AUSTRALIAN TAX DOLLARS AT WORK
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Posted by: Nurse Tammy | January 22, 2007 at 01:15 PM
*First to buy tickets to Aussieland*
Posted by: Baron VonKlyff | January 22, 2007 at 01:15 PM
Why does this not surprise me, coming from Australia?
Love that "shut down the compeTITion" ethos, too.
Posted by: Clean Hands | January 22, 2007 at 01:15 PM
Well, maybe not first, but on the way anyway.
Posted by: Baron VonKlyff | January 22, 2007 at 01:15 PM
And, WTG, CH! (The other CH, of course.)
Posted by: Clean Hands | January 22, 2007 at 01:16 PM
*ceding first to Baron* - I don't really need it. The day I got five firsts is when the bot blocked me.
Posted by: Nurse Tammy | January 22, 2007 at 01:16 PM
Getting paid to have sex with someone getting paid to have sex?!?!?! Isn't that prostitution for prostitution's sake?
Posted by: Baron VonKlyff | January 22, 2007 at 01:18 PM
It's funny - when I was in Sydney a few years back, I don't recall hearing anything about legal brothels. You'd think that they'd mention them, to
stimulate touristsencourage tourism.Posted by: Clean Hands | January 22, 2007 at 01:18 PM
Actually, Baron, I'd expect that to result in a tesseract, or a black hole. Or maybe cause someone to travel back through time.
Posted by: Clean Hands | January 22, 2007 at 01:20 PM
YAY Cheryl!
Were you looking into a trip down under????
Posted by: Siouxie | January 22, 2007 at 01:22 PM
The "eyes" had it.
Posted by: Lisa Bisa Fo Fisa | January 22, 2007 at 01:23 PM
Australian undercover cops: it's not their cover that gets blown.
Posted by: Ford79 | January 22, 2007 at 01:24 PM
*looks for copy of "A Wrinkle in Time"*
*gets comfy on the nerd corner sofa*
Posted by: Nurse Tammy | January 22, 2007 at 01:24 PM
CH, you only get a black hole if you pay for one, or don't use protection.
Posted by: Baron VonKlyff | January 22, 2007 at 01:24 PM
What a fu@ked up story.
Posted by: Jazzzz | January 22, 2007 at 01:27 PM
*gags*
Thanks for the mental image, Baron. I think I'm gonna have to repossess that "First!"
*looks for emergency supply of brain bleach*
Posted by: Nurse Tammy | January 22, 2007 at 01:28 PM
I've been enjoying those books again recently, CH and Tammy - my son loves fantasy books, so we've been reading the adventures of Meg and Charles Wallace together. :)
Posted by: sthnbelle | January 22, 2007 at 01:29 PM
Holy crap Nurse Tammy, read that book and the others when I was like 12 years old and to this day, the books remain my favorites. Haven't re-read in years and years so I'm gone to order, right now!
Are we twins in a different life or what?
Posted by: casey | January 22, 2007 at 01:31 PM
*makes room on sofa...*
I think I lost my copy. *sigh* But it's a great excuse to go to the library... ;)
Posted by: Nurse Tammy | January 22, 2007 at 01:31 PM
Ford - Snorked so hard, I think I
blewpopped a staple on my hernia repair.Posted by: Meditrina | January 22, 2007 at 01:33 PM
Tammy-That was one of my favorites too.
Posted by: Lisa Bisa Fo Fisa | January 22, 2007 at 01:33 PM
LOL Ford
Posted by: Lisa Bisa Fo Fisa | January 22, 2007 at 01:34 PM
Well, casey... *checks wyo's page for reference*... fraternal twins, maybe.
I have a lot of favorite books. Screw that, I had to change it to favorite authors a while ago. Covers more territory that way. I have it narrowed down to about 80 bazillion or so.
Posted by: Nurse Tammy | January 22, 2007 at 01:36 PM
LOL Ford!!
Wrinkle in Time was one of my favs as a kid and became a fav of my own daughter. Classic!
*joins the ladies in the reading corner*
Posted by: Siouxie | January 22, 2007 at 01:38 PM
Siouxie, what was the proxy server you liked? I am not liking the ads for pr0n sites I'm getting with this one.
*Sigh* Can't wait for the good folks at TypePad to unban my IP address.
Posted by: Clean Hands | January 22, 2007 at 01:40 PM
CH - my notion of having Judi let us kneecap the bot's controllers with Walter might not get you reinstated faster, but it would be *very* therapeutic. My word as a medical professional on it.
