Hi Indy,

Was out for dinner, last evening, had a very nice 'Roast Goanna' with a 'Witchetty Grub' sauce. Seen your post on my phone, so since you stuck your chin out with the word "television" I immediately though of you and "Idiot Box" it so fits you, you do know some refer to the telly as the idiot box. ha, ha.

Anyway, what do you Yarpies say for television?

Good when you can laugh at yourself, my wife's favourite.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=irmVv4WD-iA

Paul1405,
Roasted Wichetty Grub are delicious !
We call Television TV for short & our ancestors who developed the technology called it that from Day 1.

Ayers Rock didn't need a new name.
I still call it Ayers Rock, and think of it that way.
Doing so doesn't confuse ME.
But others might be baffled?

If there is a compelling reason to alter a name, so be it.
But stop playing musical chairs with names already in use.
It is far too confusing.

The last thing we'd want to do is confuse poor old Ipso. When William Gosse trekked out into the desert in 1873 and "discovered" his big rock and named it after another big rock sitting in Adelaide, Sir Henry Ayers no one for the next 100 years bothered to ask the locals what was the actual name they'd been calling the big rock for thousands of years. Now if Gosse had bothered to do that, then he'd have discovered the rock already had a name and it is Uluru, and there would be no confusion in the minds of people like Ipso.

BTW, I was in London England recently, and one morning while on walkabout, at the end of this very wide street, I "discovered" a rather large mansion. On making this amazing discovery I immediately named it after the then PM back in Aussie, 'Bozo House'. Despite the protests of the locals that they already had a name for this big joint, 'Buckingham Palace', from hence forth we shall call my amazing discovery 'Bozo House'. Besides upon entering I discovered the house was indeed populated by Bozo's!

Pauliar,

When you entered the house, a Bozo occupied it. But not before.