Dugite

Marty said:

I was burning along on my bike today, enjoying the quietness of the local bush on a Christmas eve,
when in the distance I spotted a suspiciously long and slender stick on the road. Could it be..
[censored] it is!! I was just about to run over a dark dugite about 1.5 metres long. It was too late to
brake or swerve so I did a bunnyhop over the top of it. As I flew over it it whipped back towards
me as if to strike me. I don't know if it got hit or I hit it but I'm pretty sure we both missed
each other. For a few minutes after that every twig on the road looked like another snake. Then I
remembered I was carrying my digital camera with me, but it would be long gone by now. This was
the second time I've bunny hopped a snake. Both times I've been in the bush by myself. The other
time I did it the snake pulled it's head back quickly as if it was a stretched rubber band that
was suddenly released.

Stay Cool

Marty

Oh, I thought you were going to tell us an OT story about a member of that Aussie band from the
early 80s...

&roo

The most experience I had with snakes was along the Southern Expressway Bikeway (SA). One Spring
afternoon in 2002, from Marion (suburb) to McLarenVale and return.

Saw 4 brown snakes on the way down, and 2 on the way back. The first was only small, about 1 mtr,
and was happy to be on the (semi-sealed) bikeway. I got off the bike and waited for it to decide to
move off the track.

The fourth one was bigger, about 1.5-2mtr and was pale/cream; probably just molted. Moved fast
though, from one side of the track to the other just before I got there.

The fifth one was a monster, about 2mtr. It moved quickly across the track but it's tail end was
still on the track while it's head was moving off the other side. I was going too fast to even slow
down, and it readed-up as I tried to sort of bunny-hop over it (on a roadbike).

On the same track this year (autumn) I saw a rather large brown dog-turd on the edge of the bikeway
near O'Halloran Hill. Then the dog-turd uncoiled and moved off to bushes on the left.

Someone should put up signage.

---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- The Dugites were quite good I thought. One of the first Australian
bands to use a Fairlight CMI. I may still have a cassette tape somewhere. I think one of them
was/became a lawyer? ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ----

Calm (..err...usually)

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Andrew Swan wrote: Oh, I thought you were going to tell us an OT story about a member of that
Aussie band from the early 80s...

&roo

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Marty said:

I was burning along on my bike today, enjoying the quietness of the local bush on a Christmas
eve, when in the distance I spotted a suspiciously long and slender stick on the road. Could it
be.. [censored] it is!! I was just about to run over a dark dugite about 1.5 metres long.

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Stay Cool

Marty

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calm wrote: ...

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The fourth one was bigger, about 1.5-2mtr and was pale/cream; probably just molted.

<gets on High Horse> I think you meant "probably just *moulted*? uNLESS (oops, Caps Lock) you meant
it just became a milkshake additive, in which case it just "malted"?

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The fifth one was a monster, about 2mtr. It moved quickly across the track but it's tail end was
still on the track while it's head was

"It's" means "it is". "... but it is tail end..." doesn't make any sense. </gets on High Horse>

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On the same track this year (autumn) I saw a rather large brown dog-turd on the edge of the
bikeway near O'Halloran Hill. Then the dog-turd uncoiled and moved off to bushes on the left.

On commuter rides a only a week apart last Feb, 2003, I twice saw Brown Snakes on the Merri Creek
(Northern Melbourne) path. I then subsiquently screeched the cantilevers for months afterwards for
sticks, brown plastic bags, and shadows...

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Someone should put up signage.

"Warning: snakes, snake-like inanimate (including poo) objects, and 80s band nostalgia frequently
occur in this area"?

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---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- The Dugites were quite good I thought. One of the first Australian
bands to use a Fairlight CMI. I may still have a cassette tape somewhere.

I still have my cassette with "October" on one side and "War" on the other side...

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I think one of them was/became a lawyer? ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ----

I thought either:
- The Models (have you read James Freud's book? It's funny, sad and touching... and makes you wonder
about whether you should have that next beer...) with "I Hear Motion", or
- Iva Davies (where is he now?) + Flowers/Icehouse were the first Oz bands to do the Fairlight
CMI thing.

Hmmm. Best not to mention Electric Pandas, Do-Re-Mi, Dynamic Hypnotics, or Big Pig here...

Chris (and F. the S.M.B.) are you reading this?

