#99263
03/24/2003 2:16 AM
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Congratulations to Australia for winning the Cricket World Cup! 
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#99264
03/24/2003 5:45 AM
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...a bit like a USn baseball team winning the "World" Series? (I speak as an ex-Brit...)
jj
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#99265
03/24/2003 10:09 AM
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Pooh-Bah
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Nope. They won it fair and square. They're just pretty damned good!
- Pfranz
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#99266
03/24/2003 8:20 PM
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Johnjohn, take note: high praise, from a Zilder no less!
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#99267
03/25/2003 12:19 AM
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old hand
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>Johnjohn, take note: high praise, from a Zilder no less!
Nah, there's nothing so unusual about that - it's praise crossing the Tasman in the other direction that last happened sometime just before the Pleistocene era.
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#99268
03/25/2003 8:25 PM
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Pooh-Bah
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Pleistocene? That recently? Somewhere I have it written that it was the Pre-Cambrian. It possibly might have been the Triassic, but you know what those dinosaurs across the Tasman are like when it comes to reading and writing. Sharing the brain-cell, on its own, actually takes more nous that most of them have available ... on a quiet day in Sydney you can sometimes hear the occasional "Phhhhtaph" of a synapse firing. But not very often.
- Pfranz
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#99269
03/25/2003 11:50 PM
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>Pleistocene? That recently?
Actually, I just picked that one because it sounds similiar to the most complex, sophisticated material known to most Aussies
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#99270
03/25/2003 11:58 PM
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Actually, I just picked that one because it sounds similiar to the most complex, sophisticated material known to most Aussies
Beer?
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#99271
03/26/2003 4:59 AM
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Pooh-Bah
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#99272
03/27/2003 2:44 AM
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Plasticine
That's a type of beer, right?
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#99273
03/27/2003 3:43 AM
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Pooh-Bah
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Nope; you'd call it play-dough.
- Pfranz
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#99274
03/27/2003 10:20 AM
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did we just witness a quintuple tongue-in-cheek? 
formerly known as etaoin...
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#99275
03/27/2003 12:50 PM
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eta, let's buy doc a case of beer and toast his participation in the q-tic! I looked up plasticine, and the first 2 sites I found quite bemused me. Warning: the first is a commercial site, but I'm putting the link in case anyone wants to verify my quote. Plasticine is one of the most popular names in modelling clays toady. http://www.hobbycraft.com/plasticine.htmlThe other has this: This site is about plasticine (plastiline).May be it's not the art. It's rather expression of momentary mood. Puging plasticine you put part of yourself to plasticine lump. And you feel that your mood is changed... Puging? Then at the top, I read We hope you will try to pug plasticine some day : ) http://www.plasticin.net/gallery.htmPug?
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#99276
04/01/2003 1:18 PM
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Thanks Jackie - appreciate you looking out for our interests.
Also thanks to my Trans-Tasman cuzzie for his congratulations. (This is one Auszie who tries to give credit wherever due and, considering the population of Zild, the achievements of most of their international sporting teams is nothing less than extraordinary. That's right - praise from a mainlander!! But it's true.)
BTW and FWIW, the very same Australian cricket team won the "International Team of the Year" award in 2002. They ARE pretty good - rapidly getting to be a latter day cricketing version of the Yanks and the America's Cup.
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