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Message no. 1
From: GreyWolf sparrow@***.net.au
Subject: Target:Australia
Date: Thu, 19 Aug 1999 10:32:57 +1000
I know that Awakened Lands is apparently going to cover Australia, but
since its one book and it is going to cover more than just Australia,
its not hard to guess that it wont have anywhere as much detail as a
Target:Australia book would have.

Is anyone out there interested at all in getting together to write a
Target:Australia (or Target:Sydney, or Target:Brisbane, etc) ?

Could be interesting for runners to be able to go down under. After
all.. where else do the women glow and the men thunder? :)

Has anyone else done anything like this? A detailed look at "urban"
Australia and shadowrunning in them? (ie: not the 'outback' or the
desert or the magic.. but the cities and the locations, the runners, the
corps.. etc.)

*I come from the land of wonder, where people drink and then chunder...*

GreyWolf

--
"I don't know, Scotty. Maybe it's just the _idea_ of an inflatable
rubber starship that bothers me."
Message no. 2
From: Geoff Skellams geoff.skellams@*********.com.au
Subject: Target:Australia
Date: Thu, 19 Aug 1999 14:06:58 +1000
On shadowrn@*********.org, GreyWolf[SMTP:sparrow@***.net.au] wrote:
> Is anyone out there interested at all in getting together to write a
> Target:Australia (or Target:Sydney, or Target:Brisbane, etc) ?
>
> Has anyone else done anything like this? A detailed look at "urban"
> Australia and shadowrunning in them? (ie: not the 'outback' or the
> desert or the magic.. but the cities and the locations, the runners,
the
> corps.. etc.)
>
Sounds interesting. One of my friends has some stuff on Canberra
in Shadowrun as well. Depending on when you want this stuff, I could
well be interested.

> where else do the women glow and the men thunder?
> *I come from the land of wonder, where people drink and then
chunder...*

Geez, if you are going to quote the song, then at least do it properly.
There are two different versions of the chorus:

I come from the land Down Under,
where women go and men plunder.
Can you hear, can you the thunder?
You'd better run, you'd better take cover.

OR (the version from after the second verse)

I come from the land Down Under,
where beer does flow and men chunder.
Can you hear, can you the thunder?
You'd better run, you'd better take cover.

cheers
Geoff (who loves that song)
--
Geoff Skellams R&D - Tower Software
Email Address: geoff.skellams@*********.com.au
Homepage: http://www.towersoft.com.au/staff/geoff/
ICQ Number: 2815165

Hili hewa ka mana'o ke 'ole ke kukakuka
(Ideas run wild without discussion)
Message no. 3
From: Sidhe tirnanog@****.com
Subject: Target:Australia
Date: Wed, 18 Aug 1999 21:33:53 -0700
|Geez, if you are going to quote the song, then at least do it properly.
|There are two different versions of the chorus:
|
|I come from the land Down Under,
|where women go and men plunder.
|Can you hear, can you the thunder?
|You'd better run, you'd better take cover.
|
|OR (the version from after the second verse)
|
|I come from the land Down Under,
|where beer does flow and men chunder.
|Can you hear, can you the thunder?
|You'd better run, you'd better take cover.
|
|cheers
|Geoff (who loves that song)


i was gonna say that those weren't the words. i have only heard the second
version before. maybe i didn't listem closely enough and just assumed that all
the choruses were the same.

chunder is aussie for puking right?

-------------------------------
k. david hayes
tirnanog@****.com
rook_aerie@*******.com
-------------------------------
never underestimate the power
of stupid people in large herds
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Message no. 4
From: Scott W iscottw@*****.nb.ca
Subject: Target:Australia
Date: Thu, 19 Aug 1999 01:34:58 -0300
"And now, a Channel 6 editorial reply to GreyWolf."
] I know that Awakened Lands is apparently going to cover Australia, but
] since its one book and it is going to cover more than just Australia,
] its not hard to guess that it wont have anywhere as much detail as a
] Target:Australia book would have.
]
] Is anyone out there interested at all in getting together to write a
] Target:Australia (or Target:Sydney, or Target:Brisbane, etc) ?
]
] Could be interesting for runners to be able to go down under. After
] all.. where else do the women glow and the men thunder? :)

Women GLOW? I always thought they GREW. The song always conjured up
pictures of Hulkesque women getting angry, then growing to massive
proportions...

