Like: "You can't rush a wombat"?

And I don't want to hear nothing about eating no roots and leaves.

Sorry, Faldage, nothing much comes to mind. Google brought up the acronym WOMBAT for "Waste of Money, Brains and Time", IT(?) industry jargon applied to poorly-conceived projects. To call a person [a] wombat is apparently to label them stupid, but I can't say I've ever heard it used like that.

Hope someone else can come up with some interesting contributions.

Hmmmm, you got

Grumpy as a bear

Silent as a mouse
Crafty as a raccoon
Foxy (cunning)
Foxy (attractive)
Dumb as sheep
Dumb as a goose
Proud as a lion
Sleek as a cat
Stealthy as a panther / cougar
Dirty as a pig
Wise as an owl
Fussy as a hen
Noisy as a room full of ducks
Cute as a bunny
Gentle as a lamb
Playing possum
Alligator tears
Busy as a bee

Nope, no wombats. Then again, there’s nothing about moose either.

IT (?) industry jargon

What does IT stand for, anyway? Inane Twaddle comes to mind.

(Speaking of which, this post was nothing more than a thin excuse to graduate to newbie status...)

Propose: as muddle-headed as a wombat.

(Oz members will all know what I refer to. <swink>)

(previews post)... actually, <swink> looks right

Anyone know the rules of wom? Is it related to baseball?

the rules of wom?

Certainly no man has ever fathomed this out!

What does IT stand for, anyway? Inane Twaddle comes to mind.

Thanks Rapunzel, those of us in the Information Technology industry love you, too! . But I'm sure you know how to let your hair down.

Sorry, TEd!

Surely most feel the use of I.T. unfit, specifically in that it spans a little too much ground, after all computers are just tools with which we work. Maybe E.D.P. (Electronic Data Processing) would be more apt. Any other suggestions?

Actually, IT fits nearly perfectly and ICT (Communications as well) makes it a perfect fit. There are specialisations within the industry, but it's no different than saying "the metal industry" or "the medical profession".

>as muddle-headed as a wombat

Yes, we have the book too!

My apologies if I offended anyone in the IT industry. It sounds like a rather broad term--what exactly do you do?

It is a very braod industry to.
Personally I handle data analysis and the associated processes for the academic area of our campus. Our campus IT personal create & maintain Web pages, manages the networks and of course support the users of the systems. We also have a third group Corporate IT who support us, and handle major changes in our systems. Like registration software were testing nationally that will allow our students to use the Internet to pick classes instead of paper pen & long lines.



CJ

How did this thread not discuss Wombles (?sp)?

There is a comic strip wombat called Wal, who's supposed to be wise and give good advice. The only thing I learned from wombats is that waddling when you walk is only cute if you're also small and furry.

Hmmm, how about "As wobbly as a wombat"?

> "As wobbly as a wombat"?

After driving through the Blue Mountains I proffer..
'as flat as a wombat'
Rhymes too :-)


aside:
The term I.T. remains inapt and pretentious in my books

BY notes The term I.T. remains inapt and pretentious in my books

How 'bout we replace it with informatics?

Rapunzel
IT (?) industry jargon

What does IT stand for, anyway? Inane Twaddle comes to mind.

(Speaking of which, this post was nothing more than a thin excuse to graduate to newbie status...)

CONGRATULATIONS! on your Newbie-hood.
Inane Twaddle, I like that.





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chronist

About 10 days ago (Sunday) I caught some of the highlights of Oz TV Channel 7 Nightly Olympic Highlights with Fatso the Fat-Arsed Wombat on UK TV. Some bits were very funny.
The International and Australian Olympic committees were not very amused by this wombat becoming the unofficial mascot of the Australian team and getting into the act , see http://liberalbranches.org/comment/ed_fatso_25sep00.htm

"As unwelcome as a fat-arsed wombat at an olympic committee meeting"
is my suggestion.

Rod

wc exults: CONGRATULATIONS! on your Newbie-hood.

Harrumph®. That was four months ago. She's a full-fledged long-tressed member now.

(I also like Inane Twaddle)

belM, You're back!

There's "like a moose caught in headlights" or "like a deer caught in headlights" depending on where you are. I don't think they have deer here, so the moose one makes more sense.

> That was four months ago

WC (a mean abbr. btw) is not the first to get confused by reincarnated threads. It was the cosy doctor who is the culprit this time WordCrazy. Maybe we should introduce a thread rebirth alert!

BTW, The Wombles are dope
"Making good use of the things that we find,
The things that the everyday folks leave behind"...da,da,da..strolling off

REMEMBER YOU'RE A WOMBLE

Bingley

I'll never forget the mixture of amazement and confusion when, as a teen going through my parents' collection of 60's and 70's LP's, I realized that they listened to some pretty cool music back in the day, but I was absolutely floored by their copy of a Wombles album. I had never even heard of them, and it was somewhat surreal to find them wedged in amongst the likes of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band and Morrison Hotel. Never did find a working turntable to listen to it on.

A) BelM has been rebirthed (Feb 5?) along with this thread.

2) Caught in the headlights would imply that the creature so caught could get out of the way were it not for the shock factor of getting caught in the headlights. Waddle and crump don't hack it.

Þ) Ain' got nothin else, so no Þ.

You know, after the fact, I realized I'd read the thread name before. Must have been going during one of my periods of Board inactivity (equivalent to a maximum in school activity!).

