where's Ozzie???

[MzJoey]

i've not not seen her...am i just missing her or is she out gloriously sailing??? anyone know??

[rosetree]

i've not not seen her...am i just missing her or is she out gloriously sailing??? anyone know??
Ozzie's around...she posted last night/her morning??
I'm sure she will jump in at some point today.:D

[MzJoey]

that Ozzie makes my world more special!!

[Amyloves...]

Mine too......love ya Oz! :)

[tangledupinblue]

Ozzie Ozze In Come Free....

[Calypsogirl]

It is only about 6 or 7 am in Oz - give the poor girl time to get some coffee in her!

[ozzie]

Yoo hoo, I'm here Mz Joey darlin!

You know, in some parts of the world there are great celebrations when I don't have much to say! :D

[MzJoey]

Ozzzzieeeeee! do your peeps in Ozzieland know that you have so many fans in the States?? Can i be your fan club prez??? didja see the jack riley pix i posted in the bar....the new one???
coffee...sounds damn good...dya drink coffee on vacation...i'm a coffeeaholic and am always trolling for fellow caffeine freeks!
muah!

[Corona]

Yoo hoo, I'm here Mz Joey darlin!

You know, in some parts of the world there are great celebrations when I don't have much to say! :D
We love you Ozzie! I was thinking about you yesterday....how I can't wait to see you and how I'm going to jump on you when I do :)

[stlbarb]

Ozzzzieeeeee! do your peeps in Ozzieland know that you have so many fans in the States?? Can i be your fan club prez??? didja see the jack riley pix i posted in the bar....the new one???
coffee...sounds damn good...dya drink coffee on vacation...i'm a coffeeaholic and am always trolling for fellow caffeine freeks!
muah!

Coffee is god.

Coffee Stout = my two favorite drinks combined.

[stlbarb]

We love you Ozzie! I was thinking about you yesterday....how I can't wait to see you and how I'm going to jump on you when I do :)

i think we can sell ticket to this - donate the money to NOMC

[Carolina Beadhead]

i think we can sell ticket to this - donate the money to NOMC

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

[ozzie]

We love you Ozzie! I was thinking about you yesterday....how I can't wait to see you and how I'm going to jump on you when I do :)

Your place or mine baybee!

[Corona]

hee hee....at the meet up first FRIDAY!!! Barb....you're a brat:p

[ozzie]

You know, in all seriousness... I've been really sad this week and this friggin threadhead karma just continually amazes me. I don't think I've shown any sadness on the bored, but it's like somehow you knew a shout out would lift my spirits. You guys are bloody scary!

Not scared of Corona jumping me though.... anything for NOMC!

[Amy Winette]

Aww, Oz, sorry you're feeling down girl!

[ibjamn]

i think we can sell ticket to this - donate the money to NOMC


I'll nring the pumpkin fudge.....

[bluedog]

Ozzie hope you feel better soon! http://forum.jamesfoxall.com/images/smilies/Sunny.gif

[MzJoey]

You know, in all seriousness... I've been really sad this week and this friggin threadhead karma just continually amazes me. I don't think I've shown any sadness on the bored, but it's like somehow you knew a shout out would lift my spirits. You guys are bloody scary!

Not scared of Corona jumping me though.... anything for NOMC!

...beloved Tia Tanya...i felt it i did Darlin...all of a sudden like you were just on my radar...and I thought ...uh wha? wait where is she..where is she? I dunno watsa mata sweetie..but KNOW this...we loves ya, can't wait to see ya again...and not just in my dreams this time ok Shuggah? Whatchout Lis...i dont care if you saw her first! she'd mine!! (ok and i get pokie too!)

[stlbarb]

...beloved Tia Tanya...i felt it i did Darlin...all of a sudden like you were just on my radar...and I thought ...uh wha? wait where is she..where is she? I dunno watsa mata sweetie..but KNOW this...we loves ya, can't wait to see ya again...and not just in my dreams this time ok Shuggah? Whatchout Lis...i dont care if you saw her first! she'd mine!! (ok and i get pokie too!)

we'd definitiely get more $$ for a 3-way.

[Corona]

...beloved Tia Tanya...i felt it i did Darlin...all of a sudden like you were just on my radar...and I thought ...uh wha? wait where is she..where is she? I dunno watsa mata sweetie..but KNOW this...we loves ya, can't wait to see ya again...and not just in my dreams this time ok Shuggah? Whatchout Lis...i dont care if you saw her first! she'd mine!! (ok and i get pokie too!)
but you promised me a foot rub!!! lol

Ozzie....lots of hugs coming your way (((((((((Ozzie))))))))

[Orleansnj]

Ozzie - cheer up !!! We've got ya covered !

[Corona]

we'd definitiely get more $$ for a 3-way.
Barb...well since it's for charity... ;)

[Zydekitten]

Tan - buck up, mate!!! This too shall pass and all will be well again - but in the meantime, here's a virtual hug for you:

{{{{{{{{{{{Ozzie!!!}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}} :D

[stlbarb]

but you promised me a foot rub!!! lol

Ozzie....lots of hugs coming your way (((((((((Ozzie))))))))

i thought the website was suppose to give you a foot rub.

