Yeah, yeah, I was sort of toying with the idea of spinning in a flipper question when he was posting on the Training and Sickness forum about how many TdF stage winners, Olympic gold medallists, and World Cup winners in any sport he had coached... just to give his posts a bit of extra authority (subject to appropriate answers, of course).

Had second thoughts when I thunk it might have inflamed things a bit (or scared him off), and his biggest fan on these fora would have come down on me, hard.

Hitchy... you cleaned out the septic lately?

Seppo is short for septic tank (think outhouse).
septic tank is rhyming slang for yank
Yank, from an Aussie context, is anyone from USA

The term "Yank" by itself usually offends citizens from 49 of the 50 states, but that only seems to further entrench its use within the Australian lingo.

So there you have it, or not. As the case may be.

Dang! Guess it sounds a bit nicer than dickhead. Oh well.

'seppo' is not mean't to be offensive, its just what you are.......like the English are 'Poms'.....probably cos we're to lazy to say American or English!

Hitchy

ROFLMAO.

Hey Expat, I'm gonna head up north early on Sunday. I'll prolly ride up to Newey via the Pathetic Hwy, grab some fuel at Nobbys or Darby St, then head south for an hour towards Toronto and catch a train home from there. Any interest in joining up for some of it?

Its a 4 hour base ride, so I'll just be ambling along at about 30kph (a bit slower where 'scenery' is in full bloom).

Would that make it a friendly insult? When it comes to picking on my adopted countrymen, I got nothin. Plenty of Kiwi jokes tho...

I'm finking i'm gunna get wet on the 'tour de home' tonight...weathers looking grim.....pick me up if ya see me on the fwy Ed....s'pecially if its Piss-istantly coming down!....

Hitchy

We're usually out and back before the heat gets bad. Or should I show up solo and try to keep up on my Cannondale fat tire? What time do you think you'll be in the area?

there was aseppo here awhile ago, (can't remember which one), was living in Perth, he wore 'Seppo' as a badge of honour...it was all over his personal web page....he'd refer to himself as a 'seppo' in paradise. i think he delighted in the fact that none of his mates back in the states knew WTF he was on about!

Hitchy

Bureau is forecasting showers and possible thunderstorms so it will be a nice sunny day :)

Sunday is my sleep in day, so I don't take off until 5:30. That would put me at Swansea/Belmont by ~7:30 I would reckon (or the Toronto or Cardiff exit if I come up the fwy). I'll ride anywhere around Newey till 9:30 then jump on a train back home so I can play with the kids.

Where do you guys live?

Hey, that's right. You guys were supposed to be melting today. How yas all faring?

We're in Lambton. I went to post some parts out this morning, and my sandals melted to the road. Came home and laid down between the cat and dog on the floor in the lounge room, with the A/C on high.

It's a blowy 35 here today. Same as the last couple of days which didn't stop me riding. Have to go and teach a mate how to hit a golf ball first, at the driving range for the inter-departmental golf tournament next Monday. All this sun is getting me so brown I'll turn into a black fella soon.

It's dark out there, too.

Just pretend you're away on your own at Het-Volk surrounded by press motorbikes....

And your mates back in Seppoland are complaining about snow flurries?

Now here in Hobart, it's a lovely 20 deg C and I'm looking out my window at a school swimming carnival involving 700 (yeah, 700) students of a girls' high school. Hard to know which way to look. Scary, though... the pool will be getting complaints about noise pollution before long.

So many bad jokes come to mind...

So Rowan is the D.O.M. of the lot?

Huh?

Dirty Old Man. I have kids in High School.

Reminds me of when they hold a swimming carnival at my gym.....normal 1 hour workout somehow drags on for 90 minutes.

Can't understand it.

"Hard to know which way to look". I'm much too much of a gentleman to do otherwise. Did a lot of looking up at the sky, but.

It's a bit like touring the Cadbury's chockie factory just up the road. Looks good at first, but after the first 10 minutes, the sickly smell gets to you. Just substitute loud sceaming for sickly smell, plus a teacher on the PA that would be better suited at Kmart or Woolies behind the shop microphone.

Excellent. Might pay to wait until later in the week to see what the weather is going to be like b4 deciding.

41.1 in Newcastle at 3:00pm
40.7 in Gosford

That sounds vaguely apologetic. You're not taking me too seriously, are you? Did you forget which thread this is?

Yeah, was thinking we'd bundle the kids up, get a thermos of hot cocoa, and go cut down a Christmas tree this weekend. Oh wait, I'm in Australia now. Yeah, a bike ride to the beach would be better.