Wow! I'd only really heard the more recent versions (the Tokens is the one I think of when I hear the song) hearing all the earlier versions and the Ladysmith version it's like a whole different song. I'd always thought it was a comedy song.
The Brisbane City Council library has done something similar in December for the last 4 or 5 years. The fines are waived in return for canned food which is donated to Foodbank.
Oh my god those teeth creep me out! The sounds he makes are cute, but as soon as I see those brown teeth, I get that fingers-on-a-blackboard feeling. For the same reason, I've never been able to sit all the way through Austin Powers either.
We were supposed to learn fractions and other maths things with cuisenaire rods - but mostly we learned how to build towers with them. Although I think there may have been some sneaky educating going on even with all the tower building.
I have a ladder in my bedroom so my cat can get up to the top cupboards, which are too high for me to use, so it's his little up high hidey hole. He also loves to sit on the top of the ladder - the only problem with that is that sometimes he gets bored up there and instead of climbing back down, he leaps onto the bed. At 4am, I really don't appreciate it!
I could do with a car like that. I don't text, or fiddle with anything else - but I'm always getting distracted by the car next to me, or a puppy, or a cloud that looks like something cool, or a cloud that looks like something dull, or sparkly things on the side of the road... Luckily, I'm easily distracted from the distractions, so I get my attention back before I have an accident, but I'm careful to always leave a fairly large gap between me & the car in front. :)
I'm wondering how you'd go washing your hair in this. Maybe it's an extra thing, in addition to a standing shower and a bath tub. If you had sore muscles or had been doing anything particularly vigorous (like gardening or playing sport for those of you with dirty minds) it would be super awesome.
I don't care whether people wear shoes or not in my house, but my carpet is old and stained and wearing shoes or not wouldn't make much difference. I don't wear them inside but that's just because I prefer barefoot. When I visit someone, I'm happy to do what they want, but I'm much less likely to visit a shoes off home because it's hot here and I don't want to have to worry about smelly feet, and mostly because I have really horrible feet and don't really love putting them on display.
As an Australian, I can't say that I've ever been overly concerned about something deadly crawling into my shoes. Although it would be a rare Aussie who's never put their feet into a shoe, felt something moving and done a strange one-legged dance as they try to kick the shoe off and simultaneously check for spiders. Mostly, we just bang the shoe on the ground a couple of times if we think there's a chance something has taken residence.
I was in high school from 81-85 and it was always 1 strap regardless of how many books you had or how much damage you were doing to your spine. Two straps were for sissies. In fact when I started high school, girls used something more like a book bag that we wore like a handbag or tote.
Backpacks only came in the last couple of years when, from memory, schools in Australia started recommending the use of backpacks with both straps, particularly for younger kids. For older kids, one strap was still the "cool" thing. When I started school in 74, we used to have a port (most often a Samsonite suitcase) which was generally nearly as big as we were.
I'm Australian and I doubt I could even name half the states in America. I could pick out California, Hawaii and Florida without any problem and probably get Nevada, Louisiana, Vermont, & New York at least pretty close to the right place.
I have to admit, that it's only in the Google Maps era that I've ever really looked up US states and I was totally surprised that Texas is down the bottom. I'd always expected it to be at the top of the USA, probably because in Australia the further north you go, the warmer the climate is. That and the fact that almost everything I know about Texas I learned from watching Dallas. :)
I'm a little bit alarmed to see that my "peak alertness" time is just before I get up. But for me, it's definitely a case of if I'm awake, it's time for a coffee.
I love the reference interview! It's the most useful thing I learned in my library technician studies, and it's by far the most useful skill when it comes to moving into another field. No matter where you go, the world is full of people who don't know how to say what they really want. Knowing how to figure out what they're asking and what questions to ask along the way is priceless.
As an Australian, I can't say that I've ever been overly concerned about something deadly crawling into my shoes. Although it would be a rare Aussie who's never put their feet into a shoe, felt something moving and done a strange one-legged dance as they try to kick the shoe off and simultaneously check for spiders. Mostly, we just bang the shoe on the ground a couple of times if we think there's a chance something has taken residence.
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Backpacks only came in the last couple of years when, from memory, schools in Australia started recommending the use of backpacks with both straps, particularly for younger kids. For older kids, one strap was still the "cool" thing. When I started school in 74, we used to have a port (most often a Samsonite suitcase) which was generally nearly as big as we were.
I have to admit, that it's only in the Google Maps era that I've ever really looked up US states and I was totally surprised that Texas is down the bottom. I'd always expected it to be at the top of the USA, probably because in Australia the further north you go, the warmer the climate is. That and the fact that almost everything I know about Texas I learned from watching Dallas. :)