You know, dlowan, you could say something like, "Oh look at the pretty flowers" and still sound mean.
So, Gus, when are you coming - so we can start on you?
Oh, look at the pretty flowers!
Oztralia was first discovered by Europeans when a Dutchman, Abel Tasman, sailed past the island which now bears his name, but which he named after the director of the Dutch East India Company, Van Dieman. The history of Dutch exploration shows that they had an uncanny sense of a good thing when they saw it (such as buying Manhattan for 60 guilders worth of beads and trinkets--these days, 60 guilders won't pay your parking if you go to a Broadway show). The Dutch made no attempt to colonize Oztralia--that should tell you something right there.
The English then visited upon the benighted continent two ecological diasters of unprecedented scope, the introduction of the rabbit, and the Irish. As an Irish rabbit, i cannot begin to express to you just how profound a blunder this was.
heeheeheeheeheeheeheeheeheeheehee . . .
okbye
ain't ya glad i revived this thread..........
Yes - but now it is silly!
it would be a total mess if it were not for set, gus, and i being here to lend this thread some credibility.
Yeah, right, pueo! :wink:
ah yes visitors, don't forget the great aussie pastime drinking and then puking.
Now was that nice? Lies, all lies!!!!!
then there's that other pastime of watching a game named after an insect while drinking and .......... well you know.
no rebutal. must be cause everybody is drinking and.................
Some of us have been WORKING!!!
Is someone disparaging cricket ? GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR
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