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Old 05-08-2008   #591 (permalink)
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Australia has 21% of the world's pokermachines !!
Not bad for c 21m people.

Alcohol and gambling problem? Nah! Want'a bet on it?
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Australia has 21% of the world's pokermachines !!
Not bad for c 21m people.

Alcohol and gambling problem? Nah! Want'a bet on it?
Sure! I'll bet you that USA will overcome Australia in the year....oh damn...you got me.


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Sure! I'll bet you that USA will overcome Australia in the year....oh damn...you got me.
It won't be long, Australia will be just as much of a stogy stuffed shirt as the USA has become. So go to Australia now while theres still time to have fun!


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Sure! I'll bet you that USA will overcome Australia in the year....oh damn...you got me.
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You are VERYsilly
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mm It won't be long, Australia will be just as much of a stogy stuffed shirt as the USA has become.
That's what I have nightmares about!
Hopefully the scepticism, the laid back attitude, bull shit monitors, and grog will help.
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You are VERYsilly
Still laughing


That's what I have nightmares about!
Hopefully the scepticism, the laid back attitude, bull shit monitors, and grog will help.
As long as you keep the televangelists and fundamentalists away you might have a chance. Is it true you guys can't have guns anymore?


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As long as you keep the televangelists and fundamentalists away you might have a chance.
They are advancing on TV during the 9apropriatly0 witching ours. MY B_I-L is a Pasta (some kind of Italian dish)
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Guns? What are guns?
O yes we use them to kill feral animals and depressed farmers.
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I don't really know where to put this.
It doesn't really fit in any forum/thread I can think of;
but recently the feral Australian Customs had a rush of cocaine smuggling from a drug ring of LOLs (Llittle Old Ladies).
Despite Custom's best efforts, tearing apart luggage, body searches etc they were unable to find out how the LOls were secreting the drugs around their person
Their highly trained sniffer dogs were certainly going berserk.
This went on for some time until someone went back to the Dog Training School to check the type of cocaine the dogs were being trained to identify.It was hoped that some clue to the source cocaine could be ascertained..
It was only then discovered that the dogs were being trained on Baby (Talcum ) Powder.


Rebinds me of the local "Chaser" comedian who was also stopped by police dogs in the street (Where police are not supposed to be able to stop people). He had several pounds of sausages and steak secreted about his person. As with the APEC stunt police were furious but were unable to charge the comedian with "secreting sausages about his person."
(BTW all charges from the APEC stunt (impersonating Osama Bin Laden?; the CIA? ;making police look like dopes?) have been dropped.)

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Charles Darwin and Abraham Lincoln were born in the same year and on the same day.

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