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CANE TOADS IF YOU SEE THEM.


AN Australian MP has urged people to splat See asterisk.

1. splat - Name used in many places (DEC, IBM, and others) for the asterisk ("*") character (ASCII 0101010). This may derive from the "squashed-bug" appearance of the asterisk on many early line printers.
2.
 toxic toads in a bid to stop their spread.

Liberal Party MP David Tollner said the best method is to bash giant cane toads, left, on the head as he used to do when he was a kid.

But animal welfare groups have urged a more humane method - bunging the toads in the deep freeze deep freeze

see freezer.
.

Cane toads were imported to Queensland in 1935 to control beetles on sugar plantations.

But they are spreading all over Australia because any animal that eats them dies
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Publication:Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland)
Date:Apr 12, 2005
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