Anyway, I'd be interested in reading a Target: Australia book.
'Course, that's been attempted before, right?

-------------------------------------------
PLEASE WATCH YOUR STEP
NICK UNDER CONSTRUCTION
Message no. 5
From: Ben Hayes bjh10@***.edu.au
Subject: Target:Australia
Date: Thu, 19 Aug 1999 14:38:43 +1000
I'd be interested.

BTW, an idea I had was that when the Comet storyline comes around, the
aborigines could use some pwerful ritual associated with it to partially
restore the balance in the Outback. This would of course cause the
conflict between the Urban folk and the Aborigines to escalate, due to
their being more land available now.
Message no. 6
From: Ben Hayes bjh10@***.edu.au
Subject: Target:Australia
Date: Thu, 19 Aug 1999 14:39:19 +1000
> Is anyone out there interested at all in getting together to write a
> Target:Australia (or Target:Sydney, or Target:Brisbane, etc) ?
>


I'd be interested.

BTW, an idea I had was that when the Comet storyline comes around, the
aborigines could use some pwerful ritual associated with it to partially
restore the balance in the Outback. This would of course cause the
conflict between the Urban folk and the Aborigines to escalate, due to
their being more land available now.
Message no. 7
From: GreyWolf sparrow@***.net.au
Subject: Target:Australia
Date: Thu, 19 Aug 1999 17:05:44 +1000
Geoff Skellams wrote:

> I come from the land Down Under,
> where women go and men plunder.
> Can you hear, can you the thunder?
> You'd better run, you'd better take cover.
>
> OR (the version from after the second verse)
>
> I come from the land Down Under,
> where beer does flow and men chunder.
> Can you hear, can you the thunder?
> You'd better run, you'd better take cover.
>
> cheers
> Geoff (who loves that song)

Geoff I know the words... I was sending the song up..

GreyWolf :)

--
"I don't know, Scotty. Maybe it's just the _idea_ of an inflatable
rubber starship that bothers me."
Message no. 8
From: Starrngr@***.com Starrngr@***.com
Subject: Target:Australia
Date: Thu, 19 Aug 1999 04:14:46 EDT
In a message dated 8/18/99 9:35:04 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
tirnanog@****.com writes:

> chunder is aussie for puking right?

Got it in one, mate. Ralf, puke, or my personal fav's WOrshiping the
porcalin god or the Technicolor Yawn.
Message no. 9
From: Aaron Binns sparrow@***.net.au
Subject: Target:Australia
Date: Thu, 19 Aug 1999 21:55:01 +1000
Starrngr@***.com wrote:

> In a message dated 8/18/99 9:35:04 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
> tirnanog@****.com writes:
>
> > chunder is aussie for puking right?
>
> Got it in one, mate. Ralf, puke, or my personal fav's WOrshiping the
> porcalin god or the Technicolor Yawn.

How about prayin' at the little white temple?

Gw
Message no. 10
From: Rori Steel cullyn@*****.com.au
Subject: Target:Australia
Date: Thu, 19 Aug 1999 12:42:48 +0000 (GMT)
On Thu, 19 Aug 1999 21:55:01 +1000, greywolf
wrote:

>Starrngr@***.com wrote:
>
>> In a message dated 8/18/99 9:35:04 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
>> tirnanog@****.com writes:
>>
>> > chunder is aussie for puking right?
>>
>> Got it in one, mate. Ralf, puke, or my personal fav's WOrshiping the
>> porcalin god or the Technicolor Yawn.
>
>How about prayin' at the little white temple?

