So what's all this about, then?

[fxst]

remember Andy Self the miner of coal started this in the first place and so ................

[craigb]

"Andy sang Andy watched Andy waited 'till his billy boiled ."

Harry wasn't quite sure that these were the words to the Ossy folk song, but that's what he hummed to himself as he stoked his fire.

"Huon pine ? nope, won't be needing that now I'm a metalworker. In you go, yes Jarrah, you too. Ah ha, here's some birdseye maple. That will burn really hot. Just what the furnace needs"

Harry was so engrossed, that he didn't notice...

[fxst]

the approach of an very large solid and animated sawdust man about to.................

[Grunt]

use his wooden ...

[echnidna]

appendage to pee on the fire ....

[Grunt]

however, his urine was made from a mixture of tung oil and turps. As the sawdust man peed on the fire, his stream burst into flame and was making a bee line for his wooden member. Seeing this the sawdust man ...

[echnidna]

instantly changed his name to flame-thrower man and then he.....

[Driver]

... realised (too late by about half a second) that it really didn't matter what he called himself: Sawdust Man or Flamethrower Man, because what he had become was Great Balls of Fire Man.

"JERRY LEE LEWIS!!!" he yelped as he attempted to extinguish the conflagration erupting from his pantaloons.

"Oh look", said one of the hamsters (they had, incidentally, all reappeared and were establishing themselves once more around their camp fire). "Oh look! There's a man with several strange names whose appendages appear to be ablaze. Do you think this is deliberate, Ermintrude?" he enquired of a fellow hamster.

Ermintrude's reply was quite fascinating. She said ...

[echnidna]

oooooooooo...... looks like toasted marshmellows and ......

[craigb]

black pudding

Ermintrude continued "It is actually a VERY black black pudding".

"Yes" piped up Balthazar "it reminds me of a ...

[Grunt]

time when I was following this stupid star with a couple of kings or were they queens you never could tell with Caspar or Melchior. We walked through the desert for weeks and ...

[Driver]

... then we found a horse with no name. It was being followed by a bloke riding a camel with a particularly large hump. The camel was walking very carefully, back legs apart. The bloke riding the camel was carrying a couple of bricks ...

[echnidna]

... and he had the strangest name .... Ozwinner...

[echnidna]

.

[ernknot]

The bricks are there to make the camel drink. By "bricking " him you get more miles to the gallon ( of water).Keep your thumbs clear because it could hurt and bring tears to your eyes.