[Marianne Gardner]

That would make more sense! However, my wobbleboard invites smashing as
well.....

Marianne
----- Original Message -----
From: "Phil L." <FIL-Racing@iinet.net.au>
To: "Powderworks" <powderworks@cs.colorado.edu>
Sent: Friday, February 15, 2002 8:40 AM
Subject: Re: [Powderworks] What's a Wobbleboard (and why is it being
smashed?)


> Marianne Gardner wrote:
>
> > I actually have a wobbleboard! It's a round piece of wood placed on a
dome
> > shape; it's used, especially by runners, to strengthen the ankles. I
tell
> > you, I sometimes do slow lunges on it and I feel like smashing it, lol!
> > HTH.
>
> Thats not the wobbleboard that the oils are referring to.... the wobble
board
> is a sheet of plastic that you hold the sides of and it makes a kind of
> wobble-wobble sound.... used by rolf harris as a musical instrument in the
> 70's and 80's....
>
> Smashing the wobbleboard i beleive refers to the overseas image of
australian
> music that the oils were often confronted with that australian music =
rolf
> harris and ac/dc...
>
>
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> Phil L.
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