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Subject: FW: BEING STRAYLYAN (Australian)


At last, a yardstick by which you can measure an "Australian" For
those of you who haven't met an Australian and are not sure what one is REALLY like!


You're not Australian 'til...

1) You've mimicked Alf Stewart from the TV show Home and Away's
broad,Australian accent, eg. "push off, ya flamin' drongo!"

2) You've had an argument with your mate over whether Ford or Holden
makes the better car!

3) You've done the "hot sand" dance at the beach while running from
the ocean back to your towel.

4) You know who Ray Martin is.

5) You start using words like "reckon" and "root" and call people
"mate".

6) You stop greeting people with "hello" and go straight to the "how
ya doin'?"

7) You've seriously considered running down the shop in a pair of Ugg
Boots

8) You own a pair of ugg boots.

9) You've been to a day-nighter cricket match and screamed out incomprehensibly until your throat went raw.

10) You kind of know the first verse to the national anthem, but
don't know what "girt" means.

11) You have a story that somehow revolves around excess consumption
of alcohol and a mate named "Dave".

12) You've risked attending an outdoor music festival on the hottest
day of the year.

13) You've tried to hang off a clothesline while pretending you can
fly.

14) You've had a visit to the emergency room after hanging off the
clothesline pretending you can fly.

15) You own a pair of thongs for everyday use, and another pair of
"dress thongs" for special occasions.

16) You don't know what's in a meat pie, and you don't care.

17) You pronounce Australia as "Stralya"

18) You call soccer soccer, not football!

19) You've squeezed Vegemite through vita wheat to make little
Vegemite worms.

20) You suck your coffee through a Tim Tam.

21) You realise that lifeguards are the only people who can get away
with wearing Speedos.

22) You pledge allegiance to Vegemite over Promite.

23) You understand the value of public holidays.

24) Your weekends are spent barracking for your favourite sports
team.

25) You have a toilet dolly.

26) Your Mum or Nan made it.

27) You've played beach cricket with a tennis ball and a bat
fashioned out of a fence post.

28) You firmly believe that in the end, everything will be ok, and
have told a mate in tough times that "She'll be right, mate"

29) You use the phrase, "no worries" at least once a day.

30) You've been on a beach holiday and have probably stayed in a
caravan.

31) You constantly shorten words to "brekkie", "arvo" and "barbie"

32) You've adopted a local bar as your own.

33) You know the oath of mateship can never be limited by
geographical distance.

34) You measure a journey in beer, not kilometres or time. (That's a
3 beertrip mate) .


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OK i'm gonna fess up....

I do numbers

3,5,6,7,8,10,11,16,17,18,19,20,21,23,24,28,29,30,3 1,and 33.

So question is am i Strayan yet mate??

wombat42

When sheep start to appear attractive.

Pollyana

Dunno mate, but you're doin' pretty well!

I'll confess to 5,6,9,10,11,16,17,18,21,23,28,29,31,33. :scared:

Badge

I passed big time....my haven't done list is SHORTER so what I *haven't* done:

1) Imitate alf
4) Ray Martin
10) National anthem etc
13) You've tried to hang off a clothesline while pretending you can
fly.
14) You've had a visit to the emergency room after hanging off the
clothesline pretending you can fly.

I have done stupid things and would have been in hospital only there wasnt one and besides, we were late for a party..

15) You own a pair of thongs for everyday use, and another pair of
"dress thongs" for special occasions.

My last pair of best thongs are now in Hevs back yard chewed up by her dogs

19) You've squeezed Vegemite through vita wheat to make little
Vegemite worms.
22) You pledge allegiance to Vegemite over Promite.
25) You have a toilet dolly.
26) Your Mum or Nan made it.
34) You measure a journey in beer, not kilometres or time. (That's a
3 beertrip mate) .

NB 21) I know speedos are best worn by lifegards, but I reckon I could get away with it as I do have pretty good legs. So there.

BM

Shellfish

I can't believe that no-one knows who Ray Martin is

I am about 95% there

Shellfish

I can't believe that no-one knows who Ray Martin is

I am about 95% there

kath n kim

That's it then..................I'M 'STRAYLIAN MATE :scared:

funkybuddah

This has really made me laugh reading this thread. Your all mad..Ican't wait to get out there : D

mlbonner

I do numbers

1, 3, 5, 6, 10, 11, 12, 15, 16, 17, 18, 20, 21, 23, 24, 28, 29, 30, 31, 33

I'm becomin 'straylian too!

Pollyana

:scared: :scared:

mlbonner

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Pollyana

http://britishexpats.com/forum/showthread.php?t=206846

Badge

I'm not even going to look.

BM

Pollyana

The Speedo competition when you were up here........ :scared:

mlbonner

That'll suffice!