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About Tasmania, for Tasmanians? All sounds a bit incestual.... 🙄

gplama said:

About Tasmania, for Tasmanians? All sounds a bit incestual....

That's tautological isn't it!? :-)

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gplama said:

About Tasmania, for Tasmanians? All sounds a bit incestual.... 🙄

Sounds like an old ad campaign recycled from the 70's/80's, something like "made in Tasmania by Tasmanians". As a kid I thought it was somewhat amusing and told Mum a bad joke about it. Dad didn't think like my turn as a comedian & I copped a right telling off. 🙁

On May 29, 3:32 pm, cfsmtb <cfsmtb.2rb...@no-

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gplama said:

About Tasmania, for Tasmanians? All sounds a bit incestual....
🙄

Sounds like an old ad campaign recycled from the 70's/80's, something
like "made in Tasmania by Tasmanians". As a kid I thought it was
somewhat amusing and told Mum a bad joke about it. Dad didn't think
like my turn as a comedian & I copped a right telling off. 🙁

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Donga

Donga said:

Try us then! Out with it!

It was [censored] for starters & isn't worth retelling. (out of deference for mum & dad who were the butt of the joke)

cfsmtb said:

It was [censored] for starters & isn't worth retelling. (out of deference for mum & dad who were the butt of the joke)

'tis OK, Tasmania has caused a few of us to cop it sweet... I muttered something about the "map" as a little tot and got an unkind biff from a big bro. seems he thought he knew what I was muttering, I just liked the applelike shape of it, he had other things on his mind...but he was a teenager and they "know" stuff...

rooman said:

'tis OK, Tasmania has caused a few of us to cop it sweet... I muttered something about the "map" as a little tot and got an unkind biff from a big bro. seems he thought he knew what I was muttering, I just liked the applelike shape of it, he had other things on his mind...but he was a teenager and they "know" stuff...

From the House of Reps Hansard of 25 February 1987:

"Tasmania, you see, is the testicle of Australia, suffusing the mainland with strength and vigour. What a pity there is only one of them."

Now, who can remember who said it?

SteveA

SteveA said:

From the House of Reps Hansard of 25 February 1987:

"Tasmania, you see, is the testicle of Australia, suffusing the mainland with strength and vigour. What a pity there is only one of them."

Now, who can remember who said it?

Hodgman or Keating?

cfsmtb said:

Hodgman or Keating?

Hodgman was a good guess and close to identifying the correct person.

I believe that the culprit used to share a flat in Canberra with Hodgman.

Clue: He wore a chicken suit into parliament house

SteveA

cfsmtb said:

SteveA said:

From the House of Reps Hansard of 25 February 1987:

"Tasmania, you see, is the testicle of Australia, suffusing the
mainland with strength and vigour. What a pity there is only one of
them."

Now, who can remember who said it?

Hodgman or Keating?

Harradine, surely? :-)

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SteveA said:

Hodgman was a good guess and close to identifying the correct person.

I believe that the culprit used to share a flat in Canberra with Hodgman.

Clue: He wore a chicken suit into parliament house

SteveA

ahah.........Goodluck ... (aka: Bruce) !!

SteveA said:

Hodgman was a good guess and close to identifying the correct person.

I believe that the culprit used to share a flat in Canberra with Hodgman.

Clue: He wore a chicken suit into parliament house

Bruce Goodluck. Next electorate over from us. Wonder if he borrowed the chook suit from Pam Clarke?

SteveA said:

Clue: He wore a chicken suit into parliament house

Don't they all?

Theo

cfsmtb said:

Bruce Goodluck. Next electorate over from us. Wonder if he borrowed the chook suit from Pam Clarke?

Bruce Goodluck.

Going back to the original quote - I wonder if Australia would be more balanced if it had 2 Tasmanias (testicles).

(And isn't it great working in a medical organisation - I can put the names of any body parts I like in an email and the filters at work let them through. If I write 'testicle' just once in an email to a mate at the Tax Office, the filters there block it and sent me quite strident warning emails in return.)

SteveA

On Jun 1, 2:01 pm, SteveA <SteveA.2rh...@no-

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Going back to the original quote - I wonder if Australia would be more
balanced if it had 2 Tasmanias (testicles).

SteveA

That's not the usual body part ascribed to tasmania!

And if it is Australia might be better if it hadn't been ripped off...

SteveA said:

(And isn't it great working in a medical organisation - I can put the names of any body parts I like in an email and the filters at work let them through. If I write 'testicle' just once in an email to a mate at the Tax Office, the filters there block it and sent me quite strident warning emails in return.)

What a load of bollox.

cfsmtb said:

What a load of bollox.

Who would want to send the word 'bollox' to the Tax Office?

SteveA

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SteveA said:

Going back to the original quote - I wonder if Australia would be more
balanced if it had 2 Tasmanias (testicles).

But having only one keeps it on-topic for this ng...

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Shane Stanley said:

But having only one keeps it on-topic for this ng...

Lance reference or are you being cryptic?