| Re: [I] Swedish website [message #250313] |
Di, 04 April 2006 12:18 |
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redtiger wrote:
> "Geoff Field" <geoff_field [at] suespammers.org> wrote in message
> news:44312432$0$7605$afc38c87 [at] news.optusnet.com.au...
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>> OK. Those who aren't from Melbourne can answer this: In the closing
>> cerermony, who thinks they understood the ballerinas in the coloured
>> tutus?
>> And the kids in similar-coloured shorts and tops? (This is a *clue*)
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> I got that they were in AFL team colours,
Well done, but you're an Aussie, aren't you?
> but that is what made me cringe.
Only a lot
> Everything seemed centred around AFL, as if that was the only
> thing that anyone ever did.
Isn't it? According to some people around here, that *is* all we do.
Personally, I can't stand most of the games variously called "football"
> We had the team captains in the opening,
> wasn't that enough? Surely there is more going on in Melbourne, and
> Australia for that matter.
Melbourne is both the arts and food capital of Australia - IMNSHO of
course. While the arts were featured, some of the food aspects were a bit
underdone
>> In the opening ceremony, who understood the duck? Even some of us
>> Melbournites were struggling with that one (particularly coming in
>> half-way).
>
> There, I have no clue.
Apparently from a poem by one Michael Leunig - a distinctly Melbourne
cartoonist. I have a few Leunig books, but since I don't get the huge
wad of newsprint called "The Age" I don't get much exposure to his
works. So I can't give a cite either.
For that matter, it was only one commentator's comment that clued
*me* in.
Geoff
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Geoff Field
Professional Geek,
Amateur Stage-Levelling Gauge
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| Re: [I] Swedish website [message #302073 ] |
Mi, 19 Juli 2006 23:28 |
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A while ago, Geoff Field wrote:
> redtiger wrote:
> > "Geoff Field" <geoff_field [at] suespammers.org> wrote:
> > > In the opening ceremony, who understood the duck? Even some of us
> > > Melbournites were struggling with that one (particularly coming in
> > > half-way).
> >
> > There, I have no clue.
>
> Apparently from a poem by one Michael Leunig - a distinctly Melbourne
> cartoonist. I have a few Leunig books, but since I don't get the huge
> wad of newsprint called "The Age" I don't get much exposure to his
> works. So I can't give a cite either.
>
> For that matter, it was only one commentator's comment that clued
> *me* in.
So it wasn't just a duck that was down on the bill to convey platitudes
and puzzle us?
(Naw... too easy... ;)
((FSVOEasy ;))
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