Happy Australia Day!

Loomis · Post by **Loomis** » Sun Jan 25, 2004 1:21 pm

To all the Aussies on the board, the Aussies living abroad and anybody else really - HAPPY AUSTRALIA DAY!

Enjoy the time off work/school (if you have it), and don't drink too much.

And remember: Australians all let us rejoice, for we are young and free. Except for the old sods...

indianajdp · Post by **indianajdp** » Sun Jan 25, 2004 1:38 pm

Enjoy it.

It's only a matter of time until we invade for your precious wome...ummm...beer...I mean....natural resources. But you can keep your snakes, sharks, spiders and venomous marsupials.

Seriously though, I wish a great Holiday to all our Aussie Friends

Loomis · Post by **Loomis** » Sun Jan 25, 2004 2:02 pm

indianajdp wrote:It's only a matter of time until we invade for your precious wome...ummm...beer...I mean....natural resources. But you can keep your snakes, sharks, spiders and venomous marsupials.

You take all the women (but for one...), but please - I beg of you. LEAVE THE BEER ALONE!!!

Walt Forever · Post by **Walt Forever** » Sun Jan 25, 2004 9:16 pm

Hi Loomis,

happy Australia day to you and the Australians!!! Did I ever tell you that I´ve worked for the Australian tourist comission here in Germany? It was so much fun. It was during the Olympic Games 2000 period and everybody loved to go to Australia. They all were/and are (of course) so fascinated about your country.

Walt Forever

MickeyMouseboy · Post by **MickeyMouseboy** » Sun Jan 25, 2004 9:54 pm

Happy Aussie Day Mate!

michelle · Post by **michelle** » Sun Jan 25, 2004 10:48 pm

Hey Loomis you beat me to it!

We're all chucking a snag on the barbie, having a cold beer and chasing the kangaroos away from our outback sheds to Shannon Noll playing in the background of course ...

Natural resources? Stay away from the Tim Tams! Oops, too late ... can't touch this! ... we're too hot for ugg boots *looks around, expecting Deckers to chase after me with a broom ... rallies up the killer koalas*

Oh and Happy Australia Week haha ... we're not all that weird

Does anyone know the second verse of the Australian anthem?

MickeyMouseboy · Post by **MickeyMouseboy** » Sun Jan 25, 2004 10:53 pm

michelle wrote:outback sheds to Shannon Noll playing in the background of course ...

What? No kylie?

michelle · Post by **michelle** » Sun Jan 25, 2004 11:03 pm

MickeyMouseboy wrote:
michelle wrote:outback sheds to Shannon Noll playing in the background of course ...
What? No kylie?

She is otherwise occupied somewhere in the UK ... somewhere ...

*croons* W h a t a b o u t m e ? . . . . .

MickeyMouseboy · Post by **MickeyMouseboy** » Sun Jan 25, 2004 11:09 pm

michelle wrote:
MickeyMouseboy wrote: What? No kylie?
She is otherwise occupied somewhere in the UK ... somewhere ...

*croons* W h a t a b o u t m e ? . . . . .

It was a joke since LOOM dislikes her music lol

Loomis · Post by **Loomis** » Mon Jan 26, 2004 12:20 am

michelle wrote:
Does anyone know the second verse of the Australian anthem?

Umm...lemme see.... (and I'm NOT cutting and pasting here)

beneath our radiant southern cross
We'll toil with hearts and hands
to make this commonwealth of our
renowed through all the lands
For those who've come across the sea
With boundless [something] to share....
With courage let us all combine
Advanced Australia fair???

Was I close?

Maybe Delta should sing the new anthem. I'd hate it, but it WOULD be everywhere...

michelle · Post by **michelle** » Mon Jan 26, 2004 8:58 pm

'With boundless plains to share ...'

Actually they made us sing it every week in primary school

Everyone sort of just expects it to end at the 'In joyful strains then let us sing ...' that its funny to see people mouth their way through the 'there's-a-second-verse!?!?!'

Loomis · Post by **Loomis** » Mon Jan 26, 2004 9:15 pm

michelle wrote:'With boundless plains to share ...'

Actually they made us sing it every week in primary school

Everyone sort of just expects it to end at the 'In joyful strains then let us sing ...' that its funny to see people mouth their way through the 'there's-a-second-verse!?!?!'

Where are these boundless plains of which you speak?

Actually I have a problem with the anthem's accuracy:

Australians all let us rejoice, for we are young and free

Obviously that doesn't take into account that nearly 35% of the population is over 45.
Nor does it take into account that the number of people in prison has now reached a record high.

With golden soil, and wealth for toil...

Unemployment figures are actually lower. The unemployment rate of 5.6 per cent, seasonally adjusted, was 0.5 of a percentage point lower than at the same time last year, the ABS said. And spending WAS up at Xmas. Maybe that is where all this wealth for toil is coming from...

Our land is girt by sea...
No shit. We're an island!

Our land abounds in nature's gifts Of beauty rich and rare;
Well, it did before John Howard refused to sugn the Kyoto protocol. Now we are one of the few countries to increase our Greenhouse gas emissions.

In history's page, let every stage Advance Australia Fair.
They stayed up all night thinking of those lyrics, didn't they?

In joyful strains then let us sing, Advance Australia Fair
Joyful strains? I'm leaving that alone...

Don't get me long. I love this place. Wouldn't want to be anywhere else. But there needs to be a revision. Take the this from the second verse:

For those who've come across the sea ...
Except, of course, if you are on a boat named 'Tampa' or have somehow jumped a non-existent "queue".

Maybe we should just change it to:
Australia - Top Place. Shame about the People Running it.

michelle · Post by **michelle** » Mon Jan 26, 2004 9:24 pm

Loomis wrote: Where are these boundless plains of which you speak?

As in the great expanse of nothingness in the middle?
... you know ... as in the desert?

... which might I add, we cannot share, because its just a bit ... uninhabitable?

Loomis wrote:Our land is girt by sea...
No shit. We're an island!

ahahahaha ... and that goes for the rest of the points ... Tampa refugees, those lucky bastards ... *cracks up*

I say we use Waltzing Matilda ... that will show the world what a 'sophisticated' nation we are ... boiling billys of water and all.

MickeyMousePal · Post by **MickeyMousePal** » Mon Jan 26, 2004 9:27 pm

To all the Aussies on the board

HAPPY AUSTRALIA DAY!

Loomis Happy Australia Day!!!

I know I'm late.

Loomis · Post by **Loomis** » Mon Jan 26, 2004 10:07 pm

michelle wrote:
Loomis wrote: Where are these boundless plains of which you speak?
As in the great expanse of nothingness in the middle?
... you know ... as in the desert? ... which might I add, we cannot share, because its just a bit ... uninhabitable?

[...]

I say we use Waltzing Matilda ... that will show the world what a 'sophisticated' nation we are ... boiling billys of water and all.

ha!

you are right - bit hard to share. We aren't very good at sharing anyways...

As for Waltzing Matilda, I'll explain a bit for our American friends. This is a song many people feel should become our national anthem, because the anthem discussed above is silly and outdated (as you can see, I agree with the latter part of that).

Waltzing Matilda, I should add, is a song about a guy who steals a sheep and drowns.

Yup, defines Australia to me.

Jack · Post by **Jack** » Mon Jan 26, 2004 10:19 pm

Throw a shrimp on the barbie!

Have a Fosters beer!

Dangle a baby over a crocodile!

It's Australia Day!!!

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