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Author Topic: For our Australian friends!  (Read 859 times)

Dizerens5

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For our Australian friends!
« on: October 29, 2011, 07:59:50 AM »
Around 1959 I lived in Earls Court, part of London where there were plenty of Australians, in Britain for a few months and doing odd jobs around (this was long before today's work-permit hassle). They did not always like what they found and had some verses they would recite in the pubs, greeted by the Brits with embarrassed grins (grins because everyone liked the Aussies). Here are three I recall:
They say that here in England, the beer is mighty fine
It's either hot and turbid or it tastes like turpentine.
They say that here in England, the food is mighty fine
A roll fell off a table and it killed a friend of mine.
They say that here in England, the cinema's mighty fine
To tell the truth, I wouldn't know - I've been queuing all the time.
    That last one dates it!

Offline Lucky_Lou

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Re: For our Australian friends!
« Reply #1 on: October 29, 2011, 01:06:58 PM »
The invasion is still underway... they have just opened a "Boomerang" bar here in Wakefield.

http://www.citikey.co.uk/display/boomerangs-fun-bar-NVAFZ
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Vegasrandall

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Re: For our Australian friends!
« Reply #2 on: October 29, 2011, 02:02:41 PM »
I worked at a missle range when a aussie F 111 squadron came in to do manuvers with our navy. They were the most insane people that I ever drank with.
 Their favorite game was racing,you would drop your pants to your ankles , the base newspaper was rolled into a cone and held between your butt cheeks and set afire. All you had to do was waddle across the parking lot before the paper burned your a33.
And that was the early part of the evening.

 



Offline Adrian

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Re: For our Australian friends!
« Reply #3 on: October 29, 2011, 06:02:14 PM »
Randall I hear that they're going to turn it into the national sport for the Olympics  :D
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