It is a myth that the eucalyptus leaves they ingest have a somnolent, or drugging, effect. In other news, I just re-read David Gerrold's "The Man Who Folded Himself." | Report abuse, Posted by: Boko999 | May 9, 2008 6:19 PM | Report abuse, A more upbeat tune: A video all about Emma Watson (AKA Hermione), http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6yyNU3OBlv8&feature=related, A song by (Rosa Isabel) Mutya Buena (video by Littlemizzpoison), Lyrics: http://www.lyricsmania.com/lyrics/mutya_buena_lyrics_10568/real_girl_lyrics_33303/real_girl_lyrics_483449.html, Posted by: omni | May 9, 2008 9:51 AM Mudge found me and here I am. Oh well. Sump pump is sorta workin'....PG gov is closed due to major flooding in Upper Marlborough. | Report abuse, "We've Only Just Begun" by the Carpenters Posted by: LTL-CA | May 9, 2008 6:13 PM CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — A koala has been rescued after causing a five-car pileup while trying to cross a six-lane freeway in southern Australia. Indian fans (and some of them really are fanantics) send it out using VOIP. Posted by: slyness | May 9, 2008 6:59 AM | Report abuse, Posted by: frostbitten | May 12, 2008 7:43 PM After Timon was abandoned by his mother, Chloe stepped in and became his surrogate mother. Who made up that rule? Apparently the gumleaves can use up enormous amounts of energy to digest in the stomach, leaving the koalas stomach, leaving it with very little energy to … It's because of 4:00 a.m. work Saturday, and 5:00 a.m. today. Save & Share:  | Report abuse. witchcraft And DNA Girl, I may take you up on that nagging offer. | Report abuse. Chinese or whatever. For other reasons in the last few days I've been keeping an eye on news stories relating to hackers. Did the tag-team writers burn themselves out with those two-and-three-a-day kits? ), Posted by: Curmudgeon | May 12, 2008 1:50 PM My kids think I know the words to every song on the radio. CP, congratulations. It wouldn't hurt me to be more consistent with the yoga stretches, but so far so good. "The Color of Love" by Celine Dion (god, this is humiliating. Posted by: Jumper | May 12, 2008 3:13 PM I'll confess to the BeeGee thing, too, especially "Nights on Broadway." | Report abuse, http://www.canada.com/victoriatimescolonist/news/story.html?id=0ea58e6d-12fd-471c-bcc1-772102cc5043. I just knew it. “The koala was absolutely not damaged in any way,” Tugwell said. However, koalas are not drunk or high on eucalyptus! And then in two weeks she has to come her for my son's graduation. You wanna drink a koala, you're gonna need a blender, mate. It just wouldn’t work! The evangelical wing of the GOP is in even more of a self-destructive suicidal mood than even the Democrats, if such a thing is possible.   Posted by: Miss Toronto | May 9, 2008 6:39 AM Posted by: RD Padouk | May 9, 2008 9:29 AM But maybe it's just the ones jonesing on boodle. If you think of it as a War Re-enactment, it all suddenly makes sense. Glad to see you're not in Oz now, 'Mudge. However, when it comes to Timon the Rufous Bettong and our keeper Chloe, the connection is something that most of us will never truly experience. Don't worry, Joel. Joel, nice pictures from down under. Posted by: yellojkt | May 9, 2008 6:55 AM Posted by: mostlylurking | May 12, 2008 5:39 PM Stand | Report abuse. | Report abuse. Cassandra, I agree that WaPo.com should acknowledge the problem with the A-blog, by putting a notice on the website, letting us know what the problem is and when it's expected to be fixed. So good to hear from you! Boy, this is stirring up some incredibly dusty gray cells. | Report abuse, A headline to warm the cockles of my heart: "Bush's Approval Rating Hits All-Time Low", http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/12/AR2008051201073.html?hpid=topnews, Posted by: Curmudgeon | May 12, 2008 3:16 PM Wait, was the Calgary BPH last weekend? | Report abuse. | Report abuse. you'll need to get out of the city to find them... the Big Crab, the Big Pineapple, the Big Bull (with his swinging t*sticles as Bill Bryson writes)... can't leave Australia without tracking a few down. But I do have many meetings to attend. Posted by: Dreamer | May 9, 2008 6:42 AM The Great Plague (either 1348 or 1666, your choice) Here’s[...], Cairns ZOOM is home to many feathery friends and the youngest (and one of the nosiest) of all is Petrie the Eclectus Parrot! Things younger than Curmudgeon: movable type http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/12/AR2008051200889.html?hpid=topnews, Hope this works (posting the comment, I mean). Ireland does the same thing with castles. Motto: "Lawn bowling is like curling on the green", Posted by: shrieking denizen | May 9, 2008 6:48 AM Love the pics, great little album of JA's Australian adventure.   