T'was the night before Christmas...

[Yellow Meanie]

Hi everyone, Mr. Meanie here from the Ozmonster land. 

I'm sitting at home drinking a few James Boag's (Aussie Beers) and put together a little something.
After having a new set of tyres fitted yesterday, I waited for the roads to dry out today before going for a quick run.

For those of you that don't know me, my Yellow 2000 900Sie is called the "Thylacine".
My name is Dave, I live waaaaaay down South in Australia, on the small island called Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania).
The Thylacine is an extinct Tasmanian Marsupial.






T'was the night before Christmas
and not a creature was stirring, except a Thylacine.

Thought to be extinct long ago.
But no! There is one!

With new paws she was rearing to go
All Yellow, and blinged for show
She is mean, and keen
and so not, at all, un-clean

Thumb the red button,
and she roars into life
I love her so much,
just like a wife

Down the driveway and into the street,
the ladies look,
me,
they would like to meet

Tinderbox Road, the first corner I meet
Ooh - these new tyres, they are so sweet
Even new rubber, as slippery as can be
they are like heaven, heaven to me

It's all in the wrist
I give her a fist
she loves it
something I have missed

She actually turns
It cannot be true
These new tyres, they stick like glue

Now at Bonnet Hill and more twisties near
I click down a gear
and give her some, to plant the rear
the MiVV's, a sweet sound in my ear

But there is gravel in the way
my boot scraping will have to wait another day
On I cruise to Sandy Bay
the road much nicer on this day

Past the pub the crowds are drinking
who is this animal they must be thinking
a small blip here, a downshift there
they hear Ducati music in the air

Now it's time to go home
I am thirsty, thirsty to the bone
Crack open a Boags and say "Cheers"
and hope all Ozmonsters* are drinking beers!!!!!


* please insert your local club where Ozmonster is 

[The Bacon Junkie]

 

[DesmoDiva]

 

[dolci]

 

[DucHead]

Thylacine = Tasmanian wolf, right?

Yep...photo from 2006:


Real or a hoax?

[Yellow Meanie]

Not a wolf as such. We do have the "dingo" which is a wild dog. They were brought into the country thousands of years ago by man. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dingo

The Thylacine is a marsupial, it has a pouch to carry it's young, like a kangaroo.
Apparently extinct, I would like to think they're not.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thylacine

Cool pic, what's the story?

[Pip]

Hahahaha!! Brilliant, mate.

[DucHead]

...Cool pic, what's the story?

I found it on an internet search.  Perhaps the stripes were Photoshopped onto a dingo (which recently took someone's baby ).

Here's the story:
"CANBERRA, March 2 (Reuters) - A German tourist who claims to have photographed a Tasmanian tiger, solving one of Australia's enduring wildlife myths, said on Friday he had returned to the country to video the animal and end doubts over his find.

The Tasmanian Tiger, or Thylacine, was a striped, wolf-like native mammal which was hunted to extinction by European settlers. The last one died in a zoo in 1936.

But stories of surviving animals persist and yearly unconfirmed sightings have turned the tiger, whose scientific name means pouched dog with a wolf's head, into a holy grail for mystery hunters from across the globe.

In February 2005, German tourists Klaus Emmerichs and Birgit Jansen said they had captured two digital photos of the animal in Tasmania's rugged forests while on holiday.

"I came from high, and he can't see me. He had his nose down and was snuffing," Emmerichs said on Friday.

"I want to prove that it is not extinct, like the people think and the world thinks," Emmerichs told Australian Broadcasting Corp. radio.

The couple, he said, had no idea the tiger drinking at a creek was extinct and the animal just loped away.

Experts initially believed the night photos showed portions of a Thylacine obscured by foliage, but later examinations led to accusations of a set-up, ending a bid to sell the pictures for A$25,000 ($19,600).

Emmerichs said he had returned to Tasmania, joining up with long-time tiger believer Paul Bailey, to capture the elusive animal on video. Bailey said he saw a tiger in 1967.

"I'm convinced that they are still here," Bailey said."

Of course the guy couldn't get a snapshot of the most distinctive feature -- the jaws.