Author Topic: Huzzah for March! (Read 7828 times)

aupointillimite · « **on:** February 28, 2007, 12:42:18 am »

Tomorrow is 1 March! Spring! Huzzah!

Daylight savings starts this month! Late sun! No more horrible depressing, craptacular snowy rains! Jacket weather! Tiny flowers!

Yes, March is a bitch and a half to get through... what with the cold nastiness it can shove on us quite suddenly. But it's bearable because at least it's the end of the line for winter... so I say, bring on the goddamn March.

P.S. Apologies to my friends in the Southern Hemisphere... for whom this month means the days get shorter and colder. You may rub it my face with gusto in come September. Which is cool, because my birthday's in September, and I'll be too drunk to read what you're writing.

Matty the Damned · « **Reply #1 on:** February 28, 2007, 12:44:52 am »

P.S. Apologies to my friends in the Southern Hemisphere... for whom this month means the days get shorter and colder. You may rub it my face with gusto in come September. Which is cool, because my birthday's in September, and I'll be too drunk to read what you're writing.

We don't really have winter dear. It just gets a little bit cooler at night.

MtD

Bucko · « **Reply #2 on:** February 28, 2007, 12:49:01 am »

Thanks for reminding me, Benj. Now that puddle of sweat that I'm sitting in suddenly makes sense.

Brent
(For whom Spring and Summer means steambath and hurricaines)

aupointillimite · « **Reply #3 on:** February 28, 2007, 12:49:12 am »

Quote from: matty.the.damned on February 28, 2007, 12:44:52 am

We don't really have winter dear. It just gets a little bit cooler at night.

MtD

Really?

No traditional seasons or anything like that?

The things I've read about Australia seem to indicate that there's a more wet/dry seasonal shift... but I was left with the impression that that was on the Indian Ocean coast.

I always thought the east coastal areas of Australia were more temperate.

I have learned something.

aupointillimite · « **Reply #4 on:** February 28, 2007, 12:50:17 am »

Quote from: Bucko on February 28, 2007, 12:49:01 am

Thanks for reminding me, Benj. Now that puddle of sweat that I'm sitting in suddenly makes sense.

Brent
(For whom Spring and Summer means steambath and hurricaines)

One thing that will never induce me to leave the upper half of the East Coast is the four very well-defined seasons. I'm ADD and require appropriate meteorological changes.

Matty the Damned · « **Reply #5 on:** February 28, 2007, 12:54:03 am »

Really?

No traditional seasons or anything like that?

The things I've read about Australia seem to indicate that there's a more wet/dry seasonal shift... but I was left with the impression that that was on the Indian Ocean coast.

I always thought the east coastal areas of Australia were more temperate.

I have learned something.

Well it depends.

Most of the Australian land mass is desert. We call that bit the GFA or the Great Fuck All. Hot, flat and blazingly hot during the day and correspondingly bitter at night - it makes Death Valley look like a cool oasis.

The north is tropical and subject to monsoons and cyclones and man eating reptiles. Ghastly.

I live in the central part of NSW which is temperate. We have distinct seasons. The summers are very hot, but the winters are mild. So when I say "we don't really have winter", I mean in comparison to the northern part of the US.

Sometimes it snows here though.

MtD

Bucko · « **Reply #6 on:** February 28, 2007, 01:10:21 am »

The north is tropical and subject to monsoons and cyclones and man eating reptiles. Ghastly.

Sounds like SoFla. Sometimes I miss New England.

Brent
(Who doesn't like snow at all)

Dachshund · « **Reply #7 on:** February 28, 2007, 05:59:44 am »

Quote from: aupointillimite on February 28, 2007, 12:50:17 am

One thing that will never induce me to leave the upper half of the East Coast is the four very well-defined seasons. I'm ADD and require appropriate meteorological changes.

Plus, you don't have a car.

Queen Tokelove · « **Reply #8 on:** February 28, 2007, 02:36:07 pm »

Huzzah Huzzah Huzzah for spring....Green beer on the 17th...Still will be nippy here. Can't wait for summer so I can throw on my dukes, get in my car and just cruise....

