and another boom

harpo

Don't you mean frogly tears?

Best regards,
Steven. 

always better than crocodile tears.....  

sydney it is a pity the photo you posted looks like another american import that was to control ONE problem, but MADE a FAR worse one ie the CANE toad

and another boom

harpo

   he does look a bit cane toadesque......only one I could find that appeared crying....

just heard a report today that they're riding the river down to central Australia....Lake Eyre.....

on a brighter note....no booms today for me....

And to think, cane toads were once found only in North Queensland.  I saw a thing on Today Tonight a while back (probably last Summer) that cane toads were being found as far South as Coffs Harbour and even Taree. 

Personally, I think the government (wanting desperately to stamp out cane toads) should arm every Queenslander with a golf club (a cricket bat will do) and make it law that they all go out and clobber a cane toad or ten a day.  It mightn't get rid of 'em entirely, but if we're ever to produce another Greg Norman (Don Bradman if it's a cricket bat) we need all the practice we can get.

Actually, I read that the CSIRO is working on a way to reduce the can toad population over time by somehow making them all male... thus they can't mate and eventually will die out.  Yeah, good luck with that... the cane toads will likely adapt and become hermaphrodites.

Back on topic, I got a couple of booms early yesterday (fancy that 2 in one day when I hadn't seen 2 in a month previously) but other than that the site has been running pretty well for me.

I think I read it has something to do with the methane level....brought tears to the eyes of the poor li'l buggers.

I thinks its actually nice to see this thread go off topic. 

and some OLD info(titbits) that might be true or not, apparently canetoads can be killed by full strength dettol. this was told to me by a queensland national park ranger back in the early 90's.

so it might be better to issue everybody in canetoad zones with waterpistols and bottles of dettol, and have them shoot the buggers.

myfist0, it is only slightly off topic as toads ARE related to frogs, and the frogboy's computers keep going boom.

harpo

I think that was frogboys plan......

yeah...coming down underneath transport trucks...

yeah...these the same scientists...who bought the whopping great overweight lump of a toad out here in the first place to eat the cane beetles....at the.......top......of the cane........and forgot to tell em to bring their teeny tiny lil step ladders......

   well...they might be ugly...and they might be a pest.....but they are a little creature....who didn't ask to be here.....apparently freezing is the best...most humane way to deal with them.....throw em in a bag in the freezer in the garage......or have a community checkpoint set up...where you can bag 'em and take 'em for freezing....and perhaps get so much a kilo for 'em....get the kids into collecting cane toads....instead of aluminium cans....for pocket money....

No worrys mate. Put anotha cane toad on the barby 

You will never get rid of them. They will be harder than the rabbits. The more you kill, the more food and room there is so they will bread more. They will self regulate there population.

and now about the toads....

This thread brings tears to my eyes too - I just caught myself on the edge of the desk...

Nah, had nothing to do with methane... and they're not li'l buggers....dirty rotten little bastards, more like it.  As for the methane, cane tads are responsible for a far worse methane problem than I ever could be.  Geez, you should hear the little bastards... bark, bark all flamin' night.

Dunno if there's any truth in it cos I never tried, but I was told that if you threw a cane toad high enough into the air it would explode.  If that were true, you'd get bucketloads of 'em, go up in a skydiving plane and chuck the li'l bastards out the window.... NO parachutes.

And the same scientists who thought they'd wipe out the rabbit plague with myxomatosis.

So long as you don't get 'em mixed up with the Freddo Frogs you put in there to chill in for the kids.

As for going off topic, there's nothing wrong with pirating a thread.... at all. 

^ You? Pirate a thread? Never heard anyone claim such an absurdity. 

ay matie, but dem cane toads are poisonous, and the problem with the high in air method is that you have to get them a couple of miles UP before they are likely to explode.

and bugger the 'humane' methods of killing them, we COULD try using them to prune  feed the pollies and crackers OR feed the salties with them(both of these ideas would help to control other problems that we have ie wild pollies & their crackers(beaurocrats) and the salt water crocodile whose favourite food is tourists(especially americans due to the average size) on the side of a water.

harpo

yeah  even full size goannas eating em...fall over dead pretty quickly....

no booms today...

Edit.....Connection Reset 11.28pm  

We are still seeing booms in our logs early in the morning and later in the afternoon.  We are moving around some of our database jobs to try and resolve those.  Unfortunately, some of these jobs are necessary for the operation of the forums and may take hours to run, so we can only do so much on that end.  I'll keep you all updated of any more changes.

Bara

thanks bara........it's definitely better.....

Narrr, I didn' pirate this one 'ere... well not inisherly.  "owever, I did pirate this un 'ere wiv a bit o' 'elp frum a more than willin' crew.  A feller wos 'avin' a whine 'bout 'e's account n' us thort it wur funny ter take tha mickey. 

Arrr, them wos tha days.

Orright, then, instead of a skydive plane we'll borrow a couple of F18's from Amberley and jettison the little bastards 5 miles up, t' be shure, t' be shure.

Sad, that!  I like goannas, frillies and blue tongues... we'll be seeing more of those after we move.  When I was up there last Summer there were frillies all over the place... and a couple of goannas sunning themselves along the back fence.

another boom,

and starkers we do not have enough f18's to make a dent in the toad population,

but another idea might be to load them into artillery shells and ship the shells to afganistan, the idea is that the explosive that propells the shells generates 10's/100's of G's when the shell is fired which would squash the buggers.

regarding the goa's, frillies & blueies, I used to live far enough out in the sticks that the goa's used to run up the walls of the house to sun themselves on the roof, and had lot's of blueies around AND NO snails as blueies favourite food is snails, but where I am now the goa's just do not come around due to too many ankle biters making too much racket, but I still have a couple of friendly blueies

and enjoy your move to the out fringes of the big smoke

harpo

Thats because you auzies are posting from the future screwing up the servers time continuum. Please wait until yesterday to post.

Running great atm

myfist,

have you considered that to the REST of the world you american continent occupants ARE in the past,

and that WE (the REST of the world) ARE in the present.

harpo

No. You are upside down with that. Come to that, you're upside down, period.

We sent the cane toads to get you. When played backwards Paul says their croak says "Back To The Future".