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I think one of them was/became a lawyer?

Umm... what a naughty, naughty thing to become... (tee-hee)

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Calm (..err...usually)

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Andrew Swan wrote: Oh, I thought you were going to tell us an OT story about a member of that
Aussie band from the early 80s...

&roo

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Marty said:

I was burning along on my bike today, enjoying the quietness of the

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is!! I was just about to run over a dark dugite about 1.5 metres long.

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Stay Cool

Marty

ps, all: a Tasmanian joke:
Q: What's long, brown, and sticky?
R: A stick.

p

Originally posted by Fred Nieman [/i]

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The Dugites were quite good I thought. One of the first >Australian bands to use a Fairlight CMI. I may still have a >cassette tape somewhere.

Yeah, remember a couple of good tunes from them via Countdown 1979/80, ie:
"South Pacific, it's terrific, French don't care.."
and the one we don't really want to remember that went like,
"In your car, car, car, car, in your car, car, car, car.."

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- Iva Davies (where is he now?) + Flowers/Icehouse were the >first Oz bands to do the Fairlight CMI thing.

Abely assisted with composing the stirring soundtrack to the latest Russ flick "Master & Commander" amongst many other things. Still quite a busy man. The Takeaways used a CMI too.

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Chris (and F. the S.M.B.) are you reading this?

Yes, belately.

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I think one of them was/became a lawyer?

No, that was Sharon O'Neill.

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Umm... what a naughty, naughty thing to become... (tee-hee)

Ah, yes, all those future career ops that await , the Glenroy Legal Service for one.....

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ps, all: a Tasmanian joke:
Q: What's long, brown, and sticky?
R: A stick.

all: a mainlander joke
Q: what passes over there as a drinkable beer?
A: Fosters

yuk.:p

Fred Nieman said:

calm wrote: ...

If you're going to complain about minor typos and grammatical errors, you really should proof-read
your own posts 😉

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On commuter rides a only a week apart last Feb, 2003, I twice saw Brown

^

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Snakes on the Merri Creek (Northern Melbourne) path. I then subsiquently screeched the cantilevers
for months afterwards for sticks,

^

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Cheers.
--
Nick

[QUOTE]Originally posted by Nickzx6r
If you're going to complain about minor typos and grammatical errors, you really should proof-read
your own posts 😉

meow, saucer of milk!

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Snakes on the Merri Creek (Northern Melbourne) path. I then subsiquently screeched the cantilevers
for months afterwards for sticks,

I know the Southern Veloway / Willunga Rail Trail well. The asphalt on this track is between 3.5
metres and 4.0 metres wide. If the snake you saw, was indeed, longer than the track is wide, I think
you were lucky enough to see the rare and very shy Southern Montypythonoides.

Steve

calm said:

The fifth one was a monster, about 2mtr. It moved quickly across the track but it's tail end was
still on the track while it's head was moving off the other side. I was going too fast to even slow
down, and it readed-up as I tried to sort of bunny-hop over it (on a roadbike).

NickZX6R said:

Fred Nieman <[email hidden]> wrote:

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If you're going to complain about minor typos and grammatical errors, you really should proof-
read your own posts 😉

cfsmtb said:

meow, saucer of milk!

<fluffs up, flicks tail about, and bares claws> NickZX6R, cam yoiu spell "ironyu"? </fluffs up,
flicks tail, etc> <licks paws, has a nap, and starts mewing for didnner[sic]...> Umm, is this
aus.bicycle.vampire.flonk.flonk.flonk? I was trying to post this to
aus.bicycles.80s_tragics.fan.sparks. ... And I think I'm meant to go "Bwaa-haaa-haa-haa" now, aren't
I? </joke at my own expense (unless you don't get it)>

p

NickZX6R said:

Fred Nieman <[email hidden]> wrote:

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If you're going to complain about minor typos and grammatical errors, you really should proof-
read your own posts

cfsmtb said:

meow, saucer of milk!