They were up there for his middle son's First Communion. We went to Chapel Hill to graduate the younger dottir. The two local reporters who wrote the story, Terri Langford and Lisa Sandberg, wrote in the secong graf: "Most children are immunized against diseases including chicken pox, polio, measles and smallpox before they start school.". You cannot truly appreciate the Bee Gees discography unless you had an opportunity to hear their pre-disco music played by a Philippino boy band in Okinawa circa '75. And it's easy to imagine that the FSM followers are all equally disdainful of religion of all kinds, but actually, many of them are just light-hearted and irreverent and they are making fun of being overly serious just as much as they are making fun of other people's beliefs. The Wedding Song" written by Paul Stookey, sung by Peter Yarrow (yes, I'm a fool and a sucker for this song. Posted by: yellojkt | May 12, 2008 3:41 PM 1. [Most of my field work on Australian fauna has been accomplished at the zoo. What I do remember learning is that koalas are rather bad tempered. Have you seen any of the giant fibre glass statues? This time I managed to grasp the concept of the "wicket" and why a sticky one is, you know, bad. | Report abuse. You be careful now, you hear? There … My nominee for cutest animal would be the red panda. Smallpox? Posted by: Kim | May 9, 2008 6:44 AM Lot's going on in the world. No question. | Report abuse. | Report abuse. | Report abuse. Wow, that is a bad list, yello. Posted by: Loomis | May 9, 2008 9:47 AM Sunshine of Your Love | Report abuse. | Report abuse. Police told the Associated Press no one was seriously injured in the crash on Adelaide's South Eastern Freeway, but there were some minor injuries, including a man who experienced soreness in his neck. To comprehend teeth ursine Those trees remind me so of the California coast. The One Who creates these two creatures in perfect harmony is the All-Mighty Allah. One of the comments has the most comprehensive list of bad 70s songs I have ever seen. | Report abuse. Her dad went with us, fortunately; without both Mr. T and him, we couldn't have gotten all three couches and the rest of her furniture loaded. The Aussies and Kiwis have a wonderful motorsports scene with fabulous open-road Targa-style rallies (think of it as "The Road Warrior" with stopwatches instead of weapons and mohawked Bad Guys), American-style dirt-track racing (sprint and stock cars), annual visits from the Indycar and Formula 1 series, and their unique and very cool V8 Supercar series, capped by long-distance/endurance events on the majestic Bathurst circuit on Mt. (And here I thought God was only ticked off about New Orleans' gay rights agenda so he sent Katrina to take care of biz. It's nice to know we'll all find each other somehow. Indeed, the cecum makes up 20% of the total intestine. Saturday Night Fever - Bee Gees Just posted a comment on Celebritology. Posted by: RD Padouk | May 12, 2008 1:06 PM Have a great Friday, yessss it's finally Friday!   I was thinking about you the other day, bia. This intrigued me enough that I attempted, once again, to master the intricacies of this subtle sport. | Report abuse, Posted by: bc | May 12, 2008 12:32 PM | Report abuse. Posted by: Dave of the Coonties | May 9, 2008 10:15 AM Koala narrowly avoids being run over by a ute on a busy road after climbing down from its tree and dashing out into oncoming traffic. Thanks to this delay, the microorganisms in the cecum transform the cellulose into a structure from which the koala can benefit. "I wanna get with you, While cellulose is being treated in this plant, oil and phenolic combinations, which are poisonous chemicals, are rendered ineffective in the liver. The access of the leaves to the digestive system is delayed right at this point. | Report abuse. I had to track her down at my brother's house. Anyway, my attempts to learn the game were limited pretty much to the term "Tea Interval." Oh, and there's a lot of pirate cricket on Internet. At least I hope I didn't miss it. I couldn't possibly, remotely ever tell it here. Posted by: RD Padouk | May 9, 2008 9:36 AM Of course I want to think only the smart ones figured out where it's at. LL: Think Rick Weiss would be interested in this? | Report abuse. How was your Mother's Day? The curling club was adjacent. *exuberant Grover waves* :-), Congrats CP!!!!! I shall lead off with some of my abominable favorites (but not in any