Brisbanites needed

[op shop girl]

Your mission if you choose to accept it...

1) Pick up this panda from Cornubia.

2) Squash it as tight as possible and post it to me, or

3) If you plan on heading down to Sydney sometime soon, bring him with you.


The helpful person would be rewarded for their efforts.
And I would be able to carry out a childish prank.
It's a win-win situation

[Gutter Monkey]

You could hollow it out and use it as a costume.

[op shop girl]

Originally Posted by Gutter Monkey

You could hollow it out and use it as a costume.

So many, many uses...

but the first step is to actually obtain it, else I get dragged on a roadtrip to pick it up.

[Abundance]

Can't you just book it a seat on a Greyhound bus? (they have freight too)

If it were me I would definitely have it fumigated or at least Glen 20ed, I'm just saying it's life size and you never know the previous owner's pecadilos.

[Laurenandë]

And um... I, as a Brisbanite, would like to point out that Cornubia is more of a 50 minute drive from Brisbane, and not really Brisbane at all. Alas, no car, no panda. Sorry!

[op shop girl]

I'm more than an hour away from Sydney, but I still claim to be a Sydney-sider.

Either way, the auction ended over a week ago, so no giant panda for me.

*returns to scouring the local markets*

[hails]

if someone finds a giant panda and can get it to lady opshop, please post here!

i'd hate to see a childish prank go to waste

[Gutter Monkey]

Originally Posted by hails

if someone finds a giant panda and can get it to lady opshop, please post here!

i'd hate to see a childish prank go to waste

I saw a giant bright yellow bear this morning.

It wasn't quite as big as that panda but it was frickin' huge. It was at an opp shop too.

I could make a giant panda if someone bought me enough fake fur and lent me a sewign machine.

[Laurenandë]

I'm more than an hour away from Sydney, but I still claim to be a Sydney-sider.

yep, but an hour outside of Brisbane, you get Logan, Ipswich and the Gold Coast that are more of your ...bogan variety, all of which identify themselves as cities/towns and like to be differentiated from Brisbane (ie, people who live there don't say they are from Brisbane, even though they're only an hour away). So you say you're from Sydney, but in Queensland, we would say you're from South East Qld. </unnecessary demography lecture>.

Like people saying Savage Garden are from Brisbane. They weren't. They're from Logan. Logan can have them.

G'luck with the Big Panda Hunt. If I find one, I'll do me best. Is there a time limit?

[Laney]

I should have actually checked and read this properly a while ago, like when you posted this, cause i'm living in Mackay at the moment (or more like Nebo, or essentially in the middle of nowhere) and am going back to Sydney next month.

Umm, local people, is there anything to do in this town? Cause i've done everything you can do here and without having any friends here there's not much else i can think of doing.


So if there is another panda in the area (or for that matter anything, since i am here), i'll get him and bring him back

[Playm8]

I used to live in Mackay! I lasted about a year, coz no matter how beautiful it is, there's no work and it's full of rednecks. What are you doing there? No, there really is very little to do except for enjoy the view at the Eimeo pub. Unless wet T-shirt competitions are your thing, Mackay being the forward, cultural centre that it is. Also, I don’t know what it is about the place, but have you noticed that so many of the chicks are fully hot, but the guys are feral? No wonder the ladies were so excited when a US naval ship arrived in town when I was there.

[Laney]

Originally Posted by Playm8

I lasted about a year, coz no matter how beautiful it is, there's no work and it's full of rednecks. What are you doing there? No, there really is very little to do except for enjoy the view at the Eimeo pub.

there's plenty of work going here, you've just got to be prepared to put in long hours, travel right into the middle of nowhere and get a shitload of money for it i'm working at one of the mines out here. i've been told the eimeo pub is very nice i'm yet to go there, maybe this weekend. i think this weekend is going to be me going to the pub and doing more national park walks