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100 Reasons Australia is better then Austria

Posted: Thu Jul 20, 2006 12:06 pm
by sunny104
my husband's brother and sister live there :D

100 Reasons Australia is better then Austria

Posted: Thu Jul 20, 2006 12:52 pm
by chonsigirl
9. The Great Coral Reef

100 Reasons Australia is better then Austria

Posted: Thu Jul 20, 2006 1:05 pm
by Uncle Kram
10 They didn't give us a man with a silly moustache

100 Reasons Australia is better then Austria

Posted: Thu Jul 20, 2006 1:19 pm
by chonsigirl
:wah: Oh Unc'!

11. kangaroos.............I think they are cute!

100 Reasons Australia is better then Austria

Posted: Thu Jul 20, 2006 1:21 pm
by sunny104
koala bears! :-4

100 Reasons Australia is better then Austria

Posted: Thu Jul 20, 2006 1:33 pm
by sunny104
12. Foster's :D

100 Reasons Australia is better then Austria

Posted: Thu Jul 20, 2006 2:45 pm
by cherandbuster
Nicole Kidman and Russell Crowe :)

100 Reasons Australia is better then Austria

Posted: Thu Jul 20, 2006 2:49 pm
by AussiePam
Floppy !!!:-4

The skiing's better in Austria, but the beaches are better in Oz

We didn't invent the Von Trapp Family

Red blooded aussie males almost never wear tight leather shorts - a plus???

Aussies only yodel when heading at breakneck speed down a double black diamond by mistake

100 Reasons Australia is better then Austria

Posted: Thu Jul 20, 2006 3:08 pm
by chonsigirl
:wah:

100 Reasons Australia is better then Austria

Posted: Thu Jul 20, 2006 4:27 pm
by Nomad
They did an outstanding job with opening and closing ceremonies during the Olympics

100 Reasons Australia is better then Austria

Posted: Thu Jul 20, 2006 4:35 pm
by chonsigirl
Sydney Opera House

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100 Reasons Australia is better then Austria

Posted: Thu Jul 20, 2006 4:38 pm
by chonsigirl
*psst, it's Greenland*

Australia is a continent.

100 Reasons Australia is better then Austria

Posted: Thu Jul 20, 2006 4:46 pm
by OpenMind
Christmas in summer with barbies.

100 Reasons Australia is better then Austria

Posted: Thu Jul 20, 2006 4:47 pm
by chonsigirl
Yeah, Santa surfing!:-6

100 Reasons Australia is better then Austria

Posted: Thu Jul 20, 2006 4:54 pm
by Nomad
cherandbuster wrote: Nicole Kidman and Russell Crowe :)




You know my family thinks I look like Russel Crowe

100 Reasons Australia is better then Austria

Posted: Thu Jul 20, 2006 4:54 pm
by OpenMind
chonsigirl wrote: Yeah, Santa surfing!:-6


In red shorts.

100 Reasons Australia is better then Austria

Posted: Thu Jul 20, 2006 5:19 pm
by AussiePam
chonsigirl wrote: Yeah, Santa surfing!:-6


Oz Santa gets a bit warm sometimes.

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100 Reasons Australia is better then Austria

Posted: Thu Jul 20, 2006 5:42 pm
by chonsigirl
I like the 3rd one, Santa watching the sunset on the beach....................:-6

100 Reasons Australia is better then Austria

Posted: Thu Jul 20, 2006 7:57 pm
by CARLA
it is the home of this creature the WOMBAT...!! :cool:



and this unusual mammal the PLATYPUS..!! :cool:


100 Reasons Australia is better then Austria

Posted: Thu Jul 20, 2006 9:13 pm
by AussiePam
WOW Kathy !!!! I'm totally overcome. And thanks. By the way, that key lime coconut chockie candy is to totally awesome!!!

Wombats are fun, Carla. The adults are tough critters, nocturnal and have few predators (other than night drivers). Their butts are flat and really hard. If a dingo tries to follow one into his burrow, the wombat scuttles in and closes the hole with his butt, often crushing the skull of the dingo. Young wombats are playful like puppies, run around happily during the day too, and will chew your shoelaces, leaving them green and goooey.

Platypus's are interesting critters, and rarely seen except in captivity (when their days and nights are sometimes deliberately reversed). Shy and nocturnal in the wild. But the spur on the foot of the male is very poisonous. Can give you a mega painful wound. Neuroscientists at the uni I worked at are investigating platypus venom as a pain reliever.

As for Steve Irwin, Snooze. I think we successfully exported him to you, didn't we? Aussies tend to cringe before his ockerness. Ditto with the Croc Dundee bloke who sold out and is now in Hollywood, where his face has amazingly lost all its craggy character lines.



I rather like Santa in the billabong, Chonsi. Grin.

100 Reasons Australia is better then Austria

Posted: Thu Jul 20, 2006 10:33 pm
by Chickadee
The completely unique flora and fauna.

And that great tectonic plate all their own.

And did someone say something about Santa's billabong? Is that where he keeps it?

100 Reasons Australia is better then Austria

Posted: Fri Jul 21, 2006 2:02 am
by Uncle Kram
chonsigirl wrote: :wah: Oh Unc'!

11. kangaroos.............I think they are cute!
Yeah Chonsi - there are no kangaroos in Austria

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Posted: Fri Jul 21, 2006 2:12 am
by OpenMind
Uncle Kram wrote: Yeah Chonsi - there are no kangaroos in Austria


There's one in Ireland, though.:p

100 Reasons Australia is better then Austria

Posted: Fri Jul 21, 2006 10:39 am
by sunny104
Foster's :-6

I heard Arnold really likes it...:D :D