Extraordinary Everyday Lives #069 : Just how gay is a Kookaburra’s life?
EELS069
Kookaburras have a gay life
Thursday Jul 30 2009
Just how gay is a Kookaburra’s life?
Dave, Kent & Mike are joined by VinBrown and talk tech news – mostly. With the odd rant on Kookaburras and the Lifekludger wiki launch.
* wtf with apple/google
* kent on mac tablet
*Internode
*TPN funders
* JP on scarcity
* Discussion on new ways of music promotion.
* nirvana rickroll
* Men at Work copyright fight is stupid
– The first verse of the song is:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kookaburra_(song)
Kookaburra sits in the old gum tree,Merry merry king of the bush is he.Laugh, Kookaburra, laugh, Kookaburra,Gay your life must be!
- Mike changes the wikipedia entry to appease his ego
(Then finds out from his wife that it was the OTHER way around. Mike claims the last line is ‘gay your life must be’, Mandy is the one who asserts ‘HOW gay your life must be’. DOH!!!
* lifekludger wiki
– Not mentioned but I found this funny.
* xkcd woodpecker
August 1st, 2009 at 1:04 pm
[...] I was reading Kent Newsome’s post today about Apple and Google while listening to the podcast he is a part of which had a segment on the story when a new post on TechCrunch by Jason Kincaid caught my eye. It [...]
August 30th, 2009 at 11:13 am
Hello my friends who live in small earbuds!
I’m checking with my siblings re Mike’s burning question about the Kookaburra song as our ‘Mom’ used to sing it to us when we were kids. ‘Solving life’s big issues, one question at a time…’
Also, there’s an article by Chris Anderson in the Jul 2009 issue of WIRED titled ‘Waste is Good’ that has a nice explanation about Scarcity vs Abundance Management (page 076). I found interesting his comment, ‘Although consumers may prefer 100 percent free, a little artificial scarcity is the best way to make money.’ Makes me wonder if Apple really can’t keep up production of iPhones to meet the demand…
Cheers, Rick
August 31st, 2009 at 11:38 pm
Howdy again! Consensus from the Clise siblings is that the correct wording for the Kookaburra song is, ‘… gay your life must be…’ without the ‘how’. (Sorry Mandy!) And apparently the second verse is ‘Kookaburra sits in the old gum tree, eating all the gum drops he can see. Wait Kookaburra, wait Kookaburra, leave some there for me.’ Oh, what memories! Cheers, Rick
September 1st, 2009 at 3:19 am
LOL Rick. I think that second verse sounds a lot like your family has been playing Chinese Whispers!
Thanks for the comments and in-depth reporting. Hell, Main Stream Media has *nothing* on us!
Now, I wonder what we can do with H.R. Puffinstuff.
Dave
May 5th, 2010 at 2:48 pm
Wow, I had no idea the Kookaburra song had a second verse, my childhood now has a massive void!