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AYE Drop it - if I want to read this stuff I will go to the
appropriate newsgroup. This isn't it.

 

On 9/02/2010 6:13 PM, LindaB wrote:

That's not so many votes against. I thought I would have had a landslide
of against.
Having done a minor survey. the statistics tell me you're a small,
narrow close minded DHS friendship club, not worth bothering with.
As usual others for haven't bothered.
This is the end Goodbye cruel world...
Snif....
I'll bother ye no more.

 

But before I go, a bit of prose.
Its all happened before.

SAID HANRAHAN by John O'Brien

"We'll all be rooned," said Hanrahan,
In accents most forlorn,
Outside the church, ere Mass began,
One frosty Sunday morn.

The congregation stood about,
Coat-collars to the ears,
And talked of stock, and crops, and drought,
As it had done for years.

"It's looking crook," said Daniel Croke;
"Bedad, it's cruke, me lad,
For never since the banks went broke
Has seasons been so bad."

"It's dry, all right," said young O'Neil,
With which astute remark
He squatted down upon his heel
And chewed a piece of bark.

And so around the chorus ran
"It's keepin' dry, no doubt."
"We'll all be rooned," said Hanrahan,
"Before the year is out."

"The crops are done; ye'll have your work
To save one bag of grain;
 From here way out to Back-o'-Bourke
They're singin' out for rain.

"They're singin' out for rain," he said,
"And all the tanks are dry."
The congregation scratched its head,
And gazed around the sky.

"There won't be grass, in any case,
Enough to feed an ass;
There's not a blade on Casey's place
As I came down to Mass."

"If rain don't come this month," said Dan,
And cleared his throat to speak -
"We'll all be rooned," said Hanrahan,
"If rain don't come this week."

A heavy silence seemed to steal
On all at this remark;
And each man squatted on his heel,
And chewed a piece of bark.

"We want an inch of rain, we do,"
O'Neil observed at last;
But Croke "maintained" we wanted two
To put the danger past.

"If we don't get three inches, man,
Or four to break this drought,
We'll all be rooned," said Hanrahan,
"Before the year is out."

In God's good time down came the rain;
And all the afternoon
On iron roof and window-pane
It drummed a homely tune.

And through the night it pattered still,
And lightsome, gladsome elves
On dripping spout and window-sill
Kept talking to themselves.

It pelted, pelted all day long,
A-singing at its work,
Till every heart took up the song
Way out to Back-o'-Bourke.

And every creek a banker ran,
And dams filled overtop;
"We'll all be rooned," said Hanrahan,
"If this rain doesn't stop."

And stop it did, in God's good time;
And spring came in to fold
A mantle o'er the hills sublime
Of green and pink and gold.

And days went by on dancing feet,
With harvest-hopes immense,
And laughing eyes beheld the wheat
Nid-nodding o'er the fence.

And, oh, the smiles on every face,
As happy lad and lass
Through grass knee-deep on Casey's place
Went riding down to Mass.

While round the church in clothes genteel
Discoursed the men of mark,
And each man squatted on his heel,
And chewed his piece of bark.

"There'll be bush-fires for sure, me man,
There will, without a doubt;
We'll all be rooned," said Hanrahan,
"Before the year is out."

 

nospam@tisadress.com said...
:
:Re: Give over on the hijacking
:
:
:
:Youre right of course.
:But do me a favour >> What about minding the facts....
:Seems like youre always here, denying and failing to see on purpose.
:Hay is important. We may need some soon.
:I can be as annoying as you....
:Lucerne is best...
:I have to say things four or five times.
:Its hard to explain it to you....
:Letsvote on it
:all those who want me to drop the subject say       AYE
:All those who wish me to keep you informed here say NAYE.
:Thats democratic.

AYE.

Whilst your intentions may be good, what you're doing is basically
counter-productive to your cause. 99% of people already have (rightly or
wrongly) their minds made up on this (or any other) issue.

Of course, theres the other 1%...

BTW, I'll get back to the mulching thread replies when I get some time
:)


--
 "There will never be uniform gun laws in Australia until we see a
massacre in Tasmania." - New South Wales Premier Barry Unsworth,
December 1987

 

On 9/02/2010 8:12 PM, Jeßus wrote:

I am genuine, but the facts seem to get in the way in this case.
Ever since Edison was going around electrocuting stray dogs using
Tesla's A.C. generating systems, when having shares in his own D.C.
organisation, this degradation of truth has been going on.
Tesla was seen as a crazy scientist, but he was right.
You know what kind of electricity we are using these days. A.C.
The News machine is still being misused.
I hope people will stop reacting with the knee jerk reactions, to the
dooms day people. The world needs change but not this sort of change..
Let your parliamentarians know what you want, and get them to do it.
Don throw taxes at something, when Queensland is exporting all our black
coal. Thats completely crazy..
I'm not a greenie nor do I support the boat people, but I do our own
people. And I say DO something about this government which has got it wrong.