It is a hard way, the way of being a man. Sooner or later we all want a thing that is bad. To walk on all fours. To suck up drink from a stream. To jabber, instead of saying the words. To go snuffling at the earth, and to claw on the bark of trees. To eat flesh, or fish. To make love to more than one, every which way. These are all bad things. These are not the things that men do. But we are men, are we not? We are men because the Father has made us men! – The Island of Dr Moreau.
Did I really not know this was here? Did I block it out? I was even at the E Shed markets not long ago and didn’t see it. Why have I been picking on poor dead Heath Ledger, and Ron Gomboc, when this obscenity was just down the road? Great submission from Richard. He says it’s been there for months, but the tail is still propped up with bits of plywood. It doesn’t even look like a quokka. Or is the fur yet to come?
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One of the radio stations had a campign going not long back to put a big quokka on Rottnest, but i think they just left the thing at the port. 92.9?
Stupid idea anyway.
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Is this thing connected to that “campaign?”
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I’d assume so, but then for a piece of radio junk it looks quite firmly cemented into the ground.
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Rotto Bloggo covered this fitfully:
http://rottobloggo.blogspot.com/2009/03/porcine.html
It was also on fremantlebiz:
http://fremantlebiz.livejournal.com/481011.html
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Oh I thought that was just radio wank. I didn’t think it was actually going to be constructed.
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Fremantlebiz actually likes the thing and wanted it fouling up Rottnest. He seems to be missing that it is a giant piece of shit.
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That fremantlebiz guy compared it to Michelangelo’s statue of David?
Uhuh.
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Is that some sort of tree of palm in the background, DFOC?
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Are those its feet, or does the damn thing have 2 dicks to walk on?
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Hey Tex. haven’t heard from you for a while. So it takes a dick footed quokka to get you to the keyboard these days?
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Yeah, dick footed rats, 3 breasted women or flaming cars…
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Pity about the pixing on the cheesecake.
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I think we can safely assume she’s Angelina, and I’m pleased to now be able to add “quokka style” to the repertoire.
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Wow – Angelina managed to capture the tedium that is Rotto in words and pictures.
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That’s a bloody obscenity. A monstrostity. An insult to Mother Nature.
I’d like to see some dumb-shit rugby player try to drop kick it though.
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It looks like it would be flammable.
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It’s hard to believe this is in Fremantle. Where’s the tags? Surely a local young un should have etched some handywork on it by now.
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Pfft – still persisting with the fantasy that Freo is some urban hood, and not a quaint Elizabethan village?
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Listen pal, we hang tough down here in the village. Peace out!
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And shouldn’t that be Edwardian village?
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Nu-Freo was first settled in 1983. That would be during the reign HRH Queen Elizabeth II.
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Your’e such a smart arse.
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I feel like spray painting simply: “Poor Effort” on the quokka.
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It was not made by the Radio station. It was made by people who donated their time and materials to make something that was a good idea.
Sorry you dont like it. Try making a better one for zero dollars
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Yeah! And then take a selfie with it!
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He’s busy with the electioneering.
Oh.
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I watched half an hour of a movie starring that loveable 80s sitcom puppet Alf yesterday and the head of this thing is disturbingly similar – if Alf had been caught in a bushfire.
Fyi, an update on The Perth Files daylight savings poll:
YES to keep daylight saving 94 (64%)
NO to DLS (I’m a zombie) 46 (31%)
I can’t vote – I live elsewhere 6 (4%)
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i think the yes zombies are going to win this time.
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Yes Cookster! Or, a cross of Alf and Rob Broadfield: the top of the dome is very IC.
Why were you watching a movie with Alf? Were you on the couch?
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I could say that it was one of the Sexpo videos, but alas no, I was home eating a ham and salad roll for lunch – 7HD is where bad movies go to die.
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… and here we have the (cropped … phew) cover of The furrier side of Quokka Guys in Tourist Thighs.
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Big hair-less furball – no wonder everyone around the world thinks we are Crocodile Hunters or something. Hopefully it didn’t cost taxpayers anything ….
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It doesn’t look anything like a quokka because it is nowhere near its natural habitat -a rubbish bin.
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Would love to see a few Quokka bashing rotto yobbos come across one this size walking down the street.
Reminds me of the Sylvester Cat cartoon and the mouse come boxing kangaroo skit.
Nevertheless, it does have a Killer Quokka quality look about is, especially as it is about to kidnap that young woman and scale the Bank West building.
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My money’s on it being an albino rat. Probably hopped off a sheep carrier. Black plague anyone?
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This is the first time I have ever heard of this animal. I had to wikipedia it to make sure it wasnt a giant rat.
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It was some world wandering Dutch seaman back in the way, way when, who made the same mistake and named the rocky outcrop after the supposed rat. ( Rat’s Nest.)
Someone with a more solid grasp on history might fill in the details for you if you ask nicely.
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Quite pleasant creatures.
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Quite often also moreso than Svenkish and Welsh mariners, TLA.
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All you boring and grumpy people.
Get a life, have some fun.
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Why, Emile?
Please explain.
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An “our Nikki” fan? Are we not having fun?
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This is a classic case of projection.
Emile you are a friend of Jespers aren’t you?
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Well, with a name like that, it’s unlikely that he’s a Welsh mariner.
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This might belong in a “Where is it now?” category. Back in May I saw it outside the E-sheds in Freo, but when I drove by there with an overseas visitor in July – it was gone.
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