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Location: limbo, Australia
Hi all... I am a complete newbie to poi, fire twirling and anything/everything related. In fact, I'll only even see it in real life for the 1st time next Friday (making it down to the Moon Fest on north side of Brissie).
Anyway, this is me...
Name: Pat... but Pogo to those that know me well.
Location: Logan City, south of Brisbane, QLD, Oz.
Hometown: As above.
DOB: 17/09/1969
Age: 36 and counting...
Sex: Wouldn't that be nice?
Occupation(s): Computer Programmer. Worked for myself from home for 2 1/2 years, but have recently had to get a "real" job.
Favorite Food(s): Hmmm... pretty much anything, really.
Favorite Color(s): Green
Toys: Acoustic guitar, Classical guitar, 3 electric guitars, 2 djembes.
Hobbies other than the obvious: Music, Reading, Keeping fit (hmmm, not so much of the keeping fit, actually)
Education: Did Bachelor of Science majoring in Computer Science and Pure Maths. Then Grad Dip Appl Computing... then started a research masters, but gave it away when life got in the way.
Favorite Book(s): Have to get back to you on that one... The Anarchist was the last book I read, quite liked it.
Favorite Movie(s): Lots... Fight Club, Snatch, Lock Stock..., Finding Nemo, Pulp Fiction, Pay It Forward...
Favorite TV show(s): Don't watch tv.
Plans for life in general: (i.e. what you want to do when you grow up) I really... wish... I knew.
Favorite Music Artists/Composers: Lately... Xavier Rudd, Jack Johnson, JBT, Blue King Brown, Donavon Frankeneiter, Rob Sawyer, The Waifs... blues/roots stuff.
Favorie ice cream flavor(s): Vanilla.
Marmite, Vegemite, or Nutella? (please choose one...this is important as it is essentially this site's equivalent of stating your religion...we have religious wars, crusades, cathedrals to Nutella, all that.)
Definitely... vegemite.
--pogo (pat) [forever and always]
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8,506 posts
Location: Portland Oregon USA
So far I'm having no luck with finding the audio clip of the Mothers Day commercial.
Growing old is mandatory; growing up is NOT.
Proud member of the HoP DPS.
Sanity is a highly overrated state of mind.
I'm normal ... it's everyone else that's crazy.
Gidg
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13,215 posts
Location: without class distinction, Australia
I'm having no luck with fun.
You've gone to bed, and george has gone to kendo.
wonder where clarence and rave are...
i would have changed ***** to phallus, and claire to petey Petey
Rougie: but that's what I'm doing here
Arnwyn: what letting me adjust myself in your room?..don't you dare quote that on HoP...
there's no charge for awesomeness... or attractiveness
3,764 posts
Location: limbo, Australia
goodness... the places my thread goes when I wander away...
so... if it's an "aussie", steakhouse, it should represent the greatest of aussie traditions... the barbie!! that's bbq... not the distasteful children's toy with the big... hair.
so... it should serve stacks and stacks of all different kinds of meat that are all indistiguishable from each other, cos they've had the absolute crap burnt out of them. all this served alongside a veritable smorgasbord of insipid, fizzy "beer", coleslaw and potato salad.
and it should all be served by blokes dressed in stubbies, bonds singlets and thongs (flip-flops), who scratch themselves with the bbq tongs.
--pogo (pat) [forever and always]
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13,215 posts
Location: without class distinction, Australia
there was a guy at work last night who looked like you!
i would have changed ***** to phallus, and claire to petey Petey
Rougie: but that's what I'm doing here
Arnwyn: what letting me adjust myself in your room?..don't you dare quote that on HoP...
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Location: The wrong place
Uh, oh...it's definitely not very authentic, then...cuz you can actually distinguish one thing from the other...and health codes won't allow either the singlets...or the thongs...or the scratching with the tongs...(don't know what stubbies are...don't think I've heard you mention that before)
Oh, well...if that's the case, anyhow...you wouldn't be a very authentic Aussie barbie-quer, either...cuz I don't think you burn everything to a crisp...and I somehow can't see you scratching with the tongs...
Anyhow...did I mention that I'm hungry?
"Absence is to love what wind is to fire...it extinguishes the small, enkindles the great."
--Comte Debussy-Rebutin
.:*distracted by shiny things*:.
3,777 posts
Location: brizvegas, Australia
they were talking about this 'aussie' restaurant you guys have been talking about on rove last night! rove's been doing his show from over there & they went to the outback restaurant!! no offence to anyone who likes it - but it sounds so BAD! cheesy fries!? what the? i'm not even sure what they are! & 'blooming onion' - which looked so YUCK! (rove bought the take away one & gave it to his guests to try!) & he read out a few other things from the menu (which they stole of course!)...like 'the chocolate thunder from down under' (or something like that)...a dessert apparently!
do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and good to eat!
if at first you do succeed, try not to look too astonished!
smile! :grin: it confuses people!