Dachshund · « **Reply #9 on:** February 28, 2007, 03:59:30 pm »

Quote from: Queen Akasha on February 28, 2007, 02:36:07 pm

Huzzah Huzzah Huzzah for spring....Green beer on the 17th...Still will be nippy here. Can't wait for summer so I can throw on my dukes, get in my car and just cruise....

Queen, pick up Benj...he ain't got a car.

Lwood · « **Reply #10 on:** February 28, 2007, 04:08:52 pm »

Boys Without Cars.... sounds like a band the first album would naturally be titled
"ASS GAS OR GRASS" and I aint takin the last 2 . Just a little somethin to think on....

swede_dish · « **Reply #11 on:** February 28, 2007, 04:10:57 pm »

Right on....right on.

aupointillimite · « **Reply #12 on:** February 28, 2007, 04:14:46 pm »

Quote from: Dachshund on February 28, 2007, 03:59:30 pm

Queen, pick up Benj...he ain't got a car.

Yes! Come get me!

ACinKC · « **Reply #13 on:** February 28, 2007, 04:15:59 pm »

Quote from: Lwood on February 28, 2007, 04:08:52 pm

Boys Without Cars.... sounds like a band the first album would naturally be titled
"ASS GAS OR GRASS" and I aint takin the last 2 . Just a little somethin to think on....

And the first hit single... "Who's Got the 'vada" (As in Truvada)

aupointillimite · « **Reply #14 on:** February 28, 2007, 04:17:37 pm »

Quote from: ACinKC on February 28, 2007, 04:15:59 pm

And the first hit single... "Who's Got the 'vada" (As in Truvada)

And "I've Got the Truvada Blues."

Because they're blue... ha ha... get it?

Dachshund · « **Reply #15 on:** February 28, 2007, 04:25:42 pm »

Quote from: aupointillimite on February 28, 2007, 04:17:37 pm

And "I've Got the Truvada Blues."

Because they're blue... ha ha... get it?

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aupointillimite · « **Reply #16 on:** February 28, 2007, 04:30:58 pm »

Those candies better be unbelievably bitter, Dachshund.

Like me.

Dachshund · « **Reply #17 on:** February 28, 2007, 04:35:45 pm »

Quote from: aupointillimite on February 28, 2007, 04:30:58 pm

Those candies better be unbelievably bitter, Dachshund.

Like me.

Hard exterior with a sweet gooey center. No one could eat just one.

ACinKC · « **Reply #18 on:** February 28, 2007, 04:38:45 pm »

Mmmmmmmm that sounds like.... mmmmmmmmm.... goey diet salt water in the middle?

aupointillimite · « **Reply #19 on:** February 28, 2007, 04:40:05 pm »

Quote from: Dachshund on February 28, 2007, 04:35:45 pm

Hard exterior with a sweet gooey center. No one could eat just one.

Awww.

I'm like chocolate covered crack with a creamy heroin center.

fearless · « **Reply #20 on:** February 28, 2007, 06:44:18 pm »

Does this signal the end of Piss on Benj month?

And, as Matty said, don't feel too bad for us, well those of us in NSW anyway. The 4 seasons rule doesn't really apply in Sydney. The local Aborigines identified 8 distinctive 'seasons', for want of a better term.

Sydney is pretty much mild all year round; Feb, the warmest month averages only about 80/85 farenheit; and July the coldest comes in at a fairly mild average in the low 60's f. Having lived reasonably close to the coast all my life, I've never seen a frost, let alone snow. Anything below 60 and I think I'm freezing my arse off, but it's not uncommon to have the odd day or two in the 80's in the middle of winter. The coldest day I can ever remember experiencing in Sydney was when I was at Uni doing a field in the mangroves of Botany Bay - it only hit about 9 C (48 or so f). I thought I was going to die.

1 March is officially the first day of autumn in Sydney, but with an average temp of 76 f, I ain't complaining. It's the height of our wet season in Sydney for the next few months. Muggy and humid during the day with lots of big afternoon/evening thunderstorms with associated hail, downpours, thunder and lightning. My favourite time of the year.