Calling for Herb, Driving the Porcalin Bus, Starting a new river,
Hurl, Blow Chunks. We Aussies may not have the Superbowl... but our
bowl is full of something :>

Cullyn
Message no. 11
From: Gideon, Pawn of Chaos ghayers@*****.com
Subject: Target:Australia
Date: Thu, 19 Aug 1999 15:48:55 -0500
>Starrngr@***.com wrote:
>
> > tirnanog@****.com writes:
>>
>> > chunder is aussie for puking right?
>>
>> Got it in one, mate. Ralf, puke, or my personal fav's WOrshiping the
>> porcalin god or the Technicolor Yawn.
>
>How about prayin' at the little white temple?
>

Barking at the ants.
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Message no. 12
From: Marc Renouf renouf@********.com
Subject: Target:Australia
Date: Thu, 19 Aug 1999 17:00:26 -0400 (EDT)
On Thu, 19 Aug 1999, Gideon, Pawn of Chaos wrote:

> >> Got it in one, mate. Ralf, puke, or my personal fav's WOrshiping the
> >> porcalin god or the Technicolor Yawn.
> >
> >How about prayin' at the little white temple?
> >
>
> Barking at the ants.

Driving the porcelain bus.

Marc
Message no. 13
From: Sidhe tirnanog@****.com
Subject: Target:Australia
Date: Thu, 19 Aug 1999 14:19:56 -0700
On Thu, 19 Aug 1999, Gideon, Pawn of Chaos wrote:
|
|> >> Got it in one, mate. Ralf, puke, or my personal fav's WOrshiping the
|> >> porcalin god or the Technicolor Yawn.
|> >
|> >How about prayin' at the little white temple?
|> >
|>
|> Barking at the ants.
|
| Driving the porcelain bus.
|
|Marc

bowling

-------------------------------
k. david hayes
tirnanog@****.com
rook_aerie@*******.com
-------------------------------
never underestimate the power
of stupid people in large herds
-------------------------------
Message no. 14
From: IronRaven cyberraven@********.net
Subject: Target:Australia
Date: Thu, 19 Aug 1999 18:49:34 -0400
At 15.48 08-19-99 -0500, you wrote:
>>How about prayin' at the little white temple?
>Barking at the ants.

Calling the fish.

Chunky Rain (This is from a skydiving instructor. I've never looked up
without cringing since.)


Kevin Dole, aka CyberRaven, aka IronRaven, aka Steel Tengu
http://members.xoom.com/iron_raven/
"Once again, we have spat in the face of Death and his second cousin,
Dismemberment."
"There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in
your philosophy."
Message no. 15
From: David Yiannakos yiannako@*******.edu
Subject: Target:Australia
Date: Thu, 19 Aug 1999 19:01:05 -0400
| On Thu, 19 Aug 1999, Gideon, Pawn of Chaos wrote:
|
| > >> Got it in one, mate. Ralf, puke, or my personal fav's WOrshiping the
| > >> porcalin god or the Technicolor Yawn.
| > >
| > >How about prayin' at the little white temple?
| > >
| >
| > Barking at the ants.
|
| Driving the porcelain bus.
|
| Marc
|
*Dave gets sucked kicking and screaming back into vomit discussion.

Yark,

Ralph,

Spew,

God, I feel like I'm back in 4th grade. <giggle>

---Dave ('s not here man)
Message no. 16
From: Mad Hamish h_laws@**********.utas.edu.au
Subject: Target:Australia
Date: Thu, 26 Aug 1999 08:59:24 +1000
At 10:32 19/08/99 +1000, GreyWolf wrote:
>I know that Awakened Lands is apparently going to cover Australia, but
>since its one book and it is going to cover more than just Australia,
>its not hard to guess that it wont have anywhere as much detail as a
>Target:Australia book would have.
>
>Is anyone out there interested at all in getting together to write a
>Target:Australia (or Target:Sydney, or Target:Brisbane, etc) ?

Target Launceston (but only with heavy weapons <G>)
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of the time, but you can't fool all of the people all of the time.
Fortunately only a simple majority is required.'
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Hamish Laws
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h_laws@******.net.au

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