Look!

sueann

Isn't she beautiful!

chrisingham

Ohh that's pretty! I thought it would be something else considering it's April Fool's day. Thanks for keeping it honest

windthrown

What is it? What kind of butterfly, that is.

Being that its in Oz, its probably deadly too.

sueann

Hey Crissy, well I felt like a fool dancing around the yard waving the camera around and waiting for her to land somewhere!

She was very fussy where she wanted to sit and sun!

Not everything in Australia bites, stings or kills you, some things, like our butterflies and birds are just lovely.

sueann

It's black WT, with lovely coloured tips on her wings.

She's called a Cressida.

sueann

I've never heard of a deadly butterfly!!

clementine

They live in Canada:

http://www.metacafe.com/watch/1673412/killer_butterflies_in_canada/

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windthrown

Lets see, several deadly jellies... deadly blue ring octopii... heaps of deadly sharks... deadly funnel spiders... lots of other deadly spiders... deadly crocks... deadly snails... deadly leaping snakes... lots of other deadly snakes... deadly things in a shell... several deadly types of fish... and even the platypus can be deadly, if not just grusomely painful if you are spured by one. I hear that the Sheilas are especially deadly down under too. They can kill your wallet or bank account in no time at all. Just ask some of the Bruces down under!


Oh yah, that Vegemite looks like its deadly too. How can people eat that stuff?

Jeff Darby

lol.. You have been in the Hunter Valley for too long..lol

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Eric Frei

I dunno, I think I'd rather take Australia over Africa .... now that place has a lot bigger buggers to kill ya.

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windthrown

Afrika? Yah, the really nasty ones have AK-47s over there. And they are not too bright. Just yesterday the Afrikan Brain Trust took on a US Navy war ship. They lost...


The Associated Press: US Navy frigate captures 5 pirates near Seychelles

Not terribly sophisticated? I guess not.

Done it

They went after a Dutch Navy ship last week.
Somali pirates disarmed by Dutch navy ship - Scotsman.com News

Hey, Vegemite is a staple food we can't live without it.

Anyway, you need to look out for those butterflies.

windthrown

Cruising the web turned up the Vegemite smear campaign:


And of course the song that made Vegemite famous worldwide:


I really do not understand Vegemite, or the Vegemite song theme that everyone in Oz seems to know by heart. It seems to be religious.

He just smiled and gave me a vegemite sandwich

windthrown

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Done it

Really it has to do with history a bit. Nearly everything was salted in the old days because of the long sea voyage, so we developed a different taste sense to you guys, not sweet.

Check out 1948, and you'll see why I like it.

Vegemite - Vegemite Timeline

windthrown

The Happy Little Vegemites ??? Sounds more like an insect infestation to me.

Salt... you guys do not eat those salted prunes that the Chinese eat here, do you? Those things are gawd awful.

windthrown

I found this tidbit on Wiki on Vegemite in the US... I never heard of this until now.

In October 2006, the Melbourne newspaper, the Herald Sun incorrectly reported that Vegemite had been banned in the United States, and that the United States Customs Service had gone so far as to search Australians entering the country for Vegemite. The story appears to have originated as an anecdote by a traveller who claimed to have been searched by US Customs. Also, a spokesperson for Kraft made a misinformed comment to reporters. The story led to some anti-American comments in blogs and newspapers. The Herald Sun blamed George W. Bush, at the time the president of the United States, for the ban, and encouraged readers to post comments on its website and send emails to the White House.

The US Food and Drug Administration later stated that there were no plans to subject Vegemite to an import ban, or withdraw it from supermarket shelves. The United States Customs and Border Protection also tried to dispel the rumour, stating on its website that "there is no known prohibition on the importation of Vegemite" and "there is no official policy within CBP targeting Vegemite for interception". The story of the "ban" later took on the status of urban legend. While Vegemite has never been popular in the US, it can still be purchased at supermarkets that stock imported food items.

Jeff Darby

..How funny, when I was a kid I would not touch it with a barge pole..lol... but later in life I developed a taste for it, an acquired taste...lol.

Just goes to show you, don't get between an Aussie and his or her Vegemite...

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Done it

Vegemite has an older cousin. Bonox, a hot drink.

Launched in 1919, not as popular but great on a cold night. Goes well with dark rum, like Beenleigh. You should give it a try.

Good hangover cure as well.

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sueann

lol! Afrikan brains trust? So funny!!!


The map is funny also. The baby killer dingo's are a bit further inland though, and where are the bully ants, green ants and meat ants that can bite through your jeans?? Not to mention the March flies, big as 20 house flies, that can bring a tear to your eye and hows about the blue bottle jelly blubbers that wash up on the beach and you can't see the 10ft long tentacles that sting so much you wish you were dead. And it omits the saltwater crocs up Townsville way that walk up the street eating everything in sight. That map is a tad out in it's geography! lmao! it needs updating!

sueann

And vegemite is delish on toast or fresh bread!

dov

I didn't know Toyota made them... Does it accelerate in strange ways? Maybe that's why it was hard to get a shot of...

dov

Salted prunes? I doubt most Aussies know they exist, but I'll eat them whenever they're there. Hmmm. Maybe it's time for a trip down to the Chinese market...

windthrown

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You better run, you better take cover.

Vegemite is on my list with spam, haggis, gefilte fish and of things I will never eat.

dov

You never know until you try it mate. I don't eat Vegemite every day, but it's something I like to have a 'fix' of every now and then. Spread nice and thick on hot buttered toast... Oooohh niiiiiiiice!

Pity it's owned by an American company...

Eric Frei

I tried those Chinese salted prune things .... spat them out!

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I had one Nepalese sort of preserved prune thing. Salted and spiced and, by the taste of it, fermented. I wanted to spit it out, but a Nepali mate (who had put it directly in my mouth as Nepalis sometimes do) was sitting right next to me, so I just swallowed quick.

Another thing that I just won't eat is a digestive called Hajmollah. Indians and Nepalis generally seem to love it, but the general odour of it reminds me of a grog-bog after a night on the piss! Now that one gets my gag reflex going!

windthrown

I doubt I could find a jar of Vegemite around here if I tried. I have never seen it for sale anywhere I have lived in the states, actually. Or Marmite. Or Haggis. I never even heard of VM until the Land Down Under song, and finally was told what it was by an Aussy engineer I worked with in high tech about 10 years ago.

KRAFT... the inventers and makers of American and Velveeta cheese (processed chrap, god awful excuse for cheese if you ask me). Soylent Green will me made by Kraft foods I bet.

windthrown

is right. The Asians I worked with ate them like candy. Bloody horrible.

sueann

I've never heard of salted prunes but they don't sound that nice.

I think an American company bought the vegemite name or something but I think only Australians eat it, maybe it's a bit like the salted prunes? it grows on you?

Like, you get used to it?