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Dec 7th 2008, 10:53 pm

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Re: This Is Supposed To Stir Them Up

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"In Gilly Gilly Ossenfeffer Katzenellen Bogan By The Sea"

That's on one of our kids' tapes

Panto Wars!

Dec 7th 2008, 11:12 pm

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Re: This Is Supposed To Stir Them Up

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Hopefully it was lotto players' money.

I'm getting a picture of some marketing wonkers in a room, with a befuddled customer, patting themselves on their backs and feeling all smug for being "SO creative".

I remember listening to an Aussie cyclist crying into his milk on TV after being beaten, saying that the only reason the Brits are winning everything is because they were paid for by our lottery money

Dec 7th 2008, 11:50 pm

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They do that.

But it's not a unique Aussie trait.

Dec 8th 2008, 12:53 am

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Germaine Greer.

Do i get gold?

No. Don't believe she is 'world' famous. Aus and the UK would be the limit of her notoriety I would think

Dec 8th 2008, 3:49 am

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No. Don't believe she is 'world' famous. Aus and the UK would be the limit of her notoriety I would think

She's one aussie that you guys can have, she lived in the UK long enough, she's yours.

Dec 8th 2008, 4:12 am

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She's one aussie that you guys can have, she lived in the UK long enough, she's yours.

On that basis we can have Kylie and Rolf as well.

Dec 8th 2008, 4:15 am

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On that basis we can have Kylie and Rolf as well.

Kylie, yeah, but the boy from bassendean can claim duel citizenship - his dad's fruit and vege shop was a WA icon.

Dec 8th 2008, 6:56 am

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Re: This Is Supposed To Stir Them Up

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Because the Brits make a big deal of beating the Aussies.

There's a complex in there as well

I have to agree. Both sides are as bad

What's wrong with "the best man won" rather than all this testosterone stuff

Dec 8th 2008, 6:57 am

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Knowing some of the marketing wonkers you speak of, in my experience they're more likely to be patting each other on the arse while feeling themselves!