Tasmania is a blink of the eye, scan a map and you'll be hard pressed to see the pinprick south of the mainland.
New Zealand at least consists of two islands, so you have twice the chance during that blink to spot the backward, sheep shagging country.
'Are you intending to win the Novel Peace prize for literature?'
No I wasn't, I said to Max. We were both standing at the ferry terminal at Bellerive, opposite Hobart on the Derwent River.
'There is no ferry.'
There was Max, I replied, 'before they built the bridges.'
'That was nearly a century ago,' he said, showing a little agitation while he finished off his take away cafe latte. 'Last time I buy that shit, at six bucks a cup, I could lay a whore at the Surabaya Cemetary for the same price.'
I reminded him it was only a five dollar fuck.
'That's US dollars numbnuts.'
So about eight bucks Australian, close I said. 'Fucking close.'
New Zealand at least consists of two islands, so you have twice the chance during that blink to spot the backward, sheep shagging country.
'Are you intending to win the Novel Peace prize for literature?'
No I wasn't, I said to Max. We were both standing at the ferry terminal at Bellerive, opposite Hobart on the Derwent River.
'There is no ferry.'
There was Max, I replied, 'before they built the bridges.'
'That was nearly a century ago,' he said, showing a little agitation while he finished off his take away cafe latte. 'Last time I buy that shit, at six bucks a cup, I could lay a whore at the Surabaya Cemetary for the same price.'
I reminded him it was only a five dollar fuck.
'That's US dollars numbnuts.'
So about eight bucks Australian, close I said. 'Fucking close.'
