Login

Judas BentHer · July 21, 2011 at 5:17 pm

Today's weather in my area reminded me of this once popular email that made the rounds, because it was so hot in Australia for a week that Koala were coming up to people and asking for water.

So if it's hella hot in your region and you happened to miss this 2009 email, I hope this bit of snap shot cuteness helps to bring a smile of relief to the heat of your day. Cool Shades

One Koala dared enter a house in order to escape the heat. This is what happened when the kind hearted owner helped out.

[Image: 6z5tvo.jpg]

**Autumnlicious** · July 21, 2011 at 5:55 pm

Noo!!

You almost did it right.

All you had to do was put it on to boil and you'd have Koala Stew!! It was even in the water already! Big Grin

Judas BentHer · July 21, 2011 at 5:57 pm

(July 21, 2011 at 5:55 pm)Moros Synackaon Wrote: Noo!!

You almost did it right.

All you had to do was put it on to boil and you'd have Koala Stew!! It was even in the water already!

But it was unshaven. Koala hairballs after the soup goes down makes for really nasty burps. Confused Fall

**Autumnlicious** · July 21, 2011 at 6:12 pm

Silly, everyone knows that you scald it and scrape the hair off before placing into an actual stew... Big Grin

Judas BentHer · (This post was last modified: July 21, 2011 at 6:26 pm by Judas BentHer.)

(July 21, 2011 at 6:12 pm)Moros Synackaon Wrote: Silly, everyone knows that you scald it and scrape the hair off before placing into an actual stew...

Um, *points at Yank self* , clearly not everyone knows that. Scalded Koala. Oh that's just so wrong. He thought he was hot before he approached the humans...

Oldandeasilyconfused · July 21, 2011 at 8:31 pm

In summer the temperature often reaches 120 F in parts of Australia, but once it's over 100 it becomes moot.

Here in Adelaide we regularly have a week at time of 100F and it gets as high as 110+. Last year,we reached stage 4 water restrictions; no washing your car with a hose,watering the garden allowed for a couple of hours every alternate day. Heavy fine for breaches.
The government paid me $450 towards the installation of a new toilet cistern which uses about half as much water.

As far as I'm aware the highest temperature recorded in inhabited Australia is 140F, at Marble Bar, Western Australia. The town also set a world record , with the longest consecutive period of temperatures above 100F; from 31 October to 7 April 1924.

Violet · July 21, 2011 at 8:36 pm

(July 21, 2011 at 6:25 pm)Judas BentHer Wrote:
(July 21, 2011 at 6:12 pm)Moros Synackaon Wrote: Silly, everyone knows that you scald it and scrape the hair off before placing into an actual stew...
Um, *points at Yank self* , clearly not everyone knows that. Scalded Koala. Oh that's just so wrong. He thought he was hot before he approached the humans...

Evidently you've never prepared a bear to be eaten Wink

Judas BentHer · (This post was last modified: July 21, 2011 at 8:42 pm by Judas BentHer.)

(July 21, 2011 at 8:36 pm)Aerzia Saerules Arktuos Wrote: Evidently you've never prepared a bear to be eaten

This is true. But it wasn't for the lack of trying. I just couldn't get past the button eyes and thoughts of having to chew all that stuffing. [Image: 1sm047whistle.gif]

(July 21, 2011 at 8:31 pm)padraic Wrote: In summer the temperature often reaches 120 F in parts of Australia, but once it's over 100 it becomes moot...

Well, that certainly makes complaining about our temperatures here seem rather silly in comparison. I can't imagine how that feels.

Oldandeasilyconfused · (This post was last modified: July 21, 2011 at 8:47 pm by Oldandeasilyconfused.)

(July 21, 2011 at 6:12 pm)Moros Synackaon Wrote: Silly, everyone knows that you scald it and scrape the hair off before placing into an actual stew...

No no,NO! What a shameful waste! First you skin it,and save the pelt.You ring a nice man and he pays you $5 for each pelt--where did you think we got all those cute stuffed koalas we sell to tourists? Cool Shades

Anyway,no Aussie will eat koalas;they taste of their diet,;they eat only eucalyptist leaves.

The most popular native animal at Aussie barbecues is 'roo. This is because the meat is exceptionally lean, tastes a lot like beef,and is available from most supermarkets, as steaks,sausages,sate, and even salami. Yummo! Prices are about the same as for good beef. I kid you not

PS nobody minds the odd koala coming to the door for a drink. However, we're not too keen on the brown snakes doing the same. (they're
venomous)--and nobody really like sharks in their swimming pool.

Violet · July 21, 2011 at 8:43 pm

Yum

Login
Username:
Password:	Lost Password?
	Remember me

Possibly Related Threads...
Thread		Author	Replies	Views	Last Post
	Loan offers that look just like checks.	Jehanne	6	959	December 25, 2022 at 5:01 pm Last Post: LinuxGal
	Do we look like the Shell Answer Man?	onlinebiker	8	825	December 7, 2020 at 4:52 pm Last Post: The Valkyrie
	Look it up in the dictionary....	Brian37	13	1347	June 29, 2020 at 3:21 pm Last Post: Gawdzilla Sama
	Preppers don't look so silly now.	onlinebiker	41	3170	March 31, 2020 at 5:35 pm Last Post: Rhizomorph13
	Hipsters All Look Alike!	chimp3	12	2738	March 13, 2019 at 10:39 am Last Post: Gawdzilla Sama
	Look What Alex, mh, Borum Vorlon, et al Helped me Accoimpish	Rhondazvous	18	3670	September 16, 2018 at 3:43 pm Last Post: Ravenshire
	College, degrees, and jobs, oh my!	Silver	51	6370	May 30, 2018 at 7:01 pm Last Post: Minimalist
	Take another look at your initial introduction thread to this forum	Silver	55	10079	May 17, 2018 at 5:51 pm Last Post: Edwardo Piet
	If you could look like any celebrity	The Industrial Atheist	30	5460	April 23, 2018 at 1:55 pm Last Post: downbeatplumb
	Australia	Haipule	42	7228	December 18, 2017 at 2:23 am Last Post: Haipule