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Akhenaten
Heretic Pharaoh
Nah, she's too shy and retiring for me.
Not.
Not.
HawaiiBigSis
List Management
Truth is, many performers really ARE shy and retiring. The act is, well, an act, put on as a buffer to protect the "real" person inside.
Not saying that's what's going on, since I don't know the performer of whom you speak, but I have heard famous people say that one of the things they like best is being treated like "just another person".
I might take up the pharoah's mantle and post something about the suburb I was born and bred in, Chippendale - described as the most unloved industrial suburb in Australia. Throughout most of it's history it was the home of the most downtrodden residents in the country. Give me a few days.
HawaiiBigSis
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I await.
I wish I thought such a thing about my home town would be interesting, but I don't believe it would be.
Akhenaten
Heretic Pharaoh
You've *gasp* never heard of *gasp* Kylie? *gasp* *gasp*
This entire thread is a failure. I hang my head in shame. *gasp*
Kylie is not shy and retiring. Her act is fabulous because she is fabulous.
As well as being 'just our Kyles'.
Mega-article coming soon. I must make amends for this glaring oversight.
In the meantime:
Kylie Minogue - awesomest performer ever, anywhere
Kylie Minogue - girl next door
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Akhenaten
Heretic Pharaoh
Don't sell yourself short, lovely lady. Remember this?
Do you have anything similar in Hawaii? Comparing the histories of our two countries is quite a valid subject for this thread, you know.
I'd have to give it some thought. We probably do, but I don't really know of anything off the top of my head...
On the other hand, I can tell a little story. (Like Old Bob's stories, it's anecdotal, so I don't know how true it is.)
Note the bars over the graves in the picture. I asked a local guy who was about my age what they were for. He said that during a specific season, people would place offerings of food on the bars for the ancestors. The local kids (himself included) would take the food right after it was placed, and everybody was happy: he'd get a snack, whoever placed the food felt that the offerings were accepted, the ancestors were honored.
I just like the fact that this particular cemetery has a gorgeous view...
Nothin' to it, now get typin'.
Don't make me come up there.
HawaiiBigSis
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Well, actually I meant the suburb where I grew up (a suburb of Los Angeles -- although I was born in the city, and is by itself a fairly interesting city -- but the suburb, not so much); I was just drawing parallels with what lionking was saying.
And if I don't does that mean you WILL come up here? Hmmm... difficult choice...
But if that's what it takes, I'll keep my fingers off the keyboard!And, oh yeah, I've heard of Kylie Minogue (mostly through you all), but I don't really know enough about her to guess whether the act is an act, or for real, which is what I meant. I guess I'll have to await edification from you, your Pharohness!
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Australia. Where even the flowers are scary.
http://home-and-gardening.info/2010/05/11/bat-flower-beautiful-and-creepy-in-same-time/#82828
http://home-and-gardening.info/2010/05/11/bat-flower-beautiful-and-creepy-in-same-time/#82828
I was telling my kids about where I was born, Chippendale, fully expecting to see their eyes glaze over, but they were fascinated about the number of sleazy pubs (a dozen or more in my youth) in one square kilometer; the crime; the stench from the brewery; the factories; no trees; the overwhelmimg hopelessness; etc, etc.
I've posted about this before, but my grandparents lived in squalor and our parents not so much better, but this generation features Queens Counsellors, School Principals (x2), Professors, Financial Controllers and so on. All originating from a slum.
I've posted about this before, but my grandparents lived in squalor and our parents not so much better, but this generation features Queens Counsellors, School Principals (x2), Professors, Financial Controllers and so on. All originating from a slum.
They don't call it the Lucky Country for nothing.
Say, who coined that phrase?
Say, who coined that phrase?
Akhenaten
Heretic Pharaoh
I suspect ON knew that. It was a text when I was at school.
Akhenaten
Heretic Pharaoh
Quite correct.
The Great Irony
Donald Horne remembers the night he penned those words. Within a few weeks the phrase had become the title of the book.
"In a hot summer's night in December 1964 I was about to write the last chapter of a book on Australia. The opening sentence of this last chapter was: 'Australia is a lucky country, run by second-rate people who share its luck.'"
That sentence was a rather brutal indictment of his country at the time. It is a direct, uncompromising and seemingly unambiguous commentary on Australia in the 1960s. Horne was critiquing an Australia that did not think for itself; a country manacled to its past; and 'still in colonial blinkers': 'If we are to remain a prosperous, liberal, humane society, we must be prepared to understand the distinctiveness of our own society'.Source:
Australian Government Culture Portal - The Lucky Country
Sideroxylon
Featherless biped
Educational - thanks guys.
HawaiiBigSis
List Management
I saw those for the first time when on Big Island in April! My girlfriend and I kept accosting people saying, "Have you ever seen an almost black flower? They're weird!!" It was clearly past its prime, but still awesome; although they didn't look like the ones in your link, Orphia Nay...
There was a similar plant labeled "white bat plant", but it wasn't blooming, so there didn't seem to be much point in taking a picture of it.
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I would be making the trip from America. Figure a few island stops along the way, and I'd make in in good form.