Comments on: Quokkas safe http://crookedtimber.org/2008/05/14/quokkas-safe/ Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made Mon, 13 Feb 2012 03:14:53 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: John Quiggin http://crookedtimber.org/2008/05/14/quokkas-safe/comment-page-1/#comment-240264 John Quiggin Thu, 15 May 2008 21:27:05 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/2008/05/14/quokkas-safe/#comment-240264 #21 What a travesty of the truth! Our national song tells the story of a sheep-stealing itinerant who escapes the forces of wealth and state power by jumping into a pond and drowning. In addition to raising our well-known social consciousness, it is notable for referring only to placental mammals. #21 What a travesty of the truth! Our national song tells the story of a sheep-stealing itinerant who escapes the forces of wealth and state power by jumping into a pond and drowning. In addition to raising our well-known social consciousness, it is notable for referring only to placental mammals.

]]> By: Amit http://crookedtimber.org/2008/05/14/quokkas-safe/comment-page-1/#comment-240180 Amit Thu, 15 May 2008 13:29:16 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/2008/05/14/quokkas-safe/#comment-240180 Great, John. Some of us like to get our laughs by using the internet to tell <strike> useful idiots </strike> our American friends that their impressions are incorrect, that Australians are in fact an urbane and cultured people, with nary a Bazza McKenzie or Les Patterson among us. And then you go and let the quokka out of the bag... Great, John. Some of us like to get our laughs by using the internet to tell useful idiots our American friends that their impressions are incorrect, that Australians are in fact an urbane and cultured people, with nary a Bazza McKenzie or Les Patterson among us. And then you go and let the quokka out of the bag…

]]> By: herr doktor bimler http://crookedtimber.org/2008/05/14/quokkas-safe/comment-page-1/#comment-240169 herr doktor bimler Thu, 15 May 2008 11:52:15 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/2008/05/14/quokkas-safe/#comment-240169 <i>Australia is….. not characterized by marsupials in the main street, top paddock</i> Bear in mind that the Australian national anthem invites the listener to tie the singer's kangaroo down, sport. Australia is….. not characterized by marsupials in the main street, top paddock
Bear in mind that the Australian national anthem invites the listener to tie the singer’s kangaroo down, sport.

]]> By: Dan S. http://crookedtimber.org/2008/05/14/quokkas-safe/comment-page-1/#comment-240168 Dan S. Thu, 15 May 2008 11:45:38 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/2008/05/14/quokkas-safe/#comment-240168 Oh great, now come the arguments about whether opossums are 'marsupial enough'. We need to get past the mire of identity politics & obsession with authenticity . . . Oh great, now come the arguments about whether opossums are ‘marsupial enough’. We need to get past the mire of identity politics & obsession with authenticity . . .

]]> By: Alex http://crookedtimber.org/2008/05/14/quokkas-safe/comment-page-1/#comment-240167 Alex Thu, 15 May 2008 11:45:18 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/2008/05/14/quokkas-safe/#comment-240167 The weird thing here is that the denial is so nonspecific; nobody's willing to be clear about what he didn't do to the quokka. The weird thing here is that the denial is so nonspecific; nobody’s willing to be clear about what he didn’t do to the quokka.

]]> By: chris y http://crookedtimber.org/2008/05/14/quokkas-safe/comment-page-1/#comment-240153 chris y Thu, 15 May 2008 09:22:24 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/2008/05/14/quokkas-safe/#comment-240153 <i>A marsupial, not to be confused with the US possum</i> <a href="http://www.opossumsocietyus.org/opossum.html" rel="nofollow">The US possum is too a marsupial</a>. A marsupial, not to be confused with the US possum

The US possum is too a marsupial.

]]> By: SJ http://crookedtimber.org/2008/05/14/quokkas-safe/comment-page-1/#comment-240152 SJ Thu, 15 May 2008 09:21:26 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/2008/05/14/quokkas-safe/#comment-240152 <i>*A marsupial, not to be confused with the US possum</i> The American things are called <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opossum" rel="nofollow">opossums</a>, and they're marsupials, too. That's how our guys got to be called "possums", because of their similarity to the marsupial opossums. *A marsupial, not to be confused with the US possum

The American things are called opossums, and they’re marsupials, too.

That’s how our guys got to be called “possums”, because of their similarity to the marsupial opossums.

