Funniest things yer Dad ever did!

[finga]

He sired me.
Woops.....the thread is funniest thing dad did. Siring me was the stupidest thing he did.

Funniest (thing to watch).....mmmmm....let me think.....I know.....getting tangled up in the electric fence with his whipper snipper strapped to him.
The cutting head wrapped around the electric fence and he couldn't get the cutting head untangled from the fence nor could he get the brush cutter out of the harness.
And then there was the time in the old Inter 1310 coming down the range at Tabulum and he used to give us kids a kick by turning the ignition off and coasted for ages and we'd wait until we saw some roos on the side of the road and then when he turned the ignition back on the old Inter would backfire and it'll scare the crap out of the roos.
It was a good joke until the muffler blew off.

[Haji-Baba]

Yeah, heading down the river about 1952, Dad me and two brothers to stir up the local pig population.

First job, get some fire wood together, put the billy on, a little later everybody settled down to corned beef sandwiches and bang up goes the fire, someone had dropped a couple of live rounds in the fire, probably from an open top shirt pocket.

Result, fire everywhere, tucker covered with ashes and the old man doing a war dance.

I have no idea what he said but you can guarantee it would not be printable.

I think he was even more annoyed when he found out some one had left his horse hair mattress at home and we had to then make him up a bed of Belah leaves to sleep on.

Nice and soft.

Have fun Haji-Baba

[odes20]

Another funny event was when we went to Condamine fishing one Fridy night in spring, and this big storm comes up, and before we could do anything really it just belts down. We were down on the river and had to walk thru the pouring rain back to the car, all the time knowing it was parked under a coolabah tree on black soil, and about 1 km from gravel! Not good. Anyway we get the old XT Falcon wagon going and get a bit of headway all be it sliding out of control all the time. Then Dad seems to get her bogged, so brother and I get out and push, get covered in mud. We are sneaking along gaining ground ever slowly thru the mud.

The car spins to a holt so Dad reverses up a bit to have another run and we try to push, Dad revs the guts out of the falcon, but no movement. Revs reves , thought the motor would fly apart, till we realise there's no mud flying out the back in this process. Try to tell Dad who thinks we're now completely bogged, to put the car in gear, but he won't listen, he's just panicking that were bogged. Was t till he finally got out of the car that we convince him he never had the car in gear! Gets in puts car in gear, and off we go!

Got home ok with a lot of laughs at the old man.

[sooty]

Back about 20 years age a mate and I would take our old fellas out to the Condermine for a weekend, they would not even see the water let alone drink any.
Beer and Rum were the focus for the weekend.
One trip in winter one of the old fellas had a call of nature (number 2) just after dark and a quite few beers plus rums.
Off he toddles in the overalls to answer the call, roll in one hand and a beer in the other.
Comes back a while later much relieved, sits down and says " Who Farted That STINKS"

No one owned up and the smell persisted

Smell was tracked down to the back of Overalls

Oldie didn't pull them down far enough and bought a PARCEL back to camp
True Story, often repeated when Jack was around to wear the brunt

[wayno60]

Back in the 60's the old man work as a fitter and turner with about a dozen guys. There was one who would alway just duck around the back of the shed for a quick pee instead of the loo like every one else. so one day, all the guys were in on it, they clamped the earth of one of the welders to the rear tin wall of the shed. waited for to disapear then hit the back wall with the electrode......funny how he never did it agan...

[Haji-Baba]

A bit off topic but in response to Finga and the old Inter, I was poking around the back of Glenmorgan During flood time on a Motorbike.

Pretty heavy going and had the old Ariel retarded a bit as I came into a cottage along the road.

Backfiring a fair bit and just in time to see the cockie trying to control a horse being trained to the Sulky. He hoped to go to town for tucker in the sulky.

He was walking along side the sulky and managed to pacify the horse before it bolted.

I didn't know the man at all but he able to tell me where I had come from and all my past history in one breath.

Memories Haji-Baba