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Conference back40::soapbox

Title:Soapbox. Just Soapbox.
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Moderator:WAHOO::LEVESQUEONS
Created:Thu Nov 17 1994
Last Modified:Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
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767.0. "The Nearly Official 2000 Sydney Olympics Note" by GAAS::BRAUCHER (Welcome to Paradise) Mon Aug 05 1996 17:11

    
      The next Games will be in the antipodes.  We'll need to practice
     our banter.  Anybody have a phrasebook ?
    
      bb
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767.1POLAR::RICHARDSONPerpetual GlennMon Aug 05 1996 17:181
    Please fooondle mieee buttocths.
767.2LANDO::OLIVER_Bit's about summer!Mon Aug 05 1996 17:211
    foster is australian for BE-AH.
767.3RUSURE::GOODWINSacred Cows Make the Best HamburgerMon Aug 05 1996 17:224
    Why does there always have to be controversy involved?
    
    Now I suppose we'll have to contend with riots between the
    antipodes and the propodes.
767.4POLAR::RICHARDSONPerpetual GlennMon Aug 05 1996 17:221
    What a load of dingo's kidneys!
767.5CSLALL::HENDERSONEvery knee shall bowMon Aug 05 1996 17:243

 dingo eat you baybee?
767.6POLAR::RICHARDSONPerpetual GlennMon Aug 05 1996 17:281
    Oh Jim, I love it when you talk dirty.
767.7Come on down!SNOFS1::PENNYSIMONSimon Penny - CSS Defence Segment, Sydney, AustraliaMon Aug 05 1996 23:5812
    Oh, great - we're going to get invaded by hoards of Yanks trying
    to do fake Aussie accents :-)
    
    I'll give you all a tip: Aussie is *not* pronounced "ossy" as all
    the US media seem to insist. It is pronounce "ozzie".
    
    Not that I care, I'm a POM just living here
    
    NNTTM
    
    Simon
    
767.842333::LESLIEAndy Leslie | DTN 847 6586Tue Aug 06 1996 06:581
    The aussies can't spell beer, so the best seller is named XXXX.
767.9Prisoners indeedKERNEL::FREKESExcuse me while I scratch my buttTue Aug 06 1996 12:3011
    re:.7
    
    Actually the Australians are the true POM's. 
    
    Prisoners
    Of
    Mother England
    
    Australia was made up of convicts sent there by the Crown.
    Hence the word POM. 
                                                 
767.10CHEFS::COOKSHalf Man,Half BiscuitTue Aug 06 1996 17:005
    The Who refused to go back to Australia after their 1st tour.
    
    I sort of have that attitude. Full of horrible back packing gits,I
    suspect.
    
767.11January or July?RICKS::TOOHEYOurselves AloneWed Aug 07 1996 15:366

  Will the Summer Olympics in Sydney be held in January or July?


  Paul
767.12SMURF::BINDERErrabit quicquid errare potest.Wed Aug 07 1996 15:381
    Yes.
767.13CSLALL::HENDERSONEvery knee shall bowWed Aug 07 1996 16:078

 October, from what I read.




 Jim
767.14KERNEL::FREKESExcuse me while I scratch my buttWed Aug 07 1996 16:115
    >>October
    
    And who's summer is that?
    
    [in a whinning tone, arms flung in the air]
767.15BUSY::SLABAlways a Best Man, never a groomWed Aug 07 1996 16:183
    
    	A whinning tone is much better than a lhusing tone any day.
    
767.16THEMAX::SMITH_SWed Aug 07 1996 21:071
    It would be fall in US and spring in Aussie I suppose.
767.17Your autumn/fallSNOFS1::PENNYSIMONSimon Penny - CSS Defence Segment, Sydney, AustraliaThu Aug 08 1996 00:581
    SEPTEMBER actually - our spring - av. temp 24C
767.18BUSY::SLABCareer Opportunity Week at DECThu Aug 08 1996 15:133
    
    	And how many miles does 24C convert to?
    
767.19ROWLET::AINSLEYLess than 150 KTS is TOO slowThu Aug 08 1996 15:267
    re: .18
    
    	>And how many miles does 24C convert to?
    
    588
    
    Bob
767.20BUSY::SLABCareer Opportunity Week at DECThu Aug 08 1996 15:283
    
    	Thanks!!
    
767.21ACISS1::BATTISFuture Chevy Blazer ownerMon Aug 12 1996 20:315
    
    The Olympics will be in September.
    
    ttwa: will there be any new events, like oh say kangaroo roping or
    crocodile wrestling?
767.22LANDO::OLIVER_Bit's about summer!Mon Aug 12 1996 20:351
    surfing.
767.23CONSLT::MCBRIDEIdleness, the holiday of foolsMon Aug 12 1996 20:361
    Great White dodging.
767.24CNTROL::JENNISONIt's all about soulMon Aug 12 1996 20:393
    
    izzat some sort of auto racing ?
    
767.25SMURF::WALTERSMon Aug 12 1996 20:391
    Tossing a shrimp on the barbie.
767.26NOTIME::SACKSGerald Sacks ZKO2-3/N30 DTN:381-2085Mon Aug 12 1996 20:411
Tossing a Barbie on the barbie.
767.2742333::LESLIEAndy Leslie | DTN 847 6586Tue Aug 13 1996 07:241
    Better than tossing a Ken.
767.28Beer advert in LimerickPOLAR::RUSHTONTue Aug 13 1996 15:494
    >>Better than tossing a Ken.
    
    "The only Ken for a Barbie" - Fosters