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Who is going to be REALLY patriotic on Tuesday and chuck some LAMB on the Barbie.

We've got our lamb leg steaks and lamb snags, how about you?  what are you having?



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Kangaroo steak

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I might try and have some aussie meat pies and chips , or fish n chips or somoething like that

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What else but Aussie Black pudding and Aeroplane Jelly sauce,with vegimite covered in Sprinkles and V.B Sauce.C'Mon on Aussie C'mon.Cheers.Ibbo...............and the Flag will be flown.

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The union jack Ibbo

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No Siree.As I have mentioned before,I am an Aussie by choice and proud to be one.My flag is one with a union jack in one corner and a heap of stars spread around the rest of it.I guess when I try to think of a name for the Aussie flag it is just that "Aussie Flag".Cheers.Ibbo.

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At least if you say 'AUSSIE FLAG' Ibbo people know what you mean straight away.

When we set up camp, no matter where it is, even in someone's backyard, the first thing that goes up, after pulling the awning out, is our Aussie Flag and it's the last thing to be taken down.

We have one on the front of our house, two on the front verandah, two on the car windows, a sticker of one on the back of the car.

Like you said before Ibbo.......AUSSIE, AUSSIE, AUSSIE......OI, OI, OI.

Proud to be one.

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I've got 2 flying on my ute, but my Oz Day will be helping my future son in law pull apart his motorbike engine and putting it back together again.

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It doesn't matter whether we celebrate Aussie Day with a lamb chop or a Chinese Yum Cha. In our multicultural nation they are both equally, but neither uniquely, Australian.

What is really alarming is the number of Australians who cannot correctly answer what event in history we are celebrating, according to surveys carried out.

(and I'm being Sirius)

(edit, typo correction only)

-- Edited by jimricho on Sunday 24th of January 2010 10:14:22 AM

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The difference of the old Oz to the new Oz.

The old Australia/ The new Australia

Chiko/Chicken wrap.

Eddie McGuire/Shaun Micallef.

Howyagoin?/Wassup?

Tea with milk and sugar/ Skim latte.

Kerry Packer/Kerry Stokes.

Pizza with pineapple and ham/Pizza with figs and prosciutto.

Sheila/Chick. Bloke/Guy.

Dag/Retard.

Ben Ean Moselle/Oyster Bay sauvignon blanc.

Hey Dad/Packed to the Rafters.

Tomato sauce/Tomato paste.

Soy sauce/Chilli sauce.

Police arresting participants in Mardi Gras/Police becoming participants in Mardi Gras.

Crocodile Dundee/ Mao's Last Dancer.

Bob Hawke/Julia Gillard.

Sweet and sour pork/ Pad Thai.

Don Bradman/Shane Warne.

Iced Vo Vos/Tim Tams.

Barry Humphries/Chris Lilley.

Fish and chips/Sushi.

Geoffrey Blainey/Tim Flannery.

Hey Hey It's Saturday/Thank God You're Here.

Passionfruit pavlova/Mango gelato.

Albert Namatjira/ Emily Kame Kngwarreye.

Homicide/Underbelly.

Bert Newton/Hamish Blake.

Chicken Maryland/Butter chicken.

Mel Gibson/Sam Worthington.

Meat pie/Gozleme with minced beef.

Fast Forward/The Chaser's War on Everything.

Kylie Minogue/Ruby Rose.

Vegemite/Nutella.

Corn flakes/Muesli.

The transistor radio/The iPod.

Lamingtons/Cupcakes.

http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/society-and-culture/the-past-is-like-a-foreign-country-20100123-mrpk.html



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Wot no Black Puding?.........lol

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Someone gave me a freshly frozen big snapper. The problem now for me is how does a solo eat something like that? I intend to cook it on the Webber, eat as much of it as i can, fridge the rest for the a few more days meals. Now would be a good time to speak up if you have a recipe!
Been a lucky week for me, at work a total stranger gave me his old compound bow so i will spend some time shooting target faces and getting to know and learning about its funny ways,  down at the club of course.



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My concern a lot of Australian are turning the day into the great Aussie Piss up

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brickies wrote:

My concern a lot of Australian are turning the day into the great Aussie Piss up


Worse still, wrapping themselves in the flag and publicly disgracing themselves.

 



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jimricho wrote:

brickies wrote:

My concern a lot of Australian are turning the day into the great Aussie Piss up


Worse still, wrapping themselves in the flag and publicly disgracing themselves.

 


Agree with both of you.  Also "aussies"? not even knowing what it's all about and being able to take RDO's or whatever and having a long weekend.  That's not what it's all about.

 



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just another day for me, sangers and a cup of tea as usual, but the family will have a big get together, just without me, we're behind a bit up here! normally it rivals xmas at our joint!

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Not just another day Dave you are doing the aussie thing if there is job to be done get on with it get the job done some one got to do it , I will be think of you will it sit back with a cup of tea and damper with syrup

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We'll be going into Bencubbin (also out here in the middle of everywhere) for bacon and eggs at the pool. home for lunch, probably yabbies wrapped in bacon and grilled then to Mukinbudin for lamb barby for tea. At least that's the plan at this stage.

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Now if that's not AUSSIE, I don't know what is.  Hope you enjoy every minute.



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One of the most Aussie things to do would be to close McDonalds for the Day.Cheers.Ibbo.

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That is a TOP suggestion Ibbo.  But then think about all those "People"  who would be suffereing withdrawals..................................SUFFER!!!!!



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HISTORY

Australia Day, 26 January, is the anniversary of the arrival of the First Fleet of 11 convict ships from Great Britain, and the raising of the Union Jack at Sydney Cove by its commander Captain Arthur Phillip, in 1788.

On Australia Day we come together as a nation to celebrate what's great about Australia and being Australian. It's the day to reflect on what we have achieved and what we can be proud of in our great nation. It's the day for us to re-commit to making Australia an even better place for the future.

Everyone Enjoy, but Help someone disadvantaged if you can.


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We were taught these things when we were at school Griz.   Does anybody know if they still do.   I tend to think maybe not.

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Lamb chops, champagne and a get together with good friends for us!!!

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Grizzly some one told me there is more to that story on that day

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brickies wrote:

Grizzly some one told me there is more to that story on that day



You betcha there's more to that story.....and we're a part of it today!

no one seems to have picked up on my dreadful sirius pun...it was put there as take-the-p1ss-out-of-Jim bait.  maybe it's being treated with the contempt it deserveswink



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jimricho wrote:

 

brickies wrote:

Grizzly some one told me there is more to that story on that day



You betcha there's more to that story.....and we're a part of it today!

no one seems to have picked up on my dreadful sirius pun...it was put there as take-the-p1ss-out-of-Jim bait.  maybe it's being treated with the contempt it deserveswink

 


And there I thought you were being Sirius.

 



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About 10 years ago I was visiting Bath, UK and was having a little refreshment in a pub (as one does) and talking to an off duty taxi driver. He directed me to a modest terrace house where (by then) Admiral Arthur Phillip retired. There was a small plaque on the house identifying it as such. Bath is a beautiful town and well worth a visit by anyone going to UK

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