a pound of hash
my brother left a message on our voice mail.
he was confused.
"uh," he said, "i'm not sure what i'm supposed to do now because that robot voice lady just told me to press the hash key to leave a message.
my phone does not have a hash key.
i've got numbers and a star and a pound sign, but no hash.
wait. phones in australia come with hash? that's awesome."
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i did not get the lonely planet job. turns out they hired someone from within the company. instead, i am learning about oil drilling and writing about it.
i hope one day to become the world's top deep core oil driller, and therefore be chosen to fly on a special top-secret space mission to drill into and destroy a rogue asteroid that threatens the earth.
i figure it's the only way i'll get phil collins to write me a song.
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this friday is australia day. are you celebrating australia day? we are. we have been kindly invited to join our friends matt and ruth at a barbie for snags on a bun.
i'm not particularly certain what the hell that means but i'm hoping it's something to do with sausages.
if instead it turns out to be something about dolls with pulled rectums, you can bet your knickers i'll be escaping indoors to press repeatedly on the hash key.
couldn't hurt.
We ARE celebrating Australia Day! We are going over to our newlywed friends' place, who have many Australian relatives, and who celebrate every year. They are Arthur Chadwick and Liza Mae Gambling. Yes, those are real people. And they make a helluva spread. No hash, though.
happy Australia Day!
I had the same "hash key" experience being routed to the voice mail of a friend of mine in the UK yesterday. I left almost the same message as your brother.
:-)
australia day was a big day in third grade. my TA, ms. sydney, is from australia and so she brought us vegemite (gagging=limited, thankfully, as people who are eight are not so polite when expressing displeasure for new and strange foods) and then we sang "advance, australia fair." she wanted us to go out and play cricket but we already are hobbled in our athletic skills since when playing kickball the littler kids, after being up and kicking successfully, run to what the rest of the world considers third base because they play "the Hebrew way," an allusion to the whole right-to-left when reading thing. only the Jews. seriously.
also, australia day was a big day because it was my birthday. just think! if i lived in australia the whole country would turn out and have snags and hash and cricket and such just for me. definitely a consideration!