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From: jwp@sdchema.UUCP (John Pierce)
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Subject: Re: Australian Swarms - (nf)
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Date: Fri, 20-Jul-84 19:02:19 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jul 20 19:02:19 1984
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	>WOMBATS??!!
	>
	>	Oh My God!  Not again?!
	>
	>sufferin' charlie

Yes!!  WOMBATS!!!  Again!!!!

As I pointed out in my monograph on wombats a year or so ago [1], wombats are
essential to maintaining a decent market price for the rutabaga crop of the
Northeastern Australia truck farms.  Wombats, dammit, are *important*, and I
wish people would quit slighting them.

"Sufferin' Charlie", by the way, is a popular figure in "Outback" folklore,
playing an important role in the cycle of legends centered around the "Greater
Alice Springs Wombat Invasion of '73" [2].

				John Pierce, Chemistry Dept, UC San Diego
				sdcsvax!sdchema!jwp

[1]  Reprints are available on request, for a small reproduction fee.

[2]  For those with a further interest in this subject, a monograph by Bruce
     B. Bruce will appear shortly in net.aust.folk.legend.alice.chuck.