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Old Aug 28th, 2008, 02:38 PM
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What about Australia?????

Betcha you all would love Aussie..come and visit God's own country, you'd be most welcome
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Old Aug 28th, 2008, 03:00 PM
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God is dead. Don't you read Nietzsche in Melbourne?

I am sure Kim (Kath & Kim) speed-reads Nietzsche whilst sipping on a Cardonnay.

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Old Aug 28th, 2008, 09:28 PM
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Betcha no one knew that Australia was now part of Europe!!
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Old Aug 29th, 2008, 01:02 AM
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Nietzsche is dead - God.
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Old Aug 29th, 2008, 01:43 AM
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It's too far away and it's got spiders that live in toilets and bite you on the bum and kill you dead.

Nuff said.
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Old Aug 29th, 2008, 02:10 AM
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Then they throw your body into the sea, and, as it floats out, sharks drag you under and eat you. (Gives a new meaning to the word 'undertake', really.)
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Old Aug 29th, 2008, 02:17 AM
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Not to forget the drop bears falling from the trees.
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Old Aug 29th, 2008, 02:25 AM
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Much as I enjoyed lots of Austalia, who was it* who said it was somewhere you flew over to get to France?

*this is a rhetorical question.
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Old Aug 29th, 2008, 03:14 AM
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Well - I didn't know it was part of Europe, either.

Why are they still charging the horrific airfares to France and Italy, then???

Australia IS different - come and visit.
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Old Aug 29th, 2008, 03:24 AM
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I'll come over again Margo, if you get me an ashes ticket for the Cardiff game, I can't get one here lol


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Old Aug 29th, 2008, 03:26 AM
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I am all in favour of Australia being part of Europe - but am not sure how they are going to tow it around the cape to get it here.

I definitely want to visit Australia again, probably several times - I just wish it wasn't such a long flight to get there.
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Old Aug 29th, 2008, 03:31 AM
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Bum biting spiders, blokes with corks on their hats, rubbish beer and a fondness for watching men in very tight little shorts?

Count me out.
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Old Aug 29th, 2008, 03:40 AM
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They got wild dogs that eat babies and everybody licks poison toads.
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Old Aug 29th, 2008, 03:53 AM
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They've got jellyfish with boxing gloves that also kill you dead and snakes that lie in wait for tourists.
Let's face it, everything there is out to get you.
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Old Aug 29th, 2008, 04:10 AM
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Tasmanian devils, dingoes that eat babies, snakes that can make you dead and boxing kangaroos.

They're not even much cop at sport these days - we beat them hollow at the olympics.

On the upside you might see jenny agutter in the nip.
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Old Aug 29th, 2008, 04:19 AM
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...and don't forget those cannibal guys that run around with spears and boomerangs and they stick their tongues out at you.
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Old Aug 29th, 2008, 04:29 AM
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>>don't forget those cannibal guys that run around with spears and boomerangs and they stick their tongues out at you.<<

No, that's Kiwi rugby players.

<making swift exit>
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Old Aug 29th, 2008, 04:31 AM
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I reckon that Australia would just about fit into the Atlantic ocean if you towed it to Europe. You might have to squash it a bit and chop a few bits off.
That would mean that we could travel to the US by train, stopping off in Australia on the way.
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Old Aug 29th, 2008, 04:34 AM
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so we go through the country with baby eating dingo dogs, bum biting spiders, boxing kangaroos etc to get to a country full of religious people with guns. And Bears. And probably religious bears with guns.

No thanks.
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Old Aug 29th, 2008, 04:46 AM
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Bible belt opossums have migrated throughout the US and Canada.
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