BS: help required

Subject: BS: help required
From: MARINER
Date: 15 Jun 04 - 03:50 PM

I've just had a text message from my youngest son who has spent the last 11 months backpacking in Australia. All it said was, "In Catherine, having a great time" Do you think that it's safe for me to assume that Catherine is a town??
       A perplexed Mariner.

Subject: RE: BS: help required
From: Sooz
Date: 15 Jun 04 - 04:00 PM

Did you give him the standard parental advice - "Don't do anything I wouldn't do"? For your own peace of mind don't let either you memory or your imagination run wild!

Subject: RE: BS: help required
From: Rapparee
Date: 15 Jun 04 - 04:07 PM

I wouldn't bet on anything, but if Catherine ISN'T a town the kid is the champion of multi-tasking.

Subject: RE: BS: help required
From: Rasener
Date: 15 Jun 04 - 04:10 PM

Managed to find this. I would be worried :-)

At 16 years of age, Catherine won gold at the Commonwealth Games as part ... she became the first Aboriginal track and field athlete to represent Australia

But maybe he has his head screwed on if he is at this place

http://www.travelmate.com.au/Places/Places.asp?TownName=Catherine+Hill+Bay_%5C_NSW

Subject: RE: BS: help required
From: Peace
Date: 15 Jun 04 - 04:36 PM

Lucky guy.

Subject: RE: BS: help required
From: Mr Red
Date: 15 Jun 04 - 04:42 PM

I am tempted to ask about "Catherine Wheels" but fear the US catter's may not know this as a firework that is designed to whizz round and round on a nail until all the squirting propellant has exhuasted.

It is funnier without the explanantion - trust me.

Subject: RE: BS: help required
From: TS
Date: 15 Jun 04 - 04:49 PM

Please pass on to your son to tell Catherine that "Tim Said HI, and thanks! Had a great time in her aswell while backpacking Oz"!..

Subject: RE: BS: help required
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 15 Jun 04 - 05:20 PM

Catherine Hill Bay (the link above).

We've heard of Catherine Wheels here in the U.S.

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: help required
From: MARINER
Date: 15 Jun 04 - 05:46 PM

All right, I admit that I knew that he was in a town called Catherine. It was just my dirty mind but that was the exact message he sent and I thought it was funny.

Subject: RE: BS: help required
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 15 Jun 04 - 05:56 PM

Well what else would you do in Catherine?

I used to delight in telling people that the way to the village I lived in was round the Monkey's Jump and through Aunt Mary's Bottom.

One is a very sharp bend in the road and the other is a small copse (clump of trees and bushes).

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: help required
From: MARINER
Date: 15 Jun 04 - 06:29 PM

You know now that we are on the subject of strange place names.I came across a street name near the town of Sardinia Ohio. It is called Shitepoke Lane! My buddy and I fell around laughing yet the locals found nothing unusual about the name. Does it mean something entirely different in the U.S.? Shite and poke that is.

Subject: RE: BS: help required
From: Joybell
Date: 15 Jun 04 - 06:47 PM

Worry if he says he's going to Mount Martha. Did you send him "a broad for pleasure as he was a-walking...." to prepare him. Joy

Subject: RE: BS: help required
From: TS
Date: 15 Jun 04 - 07:19 PM

Good thing he doesnt hike around Newfoundland...could experience Paradise, by Dildo, and Come by Chance!!....Slainte!

Subject: RE: BS: help required
From: freda underhill
Date: 15 Jun 04 - 07:26 PM

If he's in Katherine, in the Northern Territory, I hope he visits nearby Nitmiluk. The Nitmiluk (Katherine Gorge) National Park, in the Northern Territory, is 29km from Katherine. It has 13 natural gorges carved through sandstone by the Katherine River. He could travel by paddling up the gorge, or fly over the gorge either by helicopter or airplane. There are over 100km of marked walking trails in the park. From numerous 1-5 kilometre half day to 66 km five day walks.

The walks lead to waterfalls and lookouts over the gorge and Park. he could do a 66 kilometre adventure walk from Nitmiluk Gorge to Leilyn (Edith Falls) spanning 5 days, sleeping under the stars near amazing waterfalls each night. Or overnight he could do a 40 kilometre return walk to the Eighth Gorge & view the Jawoyn Valley ancient Aboriginal art sites.

Australia is a beautiful, ancient place!

freda

Subject: RE: BS: help required
From: Rapparee
Date: 15 Jun 04 - 08:01 PM

He could visit Las Putas, California. If so, I suggest you have him visit Condom, France, first.

"Shitepoke" is a regional name for a marsh bird. Can't think of which one righ offhand.

Subject: RE: BS: help required
From: GUEST,Clint Keller
Date: 15 Jun 04 - 08:43 PM

My niece just got a job as a telephone information lady, and when someone asked for info about Blue Balls, Pennsylvania which they said is near Intercourse, she got pretty annoyed at the prankster till she found out it's all true.

clint

that's what she says, anyway.

Subject: RE: BS: help required
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 15 Jun 04 - 08:48 PM

I've never heard of a place called 'C'atherine - must be 'K'atherine.

Subject: RE: BS: help required
From: Deckman
Date: 15 Jun 04 - 09:25 PM

A hundred years ago I was driving toward Wissconsin and got lost in Wyoming. I came to a small town named "Dismal Seepage." It was so small that when you entered the town and saw the sign saying "Welcome to Dismal Seepage," the OTHER side of the sign read, "Welcome to Dismal Seepage." CHEERS, Bob

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From: Rapparee
Date: 15 Jun 04 - 09:48 PM

Actually, it's Blue Ball -- singular ball. And yes, it's near Intercourse.

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From: Ellenpoly
Date: 16 Jun 04 - 03:35 AM

He may well be in Alice one of these days as well. Hang loose, it sounds as if he's in good women!

Freda is right, Australia is full of the most amazing sites. I was able to be only on the Western side, but flying over from the East, I saw some of the most extraordinary landscape imaginable. I've always wanted to return.

..xx..e

Subject: RE: BS: help required
From: Helen
Date: 16 Jun 04 - 05:39 AM

Catherine Hill Bay is on the southern outskirts of the Newcastle-Lake Macquarie region, where I live. It's a lovely little seaside town which used to focus on the coal mine there. The cottages were lived in by the miners and their families. Now it is considered prime real estate and the old folks are getting priced out of the market because the land rates have skyrocketed.

Lovely little place though.

Helen

Subject: RE: BS: help required
From: TS
Date: 16 Jun 04 - 02:04 PM

In the South-Western corner of Saskatchewan, Canada, we have a small community called Climax...upon leaving the town is a sign reading.."Climax- Thanks for Coming".....true story..