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 hatYour music has a sound all its own…
Didgeridoo
Carrot panpipes and flutesYour foods are both salty…
VegemiteAnd sweet..
Tim Tams: "two and a half inches has never been so satisfying"And your culinary customs are most peculiar…
Tim Tam SlamYou have your own beer…
Foster’s BeerWhich 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 treeAnd fauna…
Platypus
Tasmanian Devil
BilbyBilbies 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…
BoomerangYou have an artist who paints with his penis…
Pricasso (Tim Patch)Canada has the Sasquatch. You have the
Yowie…
Statue of a YowieAND a man in search of the Yowie…
Tim the Yowie ManYour films are delightful…


Your telly tickles me…
Dame Edna
Kath and KimYou 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.