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13,215 posts
Location: without class distinction, Australia
aw dammit! i missed that part of rove! me and alan were watching midsummer murders and only caught the end of rove in la! hope someone puts a clip on youtube!
i would have changed ***** to phallus, and claire to petey Petey
Rougie: but that's what I'm doing here
Arnwyn: what letting me adjust myself in your room?..don't you dare quote that on HoP...
4,728 posts
Location: The wrong place
Oh...the cheesy fries are just fried potato wedges with melted cheese...and they're yummy...and then the Bloomin' Onion is a sweet vidalia onion that's cut to flower out...and it's battered and deep fried and served with a few different dipping sauces...also very yummy...
And the 'Chocolate Thunder from Down Under' is a chocolate cake with chocolate sauce and I think it has chocolate chunks in it, too...is very much like a Chocolate Orgasm...
I'm sure none of that is very authentic for Aussie fare...but it's still really, really good...I'm just sure it would be a bit much if you're not used to the really rich foods that we tend to have over here...
But I must say the my favourite thing to have when I go is the steak and shrimp...they are spiced to perfection and the one I go to always cooks them just right, too...not overdone or underdone...
Damn, every time I come on this site I end up making myself hungry!!!
"Absence is to love what wind is to fire...it extinguishes the small, enkindles the great."
--Comte Debussy-Rebutin
Sitting down facing forward . . .
2,387 posts
Location: Christchurch, New Zealand
Hmmmm - doesn't sound very authentic Ors-strar-lee-arrnn fare...
Authentic Ors-strar-lee-arrnn fare is one of the following:
1) REAL original traditional - stale bread and water (traditionally eaten while wearing black and white striped attire)
2) as per senor Pat - items of previously edible nature turned into charcoal by the judicious use of naked flame.
Written by: Doc Lightning talking about Marmite in Kichi's Intro thread
I have several large jars of the stuff. I actually like it... a little. And don't tell anyone I admitted to it. 
there's no charge for awesomeness... or attractiveness
3,764 posts
Location: limbo, Australia
Written by: Rouge Dragon
there was a guy at work last night who looked like you!
I'm starting to get a lil bit freaked out by the number of times I've heard that. I'm still haunted by the memory of one friend telling me that they sat in a bar after a gig with one of the band members thinking it was me (talking to them, indepth, for an unspecified period of time), before realising that it wasn't...?!?!that; and being told on numerous occasions that someone saw me somewhere that I wasn't...?!?! or that they saw someone that looked just like me with different hair or something.
I think maybe someone's been cloning me... and frankly... the world's not ready for more than one pogo.
on the subject of "aussie" restaurants... it seems to me that truly authentic australian food would include menu items, such as kangaroo, goanna, barramundi, emu etc... and make use of traditional indigenous australian plants also... macadamias (yum), bush tomatoes, desert limes, quandongs etc.
but heck... most of those ingredients are really all that prevalent over here.
it sounds like the outback restaurants are a bit of a hybrid of what is assumed to be aussie tucker and southern american fare, designed to appeal to the local palate.
--pogo (pat) [forever and always]
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Location: The wrong place
How rude!!! They can't have my Pogo!!!
The Outback Restaurants are all over the US, so it's not just the southern palate that they try to appeal to...and they really started out with their specialties being the steak and shrimp...and the Bloomin' Onion is what made them famous...is now a really big thing in lots of restaurants...with many variations on the name...which, I can't remember any of at the moment...
"Absence is to love what wind is to fire...it extinguishes the small, enkindles the great."
--Comte Debussy-Rebutin
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13,215 posts
Location: without class distinction, Australia
we'e just cool cos we eat both the animals on our national emblem!
i would have changed ***** to phallus, and claire to petey Petey
Rougie: but that's what I'm doing here
Arnwyn: what letting me adjust myself in your room?..don't you dare quote that on HoP...
2,303 posts
Location: Brisbane
The funny thing is tho that we don't actually deep fry onions that i know of. The only place i can think of that does it is Hungry Jacks and for you US people that is your Burger King francise anyway.
So you've made aussie restaurants famous of an american dish....... Hmmm..... me a little bit confuzzled.
:admires giant wooden aeroplane: Its about time trees were good for something, instead of just standing their like jerks!!! 
Homer rocks!!!!
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13,215 posts
Location: without class distinction, Australia
Aussie onions come in the form of rings burnt to a crisp on the bbq!
i would have changed ***** to phallus, and claire to petey Petey
Rougie: but that's what I'm doing here
Arnwyn: what letting me adjust myself in your room?..don't you dare quote that on HoP...
4,728 posts
Location: The wrong place
I didn't do it!!! It was the owners of the franchise!!! ...and you're always confuzzled!!!
Thank you for my birthday present, my love...it's beautiful, but you're still my greatest treasure...
I love you...forever and always...
"Absence is to love what wind is to fire...it extinguishes the small, enkindles the great."
