Peter Hayes <not_in_use@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> On Mon, 4 Sep 2006 16:53:37 +0100, spike1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote
> (in article <qfuts3-hdd.ln1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>):
>
>> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> did eloquently scribble:
>>> Among Australians, there was almost no-one better known than him to an
>>> outsider.
>>
>> There's a few, for the UK at least.
>> Dame Edna Everage, Rolf Harris, Paul Hogan...
>> Although paul hogan's not been on much recently...
>> Oh, and Rod Hull, another man famed for putting his hand up a wild creatures
>> bottom... (OK OK, It's not a REAL Emu)
>>>>
>> Steve Irwin might be known over here, but I don't think he's got quite the
>> same cult status.
>
> Perhaps more like idiot status, some might say, exposing his kid to danger
> like that.
Well : dead idiot status now.
Frankly I think he was crazy to risk his life day in , day out when he
has a young family.
Admired the gutsy bollox though.
Of all the ways to go though : stabbed through the chest by a fishes
tail. What are the odds when you think of him wading through water
szurrounded by 15 foot long crocodiles.
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