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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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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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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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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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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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(somebody should invent a stationary bike with a laptop* attached to the handlebars....)
A Wombatcycle? ... Because it has lotsa' bytes?
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Thus bringing the thread around full circle.
Thanks, wow.
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'megabike' or 'gigabike', perhaps?
Pedal wireless info sent per PM (pedal mail?)
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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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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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