Students

[vfaulkner]

I just wanted to wish all the students GOOD LUCK! on end-of-term papers, projects, and/or exams!!

<<currently taking break from rereading notes on groundwater geology...

[pete61uk]

I've two papers (Networking Security & Database Systems) and a 'pain in the ass' database to complete before Monday. Exams start in the New Year.

vfaulkner, Geology is 'of itself' an interesting subject, as they compliment each other, do you ever get involved with archaeology?

Good luck, and chill-out over the holidays (if you can).

[vfaulkner]

archaelogy/ nope, unless you consider cleaning out a dead relatives basement and selling on ebay...
this geology class was only to fulfill general science requirements.
i have my information systems exam later today...

[pete61uk]

vfaulkner wrote:

"archaelogy/ nope, unless you consider cleaning out a dead relatives basement and selling on ebay"

Since, genetically (at least) we are all related, that's as good a definition as any. LOL.

A long time ago (many years) I saw a TV documentary on 'Gondwanaland'. Basically, about tectonic plate movements since the seas receded and land formations first appeared. Fascinating stuff!

Fingers-crossed for your exam results

[rocky1]

I just wanted to wish all the students GOOD LUCK! on end-of-term papers, projects, and/or exams!!

<<currently taking break from rereading notes on groundwater geology...

V! ~ We have far more in common than I ever dreamed imaginable.... Spent 14 years managing a moderately sized potable water system, wherein hydrogeology was often a concern in protection of the aquifer providing our water supply. Never did any course study on the topic or it's finer points, but I did come to understand our aquifer and it's peculiarities quite extensively. It was in fact, very interesting stuff! One never realizes the complexity of issues involved there until you have to deal with it all! Most people see hundreds of little pot holes and wetlands in the surrounding country side, streams, sloughs, an occasional lake, and a river or two. But they never realize how they are all interconnected, and only a miniscule part of what lies beneath the earth's surface.

Good luck on the exams! I join you in January. Begin Computer Science classes 1/13/04, it's back to school after 27 years! OUCHHHH!

[matauri]

Our students have mostly finished exams now, and its schoolie time. A time when rolls of toilet paper have to be hidden, radio aerial on cars have to be lowered, letterboxes nailed down & wet weather gear worn to nightspots! 9 weeks of hell ;-)
(summer holidays for aussie students)

Their time will come....its workforce soon ! Out into the big bad world ;-)



Cindy

[minstrel]

Our students have mostly finished exams now, and its schoolie time. A time when rolls of toilet paper have to be hidden, radio aerial on cars have to be lowered, letterboxes nailed down & wet weather gear worn to nightspots! 9 weeks of hell ;-) (summer holidays for aussie students)

Odd people, these Aussies - most of that post sort of makes sense (at least for "Makes Mental" Matauri), although the part about "students have finished exams and it's 'schoolie' time" confuses me - wouldn't schoolie time be when they go to school rather than when they're on summer break? The one I really don't get is the bit about hiding the toilet paper - when the kids are home from school up here, I buy more toilet paper - I dread to think of what they would do if we ran out...

[matauri]

Odd people, these Aussies - most of that post sort of makes sense (at least for "Makes Mental" Matauri), although the part about "students have finished exams and it's 'schoolie' time" confuses me - wouldn't schoolie time be when they go to school rather than when they're on summer break? The one I really don't get is the bit about hiding the toilet paper - when the kids are home from school up here, I buy more toilet paper - I dread to think of what they would do if we ran out...

LOL...schoolies week is just a general term to describe the mass of school leavers, and it generally lasts longer than a week too :-)

Yar..ya hide the toilet paper for sure! Or your car, local shops, or even house can be wrapped up in it!

And its because we're so odd that makes us so loveable ;-)


Cindy

[minstrel]

Yar.. ya hide the toilet paper for sure! Or your car, local shops, or even house can be wrapped up in it!
But... how to put this delicately? What do your children use instead of toilet paper? Should you be hiding the towels?

"It's 'ow' and 'yar' that keep her in her place - not her wretched clothes and dirty face" - Professor Henry Higgins in My Fair Lady (from memory so it may not be accurate).

[rocky1]

Yar! And, here I thought it was just the juvenile attitude of America's College aged youth that scared me in respect to the future! It's a worldwide epidemic!

[mikmik]

mat wrote
Yar..ya hide the toilet paper for sure! Or your car, local shops, or even house can be wrapped up in it!and this:
Their time will come....its workforce soon ! Out into the big bad world ;-)
A puzzled (along with the rest of us) minstrel states the 'begged' question :
Odd people, these Aussies - most of that post sort of makes sense (at least for "Makes Mental" Matauri), although the part about "students have finished exams and it's 'schoolie' time" confuses me - wouldn't schoolie time be when they go to school rather than when they're on summer break? The one I really don't get is the bit about hiding the toilet paper - when the kids are home from school up here, I buy more toilet paper - I dread to think of what they would do if we ran out...

So, I think i've solved the riddle of Mx3's ("Makes Mental" Matauri) logic!

