# Buried treasure? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 6, 2011, 11:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/buried-treasure/588017 "2011-07-06T11:51:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2011, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/buried-treasure/588017/101 "2011-07-10T23:26:32Z")
> [@Toucanna](#): > > That is so untrue! Koalas are [_adorable_](http://www.ducati.ms/forums/attachments/multistrada/89663d1305261407-question-aussies-dropbear.jpg)! You’ve obviously never heard of dropbears. ---
**Author:** ![Colophon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f05b48/32.png) [@Colophon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colophon)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2011, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/buried-treasure/588017/102 "2011-07-10T23:53:32Z")
Has he fetched the damn pig yet? ---
**Author:** ![jackdavinci](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackdavinci/32/3259_2.png) [@jackdavinci](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackdavinci)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2011, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/buried-treasure/588017/103 "2011-07-11T00:07:56Z")
Let’s hope it’s not the Interstellar Pig! ---
**Author:** ![gonzomax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e8c25b/32.png) [@gonzomax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzomax)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2011, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/buried-treasure/588017/104 "2011-07-11T00:39:07Z")
> [@Toucanna](#): > > That is so untrue! Koalas are [_adorable_](http://www.ducati.ms/forums/attachments/multistrada/89663d1305261407-question-aussies-dropbear.jpg)! Transported from New Zealand. ---
**Author:** ![Askance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/askance/32/8281_2.png) [@Askance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askance)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2011, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/buried-treasure/588017/105 "2011-07-11T04:23:26Z")
> [@Cicero](#): > > “I do not want to be under the house when I have to crap with a snake eating my face”. Whereas doing that when you don’t need a crap will be a-ok with you? > [@gonzomax](#): > > Cicero lives in Australia. Everything in Australia is poisonous. The snakes kill. The spiders kill. Platypussies are poisonous. I think kangaroos carry guns in their pouches. And those guns are filled with _poisonous_ lead! ---
**Author:** ![Toucanna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3bc359/32.png) [@Toucanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Toucanna)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2011, 5:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/buried-treasure/588017/106 "2011-07-11T05:25:12Z")
> [@Mollie\_Magill](#): > > You’ve obviously never heard of dropbears. Psssst…read the link’s url.😛 ---
**Author:** ![penultima\_thule](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/penultima_thule/32/3833_2.png) [@penultima\_thule](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/penultima_thule)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2011, 5:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/buried-treasure/588017/107 "2011-07-11T05:38:54Z")
The lack of lateral thinking is appalling. This is Western Australia, for chrisstakes, the whole bloody state is a quarry and economy predicated on get-rich-quick schemes, you’ve got a cached cashbox and/or map of Lassiter’s or the next Mount Tom Price just waiting there and you can’t cut a deal with one of grubby littel oinks living next door to get it for you? Not trying hard enough. Cashed up bogans would probably bulldoze the place just on the off-chance. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2011, 5:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/buried-treasure/588017/108 "2011-07-11T05:59:13Z")
The pig is a lie! The pig is a lie! The pig is a lie! The pig is a lie! The pig is a lie! The pig is a lie! The pig is a lie! The pig is a lie! ---
**Author:** ![penultima\_thule](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/penultima_thule/32/3833_2.png) [@penultima\_thule](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/penultima_thule)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2011, 6:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/buried-treasure/588017/109 "2011-07-11T06:17:23Z")
The pig is lying The pig is lying The pig is lying The pig is lying The pig is lying The pig is lying The pig is lying there … just waiting for you ---
**Author:** ![Shakester](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shakester/32/437_2.png) [@Shakester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shakester)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2011, 7:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/buried-treasure/588017/110 "2011-07-11T07:06:59Z")
> [@penultima\_thule](#): > > This is Western Australia… Cicero is in Adelaide. If he was in Melbourne I’d have already pushed him under his house and told him to come back _with_ a pig or _on_ it. Or possibly offered to get the damn thing myself for a cut of the proceeds. I agree that he’s not showing much of the intrepid ANZAC spirit. It’s midwinter; the snakes are hibernating. ---
**Author:** ![Princhester](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3e96dc/32.png) [@Princhester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Princhester)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2011, 7:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/buried-treasure/588017/111 "2011-07-11T07:41:46Z")
> [@Cicero](#): > > Well yes. But I am a sook… I agree wholeheartedly. Don’t you know that venomous spider and snake stories are what we tell Poms and Kiwis to scare them? We aren’t supposed to believe them ourselves. Please tell me you just got off the boat. It’s shameful, is what it is. ---
