Re: Skippy the BUSH Kangaroo

[dlangs@sunstroke.sdsu.edu (Derek Langsford)]

Stephen Wiener (swiener@onramp.net) wrote:
: At 12:35 AM 10/19/96 -0700, you wrote:
: >Derek Langsford wrote:
: >> 
: >
: >> I watched it as a kid growing up in England.  Lassie but with a Kangaroo.
: >> Amazing how they could make an animal with a brain the size of a walnut
: >> appear to have the wherewithall of a human being.  "So, there's someone
: >> trapped beneath some boulders in the ravine 5 miles to the north of the
: >> intersection of the outback trail and the Woomera Farm road?  Is that
: >> what you are trying to tell me, Skippy". 
: >
: >
: >ROTFL! And I love that the intersection is at "Woomera" Farm 
: >Road! I'm just surprised that the kangaroo was able to keep a 
: >straight face!
: >
: >Robb

: O.K. since I'm in on the Skippy thread, I don't get the Woomera Farm reference. 
: Explain it to a Texan.


Don't know about Robb but I chose that becasue it is a town in Oz I think and
not because it was actually used in the show.  That was not a direct quote
but an example of the dialogue that the actors had with the Kangaroo.

Derek
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