# Stick A Camera Up Your Cloaca, You Butt-breathing Aussie! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [June 13, 2003, 12:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stick-a-camera-up-your-cloaca-you-butt-breathing-aussie/181545 "2003-06-13T12:46:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2003, 12:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stick-a-camera-up-your-cloaca-you-butt-breathing-aussie/181545/1 "2003-06-13T12:46:56Z")
Especially if you’re a turtle. [LINK](http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/england/southern_counties/2984936.stm) Say, if it breathes through it’s ass, is it’s name “Bush”? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![ryoushi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/85f322/32.png) [@ryoushi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ryoushi)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2003, 12:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stick-a-camera-up-your-cloaca-you-butt-breathing-aussie/181545/2 "2003-06-13T12:53:12Z")
While my deepest sympathies are with that shark, I must ask what your link has to do with the thread… ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2003, 12:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stick-a-camera-up-your-cloaca-you-butt-breathing-aussie/181545/3 "2003-06-13T12:59:21Z")
BUGGER! WRONG LINK! Here is the right one. [LINK](http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,6588972%5E2702,00.html) ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2003, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stick-a-camera-up-your-cloaca-you-butt-breathing-aussie/181545/4 "2003-06-13T13:15:18Z")
That evil butt-breathing er I mean swimming Aussie turtle er I mean British comedian who kills sharks er I mean breathes through his ass. Yeah! ---
**Author:** ![Squink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@Squink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squink)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2003, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stick-a-camera-up-your-cloaca-you-butt-breathing-aussie/181545/5 "2003-06-13T13:20:59Z")
[The master speaks](http://www.straightdope.com/columns/011116.html). ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2003, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stick-a-camera-up-your-cloaca-you-butt-breathing-aussie/181545/6 "2003-06-14T00:15:30Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Squink \* > \*\*[The master speaks](http://www.straightdope.com/columns/011116.html). \*\* Quoting me, I might add. SD Staff George. ---
**Author:** ![Boo\_Boo\_Foo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e274bd/32.png) [@Boo\_Boo\_Foo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boo_Boo_Foo)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2003, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stick-a-camera-up-your-cloaca-you-butt-breathing-aussie/181545/7 "2003-06-14T00:53:36Z")
To be sure, we’ve got some weird and unique critters down here. And doubtless, a turtle which can both breathe air through it’s lungs, AND obtain oxygen by filtering water thru it’s arsehole is a mighty fine example, rivalled only perhaps by the absolute pinnacle of weirdness, the platypus. Sadly, however, European colonisation has introduced such horrible feral creatures like foxes and domestic cats - both of which are now roaming in the millions in feral mode throughout the Australian landscape. The general consensus is that no animal under 12 inches in height is safe from extinction - which is just a dreadful situation. It’s so bad that the Victorian State government recently placed a bounty on feral foxes - animals which are simply amazing in their ability to kill local marsupials. Basically this means if you have a rifle license, you can go out hunting and bring back the carcasses and collect cash. ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2003, 11:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stick-a-camera-up-your-cloaca-you-butt-breathing-aussie/181545/8 "2003-06-14T11:33:40Z")
Why is this a Pit thread?