ACinKC · « **Reply #21 on:** February 28, 2007, 07:13:45 pm »

We are getting a THUNDER storm!!! How exciting! Big booms, green skies.... I do love this time of year! You havent seen a thunderstorm till you've seen one roll in from the plains of Kansas!

aupointillimite · « **Reply #22 on:** February 28, 2007, 07:46:22 pm »

Quote from: ACinKC on February 28, 2007, 07:13:45 pm

We are getting a THUNDER storm!!! How exciting! Big booms, green skies.... I do love this time of year! You havent seen a thunderstorm till you've seen one roll in from the plains of Kansas!

Green?

Green?

If I saw green skies, I would immediately convert to the nearest convenient religion and begin praying to the appropriate deity.

alisenjafi · « **Reply #23 on:** February 28, 2007, 08:00:48 pm »

Quote from: matty.the.damned on February 28, 2007, 12:44:52 am

P.S. Apologies to my friends in the Southern Hemisphere... for whom this month means the days get shorter and colder. You may rub it my face with gusto in come September. Which is cool, because my birthday's in September, and I'll be too drunk to read what you're writing.

We don't really have winter dear. It just gets a little bit cooler at night.

MtD

They were showing on the news yesterday a part of Aussie with hail! looked like NY

tigger2376 · « **Reply #24 on:** February 28, 2007, 08:03:21 pm »

London UK...rain whatever the bloody month! Is it March they say ''comes in like a lamb goes out like a lion''?
(Sounds like most of my boyfiends...in reverse)
And yes deliberately left in typo, probably a freudian slip

Miss Philicia · « **Reply #25 on:** February 28, 2007, 08:12:19 pm »

Quote from: fearless on February 28, 2007, 06:44:18 pm

Does this signal the end of Piss on Benj month?

Clearly he would enjoy being pissed on.

fearless · « **Reply #26 on:** February 28, 2007, 08:43:22 pm »

hey jafi,

That would have been our godforsaken national capital, Canberra. A hot, dry, dusty, flyblown, soulless cesspit in summer and a dry, icy, bitterly cold, soulless cesspit in winter.
Full of politicians and bureaucrats of the worst sort. If you ever visit you would realise very quickly, it ain't New York. It's was 'designed' by an American, Walter Burley Griffin, as a modernist utopia. It works, in a sense, as there are no traffic jams but also no pedestrians, and you would have no idea that over 300,000 people live there, but it really is a city without a soul.

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marc11864 · « **Reply #27 on:** February 28, 2007, 08:48:14 pm »

Quote from: fearless on February 28, 2007, 06:44:18 pm

Does this signal the end of Piss on Benj month?

Why am I always late for watersports?

tigger2376 · « **Reply #28 on:** February 28, 2007, 10:26:14 pm »

We know a song about that...and prince seems kinda apt

Bucko · « **Reply #29 on:** March 01, 2007, 03:35:15 am »

Quote from: philly267 on February 28, 2007, 08:12:19 pm

Clearly he would enjoy being pissed on.

Correction: he enjoys being pissed in. Any old fool can lay in a bathtub. My Benj has special gifts.

Brent
(Who knows everything)

aupointillimite · « **Reply #30 on:** March 01, 2007, 03:39:15 am »

Quote from: Bucko on March 01, 2007, 03:35:15 am

Correction: he enjoys being pissed in. Any old fool can lay in a bathtub. My Benj has special gifts.

Brent
(Who knows everything)

I'm like Santa.

Bucko · « **Reply #31 on:** March 01, 2007, 03:48:39 am »

Quote from: aupointillimite on March 01, 2007, 03:39:15 am

I'm like Santa.

But without the scratchy beard, pot belly and annoying laugh. Oh, and you're queer as a pink poodle in a convertable in a gay pride parade.

Otherwise, no one could tell you two apart.

Brent
(Who has warned Benj before about wearing all that ermine)

aupointillimite · « **Reply #32 on:** March 01, 2007, 03:56:56 am »

Quote from: Bucko on March 01, 2007, 03:48:39 am

But without the scratchy beard, pot belly and annoying laugh. Oh, and you're queer as a pink poodle in a convertable in a gay pride parade.

That is so insulting, Brent... I'm hurt. Really, really, really hurt.

Crying, sweety... crying. Squish squish.

I always thought of myself as "gayer than a tree full of monkeys on nitrous oxide."

I really hope it's an Audi I'm in.

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