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First Dog On The Moon

#dudrootgate: The silent victims speak out!

First Dog On The Moon

Mar 01, 2012

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  1. Andybob
    March 1, 2012 at 8:40 pm

    That’s right Zut. We might be dud roots, but we are wankers of the first water.

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  2. Innocent Until
    March 1, 2012 at 9:13 pm

    That’s good @DrMick. Well, not really good, but better. 🙂

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  3. klewso
    March 2, 2012 at 12:28 am

    Well what about –
    “Hear hear!
    I thought these sort of “acceptable game standards” only
    got legitimately applied to certain people, below a certain social caste?
    Like “dole bludgers”, “boat people on millionaire allowances”, “single
    mums” and their sort of “currant affair game” – then it’s all right and funny?
    Or is that just sour grapes?”

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  4. Holden Back
    March 2, 2012 at 9:49 am

    Zut, regarding Salix babylonica, in Australia they are all male, and reproduce vegetatively, so whether a root is good or not seems not to depend on how many are involved.

    Heaven help us the first time a female plant is brought into the country.

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  5. zut alors
    March 2, 2012 at 10:36 am

    Holden, sounds like Salix has successfully established an arboreal gay ghetto.

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  6. Venise Alstergren
    March 2, 2012 at 2:53 pm

    PLONK: Do I detect a note of desperation? There’s always the nautical version of wine women and song to cheer you along.

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  7. Plonkoclock
    March 2, 2012 at 3:00 pm

    Venise, I forgot about Mobile:

    ..There’s knot-holes in the floors
    And keyholes in the doors..

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  8. Venise Alstergren
    March 2, 2012 at 3:03 pm

    HOLDEN B: I’ll bet you know how, or where, to receive instructions about building a possum nest? The little darlings are ravaging my four roses. Behaviour I do not wish to have repeated on my other plants; so I thought to make them so welcome they might stay and fight off marauding other possums.

    They’re eating apples, peanut butter on bread, something revolting called nutrella and any other crispy fruit I can dream up. They have bowls of fresh rainwater to access and now all they need is two different sized boxes/nests. Both ringtails and brush tails are in the neighbourhood. More than this I cannot do……

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  9. Meski
    March 2, 2012 at 3:14 pm

    @Venise: Don’t you mean trap, and not nest?

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  10. Plonkoclock
    March 2, 2012 at 4:13 pm

    Venise:For a ringtail:

    http://www.ozbox.net.au/ring_pos.htm

    And for the other beast:

    http://www.longgrasssystems.com.au/Documents/FactSheets/Factsheet%20Building%20a%20nestbox%20for%20Brushtail%20Possums.pdf

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