order): "Happy Together" by the Turtles They speak about anything BUT cricket. "Hey, Girl," by Freddie Scott (you gotta be old to remember this one) "Heap Big Smoke, But No Fire" - Arthur Godfrey. Next: Googling Bloops. | Report abuse. The miscarriage is this: during all our discussions and listings of the greatets guitar riffs of all time, not one single person nominated what just has to be one of the greatest and most memorable riffs of all time (and you will all smack your foreheads when I tell what it is): The opening of the Hollies' "Long, Cool Woman." | Report abuse. There is no alcohol in eucalyptus to intoxicate them. Don't know who else is monitoring. We gave the mother of my child a cooking video game. Speaking of Twenty-20, as in Mad Dog 20/20), I had never before heard the legend about koalas being drunk. This means, the animal meets its carbohydrate requirements entirely by cellulose digested by microorganisms. I can get into Aussie rules football and their bad-a$$ rugby teams, but the lawn bowling and cricket can put me to sleep. Koala rescued after 5-car pileup on Australian freeway. Voice of America got hacked bad with a DOS attack, reputedly out of the former Soviet states. Posted by: Kerric | May 12, 2008 2:54 PM On several occasions I have tried to overcome my ignorance. Koalas only eat gum leaves – that part is true – but the leaves don’t cause them to get drunk or high. Posted by: bc | May 9, 2008 10:51 AM They live all over eastern Australia and only eat one type of tree? College Parkian, congratulations on your promotion. Go figure. And if that isn't possible, why doesn't someone simply acknowledge the problem? Just for the record, not *all* Aussies play silly sports in silly costumes. http://images.ucomics.com/comics/crdog/2008/crdog080509.gif, Posted by: yellojkt | May 9, 2008 6:43 AM Reduced to BackKitting just to suppress the DTs... *very-glad-to-see-SOME-kinda-Boodle-still-exists Grover waves* :-), Posted by: Scottynuke | May 12, 2008 2:29 PM There is no alcohol in eucalyptus to intoxicate them. | Report abuse, Posted by: Boko999 | May 12, 2008 3:24 PM OK, that's enough to get you guys started. I wonder why lawn bowling was never taken up on the prairies? Posted by: TBG | May 9, 2008 9:54 AM Panorama. Didn't play either as a kid, so I didn't develop any appreciation for them. Automatically. That snarky link made me giggle, TBG. Boo999 - You're a ghost of your former self without a new boodle of the day! ", to a theological certainty. Posted by: dmd | May 9, 2008 7:09 AM | Report abuse. You see, Cricket isn't a game, so stop thinking of it in those terms. As is known, the unique food of the koala is eucalyptus leaves. Posted by: Boko999 | May 12, 2008 3:26 PM And that a lovely little rain shower came up while we were loading? Not sure how I could possibly have known about Steve Allen at that age, or if that fits chronologically. What's the overall assessment? It's the perfect sport on a scorching hot day when you can't move and the only thing to do is have a cold beer, stay out of the sun, and snooze watching cricket. I do, but these are the ones I belt out the loudest. (There's also a quite excellent riff in the middle of it.). Hi Dreamer! Still raing heavy in baltimore,the pump held up all night(thank goodness)off to work,worried about my home now and the roads on my way home tonight. Posted by: Curmudgeon | May 12, 2008 5:07 PM Posted by: Curmudgeon | May 12, 2008 1:31 PM There was nobody there, so the attendant let us hold one while she was cleaning their cage. George Burns Koala rescued after 5-car pileup on Australian freewayBy ROD McGUIRKAssociated PressThe Associated PressCANBERRA, Australia. It should make him feel less forgotten. And it's certainly off-topic, whatever that's worth. I think Boko's 7:24 is hilarious, by the way. I kind of hope so, as I couldn't keep up with them. | Report abuse. I've never really understood cricket. I can truthfully say there are only 3 songs I can stand to listen to on it (Cat's in the Cradle, You're So Vain, One Toke over the Line. However, koalas are not drunk or high on eucalyptus! Posted by: Loomis | May 9, 2008 10:14 AM | Report abuse. Backposting some bear thoughts for those who are still stuck in koala-land... "A bear was stuff'd in museums For those who ne'er saw bear; All that and Jenna Bush's wedding, which seemed to be a nice understated affair. And CP, let me raise said cup of tea in salute to your new position. Wow - Dreamer! No trip to Australia would be complete without contacting the Queensland Curling Association. | Report abuse. | Report abuse. The mast on the sailboat pictured here, if you could stand next to it, would only come up to your shoulder. 