Geeze, Camille, I hope you're not putting on one of those big boots... :) Jim PS Circadian rhythm a myth? Camille, your happy faces are turned the other way round :) PPS HELP!!! THE BOOT, THE BOOT!!!! On Wed, 12 May 1999 15:32:52 +1000 Camille Scaysbrook <verona_beach@geocities.com> writes: > >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 >verona_beach@geocities.com >@ THE ARTS HOLE http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Theater/6442 >@ THE INVERTED FOREST http://www.angelfire.com/pa/invertedforest > > > ___________________________________________________________________ You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail. Get completely free e-mail from Juno at http://www.juno.com/getjuno.html or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866]