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[Powderworks] Tips on Oz...

Anna Offler aoffler@iprimus.com.au
Wed, 11 Dec 2002 21:45:35 +1030


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Kate,
Dont believe a word of it, pure bulldust. Mike has obviously talked to too
many Aussies as he can string a yarn with the best of them. There is the odd
"Porkie' in his monologue but the odd grain of truth too. The man can talk
with a mouthfull of marbles underwater. But me suspects we are not being fed
the full quid here, and some of this comes from elsewhere.
Lew and Anna
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Mike!

What a wonderful travelogue you have written for us! I'm going to archive

it so I can read it again when we eventually get around to exporting

ourselves for a year or two (much better to live there for a while than try

to afford time and money for an extended holiday - and since everyone plans

to visit us, we won't have to leave for the duration!).

Kate,



<Kate

<At 04:56 PM 12/10/02 -03-30, Mike Blackwood wrote:

>It is interesting to note here that the Europeans always consider

>themselves vastly superior to any other race they encounter, since they

>can lie, cheat, steal, and litigate (marks of a civilized culture, they

>say) - whereas all the Aboriginals can do is happily survive being left

>in the middle of a vast red-hot desert, equipped with a stick.

p.s. When that horridly reductionist and racist "how to be stupid with

statistics" book known as The Bell Curve came out, I suggested that the

author be subjected to an Aboriginal IQ test: strand him in the outback

and we'll see just how smart he is!


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