"PeterLucas" wrote
> "cshenk" wrote in

>> If they want to fight, they will. If they want to learn, they will
>> stop and read or ask a question.

> Seems most who are responding, don't want to learn.

Many people who live overseas from where'ever is 'home' to them do so in
little communities 'like home' and barely venture out. I'm not one of them.

>>>>I have a slight advantage.
>>>> I've a few long term OZ friends, and I've been there some 8-9 times
>>>> (only the North eastern part sadly, but hey, Darwin is neat!).
>>
>>> 'North eastern'..... Cairns, Townsville??
>>
>> Brisbane, Townsville, Darwin. I've not had the luck to see anything
>> else and only Darwin a grunch of times. I can give you walking
>> directions from the piers to Kitty O'Sheas though!

> Where abouts in Brisbane did you stay?

Scratching head, a hotel of some sort. One of the 2 cities had a brick
downtown and the steak place as well as a big walking garden. The other,
well, didnt have either but I holed up in a nice hotel with good food and
didnt move about much in that one (case of the summer flu, just sat back
with a good book).

>>> Valley drop zone, and asked for "two jugs of Millers off the wall."
>>
>> ???? Got me there too!
>>
>>> Being a noisy place, the rather busty, tatooed, barmaid only heard "2
>>> jugs" and was going to jump the bar and take a swing at me!!
>>
>> Snicker!
>>
>> Umm, that would be 2 bottles i guess you meant? Had not heard the
>> 'off the wall' part before but pretty sure jugs were bottles.

> Nope. Two 'jugs" off the wall converts to 2 *pitchers* of tap........
> and the taps used to be on the wall.

Ah! Makes sense when you say it that way.

> I always thought a pitcher was something you took with a camera ;-)

>>> You obviously didn't get to some of the Brisbane steak houses!!
>>
>> Only 1! Name escapes me now but it was upstairs with a bar below, on
>> a corner and a brick building. It's pretty much a straight walk from
>> the city central building (with all the neat statues and such) unless
>> I've mixed Townsville and Brisbane in my mind.

> I think you have.

Wouldnt suprise me at all!

Darwin's the only oine I've been to enough to really describe.