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"What the hell language were they speaking?"
Hey, can that video camera put in sub-titles next time?
Hey, can that video camera put in sub-titles next time?
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English, Prom...
My disembodied voice was clearly in English. I understand everything everyone in the States says, so why can't you lot understand us?
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"Tone and inflection"
Sounded like a bunch of loafers sitting around doing Mel Gibson impersonations.
I tried watching some of the Chinese Olympics but had to turn it off, same as I did years ago when it was held in Australia. Bunch of odd looking people, walking around speaking gibberish."Damn it Jim, I'm a doctor, not a mechanic!' ('Bones' McCoy)Comment
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Truck and ""DOG"" explains my point, I believe."Damn it Jim, I'm a doctor, not a mechanic!' ('Bones' McCoy)Comment
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Mel Gibson is a Yank you Knob!
And if you can't tell the difference between Chinese and Australian English then you're not as intelligent as I thought you were.
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Boxing on.
We are odd looking though, I'll give you that.Last edited by Stralya; 08-22-2008, 09:37 AM.Automotive Imbecile.
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That explains it!
Man sentenced over wombat rape claim
A New Zealand man has been sentenced to community service after telling police he had been raped by a wombat and the experience had caused him to start speaking "Australian".
Arthur Cradock, a 48-year-old orchard worker from Motueka on South Island, rang police on February 11 to say he was being raped by the slow-moving Australian marsupial at his home, The Nelson Mail reported.
He rang back soon afterwards to say he was withdrawing his complaint against the wombat, a court was told.
"Apart from speaking Australian now, I'm pretty all right you know," he told police in the second call.
Cradock pleaded guilty to using a phone for a fictitious purpose and was sentenced to 75 hours community work.
Prosecutors said alcohol played a large part in Cradock's life, although his defence lawyer said he was not drunk on the afternoon of the phone calls.
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Re: Mel Gibson is a Yank you Knob!
Originally posted by Stralya
Dan.
Boxing on.
We are odd looking though, I'll give you that. [/B]
Oh yeah....like we're what cha call "normal" over on this side of the pond.
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Ya know, Dan... Nobody has chimed in here, but I'd have to say that I'd be pretty danged impressed with a bit of the watermelon juggling you mentioned. Don't cheat though.. we want three full sized ones! When you get that, throw a running chainsaw into the mix... and you should be able to quit your day job! lol.
As for the accent, is it just me or does it make the guys sound worse, but the women sound hot!? lol. Maybe it was just the thoughts of that one time in high school with the exchange student from there?? lol.
As for the zoo comment... if you aren't at the zoo, where'd you get the ape that was operating the camera? Buh da dum.. Thanks.. I'll be here all week. 
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The only thing I'll say.....
here in the states, its a PUP, not DOG......
I won't get involved in any other way, safer that way! 
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FWIW...
In the US, a tractor-trailer rig can have more than 1 trailer attached. This type of load is sometimes called a "double-bottom" but more frequently the trailers are called "pups" or "double pups". There is a web shot site that has quite a few photos of double-pup rigs:
http://rides.webshots.com/album/5515...Ik?vhost=rides
Given this use of "pups" in trucking, it isn't hard to understand the "truck and dog" label.Jerry Fields
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I think you might be on to something there Tod..
An odd looking, watermelon juggling ape towing a dog and speaking backwards braille in a Zoo? I'd pay to see that!
and renegade, pups grow into dogs so at least we're on the same wavelength!
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Re: Accent? What bloody accent?
Good point...Originally posted by Stralya
We Australians live on a land mass about the same size as the United States. You Americans have accents. We speak the same nation wide. Therefore, we don't have an accent, you on the other hand, have several!
I was thinking more along the line of a "Day in the Life of Stralya" or maybe some video of parts of Australia that we usually don't get to see... but melon juggling could be fun... and is... ahem...
On the subject of choosing subjects, feel free. I want to do some bike ones obviously but if you'd like to see me recite poetry or juggle watermelons etc, I'm open to suggestions.
Ummmm sure, Dan... I'll get right on that...Can I suggest you (Kat) break out your own camera and post something on your beautiful machine? I'm sure we'd all love to see you juggle melons of some sort as well!
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Re: Re: Accent? What bloody accent?
Don't believe what they say Seppo's, I'm a kiwi living in Aus (never been molested by a wombat but eh), and they all have accents, every last bloody one of'em. Except in Bondi of courseOriginally posted by Wildkat
Good point...
I was thinking more along the line of a "Day in the Life of Stralya" or maybe some video of parts of Australia that we usually don't get to see... but melon juggling could be fun... and is... ahem...
Ummmm sure, Dan... I'll get right on that...
Spend one day in Melbourne and you'll hear more different accents than you could imagine.
They do actully become more comprehensible the more drunk they get though.
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Clarification needed....
Is it... the more drunk they get? or the more drunk we get?Originally posted by strippedFJ
They do actually become more comprehensible the more drunk they get though.
Just be careful around any wombats... you just never know for sure what they're thinking... Slow could just be a ruse...
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accents
Have you ever noticed every singer in the world that sings in english uses an American accent
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