Ginger Meggs by Jason Chatfield for October 26, 2010

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    COWBOY7  about 14 years ago

    So he didn’t have good intentions!

    Good morning to all Meggsie’s fans!

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    Joe_Minotaur  about 14 years ago

    Flag ‘em high! Flag ‘em low! Flag ‘em everywhere they go!

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    usfellers  about 14 years ago

    Back later with a comment. Meanwhile, GoComics, please block anything from the IP addresses of these spammers.

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    ottod Premium Member about 14 years ago

    Yep! No doubt about it! ITUIC!

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    anorok2  about 14 years ago

    Usfrights?????……..I didn’t know you had Halloween in Ausie land too…….Interesting!

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    anorok2  about 14 years ago

    Usfrights……Check out Strange Brew in todays comics, if you haven’t already.

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    usfellers  about 14 years ago

    G’day Jason, DryCula, JFristein, Ottod, Meggsiefan, Frank and all Meggsie’s mates.

    Yep, for sure Ottod, the chap at the betting shop thinks so too and has shortened the odds considerably. He reckons my GISAD is the same thing - in a way.

    Frank Corona: We do sort of have Halloween in Australia inasmuch as we know all about it and some kids do bother to dress up and go trick-or-treating. It is probably more recognised as the Christian festival of All Saints Day on November 1.

    There is some character somewhere growing those big orange pumpkins and supplying them to supermarkets in the forlorn hope of quick riches by charging $25 apiece - well, that is what the supermarket price is, maybe the poor chap receives about 1/3 of final sales. The tub seems to be just as full at dusk on Halloween as it was when the pumpkins first appeared so I guess we don’t really take the occasion all that seriously. At our local supermarket there is a tub next to it full of oversize Windsor pumpkins at $1.25 each and they haven’t moved either.

    Nevertheless, I will have some lollies (oops, candy) ready so I don’t get squirted with a water pistol.

    Interesting cartoon you suggested on Strange Brew. The boomerang that is popularly depicted and sold as souvenirs has 2 equal arms and is purely a fun thing. The true boomerang is a quite solid item with unequal arms and is used for hunting bird prey, where the longer arm is to give more power from a greater sweep as it is thrown; whether it returns or not is not a great consideration. Comment from anyone with an Australian aboriginal background would be very welcome.

    The pilots in those aircraft on Strange Brew would be giddy when they landed, a boomerang revolves in flight.

    Back to our two mates. They had better stop breathing heavily while the Yowi family is close by.

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    usfellers  about 14 years ago

    Might mention that the first Australians knew something about the flight of objects that are heavier than air long before winged, powered flight was invented. The boomerang has a curved top and a flat under-surface. The rotation causes a drop in air pressure above the boomerang so that the normal pressure below it keeps it aloft.

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    ottod Premium Member about 14 years ago

    Indians in what is now the Southwestern U. S. used a “rabbit stick,” often shaped somewhat like a boomerang but (as i recall) without the airfoil cross-section.

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    usfellers  about 14 years ago

    Ottod: Right, the boomerang is not an entirely Australian invention, even way back in antiquity. The Eyptians had a similar contraption and there is no reason to think that its invention was not spontanoeous, rather than inherited.

    Strangely, two flat, thin pieces of timber when attached as a cross are a far more reliable instrument by which to practice getting a boomerang to return.

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    craigwestlake  about 14 years ago

    I believe Rolf Harris had some comments about boomerangs…

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    usfellers  about 14 years ago

    Rhadamanthus: Are you sure it wasn’t a rather politically incorrect recording by Charlie Drake called ‘My Boomerang Won’t Come Back” that came out sometime around the early to mid 1960s?

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    Dry and Dusty Premium Member about 14 years ago

    Good evening Jason, JFri, usfellers, ottod and Meggsiefan!

    Interesting comments today!

    Yes usfellers I see a similarity between the two Mums!

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