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From: Grimly Curmudgeon on 28 Mar 2010 08:00
We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember Kevin Gleeson
<kevingleeson(a)imagine-it.com.au> saying something like:

>Queensland wasn't actually part of Australia back then. It was a
>sub-state of South Africa.

What?
FFS, I didn't know that.
From: Grimly Curmudgeon on 28 Mar 2010 08:52
We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember Grimly Curmudgeon
<grimly4REMOVE(a)REMOVEgmail.com> saying something like:

>We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
>drugs began to take hold. I remember Kevin Gleeson
><kevingleeson(a)imagine-it.com.au> saying something like:
>
>>Queensland wasn't actually part of Australia back then. It was a
>>sub-state of South Africa.
>
>What?
>FFS, I didn't know that.

Bollocks.
http://www.qld.gov.au/about-queensland/history/#section-federation
From: Kevin Gleeson on 28 Mar 2010 09:10
On Sun, 28 Mar 2010 13:00:29 +0100, Grimly Curmudgeon
<grimly4REMOVE(a)REMOVEgmail.com> wrote
>We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
>drugs began to take hold. I remember Kevin Gleeson
><kevingleeson(a)imagine-it.com.au> saying something like:
>
>>Queensland wasn't actually part of Australia back then. It was a
>>sub-state of South Africa.
>
>What?
>FFS, I didn't know that.

Wiki is your friend. It was a nasty part of our history.
Embarrassingly nasty from a country that has a lot to answer for.

Kev
From: ogden on 29 Mar 2010 07:55
Higgins wrote:
> ogden wrote:
> > Mark Thomas does a brilliant routine about the protest thing
>
> The protest in defence of surrrealism always makes me laugh.
>
> "Noo, don't dae anythin' silly, Mark"

The two that did me were the application form iced on a cake, and the
"let me get this straight Mark, you want to protest in support of my
boss being fired and me being promoted to replace him?"

--
ogden | gsxr1000 | rgv250

From: Higgins on 29 Mar 2010 13:30
ogden wrote:
> Higgins wrote:
>> ogden wrote:
>>> Mark Thomas does a brilliant routine about the protest thing
>> The protest in defence of surrrealism always makes me laugh.
>>
>> "Noo, don't dae anythin' silly, Mark"
>
> The two that did me were the application form iced on a cake, and the
> "let me get this straight Mark, you want to protest in support of my
> boss being fired and me being promoted to replace him?"
>

I actually know Paul McInally and I can just picture the scene.
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