]]> By: ajay http://crookedtimber.org/2008/05/14/quokkas-safe/comment-page-1/#comment-240151 ajay Thu, 15 May 2008 09:17:23 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/2008/05/14/quokkas-safe/#comment-240151 <i>And what’s this about no marsupials in the main street. Have you never looked up at the overhead power lines at night.</i> Look more closely. Those are all males; in other words, parsupials. And what’s this about no marsupials in the main street. Have you never looked up at the overhead power lines at night.

Look more closely. Those are all males; in other words, parsupials.

]]> By: John Quiggin http://crookedtimber.org/2008/05/14/quokkas-safe/comment-page-1/#comment-240149 John Quiggin Thu, 15 May 2008 09:15:45 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/2008/05/14/quokkas-safe/#comment-240149 #10 Don't tell them that, Laura. And whatever you do, don't let on about the drop bears. #10 Don’t tell them that, Laura. And whatever you do, don’t let on about the drop bears.

]]> By: Nick http://crookedtimber.org/2008/05/14/quokkas-safe/comment-page-1/#comment-240143 Nick Thu, 15 May 2008 07:27:57 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/2008/05/14/quokkas-safe/#comment-240143 I notice Wikipedia says the quokka 'recycles a small amount of its own waste materials'. Presumably Mr Buswell will shortly be doing so too . . . I notice Wikipedia says the quokka ‘recycles a small amount of its own waste materials’.
Presumably Mr Buswell will shortly be doing so too . . .

]]> By: nick s http://crookedtimber.org/2008/05/14/quokkas-safe/comment-page-1/#comment-240136 nick s Thu, 15 May 2008 06:14:51 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/2008/05/14/quokkas-safe/#comment-240136 <i>Is possible to continue to have a viable political career after becoming an admitted chair-sniffer?</i> In WA? Only time will tell. But the real fault is with Aussie Rules and ARL: if there weren't competing claims on the term 'football', then the term 'quokka soccer' simply wouldn't exist. Is possible to continue to have a viable political career after becoming an admitted chair-sniffer?

In WA? Only time will tell.

But the real fault is with Aussie Rules and ARL: if there weren’t competing claims on the term ‘football’, then the term ‘quokka soccer’ simply wouldn’t exist.

]]> By: Helen http://crookedtimber.org/2008/05/14/quokkas-safe/comment-page-1/#comment-240131 Helen Thu, 15 May 2008 04:46:01 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/2008/05/14/quokkas-safe/#comment-240131 <i>And what’s this about no marsupials in the main street. Have you never looked up at the overhead power lines at night.</i> A young possum* once rushed out at me, bit the toe of my boot and ran away. We were just on the edge of the central business district of Melbourne. *A marsupial, not to be confused with the US possum And what’s this about no marsupials in the main street. Have you never looked up at the overhead power lines at night.

A young possum* once rushed out at me, bit the toe of my boot and ran away. We were just on the edge of the central business district of Melbourne.

*A marsupial, not to be confused with the US possum

]]> By: taj http://crookedtimber.org/2008/05/14/quokkas-safe/comment-page-1/#comment-240097 taj Wed, 14 May 2008 22:15:09 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/2008/05/14/quokkas-safe/#comment-240097 Article 196156 of the Space Corp Directives: Any officer caught sniffing the saddle of the exercise bicycle in the women's gym will be discharged without trial. Soon to be empirically answered Very Important Question: Is possible to continue to have a viable political career after becoming an admitted chair-sniffer? Article 196156 of the Space Corp Directives: Any officer caught sniffing the saddle of the exercise bicycle in the women’s gym will be discharged without trial.

Soon to be empirically answered Very Important Question: Is possible to continue to have a viable political career after becoming an admitted chair-sniffer?

]]> By: Laura (Carroll) http://crookedtimber.org/2008/05/14/quokkas-safe/comment-page-1/#comment-240096 Laura (Carroll) Wed, 14 May 2008 22:08:10 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/2008/05/14/quokkas-safe/#comment-240096 Well, how can you be so sure John? And what's this about no marsupials in the main street. Have you never looked up at the overhead power lines at night. Well, how can you be so sure John? And what’s this about no marsupials in the main street. Have you never looked up at the overhead power lines at night.

]]> By: flubber http://crookedtimber.org/2008/05/14/quokkas-safe/comment-page-1/#comment-240052 flubber Wed, 14 May 2008 18:35:31 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/2008/05/14/quokkas-safe/#comment-240052 Buswell: Chair-sniffer denies touching quokka. !!! Buswell: Chair-sniffer denies touching quokka.

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