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RE: Breaking news from Australia
February 25, 2014 at 10:39 pm
(February 25, 2014 at 10:34 pm)Clueless Morgan Wrote:
(February 25, 2014 at 5:18 pm)Beccs Wrote: Hey!

New Zealand gave the world Bananaman Ray Comfort.

We're watching them too.

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But the US has given us Kent Hovind, the Discovery Institute, Eric Hovind and is the centre of creationism nonsense in the West - Hence the reason Ham and Comfort are there - they can make money in the US pushing this nonsense - they can't in NZ or Oz.

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RE: Breaking news from Australia
February 26, 2014 at 9:47 am
(February 25, 2014 at 2:35 pm)FreeTony Wrote: It reminds me of the Toothbrush fence tourist attraction in NZ, mentioned in Flight of the Conchords. http://www.nothingtoseehere.net/2010/03/...ahu_1.html

I didn't realise it was actually real.

If somebody mentions "the big x" in Australia, chances are it's real. The country is dotted with 'big things', it's kind of our thing.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australia's_big_things

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RE: Breaking news from Australia
February 26, 2014 at 10:11 am
(February 26, 2014 at 9:47 am)Stue Denim Wrote: Everything down under is big.

That's what she said.
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RE: Breaking news from Australia
February 26, 2014 at 11:11 am
(February 25, 2014 at 12:03 pm)Stue Denim Wrote: Now, many of you may think that Australia isn't that important on the world stage, that we can safely be ignored and that nothing of importance ever happens here...

That's not true. A lot of great things have come out of Australia. I mean, Vienna was the music capital of Europe. Mozart, Beethoven and so many great composers lived there. Not to mention psychologists like Freud. And it was a big empire for so long. And then there's the setting for The Sound of Music...
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RE: Breaking news from Australia
February 26, 2014 at 11:37 am
(February 25, 2014 at 10:39 pm)Beccs Wrote: But the US has given us Kent Hovind, the Discovery Institute, Eric Hovind and is the centre of creationism nonsense in the West

Who, us???

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RE: Breaking news from Australia
February 26, 2014 at 12:05 pm
(February 26, 2014 at 9:47 am)Stue Denim Wrote: Everything down under is big.

Texas says the very same thing...
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RE: Breaking news from Australia
February 26, 2014 at 2:34 pm
(February 25, 2014 at 10:39 pm)Beccs Wrote: But the US has given us Kent Hovind, the Discovery Institute, Eric Hovind and is the centre of creationism nonsense in the West - Hence the reason Ham and Comfort are there - they can make money in the US pushing this nonsense - they can't in NZ or Oz.

Well, at least we can't do any damage with all these idiots running around our country. I mean, not like we have the world's largest nuclear stockpile or anything...

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