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From: Neville Gibb <nev.g...@ihug.co.nz>
Subject: Re: [austpacwx] Aboriginal BOM weather prediction
Date: Sun, 28 Jun 2009 17:54:03 +1200
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Old North American Indian joke.

One problem though, although they've substituted October for April,  
Indians for Aboriginals and the NWS for the BOM, perhaps they should  
have also said southern Australia rather than Northern Australia,  
which I imagine wouldn't have winters as such?

Cheers
Neville


On 27/06/2009, at 7:47 PM, Bussy wrote:

> I just had to send this.
>
>
>
> It was April and the Aboriginals in a remote part of Northern  
> Australia asked their new elder if the coming winter was going to  
> be cold or mild. Since he was an elder in a modern community he had  
> never been taught the old secrets. When he looked at the sky he  
> couldn't tell what the winter was going to be like.
> Nevertheless, to be on the safe side, he told his tribe that the  
> winter was indeed going to be cold and that the members of the  
> tribe should collect firewood to be prepared.
> But being a practical leader, after several days he had an idea.
> He walked out to the telephone booth on the highway, called the  
> Bureau of Meteorology and asked, 'Is the coming winter in this area  
> going to be cold?'
> The meteorologist responded, 'It looks like this winter is going to  
> be quite cold.' So the elder went back to his people and told them  
> to collect even more wood in order to be prepared.
> A week later he called the Bureau of Meteorology again. 'Does it  
> still look like it is going to be a very cold winter?'
> The meteorologist again replied, 'Yes, it's going to be a very cold  
> winter.'
> The elder again went back to his community and ordered them to  
> collect every scrap of firewood they could find.
> Two weeks later the elder called the Bureau again. 'Are you  
> absolutely sure that the winter is going to be very cold?' he asked.
> 'Absolutely,' the man replied. 'It's looking more and more like it  
> is going to be one of the coldest winters ever.'
> 'How can you be so sure?' the elder asked.
> The weatherman replied, 'Our satellites have reported that the  
> Aboriginals in the north are collecting firewood like crazy, and  
> that's always a sure sign.'
> Bussy
> Rutherglen, Victoria
>
> >


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