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Tassie farmers are spitting chips.
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Update: Apparently this is a registration site, so for your convenience we will summarize the thrust of the gist of the news article here: Apparently, Tassie farmers are spitting chips.
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My, my ... up early today, aren't we?
Posted by: U.O | July 20, 2005 at 04:28 AM
,,, um ... Dave?
Registration site ...
Posted by: U.O | July 20, 2005 at 04:29 AM
YOU are, U.O. Here on the East Coast we've been highly productive for, like, 10 minutes already.
Posted by: Dave | July 20, 2005 at 04:31 AM
Poker chips? Potato chips? Cow chips?
Posted by: Amy | July 20, 2005 at 04:37 AM
10 minutes!
Wowser!
With a workload like that, I'd be ready for my first rest period of the day ...
(spake the guy who's still technically on workmen's compensation care with a metal-parts enhanced healing radius/thumb bone fracture)
[Yeah, I fergot ... we're on Mountain time here ... so even tho I actually know about the different schedule, sometimes I fergets ... one of the advantages of advancing age ...]
Posted by: U.O | July 20, 2005 at 04:38 AM
... ooooohhh ... I thot it said sh1tting pips ... and I couldn't ...
... nevermind ...
Posted by: U.O | July 20, 2005 at 04:53 AM
Since I can't read the article, I will make it up. Tassie sounds vaguely like a cow name to me so I will infer that Tassie is located in Idaho. Spitting? How rude. Perhaps this is a Canadian cow with mad cow? And what kind of chips? Lays? Hostess? Doritos? Maybe one of the new flavors like Dill Pickle Salsa Garlic Onion Broccoli flavored. In which case I too would spit it out.
So in summary, the mad cows of Idaho don't like potatoe chips. See? Wasn't that fun?
Posted by: Somewhere North | July 20, 2005 at 05:30 AM
I didn't think humor writers had to wake up before ten. This revelation destroys all my day-dreams of being a lazy famous person.
Sigh.
Posted by: Melody | July 20, 2005 at 05:31 AM
Dilettantes. Any halfway-decent Tassie farmer knows to suck on the Tassies delicately, so as not to get a mouthful of chips in the first place.
Posted by: Maud | July 20, 2005 at 05:39 AM
I suspect dear Dave is still operating on Ireland time, which puts us somewhere after lunch right now.
Posted by: TN | July 20, 2005 at 05:43 AM
Okay now Maud, combining your comment with mine produces a completely disgusting interpretation of what is going on....
Posted by: Somewhere North | July 20, 2005 at 05:46 AM
When I initially tried to post the above the first word was "Amate*rs," and I got a stern reprimand from the Blog Apparatus, saying it could not be posted due to "questionable content: amate*," the shocking letter being u, apparently. Quest-ce que c'est amate*? When I talk dirty, I like to realize I'm doing it. I also like to know what I'm saying.
Posted by: Maud | July 20, 2005 at 05:50 AM
Hey all,
Your official bugmenot login to this site is:
hgdhgdfghdfg = name
1998 = pword
Yes, wild applause and rampart flashing will be acceptable gratitude.
Posted by: Federal Duck | July 20, 2005 at 06:00 AM
new zealand? tasmania? spitting chips - eating french fries? wtf.
Posted by: queensbee | July 20, 2005 at 06:00 AM
Somewhere - that's a slander against decent Tassie farmers everywhere, who never suck on *that* end of cows, regardless of their mental condition (the cows, I mean.)
Although, that's not much of a defense, is it?
Posted by: Maud | July 20, 2005 at 06:10 AM
Maud - what were you thinking? Shame on you for even entertaining such thoughts against decent mad Tassie chip chewing cows.
The farmers are a whole different issue though... Maybe Tassie is a sheep in Ireland?
Posted by: Somewhere North | July 20, 2005 at 06:14 AM
"Earlier, a tractor convoy of Tasmanian farmers had driven to the Victorian parliament in the first major rally of the Fair Dinkum Food Campaign."
Unfortunately, they forgot that Tasmania is an island, and they all drowned when their tractors plunged into the sea. Tragic.
Posted by: qetzal | July 20, 2005 at 06:14 AM
fed duck, consider yourself flashed and applauded. i now know what tassie farmers are, but i must warn everyone that, that, is a severe let down. the speculating is far more entertaining
Posted by: crossgirl | July 20, 2005 at 06:15 AM
"what McDonald's has done has been totally un-Australian"
Am I the only one not appalled?
Oh, and thanks Fed Duck.
Posted by: El Norte | July 20, 2005 at 06:23 AM
Fed- I will thank you not to interrupt my daily mental ramblings with reality. I was much happier with the mad cow, chip chewing farmer fantasy that I had going...
Posted by: Somewhere North | July 20, 2005 at 06:33 AM
Tassie is slang for Tasmanians. Spitting chips is slang for really angry. My office suite co-worker is Australian and is puzzled in my interest in agricultural issues from down under.
Posted by: Crabby Appleton | July 20, 2005 at 07:29 AM
What - noone else thinks that Fair Dinkum Food Campaign wbgagnfarg? I think FD/FC could be the next Big Thing in Barry Manilow-inspired heavy-metal hip-hop
Posted by: MrToad | July 20, 2005 at 08:14 AM
Somewhere North:
I would like to name my first smutty novel The Mad Cow Chip Chewing Farmer Fantasy.
Posted by: Federal Duck | July 20, 2005 at 08:56 AM
Rah rah, Fed!
McDonald's Australia's national head is Peter Bush? That's just too easy, even for me...
Posted by: WriterDude | July 20, 2005 at 09:02 AM
"I think FD/FC could be the next Big Thing in Barry Manilow-inspired heavy-metal hip-hop."
Speaking of which, remember that post about Paul Anka singing lounge-lizard versions of Van Halen & Nirvana songs? They had him (Paul) on NPR this morning, talking about that album and playing clips of his schmaltzy versions of "Smells Like Teen Spirit" and "Jump."
They even claimed that critics liked it!
Posted by: qetzal | July 20, 2005 at 10:23 AM