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Holden Back
13 years ago
I haven’t had a chance to read it yet, but I’m angry*
*Close to actual quote from farmer on ABC Local Radio Goulburn Murray yesterday.
Venise Alstergren
13 years ago
FD: It seems the nannoperca obscura are ‘a fronte Præcipitium’.
zut alors
13 years ago
Catching out the Yarra Pygmy Perch in the buff in the shower was quite a coup – it’s a rare sighting.
Firsty, your drawing skills are outstanding but your mathematics less so. The Zut Alors Calculation Society (ZACS) puts it at 7 Sydarbs.
Flat tyre
13 years ago
Remember John Doyle and Tim Flannery in Two Men In a Tinnie?
My memory of the show is that everyone John and Tim spoke to blamed someone else in the river system.
Hard to think of an issue with more vested interests all willing to blame someone else but unwilling to take responsibility for action.
No science is required to understand that if you take water from the river you affect the environment.
Jeepers
13 years ago
Dear firstdog,
So it comes to this. Our greatest living cartoonist cannot be trusted on his mathematics. So begins our country’s slow slide into ignominy.
I haven’t had a chance to read it yet, but I’m angry*
*Close to actual quote from farmer on ABC Local Radio Goulburn Murray yesterday.
FD: It seems the nannoperca obscura are ‘a fronte Præcipitium’.
Catching out the Yarra Pygmy Perch in the buff in the shower was quite a coup – it’s a rare sighting.
Firsty, your drawing skills are outstanding but your mathematics less so. The Zut Alors Calculation Society (ZACS) puts it at 7 Sydarbs.
Remember John Doyle and Tim Flannery in Two Men In a Tinnie?
My memory of the show is that everyone John and Tim spoke to blamed someone else in the river system.
Hard to think of an issue with more vested interests all willing to blame someone else but unwilling to take responsibility for action.
No science is required to understand that if you take water from the river you affect the environment.
Dear firstdog,
So it comes to this. Our greatest living cartoonist cannot be trusted on his mathematics. So begins our country’s slow slide into ignominy.
4000 gigalitres is in fact 7.14 sydarbs.