Showing posts with label Australia. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Australia. Show all posts

Monday, June 26, 2017

Monday, December 31, 2012

Happy New Year, Aussies!

Happy New Year to Infomaniac's Australian Bitches!


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Because you live in the future and celebrate New Year's Eve before we do.

Tuesday, January 11, 2011

To Our Australian Friends

To Princess, Damien, Ute and all our Australian friends in the path of the flood waters.


Keep us posted, if you can.

Our thoughts are with you.

p.s. Hip waders are almost as unfashionable as Crocs. Unless you look like Ava Gardner…

Tuesday, May 06, 2008

Planet Oz

This posting is dedicated to Infomaniac’s Australian readers.





It appears that this is Australia Week in our blogging circle as both Dinah and T-Bird have posted about Australia too.

And now it’s Infomaniac’s turn.

Laugh as I expose my limited knowledge of The Land Down Under to you.

I know little of this great nation. I’ve never visited Australia nor do I have friends or relatives there.

Here then for your entertainment is everything Infomaniac knows about Australia in a nutshell.




You dress funny...


Cork hat




Your music has a sound all its own…


Didgeridoo




Carrot panpipes and flutes




Your foods are both salty…


Vegemite




And sweet..



Tim Tams: "two and a half inches has never been so satisfying"




And your culinary customs are most peculiar…


Tim Tam Slam





You have your own beer…


Foster’s Beer



Which inevitably leads you to engage in beer-related activities…




Darwin Beer Can Regatta





You’re a nation of sportsmen…


Tunarama in Port Lincoln … men and women compete to see who can throw a frozen 8-10 kilogram tuna the farthest.







Camel races in Alice Springs






Cockroach races in Brisbane




A land of unique and fascinating flora…


Baobab tree



And fauna…



Platypus




Tasmanian Devil




Bilby
Bilbies have their own Appreciation Society




And geological marvels…


Stromatolites





Your towns have names that make us titter…



Like Iron Knob and Tittybong.




Your Christmas occurs in Summer!…






You’re an inventive people…


Boomerang



You have an artist who paints with his penis…


Pricasso (Tim Patch)




Canada has the Sasquatch. You have the Yowie



Statue of a Yowie



AND a man in search of the Yowie…


Tim the Yowie Man




Your films are delightful…










Your telly tickles me…


Dame Edna



Kath and Kim




You have your own unique literature…



Australian Bush poetry




And you have a way with words…

Yobbo = loudmouth; someone uncouth
Billabong = waterhole
Grog = plonk; cheap liquor or wine
Dunny = outhouse
(And so many more… fill me in on these for I am but a simple Canuck.)




Your legal system is to be commended…



It is illegal to wear hot pink pants after midday Sunday.




And finally…

Australia is in the future…



Sydney and Brisbane, for example, are 17 hours ahead of me!



So there you have it. The sum total of Infomaniac’s knowledge about Australia.

Can you add more? What do you know about Australia?

Go on. Enlighten me, bitches.



Note: Infomaniac will not be updating until Thursday.