Posted by: Nurse Tammy | January 22, 2007 at 01:42 PM
CH, this is the one I was using last. no ////'s
http://www.proxy.bz/
no p0rn ads
Posted by: Siouxie | January 22, 2007 at 01:43 PM
Wow! From Australian prostitution to Madeleine L'Engle books. I love this blog.
Posted by: Hammond Rye | January 22, 2007 at 01:44 PM
HA! I just ordered 5, count 'em FIVE L'Engle books! WEEEEEEE!!!
See ya'll in a couple weeks when I'm done reading!
Posted by: casey | January 22, 2007 at 01:46 PM
*envies casey*
Hammie, would you really expect any less from us?
(the word tesseract really must have burned into my brain good - I don't think I've read that book in 15 years or so)
Posted by: Nurse Tammy | January 22, 2007 at 01:49 PM
Hammie, we are very well rounded group.
Posted by: Siouxie | January 22, 2007 at 01:51 PM
Sorry for derailing the thread. I have a very short attention span and am easily diverted LOOK something shiny!
Posted by: casey | January 22, 2007 at 01:52 PM
*throws an 'a' up there*
Tammy, same here. I've never heard the word since...till today. (Thanks CH!)
oh and Mr. Bot with the stoopid numbers??
kiss my tesserasssct!!!
Posted by: Siouxie | January 22, 2007 at 01:53 PM
It's ok, casey - as my fraternal twin in another life, I'm sure you'll lend me the books when you're done with them, so I forgive you.
Posted by: Nurse Tammy | January 22, 2007 at 01:53 PM
I actually didn't mean to make a L'Engle reference; I was talking about the mathematical five-dimensional-cube construct known as a tesseract. But I'll take the L'Engle reference, too - great books.
Posted by: Clean Hands | January 22, 2007 at 02:16 PM
oh....
I knew that.
Posted by: Siouxie | January 22, 2007 at 02:18 PM
awwwwwwwwwww mannnnnnnnnnn. i'm not too late to join the reading corner am i?! love, love, love a wrinkle in time. not so much the other, two, was it? i wore the words right out of that book.
Posted by: crossgirl | January 22, 2007 at 02:20 PM
*makes room for crossgirl on blog sofa*
Posted by: Nurse Tammy | January 22, 2007 at 02:31 PM
I've been trying to talk my son into reading AWIT!! I just love you guys! Dave's bloggers are definately the smartest (and best looking) group around!
Posted by: OkieDokie | January 22, 2007 at 02:39 PM
The absolute clearest explanation I've ever read of what a tesseract is was in Heinlein's quirky short story "And He Built a Crooked House..."
He described it as one cube with another suspended inside of it by the eight corners; once you have that image clearly in your mind, now envision all of the angles as right angles, and you have a tesseract, which contains a total of nine three-dimensional cubes. Trippy.
When I was in high school, instead of drugs, I would spend my lunch hour getting my mind around things like this for entertainment. I once got as far as a six-dimensional hypercube before my eyes rolled back in my head.
The nice thing about the nerd bus is the comfy leather seats and fawning personal service.
Posted by: Clean Hands | January 22, 2007 at 02:40 PM
I don't want to know anything about how nerds have "personal service".
Posted by: OkieDokie | January 22, 2007 at 02:41 PM
i'll stick with the drugs ch.
Posted by: crossgirl | January 22, 2007 at 02:41 PM
Surprisingly, I just found the text of that Heinlein short story online at SciFi.com, which makes me think that it's there legitimately. Worth a read, if only for the opening paragraphs, describing the locus of all of the world's insanity.
(Since this was written, sadly, before the creation of this blog, he was not aware of us.)
Posted by: Clean Hands | January 22, 2007 at 02:55 PM
I spent my time trying to pour my drinks from a Klein Bottle. I got very wet and very thirsty.
Posted by: The Dread Pirate Chris | January 22, 2007 at 03:07 PM
*looks up Klein Bottle*
I spent my time at home nose deep in various novels. I am so dull.
Posted by: Nurse Tammy | January 22, 2007 at 03:13 PM
We have the same thing here. It's called Congress ;>)
Rich
Posted by: Rich Klinzman | January 22, 2007 at 03:20 PM
"It's funny - when I was in Sydney a few years back, I don't recall hearing anything about legal brothels."
CH: You must have missed the King's Cross district; it's not too far from downtown Sydney.
And DRAT...I own a private investigation firm and no-one ever tried to pay me to...err, well, apparently I failed to develop the correct business model...
Posted by: AFKAT | January 22, 2007 at 04:35 PM