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Akhenaten said:
:) Iz not sayin' nuffink.
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Shortly after I moved here, I saw a girl dipping her french fries in her chocolate milkshake. Apparently it's all the rage. I tried it the next time I had french fries and chocolate milkshake.

In my opinion, some things should not be combined.

Just sayin'... :whistling
 
I just found a nice collection of Graham Kennedy's "advertisements".


ETA: Back in the day when ring-pull cans were a novelty.
 
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Akhenaten said:
100% with you on that lionking.

Which reminds me of what a creep that Lane fellow was. Total loser.
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The first time I ever heard of the great Randi was when that idiot Lane tried to defend Doris Stokes. "Loser" is far too kind.
 
Damien Evans said:
I hate Pelicans. One Bit me round the neck when I was a little kid.
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I was smacked upside the head by a brown pelican once. It was at the zoo. I was standing in line to get into the new penguin/puffin exhibit. He was in the outside equatorial penguin exhibit. I was on my side of the fence; he was standing on a rock on his side. With no warning, he decided to stretch his (clipped) wings and have a bit of a flap.
 
Damien Evans said:
I hate Pelicans. One Bit me round the neck when I was a little kid.
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Lucian said:
I was smacked upside the head by a brown pelican once. It was at the zoo. I was standing in line to get into the new penguin/puffin exhibit. He was in the outside equatorial penguin exhibit. I was on my side of the fence; he was standing on a rock on his side. With no warning, he decided to stretch his (clipped) wings and have a bit of a flap.
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Anyway, you're interested in one of our holidays are you?

Yes that's right, I saw your advert in the colour subblement.

The what?

The colour subblement.

The colour supplement?

Yes that's right. I'm afraid I can't say the letter B.

P?

Yes. It's all due to a trauma I suffered when I was a schoolboy. I was attacked by a belican.

Ah, a pelican?

No, a belican.


. . .



What a silly brick.​
 
Reckon.



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Southern Toothed Belican - Jeebus whatthehavesexicus​
 
Sunday to far away


Friday night too tired

Saturday to drunk

Sunday to far away - The shearers wife’s lament


In essence this film is a collection of nothing that is woven into an enchanting tale of life of the shearer during the hey day of Australia’s wool production. The central character, Foley, returns from the Brisbane fish markets to go shearing again in South Australia.

We discover that Foley (Jack Thompson) has been the ringer (top gun) in every shed he’s ever worked. As such he is sort out by Tim King (Max Cullen) a budding shearing contractor who actually has no shearers. Through a series of tall tales, under exaggerations Foley helps him blackbird (kidnap) a group of shearers to work a shed


The rest of the film revolves around the intimate working of the shed and how the men cope with the grueling physical work and emotional loneliness including the death of one of the shearers. But the film is not all dark, moments like the iconic laundry scene and the decision to replace the cook all add a lighter side to the desolate mood of the film.

As the stand (shearing contract) unfolds, Foley sense he has a rival in Arthur Black, an unknown to the area who has mainly worked sheds in New South Wales.

The thought of being beaten by Black scares Foley, not so much for pride, but he sees it as possibly being the first step to ending up like Old Garth, a gun shearer from back in the day when Foley was starting out. Old Garth is now the town drunk and seen as washed up and worthless to the shearing trade.


A sub text unfolds during the second half of the film as radios playing in the background report the reduction in the shearers bonus due to the lowering value of the wool clip. This erupts in the final section of the film when the shearers go on strike.


The strike, which seems an odd, almost random element in the film, actually delves deeply into the history of Australian society and politics. It was exactly this type of strike in 1891 that led to the formation of the Australian Labor Party - who to this day remain a powerful political force in Australia and are currently the party in power.


This an Australian film about Australians and for Australians. Having said that I do believe most people not familiar with our culture would still find the film accessible. Most of the slang and vernacular used is self explained through context, and hard working people in isolated situations would be very familar no matter where they come from.


Finally a mention of the incredibly talented cast and production team is needed. Virtually every actor playing a named character in the film came from with long credentials in both TV and cinema. Perhaps the most recognisable of this group is Jack Thompson (Folley) who has gone on to appear in many great Australian productions such as the Sum Of Us and Breaker Morant

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