OUR FLAG

[Dave Smith]

Maureen are you telling us that girls understand sheep? hhmm.

TTFN

[william williams]

hmmmm hey dave they say one sheep leads another or is it the blind leading the blind as they say pulling the wool over their eyes

bw

[Maureen K Clifford]

can't say I have seen that Ross so don't know..only know that we had during the drought to open all the paddocks so the sheep could do the best they could. They soon ate out every skerrick of feed near the water holes and so had to travel many miles to water. Don't recollect any lost to thirst unless they were to weak to travel the distance to it - one of the reasons we fed in one paddock only as it had a fair bit of water still and by keeping the corn and lick blocks in that paddock it helped them a bit. Know we dug quite a few soaks down in Pikes Creek for them which the feral goats and pigs also used.

[r.magnay]

It is a long time ago now Maureen, but when I was a lad Dad would send us out to shift a mob of sheep into another paddock and would always tell us to push them up to the water, if you didn't they would hang back on the fence and perish...(stupid bloody animals) I guess it depends on how big your paddocks are too, if they are 100 acre paddocks they might find the water. They will be right once you have shown them where it is.....apart from that they headbutt yards, always go the opposite direction than the one you want them to and generally do all sorts of things that suggest they are stupid!

[Neville Briggs]

How in the...did this post get from our flag to sheep??????


The flag is not just a piece of cloth or old rag, in all countries it is a very powerful symbol.
People who get their enemies flag and make a show of burning it or stomping on it, know that.


In the TV show M*A*S*H* , the writers gave a lesson to the viewers to despise their own country, to have contempt for the virtues of loyalty, duty and sacrifice. They created a grotesque caricature of an army officer,in which this character exhibited moronic bigotry and cruel ruthless chauvinism. It is not for nothing that the name given to this absurd character was Colonel Sam Flagg. ( think about it )

I think that if we change the Australian flag, we do not add or subtract anything, we change everything. We would cut ourselves off from our past and by doing that we would not know where we are now. If you don't know where you have been, you don't know where you have come to. A new flag now, would leave us without connection. Ourselves connected to ourselves perhaps, a pretty bankrupt spirit for our nation, I would think.
( I should put this into rousing verse, have to think about that )

[Zondrae]

G'day Nev,

I was just thinking.. How did we get from our Flag to sheep. .. great minds?? got to go. have to be somewhere else for about an hour,

[r.magnay]

Yeah...sorry about that....your right neville, changing our flag is........well the sort of thing a stupid sheep would do!.... ...sorry.

[warooa]

What ever did happen to that jolly jumbuck (you know . . the protagonist from Waltzing McCraigielea) After the swagman jumped into the drink to kill himself what did those three troopers and that jolly jumbuck get up to??

[Neville Briggs]

They abandoned civilisation and went to live in Cooktown.

[Maureen K Clifford]

Sorry Neville and Zondrae that was my fault - I mentioned woolies and like a mob of supposedly stupid sheep some others tagged along. But they weren't flagging.

I shall go and flagellate myself.....Bad, baaaad