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May 01 Today in history
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Gday... 1770 - Forby Sutherland becomes the first Englishman to be buried on Australian soil. 1839 - Eyre departs Adelaide to explore country to the north. 1891 - Australia's first May Day marches are held in support of the shearers' strike in Barcaldine. 1934 - Austra...
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SMS abbreviations
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Got sent these.................do you have any others? 4 = For 2 = Too 2Nite = Tonight AFK = Away From Keyboard B4 = Before B4N = Bye For Now BBIAB = Be Back In A Bit BBL = Be Back Later BFF = Best Friends Forever BRB = Be Right Back BTW = By The Way CYA = See You FYI = For Your Information GF = Girlfriend GR8 = Great...
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I tried to rope a Deer
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Pinched from elsewhere of course Cause if it happened to me well I wouldn't dam well tell ya I had this idea that I was going to rope a deer, put it in a stall, feed it up on corn for a couple of weeks, then kill it and eat it. The first step in this adventure was getting a deer. I figured that, since they con...
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The Original Taps
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Subject: Taps in Holland. A few years ago, a friend visited the Netherlands American Cemetery and Memorial in the village of Margraten, about six miles from Maastricht. There lie buried 8,301 American soldiers killed in the battles to liberate Holland in the fall and winter of 1944-5. Sgt. Bill Du...
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Two other claims of possible planes on the ocean floor elsewhere....
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http://www.news.com.au/travel/travel-updates/malaysian-officials-investigating-aussie-company-georesonances-claims-it-may-have-found-missing-malaysia-airlines-mh370/story-fnizu68q-1226900328886
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April 30 Today in history
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Gday... 1803 - The United States purchases the Louisiana Territory from France. 1831 - Captain Collet Barker, original discoverer of the site for Adelaide, is killed by indigenous Australians. 1900 - Legendary train driver Casey Jones is killed in a locomotive accident. ...
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I'm siging up to learn some new party tricks...
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Go full-screen..... http://safeshare.tv/w/MRMDIWCFec G.
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April 29 Today in history
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Gday... 1770 - Lieutenant James Cook discovers and names Botany Bay. 1789 - Australia's first bushranger, John 'Black' Caesar, is tried for theft, leading him to make escape plans. 1841 - Eyre's overseer, Baxter, is killed by two of the Aborigines who accompanied the expedit...
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88 things you may not know about Straya
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http://www.buzzfeed.com/jemimaskelley/facts-about-australia
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I'M BAAACK
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Well, I haven't really been away. In case anyone missed me, I haven't been trawling the forum for awhile, just popping in now and then. I have no travels to report on, which is probably why I haven't been posting. I thought about going up to Tin Can Bay for the Anzac weekend but really just couldn't be bo...
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April 28 Today in history
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Gday... 1789 - Fletcher Christian leads the mutiny against Captain Bligh on the 'HMS Bounty'. 1908 - Oskar Schindler, the man responsible for saving over a thousand Jews during the Holocaust, is born. 1949 - Melbourne is announced as the host city for the Games of the XVI Olympiad. 1996 -...
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Your Most Embarrassing Moments....
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What was your most embarrassing moments... To start off ONE of mine (there have been many) was walking through a large department store and finding my jeans zip had been down since leaving home, lucky I was wearing undies. -- Edited by Vic41 on Thursday 24th of April 2014 12:01:34 PM
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Tis a Youtube day seems like
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Well the weather is crappo sao catching up wiv stuff and enjoyed this so I share my enjoyment https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=gO_KyTtJg10
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April 27 Today in history
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Gday... 1521 - Sailor and explorer Magellan is killed by natives in the Philippines. 1802 - Matthew Flinders climbs Arthur's Seat in Victoria. 1810 - Beethoven composes the piano piece, 'Für Elise'. 1937 - The Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco is completed. 1968 - The first Kentuck...
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A Ghost Town in N.Z.
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Here's a true story that happened to the Wife and I some years back while living in Nelson New Zealand. One weekend we decided to take a drive through the Golden Bay area, which is at the top of the South Island. It was getting near lunch time and as we were getting a bit peckish, we decided to look for a coun...
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Anzac March
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Found this on ExplorOz. So true.
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Ya can't buy it ya know ...
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My Gift...
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I was given a wombat for my birthday. What do you do with a wombat?. You hit woms with it, of course!.
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I saw this ...
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... and thought maybe some others might find it interesting! Cute! http://hutwheels.com/content/designs.  June
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April 26 Today in history
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Gday... 1865 - President Abraham Lincoln's assassin, John Wilkes Booth, is hunted down and shot. 1939 - Australia's longest serving Prime Minister, Sir Robert Gordon Menzies, becomes Prime Minister for the first of his terms. 1970 - The National Carillon in Canberra is accepted by Que...
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