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JayMcGee · 10-12-2006, 09:13 PM

Sean McMullen..... now go away....

@Aliantha..... is the Oz system reaaly a bad as that? (that wasn't a typo... I type with a manc accent). It's getting that way here in the UK, where the criteria for excellence is how many tick-boxes you ticked rather than how many kids you inspired.

Aliantha · 10-13-2006, 05:47 AM

I gave you one Buster.

Jay, I think there are a lot of problems with the bureauracracy involved in the education system these days. It's really quite ridiculas.

Clodfobble · 10-13-2006, 10:55 AM

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Originally Posted by Aliantha

I think there are a lot of problems with the bureauracracy involved in the education system these days. It's really quite ridiculas.

Oh dear. I don't know if I can handle that much irony right after waking up...

Aliantha · 10-13-2006, 07:59 PM

Glad I'm not a spelling nazi.

Clodfobble · 10-14-2006, 12:46 AM

But maybe your high school English teacher wishes you were?

Aliantha · 10-14-2006, 01:22 AM

Actually I did very well in English in school. I guess I just have never made the mistake of thinking I'm perfect...in anything.

busterb · 10-18-2006, 06:09 PM

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Originally Posted by Clodfobble

I read Robert Hughes' The Fatal Shore in high school, about the founding of Australia with colonies of convicts. Nonfiction, but it reads like a novel. It was good enough to keep; I still have it on the bookshelf.

I gave up at page 487, but I'm damn glad I wasn't in that goat roping.

10-18-2006, 08:22 PM

busterby asked if anyone knew about a writer who wrote about the 'early days' in Australia . The early days in Australia were about 40,000 years ago , but the Aborigines did not write in our modern sense .
I therefore take it that busterby means to refer to the early COLONIAL days in Australia . If so , you should read Henry Lawson . 'The Drover's Wife' is perhaps his best short story , and is seen as an Aussie classic . There is a snake in the house , and the husband ( the drover ) is absent . The drover's wife is sunburnt and hardy , and there are children in the house . The snake scene is described in the present tense . The writing may be clumsy sometimes, but it rings true and clear . It is the beginning of white Australian literature .

10-18-2006, 08:26 PM

P.S. sorry about the 'y' , busterb . 'Busterb' should rhyme with 'do not disturb' . No why (?) .

busterb · 10-18-2006, 08:57 PM

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Originally Posted by Buddug

P.S. sorry about the 'y' , busterb . 'Busterb' should rhyme with 'do not disturb' . No why (?) .

No Idea?

10-18-2006, 08:59 PM

Perhaps you should be grateful for the information I gave you ?

busterb · 10-18-2006, 09:57 PM

Well thanks and I have it saved to lookup. BUT rhyme ??

10-12-2006, 09:13 PM	#16
JayMcGee Cardigan-wearing man Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Much Binding In The Marsh Posts: 1,082	Sean McMullen..... now go away.... @Aliantha..... is the Oz system reaaly a bad as that? (that wasn't a typo... I type with a manc accent). It's getting that way here in the UK, where the criteria for excellence is how many tick-boxes you ticked rather than how many kids you inspired. __________________ I like wearing cardigans...... my current favourite is an orange cable-knit with real leatherette buttons.

10-13-2006, 05:47 AM	#17
Aliantha trying hard to be a better person Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Brisbane, Australia Posts: 16,493	I gave you one Buster. Jay, I think there are a lot of problems with the bureauracracy involved in the education system these days. It's really quite ridiculas. __________________ Kind words are the music of the world. F. W. Faber

10-13-2006, 07:59 PM	#19
Aliantha trying hard to be a better person Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Brisbane, Australia Posts: 16,493	Glad I'm not a spelling nazi. __________________ Kind words are the music of the world. F. W. Faber

10-14-2006, 01:22 AM	#21
Aliantha trying hard to be a better person Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Brisbane, Australia Posts: 16,493	Actually I did very well in English in school. I guess I just have never made the mistake of thinking I'm perfect...in anything. __________________ Kind words are the music of the world. F. W. Faber

10-18-2006, 09:57 PM	#27
busterb NSABFD Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: MS. usa Posts: 3,908	Well thanks and I have it saved to lookup. BUT rhyme ?? __________________ I've haven't left very deep footprints in the sands of time. But, boy I've left a bunch.

10-14-2006, 12:46 AM	#20
Clodfobble UNDER CONDITIONAL MITIGATION Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Austin, TX Posts: 20,012	But maybe your high school English teacher wishes you were?

10-18-2006, 08:22 PM	#23
Buddug Guest Posts: n/a	busterby asked if anyone knew about a writer who wrote about the 'early days' in Australia . The early days in Australia were about 40,000 years ago , but the Aborigines did not write in our modern sense . I therefore take it that busterby means to refer to the early COLONIAL days in Australia . If so , you should read Henry Lawson . 'The Drover's Wife' is perhaps his best short story , and is seen as an Aussie classic . There is a snake in the house , and the husband ( the drover ) is absent . The drover's wife is sunburnt and hardy , and there are children in the house . The snake scene is described in the present tense . The writing may be clumsy sometimes, but it rings true and clear . It is the beginning of white Australian literature .

10-18-2006, 08:26 PM	#24
Buddug Guest Posts: n/a	P.S. sorry about the 'y' , busterb . 'Busterb' should rhyme with 'do not disturb' . No why (?) .

10-18-2006, 08:59 PM	#26
Buddug Guest Posts: n/a	Perhaps you should be grateful for the information I gave you ?

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