NSW
4382 posts
Maybe this will make the thread into 15 pages?
If not well I'm sure Col will call me something soon, wind was great yesterday, could not escape the shop until too late, planning on sneaking over there today, tide will be good all arvo.
Cya and
Galahs
Steve McCormack
NSW
4188 posts
Could the next post be the one which takes this to 15 pages?
Who knows! lol
NSW
452 posts
I will be signing autographs tomorrow.
Orderley line only please.
QLD
5283 posts
well "hurrah for the galah" thats what i say!
NSW
4382 posts
There have been several reports that the galah was seen strutting around on the beach at Dolls yesterday??
Anyone see anyone preening their feathers?
On another note, a large boat, in fact a tug boat went out into the bay last night and I noted how smooth the water was behind the boat, then shortly afterwards I was kiting behind Col, and I noticed the the water was similarly smooth. Therefore Col has the displacement of a large tug boat, I just thought I would make that known as a community service announcement.
Cya and
Goodwinds
steve
are we at 15 yet?
QLD
2057 posts
Being from Qld I do not know who the galah is nor do I care!
But I love reading all the crap you guys talk! It proves to me that all kiters are the same everywhere.....when there's no wind we all talk sh!t.
Hope this helps get you to 15 pages and you soon see some wind.
PS Who the f#@k is Galah???
NSW
4188 posts
NEWS FLASH!
See you all at Brighton again today.
Yesterday was good, but let's hope today is better!
Galah
NSW
4382 posts
This must tip it over, and yes we are all probably galahs, and that would be why some people from over west are calling us flocking galahs!
Incidentally, I saw a small flock over in the park near Dolls, there were 5 of them, and none stood out as being the actual Galah, they sure are a beaut bird though, the balck cockys will be back soon too perhaps?
Cya and
Goodflocking
Steve
PS Happy Fathers day!
WA
4263 posts
Galahs are pests.
Vandals of the vegetation.
Flying rabbits.
We need a threadkiller.
Poor Relative is the only one who can do the job.
Finger this forum thread, PR.
NSW
4382 posts
Native Australian bird slavey, its actually a cockortwo, and it has been living here for a hell of a lot longer than us whitey environmental vandals.
Tell you what though, the whiney whingeing that is coming from out of the west is sounding a lot like a galah session !!! (see below)
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galah
The word galah is a borrowing into Australian English from the Aboriginal Yuwaalaraay language of northern New South Wales. In early records it is variously spelt as galar, gillar, gulah, etc. It is first recorded in 1862 in J. McKinlay's Journal of Exploration in the Interior of Australia: `A vast number of gulahs, curellas, macaws... here'. The bird referred to is the grey-backed, pink-breasted cockatoo Eolophus roseicapillus, occurring in all parts of Australia except the extreme north-east and south-west. It is also known as the red-breasted cockatoo and rose-breasted cockatoo.
Some early settlers use the galah as food. In 1902 the Truth newspaper reports: 'The sunburnt residents of at that God-forsaken outpost of civilisation were subsisting on stewed galah and curried crow'. Some writers report that galah pie was a popular outback dish.
The galah, which usually appears in a large flock, has a raucous call, and it was perhaps this trait which produced the term galah session for a period allocated for private conversation, especially between women on isolated stations, over an outback radio network. F. Flynn in Northern Gateway (1963) writes: 'The women's radio hour, held regularly night and morning and referred to everywhere as the 'Galah Session'. It is a special time set aside for lonely station women to chat on whatever subject they like'. More generally, a galah session is 'a long chat' - A. Garve, Boomerang (1969): 'For hours the three men chatted... It was Dawes who said at last, "I reckon this galah session's gone on long enough".'
Very commonly in Australian English galah is used to refer to a fool or idiot. A.R. Marshall and R. Drysdale in Journey among Men (1962), suggest that this sense of galah may have a non-Australian origin: 'A clue to the possible origin of the slang usage of 'galah'. In Malaya gila (pronounced gee-lah) means mad; hence orang gila, a madman'. But this explanation has not been accepted, and the Australian meaning must be a transfer from the bird, no doubt incorporating a judgment about the relative intelligence of the bird. The following citations give an indication of how the term is used:
1951 E. Lambert, Twenty Thousand Thieves: 'Yair, and I got better ideas than some of the galahs that give us our orders'.
1960 R.S. Porteous, Cattleman: 'The bloke on the other end of the line is only some useless galah tryin' to sell a new brand of dip'.
1971 J. O'Grady, Aussie Etiket: 'You would be the greatest bloody galah this side of the rabbit-proof fence'.
From this sense arise a number of colloquial idioms. To be mad as a gum-tree full of galahs is to be completely crazy. To make a proper galah of oneself is to make a complete fool of oneself. A pack of galahs is a group of contemptibly idiotic people.
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galah session
A period allocated for informal conversation over an outback radio network, allowing regular opportunities for people in remote areas to chat. The galah session is so named because galahs gather together in flocks and have raucous calls. Galah is a borrowing (first recorded 1862) from the Yuwaalaraay language of northern New South Wales. First recorded 1956.
Cya and
Goodwinds
Steve McCormack
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