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Sat 13 Jun 2009 20:54

Australian speeds and signeage? - zookeeper

hi room, does any one know why the aussies adopted the kph and road signs in kilometres? but they still drive on the left unlike our european cousins

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Edited by Pugugly on 14/06/2009 at 02:02

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Sat 13 Jun 2009 21:19

australian speeds and signeage? - Lud

Distance in kilometres, not in miles,
Exaggerates the size of New South Wiles,
While also (so one anxiously supposes)
Getting up snooty fluting Pommy noses.

But - lest the royalist rump should feel bereft -
Kind Aussies still keep driving on the left.

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Sat 13 Jun 2009 21:37

australian speeds and signeage? - oilrag

the signs are full of bullet holes
and cane toads pop up like wet moles
there is a squelch a gasp and pop
that`ll teach them there to hop

big reds jump up in the air
out the guns - Australia fair
whizz bang splat and whollop
fair game mate - it was a trollop

slither crawl spider fly
touch me your gonna die
Out now on the barrier reef
a barracuda admiring your gold filled teeth

There`s a shark now - passing by?
Touch and go - live or die
poison coral grips your hair
Australia fair

(turned down once for immigration)

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Sun 14 Jun 2009 02:03

australian speeds and signeage? - Pugugly

Have you got these poems stored ready for deployment when a thread takes a particular turn ?

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Sun 14 Jun 2009 08:33

australian speeds and signeage? - oilrag

No PU. They just self generate in my mind and are spontaneous...

( maybe using the area previously assigned to reading Richard Jones - at last free from the Mental Heath Act)

Edited by oilrag on 14/06/2009 at 08:37

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Sun 14 Jun 2009 16:09

australian speeds and signeage? - Altea Ego

No PU. They just self generate in my mind and are spontaneous...

Is that the same as passing wind?

Australia started going metric in 1966 with main roads metricified in 1973 i seem to remember. I think it took about 20 years for australia to go fully metric.

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Sun 14 Jun 2009 16:49

australian speeds and signeage? - oilrag

Red dust fills the southern air
It`s a passing wind - Australia fair
Here`s a road train that`s gone metric
Full of beef with wounds gone septic

Road signs shimmer in the heat
metric meanings travelers greet
road train thunders to a halt
in the bar - a glass of malt

nip out back to the dunny
clouds of flies - not so funny
buzz buzz buzz buzz buzz buzz buzz
get a grip - don`t make a fuss

Your alter ego`s over there
rocking in the broken chair
buy him a beer and lets be away
to open spaces - now, today

Edited by oilrag on 14/06/2009 at 16:50

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Mon 15 Jun 2009 20:23

australian speeds and signeage? - zookeeper

thanks room , i was only asking a simple question, not nominees for poet loreat ,

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Mon 15 Jun 2009 20:27

australian speeds and signeage? - Old Navy

I think Oilrag and Lud have got their poetry and motoring forums in a tangle. :-)

Edited by Old Navy on 15/06/2009 at 20:29

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Tue 16 Jun 2009 17:53

australian speeds and signeage? - Lud

I can't speak for oilrag ON, although I can't help admiring the volumetric generosity of his muse... But my own short effort did try to answer the OP's question.

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Tue 16 Jun 2009 18:23

australian speeds and signeage? - oilrag

While I provided a literary muse of psychological immersion in the subject -attempting to sustain the experience as a paradox of `quality` for those without in-vivo contact in the subject matter of Australasia, it`s fauna and societal mores.
;-)

(cough...seen it on the telly)

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