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Australia Day
Jan. 26th, 2006 09:21 pmIn the backpacker's we're staying at, I found this sheet of paper with the following spiel. I have a feeling it was planted there by a pom or a German.
We are the people of a free nation of blokes, sheilas and the occasional idiot.
We are united by highways, whose treacherous twists kill more of us each year than murderers.
We are united in our lust for recognition, so desperate for praise we leap in joy when a gaggle of IOC officials tell us that Sydney is better than Beijing.
We love sport so much our newsreaders can read the death toll from a sailing race and still tell us who's winning.
We also have the biggest rock, the tastiest pies. We are girt by sea and pissed by lunchtime.
Happy Australia Day!
Well. I thought it was amusing.
Off to Airlie Beach tomorrow.
We are the people of a free nation of blokes, sheilas and the occasional idiot.
We are united by highways, whose treacherous twists kill more of us each year than murderers.
We are united in our lust for recognition, so desperate for praise we leap in joy when a gaggle of IOC officials tell us that Sydney is better than Beijing.
We love sport so much our newsreaders can read the death toll from a sailing race and still tell us who's winning.
We also have the biggest rock, the tastiest pies. We are girt by sea and pissed by lunchtime.
Happy Australia Day!
Well. I thought it was amusing.
Off to Airlie Beach tomorrow.