CONGRATULATIONS! on your Newbie-hood.
Inane Twaddle, I like that.

Thank you.

Harrumph®. That was four months ago. She's a full-fledged long-tressed member now.

(I also like Inane Twaddle)

Thank you.

(I also like Inane Twaddle)

Well, is this yor lucky day - we got a Special on it right here, all you can eat for $1.99

I was a bit shocked to see it resurface my own se'f.

For an amusing story about taking care of an orphaned wombat click on URL below. I goofed and you will be taken to page 2 of the story, but should be able to get back to beginning.

http://www.bendigo.net.au/~rjs/whirrakee/animals/brutus2.htm

Oh, Bill, all animal lovers should read that!
For convenience, here's page one:
http://www.bendigo.net.au/~rjs/whirrakee/animals/brutus1.htm

It's worth a look, just to see the first picture!

Harrumph®. That was four months ago. She's a full-fledged long-tressed member now.

I deserve to be reprimanded. This is what I get for answering posts and Jazzercising at the same time!



chronist

This is what I get for answering posts and Jazzercising at the same time!

Now that's what I call multi-tasking!

(somebody should invent a stationary bike with a laptop* attached to the handlebars....)

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*of course then we'd have to come up with a new name for it.

No pithy wombathy expressions I'm afraid, but I can share my culinary wombat experience, on the Nullabor Plain, at the Pitjantjatjara community of Yalata, hidden in the dunes behind the head of the Great Australian Bight, where tourists come these days for the whale-watching. The Pitjantjatjara shouldn't even be there by rights, but they were forced off their own country a few hundred miles to the north in the 1950s, when Maralinga and Emu Plains were used as nuclear testing sites by the British. The old people still recall with horror the radioactive 'black mist' which blighted their lives back then.

Anyway, I was taken out on a bush tucker excursion one day, and we feasted on roast wombat. Think pork crossed with chicken. We had a wombat of a time. Unlike the wombat.

Of course, AS, you could use your exercise routine to power the laptop at the same time! The 'pedal wireless' was a staple of 'outback' homesteads in the early part of last century. 'Pedal laptop' sounds a bit ordinary -- any other suggestions for a name?

I love it, paulb! It'd be an extension of the little mice on the wheel that power my Mac. Please tell us more about the pedal wireless (....slouching off to think up a name for the new contraption)

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oh, and Rapunzel: you're welcome

(somebody should invent a stationary bike with a laptop* attached to the handlebars....)

A Wombatcycle? ... Because it has lotsa' bytes?

Thus bringing the thread around full circle.
Thanks, wow.

'megabike' or 'gigabike', perhaps?

Pedal wireless info sent per PM (pedal mail?)

(somebody should invent a stationary bike with a laptop* attached to the handlebars....)

Just what the world needs - a bike with windows, going nowhere!

As a Centralian advocate, I cannot allow this to pass without reminding Boarders that it was Alice Springs' very own Alf Traeger who invented the pedal wireless for use in the Royal Flying Doctor Service pioneered by the famous flying padre, Flynn of the Inland (but how come he was Flynn of the Inland and not Flynn of the Outback?? ).

BTW, following further inquiries, I have received two independent reports of a local using the expression 'Shiver me wombats', in which, presumably, 'wombats' is synonymous to the woody word in the Bette Midler song.

a stationary bike with a laptop* attached to the handlebars

the stationary bikes in my gym have control panels so complex that I am sure they are well able to handle e-mail, small spreadsheets and display small gifs already.

As for a name, IBM is just about to market the Think-Ped
Rod

Because "Flynn" and "Inland" both have the 'in' sound.

[preparing-for-a-barrage-of-puns-e]

I unaccountably seem to be inundated by wombatiana.

Yesterday I received a letter from my sister, who's moved to a cottage in the country - wombat country. She reports a W has taken up residence in the floorboards beneath her bed, where it farts audibly all night. She then claims she and her partner are going to have to get rid of the W. I've always suspected my sister to be a couple of sandwiches short of a picnic, but this takes the cake (sorry). Doesn't she realise the enormous advantage of a flatulent wombat beneath your bed? It means that you (with respect to your bedmate) can fart nocturnally, with impunity.

Hmmm... flatulent underbed wombats, you say? Well, in this part of the world, we blame it on the barking spiders.

You can't rush a wombat

Upon re-opening this thread, I read Faldage's proposed pithy expression, and this time read it differently from every other time I've visited. I had been reading "rush" to mean charge or attack, as in "As the brilliant panto troupe brought their show to a glorious close, the ecstatic crowd rushed the stage," and assumed Faldage's example to mean that wombats are fierce combatants mano-a-mano, and should be dealt with from a distance.

Just now, I read it to mean wombats are by nature pokey, and they will not be hurried.

Anybody else have this experience?

wombats are by nature pokey, and they will not be hurried.

You got it, brother!

Figgered that were whut yuh ment.

Not at all sure why the more agressive interpretation occurred first, and stuck so firmly, in my cranial cavity, as it's by far a less common meaning of rush. Language is a funny thing.

I would have said, "You shouldn't…" or "Don't rush a wombat" had I meant the former.

...unless you were implying an unspoken clause like "~ and live!" Just so, you might comment "You can't run up a mountain."

If the unspoken phrase is "of debt", I certainly can.

Bingley