Re: Colourful Australian Lingo

> Brendan, you should really tell the list about some of your
experiences
with sharks. Maybe the one where one of em still had hold of your leg
when
you got out of the water? [a] Maybe this guy was intelligent enough to
prefer a land where people ate fish, rather than the converse. :-)

Arm - not leg, and it wasn't all that big - it only just got through my
wetsuit - after the first attack you actually do lose most of your fear
-
after all it wasn't so bad the last time.....

>
> AH! Now I know why you own all those fishing-tackle shops! [b] A
carefully-crafted plan of REVENGE! Nice one, Brendan.

You got it in one- plus most sharks taste great - they don't feel the
same
way about us though.

>
> Back On Topic: All the population studies I've seen for the GZG-verse
colonies haven't taken into account any backflow - people who couldn't
hack
it (or more often, had more sense than to try).
>
> [a] But to set the story straight, they weren't very big sharks, and
as
Brendan told me (and I quote his exact words) "The last two sharks to
bite
me both died in agony."

Yup - bashed to a paste on the rocks :-)

> [b] Most of the ones in Canberra, in fact. If you're ever down this
way
and feel like a spot of fishing - and there's some excellent fishing in
the
Snowy Mountains in summer - you should contact him.

And like most Canberrans you are overlooking the particularly good
fishing
in the inner city lakes (Ginninderra,Burley Griffin and Tuggeranong)...

Brendan