*grumblemutterCATS*

[mousme]

George is walkabout. Has been since yesterday afternoon.

I REFUSE to worry about him, you hear? REFUSE.

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[aliyna.livejournal.com]

...Is... um. What?

Is "walkabout" the Canadian term for "got out again and hasn't been back in a few hours"?

I like your phrasing better!

[mousme.livejournal.com]

"Walkabout" is a term I ganked from fearsclave who in turn grabbed it from Australian Aborigines. Wikipedia has this to say:

Walkabout refers to a rite of passage where male Australian Aborigines would undergo a journey during adolescence and live in the wilderness for a period as long as six months In this practice they would trace the paths, or "songlines", that their people's ceremonials ancestors took, and imitate, in a fashion, their heroic deeds. Merriam-Webster, however, defines the noun as a 1908 coinage that refers primarily to "a short period of wandering bush life engaged in by an Australian aborigine as an occasional interruption of regular work", with the only mention of "spiritual journey" coming in a usage example from a latter-day travel writer. To white employers, this urge to depart without notice (and reappear just as suddenly) was seen as something inherent in the aboriginal nature, but the reasons may be more mundane: workers who wanted or needed to attend a ceremony or visit relatives did not accept employers control over such matters (especially since permission was generally hard to get).

In other words, yes. George has been gone for 24 hours, longer than he's ever been gone, and I AM NOT WORRIED.

[aliyna.livejournal.com]

Oh oh sure, I know what a walkabout IS, I just though, lol, that you guys called loose cats such as a rule. But yeah, I might just gank that myself. =D

[sassy-fae.livejournal.com]

Ever watched Crocodile Dundee? (It came out when you were three! Gah!)
There's one part where he's talking to the female lead, and she asks him what happened to his wife. He said that he went walkabout and when he got back she was gone. She asks how long he was gone and he says a couple of months. His friend says "Try 18!" She just stares at him and says "And she didn't wait around? Strange girl!" It made me laugh every time.