[Corona]

i thought the website was suppose to give you a foot rub.
I've given up hope...damn slacker!

[MzJoey]

[quote=Corona;37458]but you promised me a foot rub!!! lol

now now don' fight ova me...yes and i make good on my foot rub promises...sshhhh dont tell Moni MOni...i dint promise her a foot rub and MRG is gonna steal her from me!!!

[MzJoey]

i thought the website was suppose to give you a foot rub.

yea well...at the ripe old age of 51 i've taken to jus doin what needs to be done...am tired of waitin on stuff!! So take off those cute shoes that ya bought on the shoes thread and let me see your tootsies!

[peteup]

G'day Oz ... cheer up, fest is ON next month. And just think, today will seem like a million miles away. I'm off in less than 3 weeks, doin' the road trip to Memphis and New Orleans. I'm ol' school traveller, and will be totally disconnected. But in the meantime, I'm sufferin' real badly from FOMS. And...oh shit, I have to laugh...I love the connections that this city can throw up. Our vet, who has cared with love for our hounds for over 20 + years, has a best mate playing at the fest!! True. I kid you not. I'm a hick from the hills from outside Melbourne and our local vet has a friend playin' at jazzfest. Holy shit! Andrew Hall's Society Brass Band! Mind you, they're playin' first Friday and the competition's a bit stiff, but who woulda thunk it...!

[Corona]

yea well...at the ripe old age of 51 i've taken to jus doin what needs to be done...am tired of waitin on stuff!! So take off those cute shoes that ya bought on the shoes thread and let me see your tootsies!
(waving my tootsies in the air) :)

[ozzie]

G'day Oz ... cheer up, fest is ON next month. And just think, today will seem like a million miles away. I'm off in less than 3 weeks, doin' the road trip to Memphis and New Orleans. I'm ol' school traveller, and will be totally disconnected. But in the meantime, I'm sufferin' real badly from FOMS. And...oh shit, I have to laugh...I love the connections that this city can throw up. Our vet, who has cared with love for our hounds for over 20 + years, has a best mate playing at the fest!! True. I kid you not. I'm a hick from the hills from outside Melbourne and our local vet has a friend playin' at jazzfest. Holy shit! Andrew Hall's Society Brass Band! Mind you, they're playin' first Friday and the competition's a bit stiff, but who woulda thunk it...!

Cheers Peteup... I'm smiling again! So excited for you, and your vet's mate's band is now on my list (not that I'll remember to take it with me). It's a weird and wonderful world!

[MzJoey]

(waving my tootsies in the air) :)

hey maybe there's a lil old medicine woman in me..haha

[ozzie]

hey maybe there's a lil old medicine woman in me..haha

You do what you do do well girl! (insert an ibjamn emoticon here)

[Amyloves...]

Cheers Peteup... I'm smiling again! So excited for you, and your vet's mate's band is now on my list (not that I'll remember to take it with me). It's a weird and wonderful world!

I'll try to remind you Oz!

[pokerchick66]

...beloved Tia Tanya...i felt it i did Darlin...all of a sudden like you were just on my radar...and I thought ...uh wha? wait where is she..where is she? I dunno watsa mata sweetie..but KNOW this...we loves ya, can't wait to see ya again...and not just in my dreams this time ok Shuggah? Whatchout Lis...i dont care if you saw her first! she'd mine!! (ok and i get pokie too!)

(((((((Joey))))))))

((((((Ozzie)))))))))

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[bywterbro]

SYDNEY - Wild camels in drought-stricken Australia are in plague proportions, damaging the environment and property as they compete with native animals for food and water.

Camels "mad with thirst" recently rampaged through the Western Desert Aboriginal community of Warakurna, damaging toilets, faucets and air conditioners to find water.

"There were a couple of hundred — they get big mobs up here," the operator of the Warakurna Roadhouse said on Wednesday.
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"They did a lot of damage searching for water, trampling air conditioning hoses, taps and pipes," she said from the remote roadhouse, about 500 miles west of Alice Springs in the Northern Territory.

Australia has the world's largest wild camel population. Camels were first brought to the country in the 18th century to help explorers venture into the dry interior.

"An estimated one million feral camels, whose numbers double every eight years, compete with native animals and livestock, threaten native plants, wreck fences, bores and tanks, and invade Aboriginal sites," said Glenn Edwards, from the Desert Knowledge Cooperative Research Center.

The center, established to pursue economic projects for outback Aborigines, said a national feral camel management plan was urgently needed.

The environmental impact of feral camels was most prominent in Australia's biggest state of Western Australia, where half the nation's feral camels are thought to roam.

Australia's worst drought in 100 years is to blame for the recent rampage by camels, but increasing numbers of wild camels has caused serious environmental, economic and cultural damage right across the outback for years, said Edwards, who works for Northern Territory Parks and Wildlife service. A national camel management plan should see a combination of methods to reduce camel numbers, from culling to live exports, the center said.

