NickBob Sand Doll

doll diaries

Adventures of

Nick Bob & Billy-Bob & Bob-Bob

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Nickbob tells Billy-Bob about a propane gas engine to fit to Potty's broom

Ellen-Ly & Pes in Sydney

Dolly Parton family amusement park - Tennessee USA

Nick & Billybob check out some flame implements

Animal flatuation accounts for 17% of global methane emissions; another

12 % comes from bacteria found in rice plantations,- however,

60% of the world emissions

are from sources affected by humans.

Chook in Boots

Bob dolls are native to the state of Tennessee somewhere near the Mississippi in the USA . They studied eco-farming, played delta blues music and built hippie communes in cyprus swamps way before the French invented fries and Elvis visited Hungry Jacks and started to sing Hound Dog. Tennessee Bob dolls are revered throughout Memphis history. There are vials of their sand sitting next to those of Elvis Presley's sweat, in the Centre of Southern Culture at Oxford.

Nick's great granddad, Oldbob, was part of the Bobdoll pyromaniacs division who fought one of the bloodiest battles of the Civil War. The site where their sand bags lay is today commemorated as the Shiloh National Park. A peaceful place where visitors with or without maps drive all over it in their vehicles.

Howling Wolfbob, was related to Nickbob's dad. He triggered bobabilly root music in Memphis before a strand of Western punk gospellers fled to Nashville and started their own country music. Some years later a dolly with a vision built a rustic amusement feature in a park in the mountains. This provided an ideal platform for the young talented ambitious sand dolls of the district to perform a new style of music -mountain music. Which latter was called, bluebobgrass.

Black African dolls joined with bob dolls in the Appalachian region and started to pluck five stringed banjos and blow into reedy boxes while stomping loudly on their wooden verandahs. They added fiddles and miniature pianos and their haunting music echoed across the endless cotton fields.

As a kid, Nickbob would travel to Chattanooga with his dad to see the animals in the zoo, He would measure the level of methane gas using a funnel and tubed meter. Afterwards they would sit on the banks of the Tennessee River to watch the fireworks. Young Nick was mesmerised by the loud and colourful explosions and wished to be a pyromaniac like his great granddad and Daviebob Crockett. He watched and wondered if fish let off gas.

Before long he met up with Billy Bob from PickettBob County. The two of them intent on finding a way to trap methane gas that cows blew out while chewing on fresh grass... Billybob was dreaming one night and that's how the balloon was invented.

Bob dolls all over Tennessee celebrated with an inaugrual balloon fest and many were never seen again, as strong south-westerly winds blew them way over the Smokey Mountains.

Years later there were stories of a strange community of Quakerbob dolls in Pennsylvania who dressed in black, made chocolate, wore hats and would not take their feet off the ground no matter what. The tales recount a place without airports, tall buildings, clock towers, train stations or sealed roads.

Young Nickbob was on a mission when he first heard he was being transported to the Old English Convict Colony of Australia. In school he was more concerned with the chemical formula of propone gas than learning geography. Later he served on the board of the Inert and Cattle Gas Bottling Association of Tennessee;s implementation plans for backyard barbeques. He thought Australia was a big island located near Madagascar in the Indian Ocean and full of lemurs and slow moving kangaroos with big tails and ears and lots of prawns and BBQ's.

He loved greenhouse gas and what better place to be then Australia. Full of leaking coal seams, open garbage dumps, sewage processing ponds, too many politicians and millions of cud-chewing sheep and cattle. Nickbob would not only bring with him the knowledge of fire but also a salubrious and inquisitive mind inflamed with visions of brewing gas and the universe.

Bobdolls were involved in the discovery of gas back in 1912, when Nickbob's great granddad had stored unstable mower petrol in the outside dunny for too long. The petrol evaporated and blew up when Nickbob's aunty EmmeLou, was on the pot She staggered out of the smoke and debris complaining it was wet and smelled like a cows fart. It wasn't long after the incident that a process was developed to convert gas to liquid and a funny shaped bottle to store it in.

The concept of gas as a source of energy quickly spread throughout the world. Methane heat was a changing force in the discovery of fried and barbequed food. Whiffs of cow flatulence lingered with the aroma of back street multi-cultural cuisine, from balcony bbqs, restraunts and city buses. Business's who used the new gas to heat their factories found their employees taking fewer sickies in winter.. Farmers saved time by drying crops, brooding chickens, powering tractors and warming greenhouses with the gas. Country baked bread never tasted so good.

But city folk found the smell of the methane gas overpowering and often unpleasant - politicans were up for re-electon and another gas was needed quickly.

Researchers found that a clean gas could be extracted from the methane if it was mixed with petroleum. They called the new gas- propane, after politicans. It was released before the general election and immediately embraced by cooks and cuisine lovers all over the world as the new clean smelling enviro friendly heat.