#18449
02/05/2001 8:16 PM
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Like: "You can't rush a wombat"?
And I don't want to hear nothing about eating no roots and leaves.
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#18450
02/05/2001 9:04 PM
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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.
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#18451
02/05/2001 10:27 PM
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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.
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#18452
02/05/2001 10:32 PM
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IT (?) industry jargonWhat 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...)
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#18453
02/06/2001 10:45 AM
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Propose: as muddle-headed as a wombat.
(Oz members will all know what I refer to. <swink>)
(previews post)... actually, <swink> looks right
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#18454
02/06/2001 10:54 AM
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Anyone know the rules of wom? Is it related to baseball?
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#18455
02/06/2001 1:00 PM
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the rules of wom?Certainly no man has ever fathomed this out!
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#18456
02/07/2001 6:40 AM
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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!
The idiot also known as Capfka ...
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#18457
02/07/2001 8:00 AM
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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?
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#18458
02/07/2001 8:08 AM
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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".
The idiot also known as Capfka ...
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#18459
02/07/2001 10:52 AM
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>as muddle-headed as a wombat Yes, we have the book too!
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#18460
02/07/2001 9:35 PM
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My apologies if I offended anyone in the IT industry. It sounds like a rather broad term--what exactly do you do?
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#18461
02/07/2001 10:54 PM
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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.
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#18462
06/08/2001 7:59 AM
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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"?
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#18463
06/08/2001 10:04 AM
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> "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
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#18464
06/08/2001 10:25 AM
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BY notes The term I.T. remains inapt and pretentious in my booksHow 'bout we replace it with informatics?
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#18465
06/08/2001 11:11 AM
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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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#18466
06/08/2001 11:32 AM
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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
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#18467
06/08/2001 11:40 AM
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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)
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#18468
06/08/2001 11:52 AM
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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.
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#18469
06/08/2001 11:53 AM
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> 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
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#18470
06/08/2001 11:55 AM
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REMEMBER YOU'RE A WOMBLE
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#18471
06/08/2001 12:16 PM
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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.
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#18472
06/08/2001 12:17 PM
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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.
̃) Ain' got nothin else, so no ̃.
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#18473
06/08/2001 1:10 PM
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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!). 
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#18474
06/08/2001 1:13 PM
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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.
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#18475
06/08/2001 1:19 PM
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(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
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#18476
06/08/2001 1:24 PM
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I was a bit shocked to see it resurface my own se'f.
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#18477
06/08/2001 1:39 PM
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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
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#18479
06/08/2001 2:49 PM
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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!
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#18480
06/08/2001 10:02 PM
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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....) ----- *of course then we'd have to come up with a new name for it.
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#18481
06/09/2001 1:26 AM
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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.
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#18482
06/09/2001 7:25 AM
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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?
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#18483
06/09/2001 8:50 AM
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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) --- oh, and Rapunzel: you're welcome
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#18484
06/09/2001 1:24 PM
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(somebody should invent a stationary bike with a laptop* attached to the handlebars....)
A Wombatcycle? ... Because it has lotsa' bytes?
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#18485
06/09/2001 3:21 PM
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Thus bringing the thread around full circle.
Thanks, wow.
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06/10/2001 6:46 AM
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'megabike' or 'gigabike', perhaps?
Pedal wireless info sent per PM (pedal mail?)
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#18487
06/10/2001 11:30 PM
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(somebody should invent a stationary bike with a laptop* attached to the handlebars....)
Just what the world needs - a bike with windows, going nowhere!
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#18488
06/11/2001 2:22 AM
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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.
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