Questions about Aussie and the Olympic Games

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Bruce in West Oz

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This has nothing to do with guns, so let's get that out of the way to start with ... just thought something a little lighter in tone might not be a bad idea.

The Australian Tourism Commission has apparently received many, many e-mails concerning Australia, in light of the September Olympic Games. While many are just ordinary queries, these are a few of the reported "classics":

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>"Does it ever get windy in Australia? I have never seen it rain on TV so how do the plants grow? (UK)

"Is it safe to run around the bushes in Australia?" (Sweden)

"Are there any ATMs in Australia? Can you send me a list of them in Brisbane, Cairns, Townsville and Hervey Bay?" (UK)

"Can I wear high heels in Australia?" (UK)

"Are there supermarkets in Sydney and is milk available all year round?" (Germany)

"Which direction is North in Australia?" (USA)

"Can you send me the Vienna Boys Choir Schedule?" (USA) (??????? -- Oh, I get it, they wanted Austria)

"Will I be able to speak English most places I go?" (USA) (You can try, but we speak Aussie here, not English ;))[/quote]

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Which direction is North in Australia? !!!!!!
Al you better get Tipper a compass.
:D
Can you send me the Vienna Boys Choir Schedule?-----Had to be from Michael Jackson



[This message has been edited by jeffer (edited May 31, 2000).]
 
I have a gun related question about the Sydney Olympics. If one of the competitors in skeet or trap wanted to use a pump or semi-automatic shotgun, would they be allowed to? I know most, if not all, competitors will be using O/U's but I was wondering how that would be handled.
Eric


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Formerly Puddle Pirate.
Teach a kid to shoot.
It annoys the antis.
TFL End of Summer Meet
 
Its not just overt stupidity....
its lack of knowledge about the local customs and language colloquialisms.

I discovered this as a young one while visiting AU in July of 68 on my first R&R there (Sydney)...

I was enthralled by the language accents and not just the "G'day mate " stuff....

It was "cracker day" july 4th... (still don't know what the kids were shooting firecrakers off - can you tell me Bruce?)

but the thing that set me back on my victorian decendant American heels was an eight year old girl in the local corner store (drug store?) asking the clerk where the "rubbers" were...

LOL....

fell in love with the place right then...

not to mention the Rose bay cafe where the king prawn are bigger than a texas crab!!!


Oh yeah... the world cup games where in town and a gentleman I met a local pub (down the street from the Chevron) took me.... What a hoot.... I think the Aussies where playing Argentina or Brazil.... a couple of visiting Brits started thowing things on the field and the Aussies sitting around them wrestled them to the ground and held them until the police hauld them out..... even the players stopped to watch....(this may have been during my second R&R there.... time fogs the memory)...

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In Queensland at least, you can still OWN pump-actions - even semiautos. . . .

that is, if you qualify for a licence.

Farmers can easily get permits for pump-actions (anyone else, no chance). Semiautos of capacity is still REAL hard though. If you live in a city, no chance.

The weapons weren't so much banned as most owners could not longer qualify to own them.

Fight licencing.


Battler.
 
Answering a couple of queries:

Eric of IN:
If an Olympic competitor wanted to use a semi or p/a shotgun, I am sure the law would accommodate it. They're only "prohibited" to those of us who have insufficient "reason" to own one.

Battler:
Even farmers here are having a hard time keeping/licensing p/a and semi-auto shotguns.

CHEMNCO917:
"Cracker Day" was 5 November, also known as "Bonfire Night" or "Guy Fawkes Day". It was a celebration of the infamous Gunpowder Plot, when Fawkes tried to blow up the British Houses of Parliament. As someone said, he was the only man to enter Parliament with honourable intentions ;)

Regrettably, private ownership of fireworks is now banned in the majority of Australian States and severely curtailed in the others.

Re "rubbers" -- yep, I noticed some work I was editing yesterday now refers to "erasers", rather than "rubbers". Sigh! Global Americanisation continues apace ;) (Condoms were raely referred to as "rubbers"; usually called "frangers" when I was younger -- don't ask me why, I haven't a clue)

B
 
People from the northern latitudes should be cautioned to rise from the seat before flushing the loo, otherwise the contrary spiraling of the water due to the coriolis effect will unwind their lower intestinal tract and they will feel great discomfort as the colour leaves their faces.

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Sam I am, grn egs n packin

Nikita Khrushchev predicted confidently in a speech in Bucharest, Rumania on June 19, 1962 that: " The United States will eventually fly the Communist Red Flag...the American people will hoist it themselves."
 
You see C.R., right there is one of the reasons I like TFL so. I learn something new here nearly every day. I knew that the water turned in the opposite direction but had never known how dangerous it could be to ones whose intestines were acclimated to the other rotation. ;)

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Gunslinger

TFL End of Summer Meet, August 12th & 13th, 2000
 
thanks for the answer Bruce...

I went back and looked at my R&R records and I know that it was June 25th when I arrived and July 9th, 1968 when I had to go back... so the second R&R is the time frame I must have ran into these kids.... (Oct 30 to Nov 13th)

Thanks again...

"Think positive thoughts Moriarity" .. many of us are with you in spirit (alluding to your other posts)
 
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