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POSTED BY: Talie
UPDATED: Friday, September 8, 2006 11:48
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MAGDALENA

Monday, September 4, 2006 8:41 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by Penguin:

King of the Mythical Land that is Iowa

ROFL Penguin!!

You're my hero!!!

I'm in 'New Melbourne' and I know that Jewel visited Sydney before she went to film her latest movie - 'The Tribe'...

SHINYKITTEN

Monday, September 4, 2006 10:20 AM

hey, i may be showing total ignorance here, but where (or what)is 'new melbourne'?

GRRR.....ARGGHH

MAGDALENA

Monday, September 4, 2006 12:18 PM

Hi Shiney Kitten!

Melbourne is near the bottom, right hand of Australia's mainland (directly above our island state of Tasmania) - I tend to call it 'New Melbourne' here because there is reference to such a place in 'Objects in Space'...

Melbourne held the Olympic Games in 1956!

Melbourne has the largest population of Greek immigrants in one place outside Greece.

Melbourne has the largest population of Holocust survivors outside Israel.

Melbourne was the capital city of Australia from Federation on 01/01/1901 until the official move to the deliberately planned and built capital of Canberra.

The state Victoria (of which Melbourne is the capital city) is on an equal par with California in terms of being in the worst bushfire zone in the world.

We have no major fault lines, no cyclones, no twisters, little flooding, summer temps up to 42c & winter is mild-cold but no snow!

I love it!

Love this thread too - lets stand up for the Aussies! mwaah - Magdalena x x x

PENGUIN

Monday, September 4, 2006 4:55 PM

King of the Mythical Land that is Iowa

RMMC

Monday, September 4, 2006 6:54 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Krikey....

I just found out that the Crocodile Hunter got killed by a Sting Ray.

Here's an article about it:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060904/ap_on_en_tv/obit_irwin

Quote:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
A moment of silence for the Crocodile Hunter please..........

SIMMY

Tuesday, September 5, 2006 5:35 AM

I'm a Canadian living in (New)Melbourne. People at home are E-mailing me about the Crocodile Hunter. It's big international news, folks.

PS. Lovin' the Melbourne. You really can't go wrong here, can ya? Glad to know I'm not the only one around town forcing friends into Firefly.

6IXSTRINGJACK

Tuesday, September 5, 2006 7:33 AM

I really loved watching that guy. I've never seen anyone so genuinly enthused about his work and he did a hell of a lot for the cause of conservation and protecting animals. I'm really hoping that we hear in a few days that the announcement of his death was bull like when they said that Will Farrel was dead a while back when he was filming his most recent waste of $8.00 at the theatre.

"A government is a body of people, usually notably ungoverned." http://www.myspace.com/6ixstringjack

TALIE

Friday, September 8, 2006 11:30 AM

I've been a little busy so sorry for the delay in getting back to this thread.

Great to hear there are other Aussies about.

I'm from near Melbourne, so it's even better that there are a few Melbournites around!

Thanks for the welcome

HUGHFF

Friday, September 8, 2006 11:48 AM

I'm a kiwi, but I do like Melbourne. Unfortunately, I doubt I'll be in your fair city anytime soon.

www.cpfc.org - my life
www.nbhs.school.nz - my work

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