#52803
01/15/2002 12:16 PM
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In my Internet wanderings I discovered the following page, which has a lot of information about Australian culture and language: http://www.australianbeers.com/ I ran it by stales, since he actually lives there, and he says it's "a gem of a site" so I gather that it has his seal of approval! So if any of you Northern Hemisphere types have been wondering more about life in Australia, or better yet, assuming that it's just like North America, but with the seasons reversed, have a look. It's a good way to spend an afternoon! 
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#52804
01/15/2002 6:12 PM
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#52805
01/15/2002 6:33 PM
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When asked what he thought of Western Civilzation, M. K. Gandhi replied, "It would be a good idea."
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#52806
01/15/2002 7:19 PM
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And here was I thinking Bean was starting a new thread on oxymorons.But she was, Max. Note her link: www.australian beers.com 
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#52807
01/15/2002 8:50 PM
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What's oxymoronic about Aussie beer? The bludgin' bastards've gotta be good at somethin'. Even if all their bloody breweries are owned by the flamin' Kiwis. 
The idiot also known as Capfka ...
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#52808
01/15/2002 8:57 PM
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#52809
01/15/2002 9:43 PM
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Details, details, you bloody Pig Islanders are full of them!
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#52810
01/15/2002 9:46 PM
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What's oxymoronic about Aussie beer? How said there was anything oxymoronic about Aussie beer? Now "beer culture" ... that's something entirely different.
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#52811
01/15/2002 11:56 PM
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Gentleman! (and I use the term loosely)Behave yourselves!
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#52812
01/16/2002 5:49 PM
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oxymoronic ... "beer culture"
Hey, you think they use just any old yeast that comes along, like a bunch of Flems?
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#52813
01/16/2002 7:29 PM
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I started another thread elsewhere on the topic, but here seems like a good fit... do you *really* have musk-flavored Life Savers in Australia? Not musk as in muskmelon, but musk as in muskrat.
I read it on the internet, so I don't know why I'm doubting the veracity of this claim. But the gag reflex is strong enough to make me ask.
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#52814
01/17/2002 2:09 AM
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Fiberbabe - there's two potential paths here - and one of them I DEFINITELY don't want to go down on.
Yes we have musk flavoured Life Savers - the candy with the hole!
Musk is a very popular flavouring for sweets here and I am extremely surprised to think you'd be grossed out by it! Life without musk Life Savers or musksticks jest wouldn't be the same!!
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#52815
01/17/2002 2:26 AM
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Taking the path less travelled...
And we have muskly Life Savers too.
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#52816
01/17/2002 11:44 AM
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Musksticks... = incense? Well, it looks like nobody else is going to ask, so I will: you people have candy that tastes like sex??? Could I get a free sample?
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#52817
01/17/2002 4:44 PM
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...you people have candy that tastes like sex??? How does one call the Gutter Police on the Gutter Police??
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#52818
01/17/2002 5:39 PM
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How does one call the Gutter Police on the Gutter Police?? Hee, hee--I changed hats again!
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#52819
01/17/2002 6:08 PM
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Gutter PoliceWe gone git Internal Affairs after you, Jackie  ! See do you think *that's funny.
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#52820
01/17/2002 7:34 PM
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you people have candy that tastes like sex??? Could I get a free sampleHey...I'd be willin to pay for the stuff!  Did I hear the gutter police?
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#52821
01/17/2002 10:29 PM
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you people have candy that tastes like sex???
I'll just remind you that I characterized it as "musk as in muskrat", not "musk as in Muskrat Love". [one eyebrow up-e]
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#52822
01/18/2002 11:24 AM
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Does anyone know if they actually have muskrats in Australia? I get the idea that they were a North American phenomenon, and introduced in Europe and Asia... [confused]
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#52823
01/18/2002 11:50 AM
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No they don't. They have dirty rats and these are likely to be musky ...
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#52824
01/18/2002 2:51 PM
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01/18/2002 3:48 PM
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I've got a feeling this is going to get worse before it gets better - but here goes....
Musksticks are pink, about six inches long - but about as thick as a biro. They have a star shaped cross section. On hot, humid days (or if a bit stale) they tend to be limp and melt in the mouth. On cold days (or when fresh) they are more stiff and crunchy.
I'm sitting here hearing peals of laughter from all over the world.
I simply cannot believe you guys don't have these things - I reckon they are eaten more often than chewing gum by Aussie kids.
