[modeleng] Re: Australia Day OT OT OT
- From: "Jeff D" <jeffdayman@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: modeleng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2008 00:19:54 +0000
Hi Lee,
Happy Aus day from me too.
I don't understand most of the points you mention but I take 'em under
advisement.
We all had a good laugh here in Waterloo today. Someone found and published
in the paper an official statement from Australia's foreign ministry saying
that in general, travel to Canada is dangerous and is to be avoided. They
cited the reasons as hazardous extremes of cold temperatures, avalanches,
earthquakes, and risk of terrorist attacks etc.
Guess it's technically all true, but I never saw anything of the sort where
I live in Ontario (where millions of folks are, a big percentage of the
total CDN populace), except maybe cold down to -30 deg C a few days in
winter. If you bundle up good with proper clothing that's not an issue. What
they didn't mention was that in summer it's regularly +30 deg C here too,
and you sure don't bundle up fer that.
A lot of silliness really, you have to have some idea of local conditions
wherever you travel.
Have a great Australia day, and have a another shrimp off the barbie for me.
Cheers Jeff Dayman
>From: "Lee Grant" <leegrant@xxxxxxxxxx>
>Reply-To: modeleng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>To: <modeleng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Subject: [modeleng] Re: Australia Day
>Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2008 09:03:38 +1100
>
> Thanks peter.
>I was just going through a "How do you tell if you are a true Aussie?" list
>and realise that we are a bit different down here there wouldn't be to many
>people that didn't live here that could understand this lot.
>
>You know you're Australian if .
>
>1. You know the meaning of the word "girt".
>
>2. You believe that stubbies can be either drunk or worn.
>
>3. You think it's normal to have a leader called Kevin.
>
>4. You waddle when you walk due to the 53 expired petrol discount vouchers
>stuffed in your wallet or purse.
>
>5. You've made a bong out of your garden hose rather than use it for
>something illegal such as watering the garden.
>
>6. You believe it is appropriate to put a rubber in your son's pencil case
>when he first attends school.
>
>7. When you hear that an American "roots for his team" you wonder how often
>and with whom.
>
>8. You understand that the phrase "a group of women wearing black thongs"
>refers to footwear and may be less alluring than it sounds.
>
>9. You pronounce Melbourne as "Mel-bin".
>
>10. You pronounce Penrith as "Pen-riff".
>
>11. You believe the "l" in the word "Australia" is optional.
>
>12. You can translate: "Dazza and Shazza played Acca Dacca on the way to
>Maccas."
>
>13. You believe it makes perfect sense for a nation to decorate its
>highways
>with large fibreglass bananas, prawns and sheep.
>
>14. You call your best friend "a total bastard" but someone you really,
>truly despise is just "a bit of a bastard".
>
>15. You think "Woolloomooloo" is a perfectly reasonable name for a place.
>
>16. You're secretly proud of our killer wildlife.
>
>17. You believe it makes sense for a country to have a $1 coin that's twice
>as big as its $2 coin.
>
>18. You understand that "Wagga Wagga" can be abbreviated to "Wagga" but
>"Woy
>Woy" can't be called "Woy".
>
>19. You believe that cooked-down axlegrease makes a good breakfast spread.
>
>20. You believe all famous Kiwis are actually Australian, until they stuff
>up, at which point they again become Kiwis.
>
>21. Hamburger. Beetroot. Of course.
>
>22. You know that certain words must, by law, be shouted out during any
>rendition of the Angels' song Am I Ever Gonna See Your Face Again.
>
>23. You believe, as an article of faith, that the confectionary known as
>the
>Wagon Wheel has become smaller with every passing year.
>
>24. You still don't get why the "Labor" in "Australian Labor Party" is not
>spelt with a "u".
>
>25. You wear ugh boots outside the house.
>
>26. You believe, as an article of faith, that every important discovery in
>the world was made by an Australian but then sold off to the Yanks for a
>pittance.
>
>27. You believe that the more you shorten someone's name the more you like
>them.
>
>28. Whatever your linguistic skills, you find yourself able to order
>takeaway fluently in every Asian language.
>
>29. You understand that "excuse me" can sound rude, while "scuse me" is
>always polite.
>
>30. You know what it's like to swallow a fly, on occasion via your nose.
>
>31. You understand that "you" has a plural and that it's "youse".
>
>32. You know it's not summer until the steering wheel is too hot to handle.
>
>33. Your biggest family argument over the summer concerned the rules for
>beach cricket.
>
>34. You shake your head in horror when companies try to market what they
>call "Anzac cookies".
>
>35. You still think of Kylie as "that girl off Neighbours".
>
>36. When returning home from overseas, you expect to be brutally
>strip-searched by Customs - just in case you're trying to sneak in fruit.
>
>37. You believe the phrase "smart casual" refers to a pair of black
>tracky-daks, suitably laundered.
>
>38. You understand that all train timetables are works of fiction.
>
>39. When working behind a bar, you understand male customers will feel the
>need to offer an excuse whenever they order low-alcohol beer.
>
>40. You get choked up with emotion by the first verse of the national
>anthem
>and then have trouble remembering the second.
>
>41. You find yourself ignorant of nearly all the facts deemed essential in
>the government's new test for migrants.
>
>42. You know, whatever the tourist books say, that no one says "cobber".
>
>43. And you will immediately forward this list to other Australians, here
>and overseas, realising that only they will understand.
>
>Happy Australia Day.
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: <peter.chadwick@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>To: <modeleng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Sent: Saturday, January 26, 2008 2:38 AM
>Subject: [modeleng] Australia Day
>
>
> > Happy Australia Day to all the 'dununda' list members!
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