**Author:** ![Koxinga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/4af34b/32.png) [@Koxinga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Koxinga)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2011, 7:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/buried-treasure/588017/112 "2011-07-11T07:49:25Z")
> [@Princhester](#): > > Don’t you know that venomous spider and snake stories are what we tell Poms and Kiwis to scare them? We aren’t supposed to believe them ourselves. Luckily, [Americans aren’t fooled by those stories](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=11954648&postcount=94)! ---
**Author:** ![penultima\_thule](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/penultima_thule/32/3833_2.png) [@penultima\_thule](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/penultima_thule)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2011, 9:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/buried-treasure/588017/113 "2011-07-11T09:12:57Z")
> [@Shakester](#): > > Cicero is in Adelaide. There you go, much obliged … but he said there were dugites under his shanty, there’s no dugites in Adelaide. Just the usual mix of brown, black, copperhead and tiger snakes. And the poor little bugger are nearly frozen at this time of year. Come on man, get to it before this flagrant breach of the “Rats of Tobruk” spirit pushes the carbon tax off the front page of the Advertiser. ---
**Author:** ![Cicero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cicero/32/3594_2.png) [@Cicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cicero)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2011, 9:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/buried-treasure/588017/114 "2011-07-11T09:25:21Z")
Hey- I’m in Perth. ---
**Author:** ![Shakester](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shakester/32/437_2.png) [@Shakester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shakester)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2011, 9:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/buried-treasure/588017/115 "2011-07-11T09:28:36Z")
> [@penultima\_thule](#): > > There you go, much obliged … but he said there were dugites under his shanty, there’s no dugites in Adelaide. Just the usual mix of brown, black, copperhead and tiger snakes. And the poor little buggers are nearly frozen at this time of year. It’s possible that Cicero feels that any snake is to be considered a dugite until proven otherwise. Which is, perhaps, a sensible precaution. But that attitude is not getting any treasure-filled pigs out from under any houses. ---
**Author:** ![Shakester](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shakester/32/437_2.png) [@Shakester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shakester)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2011, 9:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/buried-treasure/588017/116 "2011-07-11T09:30:55Z")
> [@Cicero](#): > > Hey- I’m in Perth. Oh, sorry, I misinterpreted post 91 to mean you were in Adelaide. My fault. Now, have you got the pig yet? ---
**Author:** ![penultima\_thule](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/penultima_thule/32/3833_2.png) [@penultima\_thule](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/penultima_thule)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2011, 9:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/buried-treasure/588017/117 "2011-07-11T09:46:41Z")
Too bloody right. ---
**Author:** ![Sierra\_Indigo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f0a364/32.png) [@Sierra\_Indigo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sierra_Indigo)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2011, 10:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/buried-treasure/588017/118 "2011-07-11T10:09:50Z")
> [@Shakester](#): > > Oh, sorry, I misinterpreted post 91 to mean you were in Adelaide. My fault. > > Now, have you got the pig yet? We don’t want any of those goddamn sandgropers over here. And the rest of y’all just stay on the other side of those hills. Nothin’ to see here. Move along. ---
**Author:** ![Hogfather65](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/7bcc69/32.png) [@Hogfather65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hogfather65)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2011, 10:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/buried-treasure/588017/119 "2011-07-11T10:25:46Z")
> [@Cicero](#): > > Anyway he returns and says the inspection was fine etc. He also says that underneath the house, near where the kitchen stands, there is a pink piggy bank. He didn’t bother retrieving it. 2 questions 1 - did you see the pig or did you just believe him? 2 - if you saw it - did he put it there? I think he had more of a sence of humour than you think ---
**Author:** ![penultima\_thule](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/penultima_thule/32/3833_2.png) [@penultima\_thule](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/penultima_thule)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2011, 10:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/buried-treasure/588017/120 "2011-07-11T10:30:03Z")
> [@Sierra\_Indigo](#): > > Nothin’ to see here. Move along. Will the last person leaving Adelaide please turn out the lights? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/buried-treasure/588017.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/buried-treasure/588017.md?page=7)