I have a question. Why, in the “Braveheart” picture under the Department of Communication on the main page, is Mel Gibson/Sir William Wallace embracing a giant duckling?
If you don’t believe me take a good look at the upper left corner of the picture.
I demand some explanation for this rather eccentric behavior.
That’s not a duck - that’s an ostrich. Ostriches were at one time indigenous to Australia - didn’t you know???
Susan
The Ostrich is native to Africa NOT Australia. However, a couple of big, nasty, flightless birds, the Emu and the Cassowary, are native to Australia.
[Edited to correct a caffeine-induced typo]
[ This Message was edited by: garycrosby on 2002-04-11 18:48 ]
I thought he was embracing a woman…
I guess I’ll have to take another look.
Yes, it is an embrace (and yes, I know ostriches are not indigenous to Australia - it was a joke) 
But I could see the critter Lefty was talking about and looking at it with my eyes crossed, it DID look like an ostrich!
Susan
[ This Message was edited by: susnfx on 2002-04-11 19:36 ]
I think it’s like one of those inkblot tests. Only those who are mentally sound can see the duckling. I don’t know, ask Dr. Pudsy.
Maybe everyone can see the duckling and only those who are secure in themselves can admit it 
We’d better get Dr. Dale in here too.
It sure looks like a duckling/ostrich to me…
That looks like more than an embrace to me. I think that emu’s tongue is halfway down Mel’s throat. I’m thinking about calling in P.E.T.A.
AFLAC!
After WWI the Australian Light Horse changed its uniform and didn’t have the ostrich feather, so there was no market for ostrich feathers and the birds were let loose. There are still quite a few north of Port Augusta and I believe in western NSW. Every now and then someone gets the bright idea of raising them for meat or skin but it never amounts to much. It would be like eating a cross between Big Bird and Tatiana Gregorieva (sp). Thanks to our ancestors we have donkeys, horses, camels, goats, ostriches, mice, rats, foxes and rabbits wandering about, along with a heap of nondescript and shitty introduced smaller European birds. It makes it bloody hard for the roos and crocs to wander about the suburbs!
[ This Message was edited by: Mastersound on 2002-04-13 05:44 ]