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stevie87db Jul 28th 2010 7:57 am

Australian Drop Bears
 
I love this!!:) Just if they were real lol! We in Scotland have a classic for the tourists as well. HAGGIS, small rat sized rabbit like creatures running around the hills of Scotland! Its great when they fall for it:rofl:

Pollyana Jul 28th 2010 8:03 am

Re: Australian Drop Bears
 

Originally Posted by stevie87db (Post 8735744)
I love this!!:) Just if they were real lol! We in Scotland have a classic for the tourists as well. HAGGIS, small rat sized rabbit like creatures running around the hills of Scotland! Its great when they fall for it:rofl:

Dropbears are definitely real......they fall from trees onto the heads of tourists - but only tourists, they can smell the difference.... :sneaky:

stevie87db Jul 28th 2010 8:12 am

Re: Australian Drop Bears
 

Originally Posted by Pollyana (Post 8735766)
Dropbears are definitely real......they fall from trees onto the heads of tourists - but only tourists, they can smell the difference.... :sneaky:

LOL ;) ;) nudge nudge:p

Pollyana Jul 28th 2010 8:17 am

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Originally Posted by stevie87db (Post 8735788)
LOL ;) ;) nudge nudge:p

....they even have signs up warning tourists about them :lol:

stevie87db Jul 28th 2010 8:26 am

Re: Australian Drop Bears
 

Originally Posted by Pollyana (Post 8735797)
....they even have signs up warning tourists about them :lol:

Class al bet they fall for it every time :lol: Cant wait till I get out there.. Alot of money though:(

Sherlock Holmes Jul 28th 2010 8:47 am

Re: Australian Drop Bears
 
A lot of money though?

You don't have to buy a drop bear if you don't want to.

How to catch a haggis:

Haggis have two short legs on the right, two long legs on the left. This is to facilitate their life in the hills but but means they always walk clockwise around a hill to go up it.

On haggis hunt days, nets are placed out around the base of the hill. The beaters then "beat" in an anti-clockwise direction, causing the haggis to turn round. Owing to the leg length discrepancy they then fall over and roll down the hillside into the nets.

stevie87db Jul 28th 2010 9:08 am

Re: Australian Drop Bears
 

Originally Posted by alistairboyle (Post 8735869)
A lot of money though?

You don't have to buy a drop bear if you don't want to.

How to catch a haggis:

Haggis have two short legs on the right, two long legs on the left. This is to facilitate their life in the hills but but means they always walk clockwise around a hill to go up it.

On haggis hunt days, nets are placed out around the base of the hill. The beaters then "beat" in an anti-clockwise direction, causing the haggis to turn round. Owing to the leg length discrepancy they then fall over and roll down the hillside into the nets.

:rofl::rofl::rofl: Great description 10/10

seayork2002 Jul 28th 2010 9:46 am

Re: Australian Drop Bears
 
I hate to correct you but in my inlaws family haggis are like sheep that have developed one leg shorter than the others so they can move around the hills they live on :)

And just because I believed my husband and family when they said the pink panther comes from Durham and Yorkshire tea grows on the slopes grows on the slopes of the Pennines DOES NOT MEAN I AM GULLIBLE :)

Mind you tea is now grown in Yorkshire so I was just a few years early



Originally Posted by stevie87db (Post 8735744)
I love this!!:) Just if they were real lol! We in Scotland have a classic for the tourists as well. HAGGIS, small rat sized rabbit like creatures running around the hills of Scotland! Its great when they fall for it:rofl:


tartankoala Jul 28th 2010 10:46 am

Re: Australian Drop Bears
 

Originally Posted by Pollyana (Post 8735797)
....they even have signs up warning tourists about them :lol:

And Parks & Wildlife staff will be wearing these t-shirts this Summer to raise tourist awareness of the dangers

http://rlv.zcache.com/watch_out_for_...33q68k_400.jpg

stevie87db Jul 28th 2010 11:01 am

Re: Australian Drop Bears
 

Originally Posted by seayork2002 (Post 8736008)
I hate to correct you but in my inlaws family haggis are like sheep that have developed one leg shorter than the others so they can move around the hills they live on :)

And just because I believed my husband and family when they said the pink panther comes from Durham and Yorkshire tea grows on the slopes grows on the slopes of the Pennines DOES NOT MEAN I AM GULLIBLE :)

Mind you tea is now grown in Yorkshire so I was just a few years early

I am not saying anyone is gullible, I just think it is funny thats all! As for haggis looking like sheep I have to correct you! http://www.thedailydust.co.uk/2009/0...ood-is-a-dare/

And here is the recipe

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_x_awAKkZ1o...gis+Recipe.jpg

Deancm_MKII Jul 28th 2010 11:26 am

Re: Australian Drop Bears
 

Originally Posted by Pollyana (Post 8735766)
Dropbears are definitely real......they fall from trees onto the heads of tourists - but only tourists, they can smell the difference.... :sneaky:

Of course they're real. Koalas that fall out of a tree...

DeadVim Jul 28th 2010 11:53 am

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Originally Posted by tartankoala (Post 8736095)
And Parks & Wildlife staff will be wearing these t-shirts this Summer to raise tourist awareness of the dangers

http://rlv.zcache.com/watch_out_for_...33q68k_400.jpg

I prefer this model ... that is some hair ... What? we are talking about the t-shirts?!

Jan4kids Jul 28th 2010 12:26 pm

Re: Australian Drop Bears
 
Have you heard they've taken the word 'gullible' out of the Oxford Dictionary?

Pollyana Jul 28th 2010 5:51 pm

Re: Australian Drop Bears
 

Originally Posted by Jan4kids (Post 8736218)
Have you heard they've taken the word 'gullible' out of the Oxford Dictionary?

Naaaa, it'll stay in there as long as people believe in drop bears.....

Are drop bears real?


www.cfr.com.au/dropbears/index.html
http://www.facebook.com/pages/DROP-B...a/365807721140

:lol: :sneaky:

mohogony Jul 28th 2010 6:21 pm

Re: Australian Drop Bears
 
They are mutant koala bears with razor sharp vampire teeth that feed off human blood. They drop onto their prey when they pass underneath their tree.


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