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Plates Oct 18th, 2005 03:30 AM

Geography lessons required
 
Oh dear!

http://www.transbuddha.com/mediaHolder.php?id=940

ira Oct 18th, 2005 03:53 AM

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".

((I))

janisj Oct 18th, 2005 04:53 AM

You posted the same thing yesterday. No need to start a new thread, you can just top your earlier one . . . . . .

Charley1965 Oct 18th, 2005 05:02 AM

That was posted on the US board, not the Europe!

janisj Oct 18th, 2005 05:09 AM

oops - sorry. I didn't check that. I just remembered seeing the first one.

Ti_stahw_eht_piz Oct 18th, 2005 02:41 PM

TTT

JRP Oct 18th, 2005 04:01 PM

OMG!!!

schnauzer Oct 18th, 2005 04:08 PM

It is an even bigger worry for us lot "down under", how do you think we feel?


logos999 Oct 18th, 2005 04:13 PM

Once the bombs drop on the camels in the Great Sandy Desert we all will know. But only, if camels can talk. ;-)

Neil_Oz Oct 18th, 2005 04:32 PM

I'm just hoping the Pentagon hasn't misplaced its atlas. At least Tasmania (aka South Korea) should be safe.

Budman Oct 18th, 2005 04:39 PM

That was funny!!! And these people vote? ((a)) ((b))

logos999 Oct 18th, 2005 04:46 PM

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!

JRP Oct 18th, 2005 05:19 PM

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?

LoveItaly Oct 18th, 2005 06:26 PM

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!

Neil_Oz Oct 18th, 2005 07:27 PM

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.

LoveItaly Oct 18th, 2005 08:39 PM

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!!

Plates Oct 19th, 2005 03:12 AM

Topping one last time - a classic example of dry Australian wit!

laverendrye Oct 19th, 2005 06:17 AM

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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