The Shearer's Constellations
The Constellations, those mobs of stars named after mythological
characters or beasts by distant folk long gone made no sense to those
aromatic, itinerant Princes of Australia - the shearers. Lying (through their teeth)
in their swags in the Star Hotel between work assignments,
they had plenty of time and imagination on their gnarly hands.
Thusly there came into being the Shearer's Constellations & Zodiac, collected
and collated by our research team, The Two Blueys, from over thirty
years of serious pub peregrinations, talking to a thousand shearers,
lots of clots of rousies, woolgathering with woolclassers in
Woodenbong or just playing two-up with tarboys in Tarnagulla.
We will be looking at the night sky from a totally Australian
outlook (which makes a lot of sense if you think about it).
We will show you the "All-Australian, Shearer's Constellations & Zodiac".
Some of the names will make you wince, some of the star formations
may seem to bear little if any resemblance to the aforesaid name,
but that was, and is, the humour of that, and this day.
The Shearer's Constellations include these old favourites
The Constellations, those mobs of stars named after mythological
characters or beasts by distant folk long gone made no sense to those
aromatic, itinerant Princes of Australia - the shearers. Lying (through their teeth)
in their swags in the Star Hotel between work assignments,
they had plenty of time and imagination on their gnarly hands.
We will be looking at the night sky from a totally Australian
outlook (which makes a lot of sense if you think about it).
We will show you the "All-Australian, Shearer's Constellations & Zodiac".
Some of the names will make you wince, some of the star formations
may seem to bear little if any resemblance to the aforesaid name,
but that was, and is, the humour of that, and this day.