Arthur Brain
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Is Paul Hogan really 907?
Ask an Aussie
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Thunder's Muse
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Daedalean's_Sun
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What words spoken by Americans do Aussies find amusing?
Arthur Brain
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:think:
Platypus? Gondola?
What word do Australians always pronounce incorrectly?
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Daedalean's_Sun
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Grill.
Thunder's Muse
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Thunder's Muse
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Incorrectly.
Is it true that Australians have nicknamed the fascist-looking eagle on top the American-Astralian War Memorial "Mickey Mouse"?
Haha! Don't know about that one....
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The Berean
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The first one is Ron Clarke. Truly a legend. He was the first man to run 10,000 meters under 28:00. He set 17 world records in his career. Here's a Sports Illustrated article from 1965. But he never won an Olympic gold medal. Here is one of his world records.
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Later in life Clarke became Mayor of the Gold Coast, Queensland in 2004.
The last runner is Craig Mottram, aka The Big Muzungu. Mottram burst on the scene in the early 2000's. In distance running since the early 1990's distance running has been utterly dominated by the East Africans, mainly Kenya and Ethiopia. By the early 2000's the level of domination became absurd. No non-East African could run with them. Then Mottram showed up and starting running with the East Africans. He was the only one who was not intimated by them. He trained like a madman and started to beat a lot of the East Africans. One African runner nicknamed Mottram, The Big Muzungu, which means "Big White Man", in the Bantu language. There was a movie made about Motram's quest to run against the greatest distance runners in the world.
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Memento Mori
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What's a dollar worth in Australia?
I think they actually call those bidets.
lain:What's the deal with your bears?
Are all your animals miniatures? :think:
Memento Mori
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They're all mutants! Just look at this one!
Also, isn't there some kind of killer koala bear or something? Like chupacabra of Australia?
PureX
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Why are Aussie movies so incredibly slow and quiet? I watched a film the other day that was actually quite good, but seriously, it had only a total of 100 words of dialogue in 2 hours.
"Samson And Delilah"
And these, too, were good Aussie films, but were incredibly slow and quiet ...
"Rabbit Proof Fence"
"The Tracker"
"Walkabout"
"The Proposition"
"The Piano"
"Ten Canoes"
and some others I can't remember just now.
Good movies, but all weirdly wordless for long segments of time. Do you tax words in Australia, or something? (Don't tell our government, because they haven't thought of this, yet!)
Just curious.
"Samson And Delilah"
And these, too, were good Aussie films, but were incredibly slow and quiet ...
"Rabbit Proof Fence"
"The Tracker"
"Walkabout"
"The Proposition"
"The Piano"
"Ten Canoes"
and some others I can't remember just now.
Good movies, but all weirdly wordless for long segments of time. Do you tax words in Australia, or something? (Don't tell our government, because they haven't thought of this, yet!)
Just curious.
Is the movie Australia considered a national treasure? lain:
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Charity
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Is the movie Australia considered a national treasure?
It's Not Footy
Charity
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I carry a silver pitch Fork in my car glove box.. I hold it up whenever anyone cuts me off. (kidding) other people use two fingers.
an blue has four legs an a Tail, an can be red.
MoMo's questions gave me an idea. Do foods taste backwards and if so what does chicken taste like?
This is the worst idea since strip Jeopardy.lain:
This is the worst idea since strip Jeopardy.
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