Re: Someone wanted to see vehicles...

"Ass end of the world..."  I had to laugh out loud.  In the short film
distributed on the 'Net called "Troopers" (a parody of "Cops" and "Star
Wars") one of the Storm Trooper's says of Tatooine, "Some call this the,
uh,
Ass End of Space, but I call it home..."  If you haven't seen this (4
seperate downloadable files) you MUST.	It is a riot.  Puts a new spin
on
what happened to Uncle Owen and Aunt Beru.  There is a particularily
effective subtle MST3K joke in there as well!

--Peter

----- Original Message -----
From: "Alan and Carmel Brain" <aebrain@dynamite.com.au>
To: <gzg-l@csua.berkeley.edu>
Sent: Friday, January 12, 2001 5:22 PM
Subject: Re: Someone wanted to see vehicles...

> From: "Glenn M Wilson" <triphibious@juno.com>
>
> > > >Beth, someone ought to implement
> > > >what we have in the States - free local
> > > >calling and free internet access.
> > > >That way it doesn't cost Derek and you a
> > > >dime.  I wish the rest of the world had this.
> > >
> > >I have heard murmurings that it is beginning to appear on the
mainland
> > >
> > >(free net access that is), which means it should get to Tassie in
> > >about 50 yrs.
>
> > <grin>
> > I didn't know Australia had colonies!
>
> We have charged local calls - about 10c US per call, no time limit on
> any call made the same day. So a continuous connection gets charged
> 10c every midnight. And a local call can be anything up to 100 km
away,
> (50 miles) depending on where you are, it's not just the local area by
> US standards.
> But Free ISPs? None that I know of, even here in the civilised part of
> Australia, let alone the various islands, such as Lord Howe, Norfolk,
> Christmas Island etc. Plus Tasmania.
>
> I suppose I should explain the joke: evevryone forgets Tassie. We live
> at the ass-end of the world, a giant backwater. And our backwater -
> a backwater Squared - is Tasmania, that little triangle at the bottom
right.
> Of course that "little triangle" is about the same size as New York
State
> and
> Ohio put together....
>
>
>