The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #71270 Message #1218867
Posted By: Bob Bolton
03-Jul-04 - 08:41 AM
Thread Name: BS: The Technicoloured yawn
Subject: RE: BS: The Technicoloured yawn
G'day Morticia,
"particularly virulent form of Patterson's curse"
Patterson's Curse is a suspiciously Australian reference: a European plant Echium (mostly) plantagineum, run feral in Australia and regarded as a noxious weed - poisonous to stock, in Eastern Australia (where its introduction is blamed on a 19th century grazier R.E. Patterson) ... yet regarded as good drought fodder in South Australia, where it is called Salvation Jane!
I don't actually wish to use this to lay claim to our "GUEST:averse ... and worse" ... but I may have to dodge a bit!