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Peter comes home from first grade and tells his father that they learned about the history of Valentine's Day. "Since Valentine's Day is for a Christian saint and we're Jewish," he asks, "will God get mad at me for giving someone a valentine?"
Peter's father thinks a bit, then says "No, I don't think God would get mad. Who do you want to give a valentine to?"
"Osama Bin Laden," David says.
"Why Osama Bin Laden," his father asks in shock.
"Well," Peter says, "I thought that if a little American Jewish boy could have enough love to give Osama a valentine, he might start to think that maybe we're not all bad, and maybe start loving people a little bit. And if other kids saw what I did and sent valentines to Osama, he'd love everyone a lot. And then he'd start going all over the place to tell everyone how much he loved them and how he didn't hate anyone anymore."
His father's heart swells and he looks at his boy with newfound pride.
"Peter, that's the most wonderful thing I've ever heard."
"I know," Peter says, "and once that gets him out in the open, the Marines shoot him."
In 1993, a Sydney nutritionist and his partner conducted a survey to find out who farts the most - Australian men or Australian women.
The results were overwhelming, in more than one way I'd imagine, as it was proven that not only did the men have more Thunder Downunder, but theirs also smelt the worst!
The participants also kept a daily diary on their eating habits, proving also that the well known opinion that fibre, in particular baked beans, was responsible for more than its fair share of emissive gases, although they were unable to provide a link between flatulence and beer intake.
Having lived in Pom-land after 2.5 years, and now
're-transported', I thought I might start off with the whole origin of the word Pom or Pommy as Australian slang for a Brit.
Everyone has their own version of where they think the term came from, the better known usually being one of theses three:
a) Prisoner of Mother England
b) Port Out, Starboard Home, dealing with the physical position the English would take on a ship to and from Australia.
c) Prisoner of Her Majesty
Each of these acronyms is exactly that - an acronym. The problem there being that acronyms themselves did not start developing until World War 1, and didn't really take off widely until WW2, so most experts will agree that Pom therefore is not an acronym.
There is however another widely accepted version by those 'in the know', being that the word is short for 'pomegranate'.
So why pomegranates, and what's the connection to English people?
In a country like Australia where rhyming slang has been a part of the nation's history and culture, 'pomegranate' is believed to be rhyming slang for 'immigrant'. Coupled with this was the fact that when the English would emigrate to Australia, for the first few months at least, in the harsh Australian heat, their cheeks would turn a rosy, round, pomegranate red!
Hi all, I know it's been a while, but there's been good, although frustrating reasons for that.
I've come home to Sydney again, permanently this time - stuff is on a container ship as we speak and everything is finally being lined up properly, including WORKING INTERNET!!! YIPPEEE!!!
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Well it's that time of the year again and as per their usual standard, PNC have compiled their Real Cost Of The 12 Days Of Christmas for 2009, complete with video, with the following results:
* One Partridge in a Pear Tree: $159 – down 27%
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OK, so as you may expect, there are a fair few jokes going around at the moment about Tiger Woods and his driving 'mishap', so I thought I'd share some of the better ones with you all.
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Twas the night before Christmas and all through the house
Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse.
Cos the cat had pounced on him and tore him apart
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September 16th 2009 16:55
1. No flight ever leaves on time unless you are running late and need the normal delay in order to make it on time.
2. If you ARE running late for a flight, it will depart from the farthest gate within the terminal.
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So just how are our country cousins keeping up with the digital age? Here's someone's humourous take on it all Technology for Country Folk.
Apologies to all those computer and internet savvy readers, but it is fun for a laugh - just pretend it's not about you, but your nextdoor neighbour. 
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Comment by MelissaA
on Why are there no ad's?!?!
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When I use Safari (which I don't really like) it's fine.
Weird thing is, it's never had a problem with Firefox before....
I wonder if that's why my ad payments have dropped significantly - I know a lot of people do use Firefox?
Thanks for your help with it.