Australian Language 101 Lesson 2BTW - What's a drop-bear and a loo-frog???
Drop Bear - The drop bear, or Pangkala as its known as by the aborigenies, is smilar to the koala. It has the same basic shap of the koala except it is about 8 foot tall, it has a lethery back-side, long razor sharpe claws and has 40cm long incisor teeth. The drop bear hunts by sitting in a tree until a victim walks under it. The drop bear would then fall out of the tree onto its victim, breaking its neck. If the drop bear misses it would them use its long claws to kill the victim. The drop Bear hunts in packs, with upto 4 bears in one tree at a time! Once the victim has been killed the rest of the bears would then fall and fight over the kill. These fights can be made up of upto 30 bears.
(courtesy of http://www.geocities.com/kero_db/dropbear.html )
Loo-Frog - as you'd know, frogs like cool wet places & there's nothing like the inside rim of your toilet... This isn't a specific species, just where you sometimes happen to find them (after you've sat down)
One of these creatures exists, the other is just a makebelieve thing to scare the believe-anything-you-tell-'em folk.
Class dismissed.
Robbie
