"Have You Seen My Llama?"

No, that means you are discussing a Tibetan monk.

Osso - I have endeared myself to the gentle hearts and loving minds of the A2K community. You'd better start some serious accepting or it's stomping time.......

No, dammit, not you, I love you, Stillwater, my pet, I am talking about the new Polar Bear. It is tap, tap, tap for him, from at least me.

Er, I suppose 'my pet' could be taken to be too grabby. Sorry, didn'a mean to impose...

But, does the new Polar person have any bananas?

I just asked Ibrahim (one of our machinists) for the Arabic:

In Eastern Province dialect only:

Hal te-shouf llama-tee?

In classical Arabic:

Hal hara-eight llama-tee

(he didn't know what a llama was, so we're just using "llama")

My bad. I just read the original post. TWO polarbears on A2K? It's a bit like wishing for Slappy's twin.....

As for bananas, if they reveal themselves as residents of the northern coastal regions of NSW then it's a cert..


BigBanana


In Australia we have a distressing habit of creating monster effigies of quite ordinary items and then forcing tourists to admire them....

Aussie: 'You don't have anything in your country like this... do ya!!'
Tourist (looking at a giant prawn/shrimp): 'No, we don't' (thinking: Get me out of this country, they redefine the word 'strange'!!)

You don't believe me, do you??




















But we do have loads of 'culcha'....

I do, actually I saved a website for that prawn and probably still have it. Didn't know I like giant edifices by roads, did ya?

Next?

Here's the 'BigThings' site....

Big Things




.....please, someone save me from this place........

The one l lama, he's a priest,
the two llama, he's a beast,
and I'll bet a pink pajama
you've never seen a three l lllama.\\ Nash

I'm trying to figure out which it is that I find most surprising: that people waste their time making those damned things, or that people actually make sites worshipping them. Something is rotten in the state of 'Stralia.

Although, I confess, I found it amusing and rather accurate to see that there are only four big things in the whole of Tasmania .

Ah, yes. Two Polar Bears. I can accept that, as long as they are not BOTH bringing home llama's.

Was hoping this bear could benefit from seeing what the other Bear has to live with and perhaps have a new appreciation for life.

I don't suppose my translation would fit very well on a t-shirt... BTW, as my daughter would say "How... Random!"

(That's a good thing in a teens eyes.)

I love that Big Prawn - it's just my favourite BIG THING!
And they have some wonderfully tacky souvenirs in the shop. I sent a bunch of junk to my extremely refined, cultured and educated friends in Sweden! Went over like a lead balloon! (I also sent them things from the Big Merino - some people just never show appreciation.)

Polarbear2 - consider:
Where'dya put me bloody llama, ya drongo!?

I'm a fair dinkum, ridgey didge, lay-it-on-the-table, cook it on gas, all Austrayan polarbear, mate! (with a fading english accent, interestingly enough)
Sorry, I have had this nickname for some time now, apologies to the other polarbear... *holds olive branch*
I think we should create a giant llama... maybe in Adelaide, as there isn't a whole lot else there...
And Osso, I think you mean tap, tap, tap for 'her'. Thank you.

Oh, and Joe Nation, that poem was in a book of collected poems I loved when I was little. Maybe that explains my obsession...?

I sure hope someone can find "Have you seen my Lama" in Tibetan.

Smiling, Polarbear, and I've stopped tapping.

"nuqDaq yuch llama?" - Klingon

Ya can't be a ridgy-didge, Oz polarbear - ya left out the "L" in Oz!