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Originally Posted by amward
 We had some German girls stay with us earlier this year and they couldn't understand why we fell about laughing when they told us they checked for red backed spiders each time they went to the toilet. It's really not bad, even out here in the bush we only see snakes occasionally and I haven't stepped on a blue ringed octopus yet. |
And yet another cherished illusion bites the dust!
I thought all Australians lived like the late great Steve Irwin.
Everything I know about Australia I learned from watching "The Crocodile Hunter" and "Crocodile Dundee" films. Well, that and the fact that I spent a week in Sydney in 1969, so I should know better. (The Aborigine I dated while there always wore the latest fashions to the clubs. Her favorite group was the Supremes. Thanks to the media, not at all the image that comes to most American minds when the hear the phrase "Australian Aborigines".)
But, hey! You still live in the only country in the world where poisonous snakes outnumber the harmless ones.
