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Moderator
 United States
23487 Posts |
rggoodie
aka Richard
"catch em doing something right"
Edited by rggoodie
01/25/2006 10:05 am
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Pillar Of The Community
3147 Posts |
All right, a reason to celebrate!!! Glad to have all our Aussie friends here with us and do hope they ALL get a day off from work to rest, relax and do something COINS!!!
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Pillar of the Community
United States
980 Posts |
Australians all let us rejoice,
For we are young and free;
We've golden soil and wealth for toil,
Our home is girt by sea;
Our land abounds in Nature's gifts
Of beauty rich and rare;
In history's page, let every stage
Advance Australia fair!
In joyful strains then let us sing,
"Advance Australia fair!"
We get to sing it again in the US tommorrow, since it's already the 26th down under. I'll hoist a Victoria bitter tonight! (since our Foster's is brewed in Canada under license!)
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Rest in Peace
United States
2884 Posts |
Happy Australia Day! I hope all our Aussie friends enjoy the holiday. Mike  |
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Valued Member
Australia
281 Posts |
Someone actually knows the words to the national anthem?!! I thought everyone just made noises that sound like words in a crowd. :P Just to keep the patriotism flowing, here is the aussue Constitution http://www.stuffucanuse.com/all_jok...titution.htm(It isint really, I don't think anyones read the real one before. |
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Pillar of the Community
Australia
1529 Posts |
Happy Australia Day Everyone !!!We won't be singing the National Anthem up here but we will certainly be singing the Waltzing Matilda !!!...[:p] 
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Pillar of the Community
Australia
1091 Posts |
Another hot summers day to relax and watch the Cricket on TV.
It was on this day in 1901 that Australia became it's own country.
But we kept the Queen as our own. LOL.
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Pillar of the Community
Australia
1079 Posts |
Happy Australia Day.
A very hot day, one were we think how nice it would be to live in a colder country. How ironic!
Go to love the queens and the cricket though.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
980 Posts |
quote:
Originally posted by grendelfreak
Someone actually knows the words to the national anthem?!!
I thought everyone just made noises that sound like words in a crowd. :P
A bunch of Aussie rowing fans taught me the lyrics at the Atlanta olympics. along with Aussie-Aussie-Aussie-Oy-Oy-Oy! Undergrads where I went to school are infamous for singing "we don't know the blanking words, we don't know the blank words, etc to the tune of the fight song. They don't say blank, of course  Hope you had a good hoiday. Don |
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New Member
Australia
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[quote]Originally posted by SFDukie
Australians all let us rejoice,
For we are young and free;
We've golden soil and wealth for toil,
Our home is girt by sea;
Our land abounds in Nature's gifts
Of beauty rich and rare;
In history's page, let every stage
Advance Australia fair!
In joyful strains then let us sing,
"Advance Australia fair!"
I can remember back a few decades when we voted in the 70s for a National Anthem.
I voted for Dorothea Mackellar's
My Country
I love a sunburnt country,
A land of sweeping plains,
Of ragged mountain ranges,
Of droughts and flooding rains,
I love her far horizons,
I love her jewel sea,
Her beauty and her terror -
The wide brown land for me.
The stark white ringbarked forests,
All tragic to the moon,
The saphire-misted mountains,
The hot gold hush of noon.
Green tangle of the brushes,
Where lithe lianas coil,
And orchids deck the tree-tops
And ferns the warm dark soil.
Core of my heart, my country!
Her pitiless blue sky,
When sick at heart, around us,
We see the cattle die -
But when the grey clouds gather,
And we can bless again
The drumming of an army,
The stealthy soaking rain.
Core of my heart, my country!
Land of the rainbow gold,
For flood and fire and famine,
She pays us back threefold;
Over the thirsty paddocks,
Watch, after many days,
The filmy veil of greenness
That thickens as we gaze.
An opal-hearted country,
A wilful, lavish land -
All you who have not loved her,
You will not understand -
Though earth holds many splendours,
Wherever I may die,
I know to what brown country
My homing thoughts will fly.
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Pillar of the Community
Australia
853 Posts |
Yesterday (Australia Day) was a day where I did everything Aussie. I mowed the lawn, played with the kid, went to the pub for lunch, had a beer, watched the cricket and had a BBQ dinner. The only thing that was missing was my Australia Day award got lost in the mail.
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Rest in Peace
United States
3730 Posts |
Australia Day!
Learned something new.
Happy Australia Day!!!!
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Pillar of the Community
Australia
1091 Posts |
Australia won the cricket game!
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