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Old Oct 18th, 2005 | 03:30 AM
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Geography lessons required

Oh dear!

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Old Oct 18th, 2005 | 03:53 AM
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Oh deary dear!

I liked the line by the fellow looking at a map where Australia was labelled "North Korea", "North Korea is larger than I thought it was".

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Old Oct 18th, 2005 | 04:53 AM
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You posted the same thing yesterday. No need to start a new thread, you can just top your earlier one . . . . . .
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Old Oct 18th, 2005 | 05:02 AM
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That was posted on the US board, not the Europe!
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Old Oct 18th, 2005 | 05:09 AM
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oops - sorry. I didn't check that. I just remembered seeing the first one.
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Old Oct 18th, 2005 | 02:41 PM
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TTT
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Old Oct 18th, 2005 | 04:01 PM
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OMG!!!
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Old Oct 18th, 2005 | 04:08 PM
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It is an even bigger worry for us lot "down under", how do you think we feel?

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Old Oct 18th, 2005 | 04:13 PM
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Once the bombs drop on the camels in the Great Sandy Desert we all will know. But only, if camels can talk. ;-)
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Old Oct 18th, 2005 | 04:32 PM
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I'm just hoping the Pentagon hasn't misplaced its atlas. At least Tasmania (aka South Korea) should be safe.
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Old Oct 18th, 2005 | 04:39 PM
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That was funny!!! And these people vote?
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Old Oct 18th, 2005 | 04:46 PM
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But it's obvious that those camels are immigrants from ARABIA! Who knows what they are up to? You're lucky you're living in camel free South Koreania!
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Old Oct 18th, 2005 | 05:19 PM
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I'm still rubbing my eyes and tapping the side of my head with the heel of my hand. I, uh.....well, uh....er. What?
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Old Oct 18th, 2005 | 06:26 PM
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LOL, well sort of, but how pathetic. This is why I am not for a law like they have in Austrailia (or at least they use to) that every citizen has to vote. Hopefully none of these people are even registered voters!
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Old Oct 18th, 2005 | 07:27 PM
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Budman, I think they'd have trouble finding the polling station. You'd probably find them trying to cast a vote at the local McDonalds. (On the other hand, this might explain a few things that have been bothering me the last few years...)

LoveItaly, technically the law doesn't actually compel us to vote, just turn up at the polling station and have our names crossed off the electoral roll. What we do with he ballot papers then is our business.

Those Australian camels, by the way, aren't Iranians. They descend from 19th century immigrants imported by Afghan camel-drivers. Our government has interned them on suspicion of being fifth-column Taliban sympathisers.
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Old Oct 18th, 2005 | 08:39 PM
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OK Neil, that makes sense. But regarding the saps on that video, I doubt if they would be able to find their proper polling place, LOL.

That video reminds me of the Jay Leno Show when he has his "Jay Walk" or something along that line. He does sidewalk interviews with the public. Questions are quite complicated as in "who is the Vice President of the Unitied States". The dumb looks on the faces plus the answers are hysterical. Of course since our VP seems to be mostly in hiding perhaps that is not the best example!!
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Old Oct 19th, 2005 | 03:12 AM
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Topping one last time - a classic example of dry Australian wit!
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Old Oct 19th, 2005 | 06:17 AM
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This is a shtick that the Canadian comedian Rick Mercer used to do in "Talking to Americans". Actually, I think that you could round up the same kind of street responses in Canada or any other country. However, he also manages to trap politicians and public figures into embarrassing answers.

Here's a selection:

http://home.comcast.net/~wwwstephen/americans/
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