--Comte Debussy-Rebutin
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13,215 posts
Location: without class distinction, Australia
blerg
*pukepukepuke*
i would have changed ***** to phallus, and claire to petey Petey
Rougie: but that's what I'm doing here
Arnwyn: what letting me adjust myself in your room?..don't you dare quote that on HoP...
4,728 posts
Location: The wrong place
Jealous, much?
"Absence is to love what wind is to fire...it extinguishes the small, enkindles the great."
--Comte Debussy-Rebutin
4,728 posts
Location: The wrong place
Just cuz I love you, darling...
Longing
by Matthew Arnold
Come to me in my dreams, and then
By day I shall be well again.
For then the night will more than pay
The hopeless longing of the day.
Come, as thou cam'st a thousand times,
A messenger from radiant climes,
And smile on thy new world, and be
As kind to others as to me.
Or, as thou never cam'st in sooth,
Come now, and let me dream it truth.
And part my hair, and kiss my brow,
And say My love! why sufferest thou?
Come to me in my dreams, and then
By day I shall be well again.
For then the night will more than pay
The hopeless longing of the day.
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"Absence is to love what wind is to fire...it extinguishes the small, enkindles the great."
--Comte Debussy-Rebutin
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Location: .:*over the rainbow*:.
hey... come to my house warming/birthday party this friday! 
i don't have your number or any other way of contacting you dude, so hope this isn't waaaaaaay late notice
BYO:
...and pillows i left with you at the drive-ins 
ps. ya kiddies are most more than welcome too
*:...one day all the fairy fridges will be aligned and my pixie world will be complete...:*
4,728 posts
Location: The wrong place
I'll let him know, Elke...right now...cuz I doubt he'll see this before then...is working really hard...as per usual...and it will be his kiddlie weekend..but it'd be really great for him to be able to get them out and about...
Happy housewarming/birthday...!!!
"Absence is to love what wind is to fire...it extinguishes the small, enkindles the great."
--Comte Debussy-Rebutin
there's no charge for awesomeness... or attractiveness
3,764 posts
Location: limbo, Australia
Written by: gorgeous girl
Just cuz I love you, darling...
I love you too, sweetness... and thank you... that was beautiful...
Written by: the pillow deprived pixie
hey... come to my house warming/birthday party this friday!
I'd love to, thank you...!! and the kiddlies are all keen too...!! I won't remember your pillows, but I've asked jess to remind me...
--pogo (pat) [forever and always]
hehe, 'Member' huhuh
6,120 posts
Location: Behind you. With Jam
Hello Mate
Long time no speak...
Just to let you know... [Old link]
See ya REAL soon...
"I used to want to change the world, now I just wanna leave the room with a little dignity..." - Lotus Weinstock
4,728 posts
Location: The wrong place
Oooh...I'm gonna be there from November to February...so you'll get to meet a crazy lil witch, too!!!
"Absence is to love what wind is to fire...it extinguishes the small, enkindles the great."
--Comte Debussy-Rebutin
Sitting down facing forward . . .
2,387 posts
Location: Christchurch, New Zealand
*must remember to stay away from Oz Nov-Feb*
Written by: Doc Lightning talking about Marmite in Kichi's Intro thread
I have several large jars of the stuff. I actually like it... a little. And don't tell anyone I admitted to it.
4,728 posts
Location: The wrong place
"Absence is to love what wind is to fire...it extinguishes the small, enkindles the great."
--Comte Debussy-Rebutin
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13,215 posts
Location: without class distinction, Australia
Party in Aus!!!!
i would have changed ***** to phallus, and claire to petey Petey
Rougie: but that's what I'm doing here
Arnwyn: what letting me adjust myself in your room?..don't you dare quote that on HoP...
there's no charge for awesomeness... or attractiveness
3,764 posts
Location: limbo, Australia
Written by: Neon_Shaolin
Hello Mate
Long time no speak...
Just to let you know... [Old link]
See ya REAL soon...
oooh, YAAAAAAYYYYYY!!! it'll be great to meet you, dave...!!
wow, this year's shaping up to kick some serious arse...!! I can feel fire parties galore coming on, so I'd better get my act together and start turning up to more stuff...
*goes off to visit the neon-orally-fixated-on-oz thread*
--pogo (pat) [forever and always]
there's no charge for awesomeness... or attractiveness
3,764 posts
Location: limbo, Australia
Written by: georgemc
*must remember to stay away from Oz Nov-Feb*
oz is safe again!! she'll be here to stay soon as we can swing it...!!
--pogo (pat) [forever and always]
4,728 posts
Location: The wrong place
I need to practice my Oz terms, don't I???
Tickets all booked...and just counting down the days!!!
19th of November, ya'll...
"Absence is to love what wind is to fire...it extinguishes the small, enkindles the great."
--Comte Debussy-Rebutin
2,303 posts
Location: Brisbane
Oz terms.... "Ya'll", not one of them..... hehehehehe
:admires giant wooden aeroplane: Its about time trees were good for something, instead of just standing their like jerks!!!
Homer rocks!!!!
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