If it wouldn't be too much trouble...could you possibly stick to the thread and not go off on another one of your Aussie bashing excercises?
Maybe I'm just stupid, but I completely understood what ferris was getting at, without all the subtext that you have picked up on.
Must be fun around the coffee urn in OBBI...
Perhaps you could again be like your namesake...with thanks to Wikipedia
"The Bateleur is generally silent, but on occasions it produces a variety of barks and screams."