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Old Apr 16th 2004, 12:41 am
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Australia is the only country in the world to have lost their leader.
By lost l don't mean assasinated, but to disappear and never been seen again. In 1967 Prime Minister Harold Holt went for a swim near Portsea and nobody ever saw him again. Some people
say he was abducted by the Chinese or CIA in a submarine, other
say he was abducted by aliens.
 
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Originally posted by wombat42
Australia is the only country in the world to have lost their leader.
By lost l don't mean assasinated, but to disappear and never been seen again. In 1967 Prime Minister Harold Holt went for a swim near Portsea and nobody ever saw him again. Some people
say he was abducted by the Chinese or CIA in a submarine, other
say he was abducted by aliens.

UMMM OK, thanks for that?!?!?!?!?!?!?!
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I saw him down coles the other day in Petersham. He was on the frozen food section.
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Goa's Governer (it used to be a Portuguese colony) was a bit of an embarrassment.

When the Indians marched into town to kick out the colonialists there wasn't exactly much of a Falklands-style struggle.

The Governer looked at the tin-pot team who had just declared UDI and came up with the memorable words: 'OK. Can I keep my parrot?'
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Default Re: Australia's greatest embarrasment

Originally posted by wombat42
Australia is the only country in the world to have lost their leader.
By lost l don't mean assasinated, but to disappear and never been seen again. In 1967 Prime Minister Harold Holt went for a swim near Portsea and nobody ever saw him again. Some people
say he was abducted by the Chinese or CIA in a submarine, other
say he was abducted by aliens.
Reminds me of Reginald Perrin....
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Originally posted by wombat42
Australia is the only country in the world to have lost their leader.
By lost l don't mean assasinated, but to disappear and never been seen again. In 1967 Prime Minister Harold Holt went for a swim near Portsea and nobody ever saw him again. Some people
say he was abducted by the Chinese or CIA in a submarine, other
say he was abducted by aliens.
You mean George Bush isn't lost too?

Sick jokes at the time of Holt's disappearance suggested another theory that a shark swimming off Portsea came to a screaming halt (holt).

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Originally posted by Caroline G
Reminds me of Reginald Perrin....
Or 'Harold Bishop' in Neighbours who subsequently re-appeared.

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