Little Hawk: "...what was it you just said to me, Don? ;-)"

Uh . . . I forget.

No lather on my part, Gervase. But an occasional full-throated snarl will often send the little rodent scurrying back into his hole. The operational part of my post was to ask David where the hell he got that. Did he actually read what I had posted on the movie thread? Doubtful. So where did he get the idea? I don't expect an answer, of course, because David is not into answers. But I am kind of curious as to which of his "poems" he would cite in an effort to substantiate my alleged disrespect for Indigenous Australians.

Just a note: part of my post about "Quigley Down Under" on the movie thread.

It takes place in the late eighteen-hundreds in Australia. Matthew Quigley (Tom Selleck) is an American cowboy hired to come to Australia because he is a crack shot with a long-range rifle. Sniper type. The man who hires him is Elliott Marston (Alan Rickman), who owns a ranch (station?), and Quigley is under the impression that he's being hired to kill varmints that are plaguing Marston's livestock. Marston has a different idea of what constitutes "varmints,"

Marston wants Quigley to kill any Indigenous Australians he finds on Marston's land.

and when Marston tells Quigley what he wants him to do, Quigley picks him up and throws him bodily out his own front door. Their relatationship kinda goes downhill from there. . . .

I used the term "Aborigines," not being aware that it might be regarded as pejorative, then duly apologized later in case I had offended anyone in my ignorance.

I notice, however, that David uses the word freely. Perhaps like throwing the "N-word" around without regard for whom he might offend.

I mean, if we're going to be strictly PC, then for heaven's sake, let's go all the way!!

Don Firth