Re: Guns n' stuff
Camille Scaysbrook (verona_beach@geocities.com)
Wed, 12 May 1999 15:32:52 +1000
Jim wrote:
> PS...Just saw an episode of The Simpsons set in Australia....gawd what a
> riot :) Wish I could have sat and watched it with you, Camille :) Marge
> and Lisa are walking through a museum and Mother is telling Daughter
> about Australia originally being founded as a British penal colony.
> "Watch your camera!" The US embassy had a special apparatus attached to
> the toilet so the water would ciculate in the "right" direction when
> flushed...ah...the simple pleasures :)
For one of Australia's most popular shows (and the particularly dry and
uncharacterisitically non-American irony that show displays suits us
Aussies to the ground (: ) that one sure went down like a lead balloon over
here. It was like, well, shall we try and say something, or shall we just
go with the cliches? Let's just go with the cliches. It's a shame because
they possibly could have said something a lot more profound if they had
have tried to show the truth about it, too. Yet as I've abundantly realised
it's a lot easier for the Yanks just to laugh at us than to understand us
(:
And BTW my Dad was very narky about the toilet water going round the wrong
way. They disproved the Coreolis effect years ago.
Camille
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