Summer '09 has arrived...
and it's gonna get warm.
Monday, January 26, 2009 by Jafo | Discussion: Community
Apparently us poor bastards in Melbourne [Australia] are in for the hottest stretch of days in 100 years... [bit tough for the Oz Open [tennis], too]....
Today it'll be 38...
Tomorrow [Wednesday] 41
Then 40, 40, 40, 30, 30.
Yes, that's centigrade....for those still in the dark ages that's [C x 9/5] + 32 = Fahrenheit....
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Reply #62 Friday, January 30, 2009 5:38 PM
Tennis, TG: A game played with 2 or 4 participants. A rectanglar court divided by a net delineates the 'territory' of the participants. Each has a raquet and strives to hit the ball into the opponent's territory where he/she cannot hit it back. The scoring system is illogical and complex.
The game is frequently played in inhospitable weather conditions (vis. starkers reference and rain). I was referring to the ridiculous custom of hitting one's balls only to have to pursue them as in golf, baseball, etc. Why hit them in the first place if one then has to chase them?
What didn't you understand?
Reply #63 Friday, January 30, 2009 5:53 PM
Notice, that I laughed Doc.. also notice, I gave you Karma for that post.
Note.. I do know what Tennis is, I've played it.
Reply #64 Friday, January 30, 2009 6:06 PM
Something weird with the karma all day...Zubaz is siphoning mine off systematically. I was playing with you and the explanation.... and I know you know that you little minx!
Did I ever mention Dr. Renee Richardson, an Ophthalmologist who went to Sweden back in the early '60's for sex change surgery? Well, he was quite the player and after the surgery wrote a book, "Tennis Without Balls".
Reply #66 Saturday, January 31, 2009 12:00 AM
Day 5..... still not king...
OK...for those who don't get it....
THE SECRET DIARY OF ARAGORN SON OF ARATHORN
Day One:
Ringwraiths killed: 4. V. good.
Met up with Hobbits. Walked forty miles. Skinned a squirrel and ate it.
Still not King.
Day Four:
Stuck on mountain with Hobbits. Boromir really annoying.
Not King yet.
Day Six:
Orcs killed: none. Disappointing. Stubble update: I look rugged and manly. Yes!
Keep wanting to drop-kick Gimli. Holding myself back.
Still not King.
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Supposed to be 37 or 9 ....don't really care anymore....
Didn't go cycling...got side-tracked with WC stuff.
The fun's gone out of it [the weather]....time to change it, m'kay, God?
Jafo gets another beer.
Reply #67 Saturday, January 31, 2009 12:29 AM
Are you playing D & D or something Jafo?
Here, have one of my beers dear!
It's so FREAKIN' hot here, I just asked my son to turn the AC on.. he said.. 'It's been on all day Mum'.
Reply #69 Saturday, January 31, 2009 6:25 PM
Looks like we've lost 6 lives and 24 houses so far....
Victoria shares the rep with California as the world's 2 worst places for bushfires.
Reply #70 Sunday, February 1, 2009 4:36 AM
Snowballs anyone? 
This is tomorrow's forecast - I'm right at the tip of the cursor.
Reply #71 Sunday, February 1, 2009 5:59 AM
Quoting myself.. when I was 15.. 'It was hot today... this was caused by heat from the sun'.
[Long story.........
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Reply #72 Sunday, February 1, 2009 7:58 AM
My sister and brother-in-law dropped in today. They told me their house I'd designed for them in Boolara [Southeast of Melbourne] was lost in the fires. {they'd sold it years ago].
That's the second of 'mine' I've lost....the first was in Ash Wednesday at Cockatoo .....that was brand new...with only the shower screen left to install before hand-over.
I for one would personally castrate the fire-bugs. Last thing we need is for the pricks to breed.
Reply #74 Sunday, February 1, 2009 8:50 AM
http://www.boingboing.net/images/pic-05-plattblog_Square_Feet_Per_Person.png
Found this interesting....shows just how empty Oz is...
Reply #75 Sunday, February 1, 2009 8:59 AM
OMG. Just Wiki'd that. Bloody ouch, Ausvet. 
We get those demented idiots here too. One can only wish their car doesn't start after doing something like that. Darwin Prize indeed.
Reply #76 Sunday, February 1, 2009 9:09 AM
No-one wants to live in a country which lacks proper sanitation...
Reply #77 Sunday, February 1, 2009 9:11 AM
Must be the heat...
First one-day international, Perth:
New Zealand 185-8 (50 overs) beat Australia 181 (48.4 overs) by two wickets
Reply #79 Sunday, February 1, 2009 9:29 AM
remember it well....lived close to Melbourne centre....and had smouldering gumleaves landing in the backyard..... 
it was so eerie...the light...like the end of the world...
Reply #80 Saturday, February 7, 2009 5:29 AM
49C (120F) at Avalon Airport..... wow..
reports just coming through of the extent of the deaths and damage in Victoria.....
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Reply #61 Friday, January 30, 2009 5:21 PM
Too true...Illogical...who wants to hit one's balls in any weather?
WHAT!?!?!?!?!!?!?