<fluffs up, flicks tail about, and bares claws> NickZX6R, cam yoiu spell "ironyu"? </fluffs up,
flicks tail, etc> <licks paws, has a nap, and starts mewing for didnner[sic]...> Umm, is this
aus.bicycle.vampire.flonk.flonk.flonk? I was trying to post this to
aus.bicycles.80s_tragics.fan.sparks. ... And I think I'm meant to go "Bwaa-haaa-haa-haa" now, aren't
I? </joke at my own expense (unless you don't get it)>

p
ps: I originally posted this on the wrong thread from the original message, then canceled it. It
may still appear for you, gentle reader, as a reply to Steve Bitbucket's rather more sensible
post. Apologies all round.
pps: C&FTSMB - a year in Sydney has corrupted me... now I like Tooheys Old more than "Green" :-0 ...

[censored]. Cancel this post and try again, take 3. Just ignore this if you're reading b/b
Steve's post

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as a reply to Steve Bitbucket's rather more sensible post. Apologies all round.

Geeping Gizzards, now it's on the *right* thread. And here's me, <lies> on the internet on my mum's
breast even before I was weaned onto solids </lies>. Hope no-one reads this before I cancel it...

fred said:

[censored]. Cancel this post and try again, take 3. Just ignore this if you're reading b/b
Steve's post

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as a reply to Steve Bitbucket's rather more sensible post. Apologies all round.

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Originally posted by Fred
Geeping Gizzards, now it's on the *right* thread. And here's me, <lies> on the internet on my mum's
breast even before I was weaned onto solids </lies>. Hope no-one reads this before I cancel it...

Fred,
if someone of our calibre tells you that you're a looney, well, um, it's overdue for some time out.:p

BTW, am investigating if Ron n' Russ ever wrote a tune about reptiles.

cfsmtb said:

Fred said:

Geeping Gizzards, now it's on the *right* thread. And here's me, <lies> on the internet on my
mum's breast even before I was weaned onto solids </lies>. Hope no-one reads this before I
cancel it...

Fred, if someone of our calibre

Define "our"?!?

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tells you that you're a looney, well, um, it's overdue for some time out.:p

Good advice indeed... except I took my Christmas Holidays in November because, ummm...

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BTW, am investigating if Ron n' Russ ever wrote a tune about reptiles.

--

Hope you don't mean Russ Le Rock (aka 30 Odd Foot of Bike-Path Snakes)?

p aka f n
ps: on the subject of reptiles, "Solid Rock" - what date, and how long at no. 1?
pps: On the subject of Our (non-Cave) Nick... Lenny Kravitz rides a Huffy he bought at K-Mart!

From the Ben Hall Removalists --> Under the Road overpass --> down the hill, before the rusty car
wreck in the paddock, and before the track turns. -- v.big brown snake. One of 6 THAT day. I'll go
measure the track next time I'm there, but it seemed to be the length of the bitumen...whatever that
is. (I encourage ppl to walk their dogs off the leash here too...particularly in Spring.)

There was on the track by the Reynella bypass where the retention dam is in the middle of the 3
roads. One across the track before the underpass where the Expressway ends. One where the creek and
dam is, behind the Primary school/skatepark thingy. Seaford Rise? One crossed the track towards the
dump, just as you come out of a railway cutting. (Turn around at McLarenVale) The monster crossed my
path as I was coming downhill from Ben Hall etc.and the underpass.

There was a 6th, but I cant remember now where I saw that one. It was all a bit overwhelming, but I
do remember telling a friend that evening that I saw 6 snakes in one day..in one afternoon! And she
said ...'yeah, whatever'.

calm

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Steve said:

I know the Southern Veloway / Willunga Rail Trail well. The asphalt on this track is between 3.5
metres and 4.0 metres wide. If the snake you saw, was indeed, longer than the track is wide, I
think you were lucky enough to see the rare and very shy Southern Montypythonoides.

Steve

calm said:

The fifth one was a monster, about 2mtr. It moved quickly across the track but it's tail end was
still on the track while it's head was moving off the other side. I was going too fast to even
slow down, and it readed-up as I tried to sort of bunny-hop over it (on a roadbike).

"Fred Nieman" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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- The Models (have you read James Freud's book? It's funny, sad and

I think I'm related to their keyboardist?

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- Iva Davies (where is he now?) + Flowers/Icehouse were the first Oz bands to do the Fairlight CMI
thing.

Did you watch the aussie millenium celebrations? The music for the Sydney (?) thing was done by
Iva. It's called "Ghost of Time" or something similar. Pretty cool even though it ain't my
thang. Soulseek.

hippy