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They do That Sort Of Thing in Tasmania. My husband is half Tasmanian; thankfully this was dealt with when he was only a couple of days old, so now you can hardly see the scar on his neck where the second head was removed.
My favorite tazmanian joke -
A son goes to his father to tell him about the girl he wants to mary. He says, dad, she is beautiful and smart and I love her so much.
His dad says “ok son, whats the catch?”
The son says “nothing, and would you beleive it, she is even a virgin!”
His father then changes his mind and says “What! no, you cant mary her then.”
The son, confused, asks why.
“Not good enough for her own family, not good enough for ours.
Tasmania the Down Under equivalent of West Virginia in the U.S.? And fer the record, folks, I’m from Western Virginia, dammit, not West Virginia. The difference is about 40-50 miles from the state line…. and, well, succession from the Union about a century and a half ago.
If they do that sort of thing in Tasmania, then that would explain the extinction of the thylacines.
“secession” – D’OH! Now I’m gonna be in trouble with my old history professors, and the local chapter of the Daughters of the Confederacy.
Actually, West Virginia (where I lived 15 years) was a part of Virginia, and as such seceded from the Union in 1861 along with the rest of the state. But in 1863, the portion of Virginia that became West Virginia seceded from the secession and rejoined the Union. Local wits in WV are noted to observe that they did Virginia a big favor…
And BTW, I had long ago noticed that the same jokes that are told about West Virginians are told about Kentuckians, Tennesseeans, etc. So I’m not surprised they’re also told about Tasmanians, and probably any region or ethnicity judged to be more rural and less civilized than one’s own.
Lordy, the Wheeling Convention and all that… I guess that’s easier to forget, but now my history professors and the Daughters of the Union are going to whoop up on me.
You weren’t living in Weston, WV, were you, considering your profession (or what I gather is your profession)? A good friend of mine is from there, said its main claim to fame is the Weston State Psychiatric Hospital. He worked at the library there, and said he frequently got to deal with the residents of the place when he would work at the circulation desk.
It’s funny, it seems like almost everybody picks on New Jersey, even people from nowhere near there. No Appalachian foothills and no hillbillies, but a target rich environment nonetheless, I guess. I’ve done it, mainly to get on friends’ nerves who are from there.
I’m originally from NY, so we always considered NJ to be the armpit of the nation. Of course, the behavior of the natives does not help the reputation… I didn’t live in Weston or work there, but I sent quite a few people there. I did live in Clarksburg, just 20-something miles north of there. For several years my chief job responsibility was evaluating people on whom a commitment petition had been filed, to make a recommendation to the court as to whether the person needed to be sent to the hospital against their will. If people had insurance, we could usually wangle them an admission to a private psych hospital, but if not, they’d get to see wonderful Weston. In the first years I did that, they actually did get sent to the old hospital, which was built in the 1850s and 1860s. They finally built a new building some time in the 1990s. So I am quite familiar with the hospital and the town of Weston.
Speaking of NY, Have you heard the ludicrous suggestion that Long Island succeed from the state? Tho I have to admit, the Long Island Yankees would seem MUCH more laughable even to the Mets. That also brings up the political problem, Can Yankees fans run a state by themselves? And the obvious answer is no. If Yankees fans ran a state, their state bird would be FLIPPING the bird.
Given that Buck just pointed out his error in dealing with “succession” versus “secession,” your making the same mistake is what is really laughable. Not only that, but the Yankees play in the Bronx, which is NOT part of Long Island. So if LI secedes, the Yanks are not going with them. It’s the METS that play on LI. I know you’re not a fan of history, but it is kind of hard to have a discussion of even current events without a basic knowledge of vocabulary and geography…
Spelling has always been my weak point. And perhaps my sample was insufficient, but the time I went to Long Island, I saw more Yankees hats than anything else.
Oh, I don’t doubt there are more Yankee fans on LI than Mets fans. I’m not the only baseball fan who appreciates a tradition of true excellence.
Weston of shich state? It would be disturbing if we actually lived within a few miles *shivers*
*which state*
WV. But I actually live about 500 miles from there now.
In fact, Buck asked specifically about “Weston, WV.”
Missed that line. And good. I was scared fror a second there.
So then you “point out the obvious” after you miss it and someone else points it out to you?
Plus, it looks like now I have a favorite tazmanian joke… danke, Julia…
you HAVE to teach me how to get videos in posts here, seeing how my last one failed.
OK, here’s the first in the style of “The Meaning Of Liff”:
Workmandup: A job ruined in a way that only a completely ham-fisted tradesman could manage.
“Meaning of Liff”?….is that like the “Life of Briaa” and “The Holy Graii”
“The Meaning Of Liff” is a book by the late great Douglas Adams, in which he opined that since there were so many situations, emotions, things and actions that humans experience and recognise but for which there are not specific words, whilst at the same time there are all these place names lounging around on maps and signposts not earning their keep, these as-yet undescribed situations, emotions, things and actions ought to have have underworked place names assigned to them. T.M.O.L. was a compilation of some of these.
For the record, there is also an expanded version called “The Deeper Meaning of Liff”.
Douglas Adams WIN!
Second idea:
Workmandup: (of a housewife) Impregnated by the plumber.
Workmandup (adj.) (of a man) Believing himself to be incapacitated by a minor injury incurred whilst attempting to do a small but important maintenance job that should really have had the attention of a qualified tradesman, but whom said man was too cheap to engage.
If the first word is a verb, maybe the product is a hi-tech chastity belt.
Maybe…
i would really like to know what they were really trying to say… since i imagine this wasn´t it.
HA!
The thought of that phrase is definitely something that makes me projectile vomit. It’s taken years of psychotherapy just to reduce the intensity of my feeling for my family members to mere virulent hatred.
However, if any of my kinfolks looked anything like the very cute young lady depicted on the package, then close relations between family members would become a more difficult temptation to resist. *hubba hubba*
If it’s any consolation, it is my expert opinion (and yes, I have actually been qualified as an “expert” in family-related matters in court many, many times) that there is no such thing as a “functional family.” They’re ALL dysfunctional, just in different ways and to different extents.
Haven’t I seen this before?
And what is with all the Tasmania references? I didn’t realise Tassie was full of that kind of society. But I live in Queensland so I am far enough away.
…and several decades behind! (Stock Queensland joke really seems to fit here).
Shayaquing: Is that when you go kayaking with Shaq?
If you’re in a kayak with Shaq, that would certainly explain the “close relations” part…
The “close relations between family members” part seems very familiar. Is it an entire line of clothing? I’ll have to ask the almighty Google.
i too remember seeing this wording in another engrish photo. they must have used the same online translator
Nice to know I submitted this two months ago and never got credit for it or had it even considered for uploading. Two months later… SURPRISE!
Fail.
I have seen this one many times at my local dollar store…