.....Is this true?

Lonely Aussie Men Appeal To Ugly Women

Following Criticism, Mayor Says He Was Misquoted

POSTED: 9:31 am EDT August 18, 2008

SYDNEY, Australia -- Ugly women are wanted for the bachelors in the Australian Outback mining town of Mount Isa.

That's essentially what Mayor John Molony told a local newspaper recently. He claims his town has a roughly 5-to-1 male-to-female ratio, and that someone should go hunting for the "beauty-disadvantaged women" and move them into town.

Australia's 2006 census shows males make up just under 53 percent of the town's population of nearly 20,000.

Molony said he sees lots of "not so attractive" women with smiles on their faces, and implies it's because of some exciting romance in their lives.

But women told the local paper that most of the men there aren't so great. The word around town is: "the odds are good, but the goods are odd."

The mayor now says he was misquoted.

...where the men are men and the sheep are nervous....




Ray

Beer was invented by ugly women but, fair dinkum, I've never gone to bed with one.

As to the story about us Aussie blokes, gumboots and sheep?  Well, I hate to disappoint you but it really is just an urban myth.  (I know because I've tried it that way.  How can you kiss them???)

Marching a mob of ewes along the long paddock I comments that I wish that they were really all American ladies. My Kiwi mate repies that he just wishes it was dark.

I can promise you though, and truly, Mt Isa has its fair share of women who'd honestly send your beer flat at a glance. Just spent a year driving cabs at the Curry, an hour from the Isa, and the stories I could tell you would melt your monitor.

To the same extent, I have to ask if you've ever been in a town that lives exclusively for an underground mine?  Them blokes aren't real pretty, neither, and the sheep are looking better by the day.