Aussie! Aussie ! Aussie ! Oi,Oi,Oi !
Showing size comparisons between Aust & USA.
January 26 Australia Day !
January 26, Australia Day (a public holiday), commemorates the day in 1788 on which Captain Arthur Phillip organised and officiated at the first ceremony of the new British colony then called New South Wales.It was for a selected few, done with a little pomp, but generally low key, and was mainly to wish the colony good luck, as was recorded by Phillip:
"In the evening of the 26th, the colours were displayed on shore, and the Governor, with several of his principal officers and others, assembled around the flagstaff, drank the King’s health, and success to the settlement, with all the display of form which, on such occasions, is deemed propitious because it enlivens the spirits and fills the imagination with pleasing presages."
---------------------"In the evening of the 26th, the colours were displayed on shore, and the Governor, with several of his principal officers and others, assembled around the flagstaff, drank the King’s health, and success to the settlement, with all the display of form which, on such occasions, is deemed propitious because it enlivens the spirits and fills the imagination with pleasing presages."
1808 Australia's so-called Rum-Rebellion the only successful (if only temporarily so) armed takeover of government in Australia's history, precipitated by the Governor of NSW William Bligh and leading to his arrest in a virtual coup d'etat, or at least a mutiny (Bligh's second, after the Bounty)...ahhh rum ! damn good reason for anarchy !
1818 The first ‘Australia Day’ holiday.
1972 A large pop festival was held at Sunbury, Victoria over the Australia Day long weekend(Aussie version of Woodstock)
1972 In the early hours of the morning, a group of Aboriginal activists set up the ‘Aboriginal tent Embassy’ on the lawns of Parliament House, Canberra, Australia(still there today)
1994 a man fired 2 blank shots at Charles,Prince of Wales in Sydney(he's promised to improve his aim)
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Man washed down storm drain ....they got some big holes in the ground in Brisvegas!
Man pulls car with ears....contrary to rumours,Prince Charles was nowhere in sight.
Dairy farmers use milk cartons to get dates.....fancy a friendly frolic with a farmer?
posted by Bugs at 11:00 am
5 Comments:
Happy Aussie Day! I'd go eat at Hungry Jacks, but I'm stuck here in the States. I'll go to a Burger King and pretend. Of course, I will put Vegemite on my toast in the morning. Aussie! Aussie! Aussie! Oi, Oi, Oi!
Thanks for the size comparison. I knew the continent is large. New Zealand also isn't nearly as close as we Americans think it is to Australia.
Happy belated Australia Day.
I think your outback is approximately the same size and area as our red states...
What did the Kiwis ever do to you?
Egan - the Kiwis can't play cricket tho they keep telling us they can ;)
Long running joke fued is all ;)
Tho the sheep don't think it's funny :P
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