BS: Status Quo and the Kangaroo

Subject: BS: Status Quo and the Kangaroo
From: Folkiedave
Date: 03 Jun 07 - 11:49 AM

A new book relating stories from the rock and roll excesses reviewed recently on the BBC.

The title comes from the time when SQ were touring Australia.

The tour bus knocked over a kangaroo so the band dressed it up in a leather jacket, bandana and sunglasses and took their photographs with the kangarooo propped up between them.

Unfortunately it was only stunned and when it recovered it smacked them like kangaroos do and took off. Which would not have been too bad except the keys to the tour bus were in the jacket pocket!

It occurred to me that there should be some good stories from folk.

Anyone like to contribute. Names could be hidden if necessary.

Subject: RE: BS: Status Quo and the Kangaroo
From: Folkiedave
Date: 03 Jun 07 - 04:33 PM

refresh

Subject: RE: BS: Status Quo and the Kangaroo
From: Peace
Date: 03 Jun 07 - 04:50 PM

Dressed like that he should be fairly easy to spot, I'd think.

Subject: RE: BS: Status Quo and the Kangaroo
From: Sorcha
Date: 03 Jun 07 - 04:51 PM

Oh, dear! That is FUNNY!

Subject: RE: BS: Status Quo and the Kangaroo
From: artbrooks
Date: 03 Jun 07 - 06:21 PM

It is unclear to me if the 'roo took off hopping or driving. Now, if the tourbus were a right-hand-drive stick-shift, that would be really remarkable!

Subject: RE: BS: Status Quo and the Kangaroo
From: Rowan
Date: 03 Jun 07 - 06:33 PM

There's no other sort in Oz, Art.
You've got to watch the kangarooballies.

Cheers, Rowan

Subject: RE: BS: Status Quo and the Kangaroo
From: gnu
Date: 03 Jun 07 - 06:48 PM

Crikey! A cranky kangaroo! I s'pose I'd be cranky too if someone hit me with a bus. Just sayin mate.

Subject: RE: BS: Status Quo and the Kangaroo
From: Peace
Date: 03 Jun 07 - 06:50 PM

It's not like it was the WHOLE bus, gnu.

Subject: RE: BS: Status Quo and the Kangaroo
From: JennieG
Date: 04 Jun 07 - 12:11 AM

That story has been an Ozzie urban myth for many years - the name/s of the tourist changes on each telling!

Cheers
JennieG

Subject: RE: BS: Status Quo and the Kangaroo
From: skipy
Date: 04 Jun 07 - 07:56 AM

Last time I heard it is was a Williams F1 driver!
Skipy

Subject: RE: BS: Status Quo and the Kangaroo
From: skipy
Date: 04 Jun 07 - 07:58 AM

see      snopes.com
Skipy

Subject: RE: BS: Status Quo and the Kangaroo
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 04 Jun 07 - 09:00 AM

I thought the thread related to the Quo doing 'On board the Kangaroo'! Why not - they have already covered 'All round my hat':-)

D.

Subject: RE: BS: Status Quo and the Kangaroo
From: Mr Red
Date: 05 Jun 07 - 07:50 AM

I heard the author on the radio - he was debunking many of the myths - but this on seemed to be (as he was talking ) true -. What does he say in the book, re provenence?

Subject: RE: BS: Status Quo and the Kangaroo
From: Mr Red
Date: 05 Jun 07 - 08:08 AM

FWIW
snopes take on it

Subject: RE: BS: Status Quo and the Kangaroo
From: Rowan
Date: 05 Jun 07 - 06:26 PM

Also FWIW, kangaroos have provided endless opportunities for Australians to take the mickey out of people from north of the equator, especially ones who seem to have a propensity to regard their own cultures as 'superior'.

I forget how many times I've overheard someone describing (usually to someone from the USA) how Aussies get their mail delivered by kangaroo; that one must be more than a century old now. I suppose it's payback for all those time when an Australian in the US becomes part of the following well-meant exchange.

North American; "Where do you come from?"
Australian; "Australia."
North American; "Oh, but you speal English so well!"

Watch out for those kangarooballies!
Cheers, Rowan