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Re: The strangest eBay auctions...
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Date: 
Tue, 6 Nov 2001 04:50:05 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.fun, Dave Johann writes:
In lugnet.off-topic.fun, Pedro Silva writes:
Dave, why "feel upset"?
The 'roos are to be eaten anyway... so why not use the leather to the most
of it? Isn't it what we do with pigs, use their guts as "cover" for sausages
and similars?

Pedro <== amused by the sort of thing one learns from down under...  ;-)

Well, when you look at it that way, 'upset' does seem a bit odd. I just tend to
visualize these 'roos still hopping around sans something important to them,
that's all.

   That's an interesting mental image.  I wonder if they play
   cricket with those wheelchair-bound frogs...?

   Anyways, I first heard about roo-scrotum baggies about four
   years ago.  It's up there with all kinds of pointlessly
   disgusting things that serve as a personal "DO NOT TOUCH"
   (or, more likely, "STAY FAR AWAY FROM") sign, like dried
   baby alligators encased in lucite, George Burns-lookin'
   gorillas carved out of coconuts, or Manties.  (don't ask)

   best

   LFB



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  Re: The strangest eBay auctions...
 
(...) Being on the ball, I must jump in here. Kangaroo meat is in supermarkets here (AUS), it's low in fat, high in protein. But it mainly goes into pet food, people of European descent seem to prefer, four on the floor beasts for their meat. Is the (...) (23 years ago, 6-Nov-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
  Re: The strangest eBay auctions...
 
(...) I suppose they do. 'Gimme my legs <RIBBIT> Gimme my legs' (...) Believe me, I won't! I've been ,uh, lucky enough to see the other items though. It's tough to purge those images from my memory. (...) -Dave (23 years ago, 6-Nov-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)

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(...) Well, when you look at it that way, 'upset' does seem a bit odd. I just tend to visualize these 'roos still hopping around sans something important to them, that's all. -Dave (23 years ago, 6-Nov-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)

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