Australia Knits A Stamp.

In an age that seems foreign to us now,
A beautiful lass, with not an ear or tongue stud, or tattoo in sight.
Saturday night out would probably involve necking at the drive-in movie.

Very nice and the jumper is OK too.

Steve

Oops. Gee watch it Steve, I nearly trod on your tongue.
I heard a whisper her name is Penny, and she's good for a yarn.

The stamp sweater is neat, but I always get a chuckle from the "No Swimming with the Crocs" logo on that little boy's sweater.

Yeah Kirk, we went through a period where a lot of design incorporated road signs and the like, Kangaroos, wombats, koalas etc.
There is a real message behind the little tackers jumper though, a lot of people have been taken by Crocs in Australia, and a lot have been tourists, swimming in waterholes or camping by rivers or the beach. The largest Aussie Crocodile killed was 28 feet long.
I recall seeing a Youtube recently, where some West Aussies caught a Shark off the beach, and a saltwater croc came up the beach after it, they beat it back with sticks.

There is a stamp series called "Dangerous Australia" IIRC

That's great Rod.

Thanks for the chuckle!

Couldn't find a pic of Danii Minogue. LOL

Here are the dangerous animals...



I don't have the Red Back Spider

There was also a series of dangerous marine life...



Steve

Onya Triggersmob, perhaps the readers do not know the story of the red Back Spider, Australia Post was nervous if the spider appeared on a stamp, the public could be traumatised by seeing them on covers in some of the more challenged mailboxes where snails and other free loaders congregate.
Hence the Red Back in you souvenir sheet is not perforated, and used as a stamp.
They are quite nasty fellows (the spiders), and love congregating inside piles of old house bricks. They are very common spiders.
Thanks for posting the images TM

You even have a bird that can kill you.





(Granted, this stamp is North Borneo, but...)

Really? I wasn't aware of that. Killer Emu's?

The Cassowaries are only in the rainforests of Northern Queensland, so Rod and I should be pretty safe. I believe they charge at you with there head down, using the large boney protrusion on top of their head to inflict damage.

Steve

Aaaaaaah yes the Cassowary,
The "grumpy old men" of the animal kingdom.

Well, now I know more about Cassowaries -- getting my money's worth every day on SCF

By the way, the first emu I remember was from my childhood -- comedian George Carlin had a Saturday morning show for children that featured an emu with a nasty temper. If you live in the States, you might remember it. Very funny.

I was thinking they had a claw, or talon, or even a really big toe, that could disembowel its victim...and I didn't just hear this on "When Songbirds Attack" on Animal Planet. I read it somewhere, and it wasn't online, so I thought it might be true.

That being said, I just Googled them, and they apparently are most dangerous to small berries. They've only been pinned with one death.

I probably stumbled across some travel writer's hyperbole...

Yes, I think these two species have a distinct dodgy disposition.
Gives a "peck on the cheek" a whole new meaning.

They are probably just frustrated at having no hands.

That tickled me.