Happy Australia Day

[jimmalenko]

@offline:

How many shrimp did you fit on your barbie yesterday ?

[offline]

Yeah.. and they thinned it down so you use more
of it..

So, we kind of own the fox network via NewsCorp.

[BJ_M]

i dont know if that is a good thing !

[offline]

No, I guess not. I hate foxtel and fox news seems
a tad biased

[Ripper2860]

You're not Australian 'til...

1) You've mimicked Alf Stewart from the TV show Home and Away's broad, Australian accent, eg. "push off, ya flamin' drongo!"

2) You've had an argument with your mate over whether Ford or Holden makes the better car!

3) You've done the "hot sand" dance at the beach while running from the ocean back to your towel.

4) You know who Ray Martin is.

5) You start using words like "reckon" and "root" and call people "mate".

6) You stop greeting people with "hello" and go straight to the "how ya doin'?"

7) You've seriously considered running down the shop in a pair of Ugg Boots.

8) You own a pair of ugg boots.

9) You've been to a day-nighter cricket match and screamed out incomprehensibly until your throat went raw.

10) You kind of know the first verse to the national anthem, but don't know what "girt" means.

11) You have a story that somehow revolves around excess consumption of alcohol and a mate named "Dave".

12) You've risked attending an outdoor music festival on the hottest day of the year.

13) You've tried to hang off a clothesline while pretending you can fly.

14) You've had a visit to the emergency room after hanging off the clothes line pretending you can fly.

15) You own a pair of thongs for everyday use, and another pair of "dress thongs" for special occasions.

16) You don't know what's in a meat pie, and you don't care.

17) You pronounce Australia as "Stralya"

18) You call soccer soccer, not football

19) You've squeezed Vegemite through Jatz to make little Vegemite
worms.

20) You suck your coffee through a Tim Tam.

21) You realise that lifeguards are the only people who can get away with wearing Speedos.

22) You pledge allegiance to Vegemite over Promite.

23) You understand the value of public holidays.

24) Your weekends are spent barracking for your favourite sports team.

25) You have a toilet dolly.

26) Your Mum made it.

27) You've played beach cricket with a tennis ball and a bat fashioned out of a fence post.

28) You firmly believe that in the end, everything will be ok, and have told a mate in tough times that "She'll be right, mate"

29) You use the phrase, "no worries" at least once a day.

30) You've been on a beach holiday and have probably stayed in a caravan.

31) You constantly shorten words to "brekkie", "arvo" and "barbie"

32) You've adopted a local bar as your own.

33) You know the oath of mateship can never be limited by geographical distance.

Damn!!! It takes less effort to be an Amurican...

1. You must own a gun

2. You must watch Springer

Welcome to Amurica. !!

[bigmicka]

i have just a couple of changes to your list pac.

no.6 how you doin? is more of what a new yorker would say. we say "how you goin?" with the pronuncitation of the word going being made as unintelligable as possible.

no.7 ugg boot maybe, but the good old mocco is more of what is worn by the generic aussie. the ugg lately seems to be only used by teenage girls trying to imitate US fashion.

no.34 all traffic shal cease for 5 minutes on the first tuesday in november, so everyone can have a punt and watch the Melbourne cup.

mic

[jimmalenko]

no.6 how you doin? is more of what a new yorker would say. we say "how you goin?" with the pronuncitation of the word going being made as unintelligable as possible.

I think that's just a Queensland thing

no.7 ugg boot maybe, but the good old mocco is more of what is worn by the generic aussie. the ugg lately seems to be only used by teenage girls trying to imitate US fashion.

no.34 all traffic shal cease for 5 minutes on the first tuesday in november, so everyone can have a punt and watch the Melbourne cup.

No complaint here with either of them ...

[ChrisX]

How good was the match between Hewitt and the other guy? I'd so bang Bec Cartwright.

It was marathon long tennis alright, till almost midnight, AEST.

I was on the computer and I miss the conclusion and good to know that Lleyton Hewitt won.

I'll check on Friday night to see how he goes on the next tennis challenge.

ChrisX

[jimmalenko]

It was a pity Alicia Molik lost, being Oz day n all ...

[offline]

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How many shrimp did you fit on your barbie yesterday ?

None. Never had a shrimp on the barbie and never been to
a barbie where shrimp or any sort of prawn was put on it.
Steaks, snags and shish kabob - thats all!

You have shrimp on your bbq ? I just eat chinese or go
to the fish market and buy 'em pre cooked like everybody else.
Do you gut 'em or grill them whole and all that?

[pacmania_2001]

they own Vegemite

http://www.dicksmithfoods.com.au/dsf/index.php?d=media&p=27oct04

Hopefully not for long.

[BJ_M]

yea -- ii hear you ..

also there:

Going, Going, Gone?
Three of Australia’s largest remaining listed food companies have sold or
look like selling out in part to foreign interests.

[BJ_M]

like in canada -- ALL the big meat packing companies are owned now by american firms .....

but canada has been getting back and buying american companies left right and center .... so i guess its fair in the end ...

we export a lot more than we import also ...

[pacmania_2001]

What Australia Day is about (3mb)

[yoda313]

Hello,

Damn!!! It takes less effort to be an Amurican...

1. You must own a gun

2. You must watch Springer

Welcome to Amurica. !!
_________________

1. - no

2 - HELL NO

Guess that means I'm not American huh???

Kevin

[doppletwo]

What Australia Day is about (3mb)

I play rubgy and the last line in that clip reminds me of what people from New Zealand say about people from Australia.

And what people from Australia say about people from New Zealand.

And what almost everybody says about Scotish people, but I am not going to say it.

Did they mean for that to be a double ontondra (can't spell but I mean that word when something has two meanings) ??

[Ripper2860]

Hello,

Damn!!! It takes less effort to be an Amurican...

1. You must own a gun

2. You must watch Springer

Welcome to Amurica. !!
_________________

1. - no

2 - HELL NO

Guess that means I'm not American huh???

Kevin

Not a TRUE Amurican -- Just a "Poser".

[Grimey]

Being Canadian is even easier.....theres only one requirement:

1. you must not be American.