Not quite correct.
Auf der Waltz was German term that was for a part of your apprenticeship period. You would leave home for 3 years and a day studying with other masters around. Someone who is “Waltzing Matilda” is a workman, traveling with his tools and all his possessions. Not a tramp. A traveling carpenter, tinsmith or something like that.
And only on the Dope would you get a thread to so quickly deviate from amazing spider pics to arguing the origins of Australian colloquialisms.
Bloody brilliant. 
Why hasn’t anyone taken a flamethrower to the whole thing yet?
I was mentally walking to the garage to fill the bug sprayer with gasoline.
Nope. A billy is short for “billycan,” a small cooking pot.
I don’t want to talk about the scary stuff.
Heh, I can see where you grew up.
Also Taramara, Curl Curl and Coogee.
My first ever work call was to Wagga. I said in my fresh off the boat American accent, “Is this Wagga Wagga Smash Repairs?” (Pronouncing it as spelled, of course.) Loooooong pause. “Yep.”
The girl next to me was wetting herself.
I used to say Coogee as “Koo-Gee”. I dunno why.
The spiders thing is freaking me out. It made my kid decide Charles Sturt Bathurst was a better choice than CS in Wagga, too, based on those pictures alone.
It’s for the sheep, mate!
Kill them, kill them dead until they are dead and then kill them dead several more times.
Joe
There is no way in hell that I am having sex in that field.
Don’t be ridiculous. They’re trying to learn how to build boats…
You’re not familiar with Australian summers, are you?
Those flood waters aren’t NEARLY deep enough. How high is the tallest tree above the tallest mountain? The water needs to be about 10’ higher than that.
Yes, I feel bad for all the Australian humans who will drown, but they’ll all eventually be killed by the spiders anyway, so no real biggie.
Do not let them exchange technology with the fire ants. They already build boats when the flood waters come. Boats made of corpses.
After looking at the picture again I think they’re building an antenna array for deep space communication.
I for one welcome our new spider overlords…
Anyone here read W.E.B Griffin? In his Corp books one of the characters gets involved with a girl from Wagga Wagga however its pronounced.
Well thanks, I wasn’t planning on sleeping tonight anyway
I want to go to Wagga now! How fantastic!
As for the question about why does this happen in Australia and Pakistani floods, and not other countries - I would love to hear from someone who really knows and isn’t just guessing. My guess would be that it relates to the time of year. There happens to be a lot of young wolf spiders around ready to balloon (take to the air on threads of silk to disperse), as well as a healthy population of adults - the drought broke last year and it is the breeding season this year. So it probably does happen anywhere when the floods coincide with other suitable conditions. Just some ideas for debate and enhancement.
Incredible creatures - spiders!
just to make sure the topic stays on track…
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why in god’s name did i click on that link AND THEN SCROLL DOWN!!!
So we have a place to keep the spiders obviously.
Cause you’re human 
I’ve looked at a lot of things online I regretted, but I’d probably do it again…
There’s gotta be a guy in that barn, surrounded by a sea of spider webs, that is desperately looking for a method of suicide that doesn’t involve his body being used as an empty husk for more spiders