NationStates Jolt Archive

Who here is from Tasmania?
I am (Launceston in particular).

There are people in Tasmania? *confused*

There are people in Tasmania? *confused*

I wonder if they all speak like Taz?

I wonder if they all speak like Taz?

I'd give them bonus points if they did. :)

I know a Flemish guy who calls himself Taz, does he count?

Andaras was Tasmanian, alas he is now extinct so the title of Tasmanian Devil is now yours.

Congratulations.

Andaras was Tasmanian, alas he is now extinct so the title of Tasmanian Devil is now yours.
Andaras is extinct!? :eek:

Two of my great great grandmother's brothers were transported to Tasmania for the highway robbery of a hat.

Two of my great great grandmother's brothers were transported to Tasmania for the highway robbery of a hat.

Figures. :p

Two of my great great grandmother's brothers were transported to Tasmania for the highway robbery of a hat.

A hat?

I suspect they were sent to Tasmania not so much for stealing the hat as for a lack of criminal ambition.

Andaras was Tasmanian, alas he is now extinct so the title of Tasmanian Devil is now yours.

Congratulations.

No wonder Tasmania does so badly. I don't think there is any part of the First World that is more worse off than Tasmania. That actually reminds me, I never even knew that Tasmania had internet! (lol)

My family has a private cemetary in Tasmania after the head of the family got deported and everyone else picked up sticks and emigrated out on the next ship sailing to join him... we haven't used it in decades, I think the last of my ancestors to leave tassie did so about 1890.

Do tasmanians have pouches?

Do tasmanians have pouches?

They do, also, in Tasmania, welfare is paid in potatoes, which people collecting then place in their pouches on their way back home.

This is why welfare bludgers in Tasmania are called....

...wait for it...

Pouch potatoes.

I'll be here all week.

Im in Sydney NSW and I have been to Tasmania. Its a very beautiful place.

A hat?

I suspect they were sent to Tasmania not so much for stealing the hat as for a lack of criminal ambition.

It may have been a very fine hat, but I doubt it. I suspect a lack of competence as well as ambition.

Figures. :p

*tries to steal LG's clown hat*

perhaps it was the manner in which they tried to steal the hat? I can imagine that if they attempted take the hat without bothering to remove the head that rested inside it this could have resulted in such severe penalties...

where's tasmania?

*tries to steal LG's clown hat*

*sends you to Tasmania without your supper*

where's tasmania?

Wikipedia is your friend.

Wikipedia is your friend.

oh,right

Wikipedia is your friend.

wiki sez no

Two of my great great grandmother's brothers were transported to Tasmania for the highway robbery of a hat.
That seems a tad harsh, no offense to Tasmania. I have to go with the Biotopia theory of things here.

wiki sez no

That bastard! After everything I've done for him! Oh, I'll remember this the next time he needs me to be someone's friend for him. Hmph!

That seems a tad harsh, no offense to Tasmania. I have to go with the Biotopia theory of things here.

Transportation was a common sentence for any kind of theft at the time - they were trying to populate Australia. Though the fact it was Van Dieman's Land (Tasmania) rather than Australia suggests they were habitual offenders.

Transportation was a common sentence for any kind of theft at the time - they were trying to populate Australia. Though the fact it was Van Dieman's Land (Tasmania) rather than Australia suggests they were habitual offenders.

An informed point although "they" (i take to mean the British establishment) were less concerned with populating Australia than they were with deporting criminals. Population concerns were mostly the subject of the colonial administations which had no jurisdicition over the British criminal system although they could open/close their colonies to convicts. For example South Australia never received any convicts and remained a 'free' (free settler) colony while Western Australia also started as a free state but was required to request convicts due to a prolonged and crippling labour shortage. Incidentally WA is the second third colony (after New South Wales and 'Tasmania'), settled to prevent the uppity french from getting any clever ideas.

Transportation was a common sentence for any kind of theft at the time - they were trying to populate Australia. Though the fact it was Van Dieman's Land (Tasmania) rather than Australia suggests they were habitual offenders.
Did your hat-stealing forebears ever make their way back? Was that even an option?

Did your hat-stealing forebears ever make their way back? Was that even an option?

I am not sure as I have only done a small amount of family history research so far.

I know a Flemish guy who calls himself Taz, does he count?

There's a Belgian, called Taz?

AWESOME!!!