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Post Posted: Mon May 01, 2006 5:54 am 
 

AdderMcOne wrote:I was toying with the idea of babybitesdingo.com.au  :wink:

:lol:

What was that Meryl Streep movie? The one with: "The dingo ate your baby!"
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Post Posted: Mon May 01, 2006 8:38 am 
 

Evil Angels  (but released in the states as "A Cry In The Dark")  "That Dingo Ate My Baby".. never seen it never want to...

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Post Posted: Mon May 01, 2006 8:46 am 
 

beasterbrook wrote:Evil Angels  (but released in the states as "A Cry In The Dark")  "That Dingo Ate My Baby".. never seen it never want to...

Brette:)


it was on the TV in the UK the other week - i watched some of it. pretty average film all told anyway and as you know, pretty damn depressing as well  :?

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Post Posted: Mon May 01, 2006 8:58 am 
 

I've never seen it, but I don't particularly like Meryl Streep, and her trying to do an Aussie accent just makes me want to hurl...

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Post Posted: Mon May 01, 2006 9:01 am 
 

i didnt actually think it was that bad - her accent that is.

sam neill is pretty painful to watch in that film. did they really wear shorts that tight ?!

anyway :)

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Post Posted: Mon May 01, 2006 10:54 am 
 

beasterbrook wrote:Evil Angels  (but released in the states as "A Cry In The Dark")  "That Dingo Ate My Baby".. never seen it never want to...

Brette:)


Actually makes me think of a Seinfeld episode -
hysterical woman: "Where's my baby, my baby?!?!"
Elaine: "The dingo ate your baby!"
  

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Post Posted: Mon May 01, 2006 10:55 am 
 

VermilionFire wrote:
beasterbrook wrote:Evil Angels  (but released in the states as "A Cry In The Dark")  "That Dingo Ate My Baby".. never seen it never want to...

Brette:)


Actually makes me think of a Seinfeld episode -
hysterical woman: "Where's my baby, my baby?!?!"
Elaine: "The dingo ate your baby!"


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Post Posted: Mon May 01, 2006 11:08 am 
 

Baby eating dingoes (how did it get the baby out of that jumpsuit?)
Beavers with a duck's bill
Drop bears 8O , hey we've got everything here.
You don't have to worry the heat won't kill you  :lol:
  

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Post Posted: Tue May 02, 2006 1:58 am 
 

Once in a lifetime

Think about this one...

on Thursday, 4th of May at two minutes and three seconds after 1:00 in the morning,

The time and date will be

01:02:03 04/05/06.

Except for all you Americans who missed it last month :lol:
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Post Posted: Tue May 02, 2006 2:08 am 
 

Sort of like missing Haley's Comet.   :(

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Post Posted: Tue May 02, 2006 2:13 am 
 

MShipley88 wrote:Sort of like missing Haley's Comet.   :(

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I think you should protest.  Change the calendar back to its logical representation  :roll:
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Post Posted: Tue May 02, 2006 2:29 am 
 

I have wondered why the British dates were wrong.   :?

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Post Posted: Tue May 02, 2006 1:22 pm 
 

hey chaps!

rigt got an e-mail back from my aussie friend today, to tell me that i now have a place reserved on the 2007 Marathon Des Sables....so here we go again  8O

i am applying through Australia, so will utilise an addy from them there parts when i need to (september is deposit time apparently - thats how they do theirs).

will keep y'all posted when i know more!

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Post Posted: Tue May 02, 2006 6:00 pm 
 

It's all the old empire anyway....sort of like a runner from Terminus who officially runs for Neo-Trantor.   :)

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Post Posted: Tue May 02, 2006 6:33 pm 
 

MShipley88 wrote:It's all the old empire anyway....sort of like a runner from Terminus who officially runs for Neo-Trantor.   :)

Mark   8)


i will have to start learning some typical aussie phrases like "lets have a barbie" and "g'day" and stuff like that.

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Post Posted: Tue May 02, 2006 6:42 pm 
 

killjoy32 wrote:i will have to start learning some typical aussie phrases like "lets have a barbie" and "g'day" and stuff like that.


Great you will end up sounding like a bad Hollywood movie ... the ones where they always use a British actor to play an Aussie because of course no one could ever tell the difference.  :roll:
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Post Posted: Tue May 02, 2006 6:49 pm 
 

improvstone wrote:
killjoy32 wrote:i will have to start learning some typical aussie phrases like "lets have a barbie" and "g'day" and stuff like that.


Great you will end up sounding like a bad Hollywood movie ... the ones where they always use a British actor to play an Aussie because of course no one could ever tell the difference.  :roll:


well then theres a lot of british actors in them aussie soaps that we get over here "mate" :D

mind you i dont think i could cope with watching them things to learn the lingo. one thought in that direction is enough to make me cringe!

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Post Posted: Mon May 15, 2006 3:39 pm 
 

Just figured I'd post my 300th here  :P
  
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