1. | Report abuse. Posted by: Wilbrod | May 12, 2008 2:50 PM | Report abuse. Much more colorful. That's it, Mudge. She and I rolled in at 11 p.m. Did I mention that she had a lower level apartment, ten steps below street level? | Report abuse. I next attempted to master the sport after reading the sequels to Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy in which cricket plays a central role. Hi Everyone,it is nice to have inside info, In the absence of microorganisms, it is obvious that the koala cannot survive. I hope everybody's allright. anarcho-syndicalist commune and/or autonomous collectives Never have I seen these corrections in print. ("And if our love was just a circus you'd be a clown by now...???*&*&?"). | Report abuse, Posted by: dmd | May 12, 2008 7:51 PM | Report abuse. | Report abuse. "As much as 40 to 50 per cent of koalas coming into care in both Queensland and NSW [New South Wales] are showing clinical signs of the disease and it seems to be getting worse," said Prof. Peter Timms" Posted by: shrieking denizen | May 9, 2008 8:09 AM   The rumor is so rampant that there's a concerted campaign to knock it down . Koalas tend to smell strongly of eucalyptus and musk. Posted by: Kerric | May 12, 2008 12:12 PM It is funny how many of us have found the working Boodle. Richard the Lionheart Made me laugh. MUCH more entertaining. This marriage actually took place about a decade later than the date in the cutline so cannot have been the reason for the castle's name change. 3. I would recommend Dylan and Neil Young to get the bad tune cooties out of your head. | Report abuse, Posted by: Boko999 | May 12, 2008 9:50 AM Your stress meter might go all kerflooey, with springs popping and sparks and lots of "boingy" noises and beeps and whistles. | Report abuse. The rumor is so rampant that there's a concerted campaign to knock it down. | Report abuse. Amazing to see others have naturally migrated to Joel's last true kit. SCC: Reporters Terri Langford and Lisa Sandberg are with the Houston Chronicle. | Report abuse, Posted by: Kerric | May 12, 2008 12:11 PM It's a Microsoft thing. was blocking the boodle in some abnormal way. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHkmLEhFq44, Posted by: frostbitten | May 12, 2008 7:25 PM I'd like to take a poll: May I have your attention, Boodle? The buzz on koalas is that they're drunk on eucalyptus leaves. Posted by: RD Padouk | May 9, 2008 9:25 AM From sweeping blue seas as far as the eye can see, to the cityscape set against lush green mountains, there’s plenty of magic to be seen from the Dome Climb. yj, I would tend to agree, but not about the "no question" part. Posted by: Wilbrod | May 12, 2008 1:51 PM By a small minority of older folks in silly clothes. Posted by: TBG | May 12, 2008 1:57 PM Just looked at a few pictures of the China quake, really awful. | Report abuse, I should confess that I like: It seems like the bloop kits have blooped. | Report abuse. These little guys may be cold-blooded, but they have already warmed the hearts of our keepers and the lucky guests that have[...], These 7 quirky Cairns Christmas gift ideas will have your Christmas shopping sorted in no time! Now I'm ROTFLMAO. Guess the WGN weatherman was drunk, then. I stayed with her and helped clean after they left. | Report abuse. Posted by: dr | May 9, 2008 8:33 AM Anything by America. From cheeky cockatoos, to free flying parrots, to a duck that stalks our guests along the ZOOM course[...], Are koalas bears? A koala caused a five-car pileup on Monday morning as it tried to cross a busy six-lane freeway in Australia. *crossing fingers, thinking good thoughts*, Posted by: mostlylurking | May 12, 2008 2:24 PM | Report abuse. With this structure, the koala's cecum can be likened to a bio-chemical plant. ", The whole column is kind of interesting in a slow-down-to-rubberneck-at-the-car-wreck sort of way. Posted by: slyness | May 12, 2008 5:09 PM about the things that are most sacred to us. I'm allowed to post only between midnight and 5 a.m. EDT. The truth is that they're just incredibly sleepy -- they sleep about 20 hours a day. Posted by: mostlylurking | May 12, 2008 4:31 PM - Koalas dont normally need to drink as they get all the moisture they need from the gumleaves. Ah, ok, thanks, Kerric. | Report abuse. Posted by: Miss Toronto | May 9, 2008 6:42 AM When I worked for myself I used to joke that I worked every day until I forgot how to add, or got in a fight with my employee, at which point I would call it a day.

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