Pranks and Pranksters - Wanksters?

[johnw 10]

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Ok, I'd just like to add this: the word "disappointment" is freighted with the unspoken - the expectation that I would find something better in Oz than I left behind in Scotland. ....................

 

 

gm Yorkid,

 

A wee Scottie no less I see.

 

I hold Scotland in great reverence.

 

As a small boy, I adored porridge ... I would add milk and brown sugar and eat it slowly, savouring every delicious mouthful.

As a young man I developed a hankering for scotch and I have always credited Scotland for both products ... I am half Scots.

 

But it wasn't until I reached Loosiemouth in my travels that I experienced what I have come to call the eighth wonder of the World.

It was in Loosiemouth that I was taught to bring the two products together ..... yes, you pour Scotch over the porridge and that becomes breakfast ... it is certainly a kickstart to the day I can tell you.

 

And so I have always harboured warm memories of Scotland ( well up until Loosiemouth anyway, when everything went pear shaped and fuzzy)

 

So Yorkid, the next time you feel the need to emigrate from Scotland, try re arranging your breakfast and I promise you that your day will improve immediately and the urge to go somewhere will pass.

[johnw 10]

york id -......................................

But you then let the cat out of the bag - Brisbane - or Brisvegas as its locally known in the early 1990s - OMG! - you are lucky you didn;t neck yourself.

You were in redneck heaven with Joh ruling the state finally finished, XXXX being the only drink apart from a bit of Sherry for the girls, and the idea that for locals Queensland was the only place worth living in the world - even my Qland friends shake their heads at some of their fellow men.

 

 

My first trip to Brisie was in 1969 and on the drive from the old airport into town, I couldn't help thinking that the place reminded me of Suva.

And no, that is not a compliment.

 

You do know that old Joh was a Kiwi sent to undermine the great Aussie nation.

Now the Kiwis have sent you Robbie Deans on a similar mission to destroy the Wallabies.

[Yorkid 10]

Thank you for those words of oaty wisdom, john :o)

I guess "everybody's gotta be somewhere" (Eccles).

[SunTrader 10]

No matter where you go, there you are.