Disbelievers please email me and I'll send a pic - just downloaded one. Pack of ~25 A$1.39 at the local supermarket!
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#52826
01/18/2002 3:57 PM
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I simply cannot believe you guys don't have these things
Hence our bewilderment at the conjunction of the words Australian and culture.
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01/18/2002 4:25 PM
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Musksticks are pink, about six inches long a little short, but we can manage... - but about as thick as a biro. and just how thick is that? somehow i suspect a biro has a diameter closer to a drinking straw rather than a cucumber... Drat!They have a star shaped cross section. could be interesting....  On hot, humid days (or if a bit stale) they tend to be limp and melt in the mouth. On cold days (or when fresh) they are more stiff and crunchy. Oh, i want a fresh one please! .... Pack of ~25 A$1.39 25 at once! Oh i feel like a kid again!
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#52828
01/18/2002 4:56 PM
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Well, this thread has certainly gone South!!
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post-edit: Ewwwww, I'm a Pooh-bah. Yuck.
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01/18/2002 5:01 PM
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01/18/2002 5:09 PM
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So what's wrong with being a Pooh Bear? He's cute and cuddly.
Congratulations and felicitations on attaining the peak.
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#52831
01/18/2002 6:04 PM
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Helen says, i could go for a taste of aussie sex!
I had never considered that the aussie version might be unique. Precisely how does sex differ in the far antipodes, where people walk upside down? Are all positions reversed?
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#52832
01/18/2002 6:14 PM
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Life without musk Life Savers or musksticks jest wouldn't be the same!!
Lemme get this straight here: you're saying that such flavor is marketed in both concave and convex forms?
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#52833
01/18/2002 6:28 PM
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Okay-- just to clarify a biro--is it about the same diameter as the hole in a life saver?
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Mental Note:
Plan trip to Aussie land soon..
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#52834
01/18/2002 8:13 PM
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If they'd introduced musky Life Savers in the US, this probably wouldn't have had to happen: Kraft to Close Mich. Candy Plant
HOLLAND, Mich. (AP) - Kraft Foods Inc. says it will close its 35-year-old Life Savers plant here by fall 2003 in a move that will cost more than 600 jobs.... http:// http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20020108/bs/life_savers_plant_1.html
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#52835
01/18/2002 8:26 PM
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Oh, Stales..........
[pink]If you are coming to Wordapalooza, could you bring us some nice fresh musksticks, pretty please?[/pink]
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#52836
01/18/2002 8:47 PM
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Disbelievers please email me and I'll send a pic - just downloaded one. Pack of ~25 A$1.39 at the local supermarket! Or try http://store4.yimg.com/I/evryaustralian_1666_66498120(that's an underline before and after the "1666" ) (Google is indeed a wondrous thing) And apparently there is also a separate commmodity called a musk stick, which is incense of the appropriate aroma. Not to be taken internally.
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#52837
01/18/2002 8:49 PM
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I don't think I'm coming to Wordapolooza after all. It might compromise my personal safety ...
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01/18/2002 9:37 PM
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I reckon they are eaten more often than chewing gum by Aussie kids.
But, what do they taste like??? Are they sweet? Are they sour? And kids eat these things? The picture I saw looks like licorice...pink, aussie, licorice. Am I seeing it right?
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#52839
01/18/2002 11:58 PM
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They appeared to be sugar-coated to me. If so, and they're sour then they might be similar to Sour Patch Straws here in the US. Those are delicious.
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01/19/2002 12:11 AM
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you people have candy that tastes like sex??? Could I get a free sample?Ohhhh, Jackie! You've gone and done it now! Help Wanted: Gutter Cop to patrol the AWADboards ever-so-quietly and keep risqué flamboyance from getting (ahem!) too out of hand! 'Cause as Adlai E. Stevenson once said: Accuracy is to a newspaper what virtue is to a lady, but a newspaper can always print a retraction.
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01/19/2002 12:19 AM
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Not to be a killjoy by posing a serious question, but today's "Daily Almanac" in our local paper states that on this date in 1788, the first English settlers arrived in Australia's Botany Bay to establish a penal colony. Is that the correct date?...I always thought it was earlier than that, around the seventeen-aughts.
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01/19/2002 1:43 AM
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Accuracy is to a newspaper what virtue is to a lady, but a newspaper can always print a retraction. Reminds me of an old comic, showing a gal writing a letter and saying to her roomate, "I'm writing to mom. What's the past tense of 'virgin'?" [blush?]
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