"Some culling will be unavoidable," Edwards said in a statement ahead of a camel management meeting in Perth on Thursday. "In unpopulated areas, for example in the Simpson Desert, culling will be the only option."

Most camels are currently exported live to Southeast Asia where they are slaughtered.

The Centralian Advocate newspaper in Alice Springs this month reported thousands of camels were dying of thirst at Docker River some 370 miles west of Alice Springs, but local Aborigines refuse to cull the thirsty animals.

"The camels do a lot of damage to the land, and when there's no water, they come into the community and cause damage," Docker River community adviser Chris Moon told the newspaper.

The camel problem was so bad at the even more remote Warakurna, a community of 140 people, that hunters had been hired to kill 100 camels a week, said the newspaper.

Warakurna will freeze the meat and transport it to Perth in Western Australia as pet meat, said the newspaper.

[linza22]

ozzie...i love your picture. where did you get those wonderful glasses! can't wait to meet you! i'll be down first friday!

[ozzie]

SYDNEY - Wild camels in drought-stricken Australia are in plague proportions, damaging the environment and property as they compete with native animals for food and water.

Camels "mad with thirst" recently rampaged through the Western Desert Aboriginal community of Warakurna, damaging toilets, faucets and air conditioners to find water.

"There were a couple of hundred — they get big mobs up here," the operator of the Warakurna Roadhouse said on Wednesday.
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"They did a lot of damage searching for water, trampling air conditioning hoses, taps and pipes," she said from the remote roadhouse, about 500 miles west of Alice Springs in the Northern Territory.

Australia has the world's largest wild camel population. Camels were first brought to the country in the 18th century to help explorers venture into the dry interior.

"An estimated one million feral camels, whose numbers double every eight years, compete with native animals and livestock, threaten native plants, wreck fences, bores and tanks, and invade Aboriginal sites," said Glenn Edwards, from the Desert Knowledge Cooperative Research Center.

The center, established to pursue economic projects for outback Aborigines, said a national feral camel management plan was urgently needed.

The environmental impact of feral camels was most prominent in Australia's biggest state of Western Australia, where half the nation's feral camels are thought to roam.

Australia's worst drought in 100 years is to blame for the recent rampage by camels, but increasing numbers of wild camels has caused serious environmental, economic and cultural damage right across the outback for years, said Edwards, who works for Northern Territory Parks and Wildlife service. A national camel management plan should see a combination of methods to reduce camel numbers, from culling to live exports, the center said.

"Some culling will be unavoidable," Edwards said in a statement ahead of a camel management meeting in Perth on Thursday. "In unpopulated areas, for example in the Simpson Desert, culling will be the only option."

Most camels are currently exported live to Southeast Asia where they are slaughtered.

The Centralian Advocate newspaper in Alice Springs this month reported thousands of camels were dying of thirst at Docker River some 370 miles west of Alice Springs, but local Aborigines refuse to cull the thirsty animals.

"The camels do a lot of damage to the land, and when there's no water, they come into the community and cause damage," Docker River community adviser Chris Moon told the newspaper.

The camel problem was so bad at the even more remote Warakurna, a community of 140 people, that hunters had been hired to kill 100 camels a week, said the newspaper.

Warakurna will freeze the meat and transport it to Perth in Western Australia as pet meat, said the newspaper.

Nah, we're all mountains and rainforest so only camels are in wildlife parks. Plenty of feral fellas up in the rainforest though. One day I'm gonna harsh their mellow and tell them the Vietnam war is over.

Didn't know we had such a camel problem... spent years in outback Western Australia and didn't see any evidence of it. Anyway, I thought camels were good in droughts/deserts. Gonna check it out though. We have a bad history of introducing critters, leaving them to their own devices and then saying... oh look at that, we have a problem. Up our way it's the evil Cane Toad. ugh

[ozzie]

ozzie...i love your picture. where did you get those wonderful glasses! can't wait to meet you! i'll be down first friday!

See you there Linza!

[Amyloves... can you add fluoro specs to my list please.]

[Amyloves...]

I'm on it darlin.

[peteup]

Camels were actually introduced into Australia in the late 19thC by Afghan cameleers as a means of transport (people and goods) into the red centre. When the train finally went through from Adelaide to Alice Springs (called the Ghan, as a corruption of Afghan), the camels became redundant and were released into the wild where they have done very well! Australia now exports camels to Saudi Arabia...hahahahaha! Over the generations, the original Afghans assimilated into the wider community...there are many people in Central Australia who can claim descent from these original Afghan cameleers. As for other "feral" animals in Oz, apart from some of the human inhabitants (!) - there are vast herds of wild donkeys and goats on the fringes of the central deserts and water buffalo and horses in the wet tropics (good food source for the crocs). The worst feral animals are foxes and wild domestic cats which are decimating a lot of the indigenous animal species ...oh, and of course as Ozzie says, the horrible cane toad.