January 26, 2006

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i see you watching me, watching you…

Ahhh gotta love the Rogue Traders simply for having catchy lyrics. Tylah and I were in the car and despite it being 33 or 34 degrees and muggy as all hell we still wound down the windows and cranked the radio up to full volume and bopped around on our way to the station. Anyway Maroon 5 comes on and Tylah pipes up: "Heyyyyy this is Emma’s boyfriend!!!!" Yeah… she wishes he was…lol. But trust good ole’ Ty to remember facts like that!

So I went into the city today, spent 55 minutes at Births, Deaths and Marriages waiting for a copy of my marriage certificate (which I’ve been too lax to actually collect until now) which I needed for Mike’s immigration, then went to the Nurses Board to register myself for another year and finally to immigration to submit our final folio for Mike’s permanent residency! Whooooooot! Our file is now in the capeable (we hope) hands of Teresa Pretzel (that’s what I call her) and we hope she won’t take 5 years to make a decision!

Now I have a slight beef with some unknown human who has been sending emails around about a massive assed snake that’s ‘supposedly’ gobbling up sheep over here in good ole’ Australia causing the dust to fly around a bit.

This is the story/email I received:

This will make you NOT want to move to Australia!
Where is Little Bo Peep when you need her??
An Australian sheep farmer was puzzled at the disappearance of sheep on his farm.

After a few weeks of sheep disappearing the farmer decided to put up an electric fence.
The pictures show what he found! I nearly passed out! Check out that mid-section… sheep anyone?

And the attached pics:

AND:

Ugly bugger isn’t he?

My first impression was "ooooooh nasty!" He doesn’t look terribly friendly does he? My seconds instinct was to open the file once again and stare closely at the pic. First mistake: Most (and I say most because we have had some drought issues in Australia over the last couple of years) of Australia’s sheep farms are on lush looking territory. This snake is lying in dirt and sand. Definately NOT typical Aussie soil… even if it was it would possibly have a more reddish tinge to it. Second mistake: We have snakes (ohhhhhh yes) but we don’t have snakes this size unless they are in the zoos. I remember visiting the repile enclosure at the Melbourne Zoo one year and they had a big Boa Constrictor which was, well, big. I remember one of the keepers saying that some of our Croc’s don’t even get that big… so I thought to myself… this can’t be right. Thirdly: (Back me up here Aussies!!!!) This surely would have been shown on the news!!!????!!!! right? I mean, we have all sorts of bizarre news reports: women having babies in their cars on the side of the road; people tying themselves to tractors… etc etc… we would have heard about a snake gobbling up sheep!

So I decided to go a bit of googling… Mike was so sure it was fake he had me zoom into the photos to see if there was any super imposing going on… I thought they were real on the other hand, just not from here…

And I found the link right HERE!!! Yes, it’s on the urban myth webpage and apparently there have been numerous differing stories all with the same pics attached! lol… read them and see how they change!

To cut a long story short, the snake (a 4 metre rock python) was found on a game reserve in South Africa. It had just swallowed an impala (deer) and was too big to crawl underneath the electric fence without being electrocuted.

So yay me and my instincts!!! *grin*

BTW: Christy love, I sent you an email…lol. You are now free to visit Australia (apparently anyway)…

Vee

scorpiogal

I just had to get in and scream and yell “FIRST NOTE” lolol — this, right after I left a gizillion notes on your previous entry LOL..

Well — I will sleep a little better tonight knowing that we do not have snakes like that in our backyard LOL. Ugly Fluffer all right!!! LOL Happy WEEKEND (*jumping up and down*) xoxoxox

LOVE the rogue traders too 🙂

_psychomachia_

*cackles* How deceiving is that? What a myth, my goodness! But that snake sure did give me the shakes…

AngelKisses

*kicks dirt at you* Meanie! I was merely passing along an email I was sent. Though it didn’t seem normal to me, I wanted you to see what people are saying about your country! LOL It’s good that I won’t run across this sort of thing on my visit, but I never ONCE saw a snake at all when I lived in Africa! LOL I will visit and we will find Nemo, K? 🙂 You google queen, you! 🙂

P.S. Can you believe that there is even a snake that f**king big to eat an impala!?!?! Geeez! Ew! And OW! lol Glad I’m not his dinner…. 🙂

January 27, 2006

Thanks so much for the advice about the allergic reaction chicky — I really appreciate that and I think allergy testing definately might be the way to go. The only other thing I am seriously allergic too is (and I know I can’t spell this right lol) .. the antibiotic Eythamicin. I think people have this particular antibiotic when they are allergic to penecillin — LOL.. I’m backwards you know

lol — We only found out a year or so back that I only have half a thyroid LOL. I wanted to ask if they could do a scan to see if I had a full brain LOL. Gotta love you chicky lol xoxoxoxoxox

Cattiva

Ugh thats a nasty looking bugger. Typical to use the same pic for different email stories! *puzzles*

Coco Wild

I laughed so hard at Tylah’s comment!!! She’s a love. As for all the research you did into that email…I think you need to get yourself a hobby, Darl 😉

Seducesa

*laughs* hilarious.. i could tell from the size of the damn thing it was fake!! haha no way we have any snakes that big here!!! hahaha.. now i msut check out this urban myth site!

**his girl**

I love Rogue Traders too except when I saw them sing in the Australia Day concert. They sucked. Good luck with immigration, Marc has been waiting forever for the final interview. He has overstayed his visa (legally) by 6 months and still nuffin’.

CritterCrazy

EEEEWWWWWW!!! Regardless on WHICH continent it is on…THAT is ONE BIG M’F’er of a snake!!! Love, ME xxx

dirty.projector

That is so disgusting i’m going to have dreams about that now! People believe anything on the net, it’s incredible. xx

Ceylon Sapphire

arrrrgh SHITE…. could you not have warned me that there was a snake on your freakin’ entry….. they scare me so bad I just tasted a portion of my breakfast again…. I am terrified of snakes.

Maricota

My God that thing is scary! Glad it’s not from your country. Or mine! 🙂

Pretty Fly Jedi

Thank GOD! I got that email and I thought “They have snakes like that in Australia?!?” SO relieved that you dont!!

*sorrowsfade*

good sleuthing is the poor bugger dead or alive in those pics? RYN: i really hope the change in formula helps. if not, poor mommy is going to need some happy pills.

why would someone tie him/herself to a tractor?

I’m so glad that snake is not in MY bckyard!! Yikes!! The mouth on it, looks scary…:)

purelymesa

Oiy I hate when those false roomers get started. I haven’t looked at your link yet but is it truthorfiction.com? I know that’s the site I check things out on to make sure they are real or not before I forward them. Still… GAH! What a scary pic… those teeth!!

I had that email too…it’s amazing the crap that gets passed around isn’t it.

shygurl84

January 30, 2006

Hey thanks for your note, I really appreciate your advice. Ive decided to see how i go in the next few weeks and if it plays up again then i have to get a support, no being stubborn! That snake stuff is crazy glad its not in Australia!!