Dee74

I'm a Wildean fan Bill, tho I'm just as likely to stir some Marx in there - Groucho, not Karl.

I'm Australian but lol, no not convict stock - those guys polarise opinion - you'll either get a punch in the nose for asking, or those guys are treated like your Pilgrim Fathers these days

My forebears were but poor simple folk who emigrated from Germany, England and Ireland in the mid 19th century

The convicts in my family are of more recent vintage - but privacy dictates I leave that there lol...

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wpainterw

Dee: German, English and Irish. That's my mother's side of the family. A very explosive combination! My grandmother on my mother's side was arrested, booked and mugged and I assume briefly held in custody for having sponsored a symphony concert to be held on Sunday. She was finally found not guilty as it was held that the law was unconstitutional. This was the Spring of 1927, when I was born. In the U.S. being mugged and booked, and thrown briefly in the slammer is sometimes a sign of character and commitment. And sometimes you meet some "interesting" people there (as the Chinese inscrutably say).

Bill

wpainterw

Dee: We have punch in the nose folks over here in the U.S. One of them happens to be running for President.
May I inquire where in Australia you reside? Have you any alcoholic aborigines, like up near Ayer's Rock? Do they take any other addictive substances in rituals, for example? Can their dreams predict the outcome of our Presidential election? If so, that would be most helpful!

Bill

Dee74

I live in Queensland Bill - it's on the eastern coast at the top. Steve Irwin country

There are now very few Aboriginal people who live a traditional life - certainly not where I live, in suburbia anyway. No crocodiles here either

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aussieblue

Wishing you a very happy upcoming 89th birthday!

wpainterw

Dee: Nonetheless, if you go a bit farther north and cross the Straits, you reach New Guinea, where, when hunger strikes, they used to eat people, particularly Yanks like Michael Rockefeller. Yum! Yum! My compliments to the chef! Michael was reportedly searching for "bispoles", a New Guinea version of an ancestral totem pole with an enormous phallic symbol at the top, all carved out of wood. The Metropolitan Museum in New York has a fine collection of Bispoles in a room dedicated to Michael Rockefeller. Thus the savages of New Guinea venerated those whom we call our "elders" and whom I sometimes refer to as "geezers". If we make a totem pole of SoberRecovery "Elders" you will no doubt figure prominently thereon. Aren't you pleased? We shall put you farther down, well away from the phallic symbol at the top (unless of course you choose otherwise).


Bill.