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Patrick Ryan
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Username: patrick_r

Post Number: 1815
Registered: 4-2016
Posted on Friday, 05 January, 2018 - 08:34:   Edit PostDelete PostView Post/Check IP

For those of you who are contemplating coming down under to visit Australia, please click through the following slides.

I though maybe these were to "over the top", but in the end I thought.
Yep, that pretty much is us here, so I decided to share these with all you great folk.

http://www.msn.com/en-au/news/australia/you-know-youre-australian-when/ss-AAsY3LG?ocid=ientp#image=107
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Brian Vogel
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Username: guyslp

Post Number: 2538
Registered: 6-2009
Posted on Friday, 05 January, 2018 - 15:06:   Edit PostDelete PostView Post/Check IP

https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/australia/you-know-youre-australian-when/ss-AAsY3LG?ocid=ientp#image=001

. . . takes you to the first slide in the show.
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Patrick Ryan
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Username: patrick_r

Post Number: 1816
Registered: 4-2016
Posted on Friday, 05 January, 2018 - 15:23:   Edit PostDelete PostView Post/Check IP

Thanks for fixing that up Brian.
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Brian Crump
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Username: brian_crump

Post Number: 169
Registered: 2-2007
Posted on Friday, 05 January, 2018 - 16:10:   Edit PostDelete PostView Post/Check IP

Or pictures from Aunty (the affectionate name given to the Australian Broadcasting Commission);
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-07-29/abc-open-pic-of-the-week/7653724
Regards,
BC
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Patrick Ryan
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Username: patrick_r

Post Number: 1817
Registered: 4-2016
Posted on Friday, 05 January, 2018 - 19:49:   Edit PostDelete PostView Post/Check IP

That is a great link Brian.
Some amazing work there.

Thanks for sharing it with us.
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ross kowalski
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Username: cdfpw

Post Number: 694
Registered: 11-2015
Posted on Sunday, 07 January, 2018 - 11:42:   Edit PostDelete PostView Post/Check IP

Patrick R,

Conspicuously absent?

VB, UTEs, Dame Edna Everage, Kangaroo races, Holden Torana, marmite, Strop, desert lizard target practice, SLSA, road trains, Australia day, and rabbits.
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John Kilkenny
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Username: john_kilkenny

Post Number: 273
Registered: 6-2005
Posted on Sunday, 07 January, 2018 - 12:05:   Edit PostDelete PostView Post/Check IP

MARMITE ? YOU MUST BE JOKING
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Brian Crump
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Post Number: 170
Registered: 2-2007
Posted on Sunday, 07 January, 2018 - 13:11:   Edit PostDelete PostView Post/Check IP

Hmmm - Marmite and rabbits are both British.
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Larry Kavanagh
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Username: shadow_11

Post Number: 136
Registered: 5-2016
Posted on Sunday, 07 January, 2018 - 13:29:   Edit PostDelete PostView Post/Check IP

I've a friend who spent 15 years working in Australia. He tends to drink a lot of beer and whenever he has a hangover he says "I'm as sick as a chocolate frog". Is that an Australian expression or is it just his way of describing his condition?
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John Kilkenny
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Post Number: 274
Registered: 6-2005
Posted on Sunday, 07 January, 2018 - 14:30:   Edit PostDelete PostView Post/Check IP

Marmite is a pale imitation of VEGEMITE
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Brian Crump
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Username: brian_crump

Post Number: 171
Registered: 2-2007
Posted on Sunday, 07 January, 2018 - 16:17:   Edit PostDelete PostView Post/Check IP

Larry - I have never heard that one. Mind you, a chocolate frog would be pretty sick here today. The temp. got up to 47.3 C; the hottest since 1939. That's about 117 F.
Even the bees are falling out of the sky with the heat.
Regards,
Brian
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ross kowalski
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Username: cdfpw

Post Number: 701
Registered: 11-2015
Posted on Monday, 08 January, 2018 - 10:02:   Edit PostDelete PostView Post/Check IP

iSnack 2.0?
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Patrick Ryan
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Username: patrick_r

Post Number: 1818
Registered: 4-2016
Posted on Monday, 08 January, 2018 - 10:07:   Edit PostDelete PostView Post/Check IP

Ross,

You know more about this than we do.

You have mentioned some gems, especially the iSnak2.0
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ross kowalski
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Username: cdfpw

Post Number: 702
Registered: 11-2015
Posted on Monday, 08 January, 2018 - 11:37:   Edit PostDelete PostView Post/Check IP

Patrick R,

I seriously doubt that, my "knowledge" on the subject consists of eating marmite once ever.

However, having spend the last 24 hours sitting in front of a computer parsing a 133 page technical manual it's no effort to google marmite vs vegemite. Which my the by turns up a product called iSnack 2.0 which is cheese and vegemite. Hard to believe that's a thing.
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Patrick Ryan
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Username: patrick_r

Post Number: 1820
Registered: 4-2016
Posted on Tuesday, 09 January, 2018 - 12:35:   Edit PostDelete PostView Post/Check IP

The iSnack2.0 wasn't a bad thing.
My kids didn't mind it, but I found it a bit weak on the Vegemite side.
Cheese & Vegemite sandwiches are quite popular here.
It was the name that caused the huge controversy.

There was a national competition to name the new product. iSnack won, then there was an uproar as to how stupid it wss, so KRAFT just named it themselves. The above images show all 3 products.
I have the same 3 unopened bottles

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