Yar, the students haven't had time to 'workforce' yet, so they can't just go into a nearby store and purchase their own T.P.
That means don't give them any money, if they want something, buy it for them.

Yar, so to prevent 'schoolies' from just taking T.P. from their bathroom at home, hide it all.
Minstrel makes an interesting point. Solution: You know where you hid it, no problem. For the 'schoolies', give them one roll each for 'personal' use and it has to last the week!

It's easy, minstrel, Once you learn to get inside the head of this aussie thinking. Does make your psychiatric diagnosis more difficult though.

[minstrel]

It's easy, minstrel, Once you learn to get inside the head of this aussie thinking. Does make your psychiatric diagnosis more difficult though.
Yar...

I guess I'm just going to have to wait until the long-anticipated Diagnostic and Statistical Manual IV-TR-Oz version is released later this year. It was supposed to be out a year ago but it was delayed because 'roos kept invading the camps and it was tiring on those poor psychologists chasing Aussies through the outback - every time one of the poor Aussie beggars heard Midnight Oil on the Jeep radio they'd panic and bolt - apparently they're afraid of men with shaved heads who dance funny...

[matauri]

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CRICKEY!!!! ;-)



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[wenwilder]

You started a new fad Cindy! :) Aren't they easily trained though?

[matauri]

You started a new fad Cindy! :) Aren't they easily trained though?

Well...if Paul hogan can do it...and Steve Irkwin (no typo!) can do it...there is hope for me yet. Watch out Hollywood, here I come ! ;-)



Cindy

[minstrel]

CRICKEY!!!! ;-)
Isn't that supposed to be CRIKEY!!!! ????


Aren't they easily trained though?
"Pffftt - what do women know about training men?" - Homer Simpson

And what's with Wen's new tagline? They're not even trying to hide those take over the world plans any more...

[matauri]

Isn't that supposed to be CRIKEY!!!! ????

Who knows!! LOL...most of us had never heard it till Irkwin decided to associate it with our vocabulary. It joins the archives with 'fosters beer', 'subarus', and roos jumping around the street. See how easy you guys are amused! ;-)



Cindy

[minstrel]

Isn't that supposed to be CRIKEY!!!! ????
Who knows!! LOL...most of us had never heard it till Irkwin decided to associate it with our vocabulary.
Yar... like most things in Oz (well, except "yar"), "crikey" originated in Britannia. Therefore, it was a natural thing for Stevie to utter the first time 'e got 'is arm bit orf by a croc, mate...

[paulhiles]

Yar... like most things in Oz (well, except "yar"), "crikey" originated in Britannia. Therefore, it was a natural thing for Stevie to utter the first time 'e got 'is arm bit orf by a croc, mate...
Well sorry to disillusion everyone, but even 'Yar' came originally from the good ol' United Kingdom.
It dates back to 1980's Britain with Margaret Thatcher at the helm, and Yuppies (Young Urban Professionals) used the phrase "Okay Yar" at every conceivable opportunity! Seems like another batch of undesirables decided to make their own way south! ;-)

Paul

[matauri]

LOL....this is going to be like the pic...I'm going to regret I said it! :-)


Seems like another batch of undesirables decided to make their own way south!

Here we go again..the Brits blowin their bugle ;-)
I actually think we're quite desirable ;-)

And to prove yas both wrong...LOL... 'yar' is something stupid I picked up off Arnie Baby! :-)



Cindy

[minstrel]

Matauri a yuppie?

Who woulda thunk it... she looks so... I don't know... Generation X... in that latest picture. It's probably designed to throw us all off while the takeover is in progress...

[paulhiles]

And what's with Wen's new tagline? They're not even trying to hide those take over the world plans any more...
And have you also noticed that Wen still insists on her own unique spelling of a "challange" LOL!! :c)
Maybe these plans aren't quite as subtle as we originally thought, eh? ;-)

[minstrel]

And have you also noticed that Wen still insists on her own unique spelling of a "challange"
I believe the last time this came up she mentioned that she was trilingual or maybe quatrilingual - it's the French spelling... pronounced shall-onge'.

Yeah... that'll work... that's the ticket...

[wenwilder]

And have you also noticed that Wen still insists on her own unique spelling of a "challange" LOL!! :c)


The 'a' just looks better!!! :)

[paulhiles]

Pssstt Dave! I'd better not mention the 'Acheive' then, eh? Maybe it's wurld dominayshun we should be worried about? :c)

Paul

[wenwilder]

Pssstt Dave! I'd better not mention the 'Acheive' then, eh? Maybe it's wurld dominayshun we should be worried about? :c)

Paul

Haven't you ever heard of 'i' before 'e' except after 'ch'? ;)

I graduadeted the sixth grade and it only took me too trys! ;)

[pete61uk]

Tis deganeratin inta text-spek. Or are you going to move onto 'spoonerism' ?

[vfaulkner]

Apparently, all the students have already left, by the way this thread is heading south fast.

[minstrel]

I suspect the real answer is, with the WPW Charlie's Angels as busy as they are plotting the takeover, who's got time for spell-checking?

Actually, I had to go back and correct "spell-checking" because initially I spelled it "spello-checking"... but maybe it was correct the first time...