Here's the crazy yank again, with a question about fruits!!!! GUANDONGS!!

[renomarvinm]

There's a neat article in the national geographic about cassowarys!  Strange birds, those.  Live in the northern part of Australia and parts of New Guinea.  There's a picture in there of them eating  a weird blue fruit called a Guandong.

Please, what is it?  What does it taste like?  Do you folks eat them?  I really need something different - sick and tired of pinapples.  Kiwi fruit are ok.  Coming up next - barbecued cassuary....  (just kidding!)

[icyfroth]

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@this-one-time-at-bandcamp wrote:

Renomarvin..........as a fellow Oregonian, I have to warn you, you're getting your leg pulled fair dinkum........

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Stone the Crows!

It's all dead-set the dinky-di truth, mate.

[renomarvinm]

Hi everybody!  First of all, I have a burning QUESTION!!!   Years ago, I read an Australian novel (I forget the title now), but one of the characters was talking about his wife, and said, "She's as reliable as a pair of dingo's kidneys..."  I still don't know if that's a compliment or an insult.  That one really confuses me...  But, moving on here:

boris1gary - what is Fortescue?

j*oono - that was terrible Meryl Streep!  LOL, and all of that, heee, heee.  Her character looks like she's ingested the wrong type of purgative, or something.

icyfroth -  Way, way too late, dear lady!  My electrons have been shavaged many years ago.  But I'm 68 years old now, and doing fine.  I have noticed that the worst shock one can get is when they wake up with their tongue on the floor, and the linoleum tastes different, and the tile pattern is wrong - it's only then that you realize that you've wound up in a different detox center, and not your warm fuzzy, home detox center that you like so well..   (just kidding!)

this-one-time-at-ba  -  Thank you for the heads up, and I HOPE I'm getting my leg pulled here - I need every thrill I can get!!!

If what I've heard is correct, you could die simply by going barefoot in your garden.  

[amber-eyed-girl]

Yes, depending on where you live, you can.

I live by a river, where my postie hates delivering to the houses on this street because he was bitten by a snake. They like to crawl up from the riverside, and nestle in the shady nooks on verandas. When it is about forty degrees Celcius. What might look like the inner tube of a bicycle tyre, can be a deadly snake, curled up, having a lovely afternoon nap.

In the middle of a major city, too, not the outback.

[this-one-time-at-bandcamp]

Funny that no body brought forth the red-back on the dunny seat.......

My early years in Oz  were spent in Inverleigh, a town at the confluence of the Barwon and Leigh rivers.........which was apparently settled during a really dry spell, because every year, when the wet came, the town would flood.

[sineaterdoodah]

hi band! nice to see you over here!

[renomarvinm]

Hi sineaterdoodah!!!!   THANK YOU!!  That means a lot to me!  WEIRDNESS has always been a friend I cherish very much!   Which reminds me, Ginko Trees - the female Ginko Tree produces (so I'm told) a rather obnoxious smelly fruit, but plant people need to keep them around just to keep the species going.  There are stories of ancient Chinese monks making a kind of jam out of the fruit.

For the love of me, I cannot figure out why, but I DO spend a lot of time tossing and turning at night worrying about it.  I mean, what would Spike Milligan say!

But it is GREAT to hear from you, or whatever it is we're doing here!!   Compared to Ginko, the Quandongs are almost mainstream.  I may go down to our supermarket and ask for some.

[sineaterdoodah]

the jam,or the quandongs?

[renomarvinm]

Well, the Quandongs, actually.  Though if they do have quandong jam, that would be great as well.  But it never works!  I go down to the local supermarket, and this happens:

CUTE YOUNG SALES GIRL WORKING AT MARKET:   Hello!  May I help you, sir!  Is there something you need???

ME"   Why, yes, my child!  I am in search of a jar of Australian Quandong Jam, or perhaps Ancient Chinese Buddhist Ginko Jam, if you have it.  Failing that, a nice taasty basket of fresh Quandongs would be great right now, and some Ginko fruit, if you have it too!

CUTE YOUNG SALES GIRL (etc):   HEY, CHARLEY!!  WE'VE GOT A NUT JOB ON AISLE 14!   ROLL THE GOOFY SQUAD!!!

ME:  Why, that's certainly all right, my dear - I'll just be going now.....

[not.a.sock.puppet]

[lloydslights]

You don't have to ask for "strange"fruits or veges here, to be classified as "goofy".

The cute young checkout chicks don't know what swedes, turnips, or parsnips are.  They look for the picture of same to designate a price.

And I still resist their invitation to self serve at the checkout.  

They are the "goofy" people who will be without work in the future.  

And while I'm on my soapbox,  the other day there was a queue for the self serve stations, whilst idle personnel on registers were looking on.  GRRRrrrr.

I feel better now.  Thank you. 

DEB