Clinging to the Fringes Cafe - Oz Drop In Centre.

Heehee - gave me a chookle, too....

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msolga wrote:

littlek wrote:
What did that crazy chook just say?

It's very strange & funny to hear an American to use the word "chook", k! You've just put a smile on my face!

Heehee....

Does the idiom translate? Chicken means scaredy cat here.

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"Chook" is versatile - it's a nickname for some folks (thought I have no idea why) aside from being a reference to poultry. It's also a faintly chiding term - "don't be a b ig chook" and the best for mine is the rather colourful description of someone panicking - "he ran around like a chook with its head cut off!" (if that one has been pointed out then sorry for the repetition).

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So - you're old too, Goodfielder, and remember Agnew?

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When my sister and i were just liddlies, we were obliged to feed the chickens. I would get a stout stick and holding one side of the bail of the feed bucket, while my sister held the other side and opened the door to the chicken run--i'd wave the stick frantically from side to side to keep the chickens off. My grandmother in all seriousness warned us that the hens will attempt to peck your eyes, and further warned us never to go near the geese (she fed them, and they were frightened of her--most animals and people within one hundred miles were). The entire process of providing food and water to the laying hens was fraught with peril for us small people.

Therefore, when my grandfather butchered one of the older hens for a roasting chicken, we were delighted. He would place the chicken's head on the chopping block, and push a large staple down around the neck to hold it in place--then WHACK.

The body indeed will stagger around, the wings aflapping, after the head (a largely useless appendage in a bird) has been chopped off. My sister and i would laugh and applaud with glee, hating those hens as we did.

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dlowan wrote:

So - you're old too, Goodfielder, and remember Agnew?

As in Spiro? How could I forget?

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goodfielder wrote:

dlowan wrote:
So - you're old too, Goodfielder, and remember Agnew?

As in Spiro? How could I forget?

Indeed - I was very wittle, of course.

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Setanta wrote:

When my sister and i were just liddlies, we were obliged to feed the chickens. I would get a stout stick and holding one side of the bail of the feed bucket, while my sister held the other side and opened the door to the chicken run--i'd wave the stick frantically from side to side to keep the chickens off. My grandmother in all seriousness warned us that the hens will attempt to peck your eyes, and further warned us never to go near the geese (she fed them, and they were frightened of her--most animals and people within one hundred miles were). The entire process of providing food and water to the laying hens was fraught with peril for us small people.

Therefore, when my grandfather butchered one of the older hens for a roasting chicken, we were delighted. He would place the chicken's head on the chopping block, and push a large staple down around the neck to hold it in place--then WHACK.

The body indeed will stagger around, the wings aflapping, after the head (a largely useless appendage in a bird) has been chopped off. My sister and i would laugh and applaud with glee, hating those hens as we did.

Well, I can only say that the poor chooks must have been abused- they are peaceable creatures towards humans as a rule - as a small child I would put my hands under their bodies to gather the eggs with impunity - the geese I have known were gentle creatures, too.

BAD Doggie!

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margo wrote:

no-one invited me

Is that because I won't discuss politics (it only encourages them) - or.....

maybe

no-one wants to talk to me.....

You haven't returned, margo! Surprised

We promise not to discuss politics (for a while, anyway) if you do!

Please do come back & talk!
(Otherwise you might regret it! Twisted Evil

:wink: )

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Geese are evil evil evil.

Getting goosed isn't bad though.

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http://www.theage.com.au/ffximage/2005/07/01/clarke_rhs_0107_narrowweb__200x270.jpg

Perhaps THIS will entice margo to return?

Razz

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... or this, even!?

http://www.sports-things.com/images/shanewarne2.jpg

<shudder, shudder>
See the lengths I'm going to, margo?
You can rave about Shane! Laughing

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Olga
You forget - it's the time of one of the world's great tennis tournaments, as well. Many late nights about!~

Michael Clarke (top pic) - yes - he lives in the next suburb to me, but I haven't seen him in Woollies yet! And he can play!

Shane Warne - is he a candidate for the most stupid man in the world? Unattractive not only in looks and manner, but just simply idiotic and undisciplined.

Francis - I got free medical care (doctor's consultation and prescriptions) in France a couple of years ago. I was in the Somme area, visiting the Australian war graves in that area when stricken with galloping bronchitis.

I'm not sure if it was my general cuteness (minimised by inability to breathe), the fact that I was there to visit a place where so many earlier Australians had died (and it looked like I might be adding to the numbers!), or, after a consultation conducted entirely in French (his was quite fluent, mine nothing like it - amlost pidgin!), he just felt sorry for me - or couldn't be bothered trying to explain the fee structure.

Whatever reason - he refused any fee - and gave me an armload of drugs, some of which, surprisingly, worked.

An amazing, eye opening area, the Somme.

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I KNEW cricket would suck you in, margo! Laughing

Lovely to see you! Very Happy

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margo wrote:

...Shane Warne - is he a candidate for the most stupid man in the world? Unattractive not only in looks and manner, but just simply idiotic and undisciplined.

Yes, yes, to all of the above! Such a great sportsman (I'm told! Razz

) but such a goose when it comes to matters of the .. er ... flesh? The folk we choose as heroes in Oz! <sigh> Rolling Eyes

I do hope some Oz sporting types will come along before to long, margo, so's you can have a REAL conversation about the pros & cons of the Oz cricket team! The Prince, too, maybe? As you well know, I know absolutely zilch! (a shameful & disgraceful state of affairs for any true-blue Australian, I know! Laughing

)

So, you've been watching tennis into the wee small hours, have you?

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shane warne wouldn't be one to entice me to anything I have to say, given the amount of horrible news about him lately - two words, SEX SCANDAL. Its been a wonder his wife has been able to put up with it - and its NO wonder they are now divorced.

almost as bad as bill clinton, I think. Rolling Eyes

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