I'm starting to rebuild my DVR library since Spectrum replaced my set top box, Casablanca was on Cinemax at 4:34 this morning and I recorded it. I still need Goldfinger and The Thing From Another World.
bodypainter wrote: July 9, 2025 5:12 pm
Hi there! I was running upriver in my jet boat when I flushed an eagle. He flew ahead of me at eye level for 200 yards before i passed him.
Nice.
Lucky it was one of the species endemic to the US - Our Wedgetails are monsters and are not afraid to take on cars, boats and trucks.
Always be yourself
Unless you can be Batman
Then always be Batman
bodypainter wrote: July 9, 2025 5:12 pm
Hi there! I was running upriver in my jet boat when I flushed an eagle. He flew ahead of me at eye level for 200 yards before i passed him.
Nice.
Lucky it was one of the species endemic to the US - Our Wedgetails are monsters and are not afraid to take on cars, boats and trucks.
What IS it with Australian wildlife??!!
In Boston with... "this caribbean soul I can barely control and Long Island's always here in my heart"
JB - Sag Harbor 11/20/99
After one of our trips to Down Under, I commented that all the Aussie men tended to look like either Mel Gibson, Andy Gibb, or Mark Jackson and all the Aussie women looked like Olivia Newton-John, Nicole Kidman, or Mark Jackson. (I know, dated references, but it was a long time ago!)
I was just minding my own business and the the next thing I know I''m the same age as old people….
SPH (Mel)
SeattleParrotHead wrote: July 11, 2025 9:09 am
After one of our trips to Down Under, I commented that all the Aussie men tended to look like either Mel Gibson, Andy Gibb, or Mark Jackson and all the Aussie women looked like Olivia Newton-John, Nicole Kidman, or Mark Jackson. (I know, dated references, but it was a long time ago!)
SeattleParrotHead wrote: July 11, 2025 9:09 am
After one of our trips to Down Under, I commented that all the Aussie men tended to look like either Mel Gibson, Andy Gibb, or Mark Jackson and all the Aussie women looked like Olivia Newton-John, Nicole Kidman, or Mark Jackson. (I know, dated references, but it was a long time ago!)
It's funny coz it's true.
Except me, of course. I'm the spitting image of Livvie...
Always be yourself
Unless you can be Batman
Then always be Batman
Caribbean Soul wrote: July 11, 2025 5:57 pm I know several Australians personally... this is not as insane as it sounds!
Many years ago, a couple of times a year, I used to travel to a large test lab facility in Florida for work. At least once every trip I would turn up at the lab dressed in a khaki shirt, khaki shorts and elastic sided boots. I would spend the day saying things like "crikey, ain't she a beauty", "stone the crows, cobber", "pickle me grandmother" and other cliched Australianisms.
It astonished me how many, usually intelligent American co-workers couldn't see that I was "bunging it on" and having a jolly old time at their expense.
It was even more revealing that when we went for a drink after work how many people believed the whole Steve Irwin shtick...
Always be yourself
Unless you can be Batman
Then always be Batman
Good thing we didn't pay for it. 
