop up a lot too. Christmas pudding isn't always served hot, sometimes warm or cold, and almost certainly cut with ice cream as well as custard. Last year we didn't do christmas pudding at all (although my uncle did crack it and whinged while he ate his delicious black forest ice cream).
And besides, saying it's one of the hottest days of the year is a big leap. I live in Melbourne, where if you feel like complaining about the weather, you get told to shut up and wait fifteen minutes. By then it'll be something completely different, and either you'll quit complaining or you'll really have something to complain about. I've known Christmas days that have been a wet, windy, miserable 20C in the middle of a week of hot, humid 35C+.
As for the Aussie Christmas, we have a pretty broad approach. Some people do go in for a more British based roast meat and flaming pudding approach certainly. Turkey isn't particularly popular in Oz, so it's more likely lamb or beef. A lot of people do a big barbecue and enjoy the outdoors. Some people do concede a little to the weather and just do big meals of cold-cuts and what have you. Lighter options like ham and fish and chicked crop up a lot too. Christmas pudding isn't always served hot, sometimes warm or cold, and almost certainly cut with ice cream as well as custard. Last year we didn't do christmas pudding at all (although my uncle did crack it and whinged while he ate his delicious black forest ice cream).
And besides, saying it's one of the hottest days of the year is a big leap. I live in Melbourne, where if you feel like complaining about the weather, you get told to shut up and wait fifteen minutes. By then it'll be something completely different, and either you'll quit complaining or you'll really have something to complain about. I've known Christmas days that have been a wet, windy, miserable 20C in the middle of a week of hot, humid 35C+.
Hey wet windy miserable 20c is an Alberta summer day! The high today is 19 low of 8 We had a wonderful thunderstorm last night.
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