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Post by dough42 on May 10, 2008 20:21:07 GMT -5
Through the Looking Glass adapted into an opera will be at the Malthouse Theatre in Melbourne from 20 May to 31 May. Details and a lengthy summary on the background to the production are in the Weekend Australian newspaper and can be found at: this siteDoug H |
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Post by dough42 on May 10, 2008 20:27:42 GMT -5
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Post by Admin on May 12, 2008 4:46:21 GMT -5
If you have a long url the best thing is to use the 'hyperlink' option in the posting buttons (the earth pic). I fixed the link using that option.
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Post by hermionethestork on May 12, 2008 5:12:28 GMT -5
Oh I wish I lived in Melborne
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Post by johntufail on May 12, 2008 8:26:13 GMT -5
But Hermione, that would mean living in Australia and wearing funny hats (with corks) and sunblock cream all the time??!! Not to mention having to understand the 'rules' of Australian Rules Football (the first 'quantum' sport) and developing a taste for Fosters (thought to be a waste enproduct from the nitroglycerine manufacturing process).
JT
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Post by Jules on May 12, 2008 10:58:06 GMT -5
But Hermione, that would mean living in Australia and wearing funny hats (with corks) and sunblock cream all the time??!! Not to mention having to understand the 'rules' of Australian Rules Football (the first 'quantum' sport) and developing a taste for Fosters (thought to be a waste enproduct from the nitroglycerine manufacturing process). JT LOL! Not a big fan of the Antipathies John? Is Australian Rules football anything like NFL? (I loves me a bit of NFL!). |
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Post by johntufail on May 12, 2008 17:25:43 GMT -5
Naw!!
Just trying to get a rise fom our Aussie colleagues! I mean what sort of state would the UK be today without the wonders of transportation. Anyway, very Carrollian place is Aussie. What other country would take 11 years to discover that it's prime minister was actually an animated doodle retrieved from Ronald Reagan's waste bin?
OK. I admit it, we did elect a reject from a Barbie movie as OUR Pime minister - several times over. And now we're paying for it in spades!
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JT
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Post by dough42 on May 13, 2008 2:25:55 GMT -5
but John....................for a Pom who has already served a fair sentence in New Zealand it is disappointing that you appear not to have recognised the skills and flair, the niceties and subtleties of Australian Rules Football. As for Prime Ministers, we now have one called KRudd.
Boo-John! - or should that be "Boo-jum"?
Admin: Thanks for the hyperlink tip.
Doug H
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Post by johntufail on May 14, 2008 3:44:23 GMT -5
Hi Doug,
I have to confess that the first 'gift' presented to me on arrival in New Zealand was a a book of jokes, all of which were intended to 'prove' the superiority of the Kiwi over he Kangaroo. Example, what do you call a Melbourne housewife with an IQ of 30. Answer, am Aussie genius! I am clearly fatally tainted!
As for the subtleties of Australian Rules football. I suspect I was too distracted by those skimpy outfits exposing all that raw brawn to fully appreciate the subtlety of all those cataclysmic collisions! It is just ohh soooo retro, reminscent of 1980's second division soccer!
I wonder how long before Mr Rudd will be nicknamed 'the Roach'?
Is George Gregan the greatest No 9 of all time or does that mantle still rest with Jonathan Edwards?
Regards
JT
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Post by mikeindex on May 14, 2008 6:59:37 GMT -5
Not sure what this has to do with Alice in Melbourne any more - but you mean Gareth Edwards (who is still the greatest).
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Post by johntufail on May 14, 2008 8:22:39 GMT -5
Absolutely, I often mix up the names of Jonathan Davies and Gareth Edwards. However, having watched Gegan play I have to say that He at the very least challenges Edwards and in some ways surpasses him! Absolutely nothing to do with Carroll other than the sublime is always to be admired and remembered whatever the field of endeavour!
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JT
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