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gtc said:
That is a funny joke. Unfortunately so is our mobile phone coverage...
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That's the truth. Through talking to friends overseas, it seems that our internet services are pretty third-world too. And as for digi TV . . .

Our government just doesn't do well with technology at all, does it?


Cheers,

Dave
 
Just a nice Aussie overseas update for you all back home

The wonderfully haunting song "Under The Milky Way" by the Church is being used in the US to sell the new Lincoln sedans. It is not the original recording, they have re-recorded it with a female vocalist. I am sure the boys would be impressed
 
Thank you MG.

A great song that. Shame to see favourites get hijacked sometimes, but they at least get a new airing, so it's all good, in the end, I suppose.

This particular song has had many cover versions.


Wikipedia

"Under the Milky Way" is a 1988 song by Australian alternative rock band The Church. Written by the band's vocalist and bassist, Steve Kilbey, and his then-girlfriend Karin Jansson, the song was originally released on The Church's Starfish album and won the Australian ARIA award for best song in 1989.
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Sometimes when this place gets kind of empty,
Sound of their breath fades with the light.
I think about the loveless fascination,
Under the milky way tonight.

Lower the curtain down in memphis,
Lower the curtain down all right.
I got no time for private consultation,
Under the milky way tonight.

Wish I knew what you were looking for.
Might have known what you would find.
Wish I knew what you were looking for.
Might have known what you would find.

And its something quite peculiar,
Something thats shimmering and white.
Leads you here despite your destination,
Under the milky way tonight

(chorus)

Under the milky way tonight​
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The first time I kissed a girl was at a Church gig when they were playing that song.
 
lionking said:
I thought you were posting the original Church video at first. It's been taken down by the copyright police.
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LOL - They are probably doing me a favour, that's one of three songs that really bring on a bout of homesickness :o
 
lionking said:
I thought you were posting the original Church video at first. It's been taken down by the copyright police.
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My lyrics quote is OK. I checked, and I also made sure that the authors were credited in the quote.


As an aside.

The Australian internet provider, iinet is being sued for allowing peeps to download naughty things through their servers. I'm an iinet customer, and I have no idea what the torrent they're talking about.

;)
 
I think the've chosen iinet because they are the biggest ISP (after bigpond, which the litigators won't touch). If successful, they will go the rest. The days of illegal downloads may be numbered, but I'm not so sure.
 
Akhenaten said:
Australia is a large country occupying a continent of the same name, situated between the South Pacific, Southern and Indian Oceans.

To the North lie New Guinea, Timor and Indonesia; to the East is New Zealand. Far to the South and West are Antarctica and Africa respectively.

The flora and fauna include many unique and fascinating examples of a land long separated from Gondwana.

Human settlement began approximately forty thousand (40 000) years ago with the arrival of the Aborigines, now generally and respectfully known as the Koori.

British settlement began in the form of a penal colony in 1788, following the discovery and mapping of the East coast in 1770 by Captain James Cook, RN.

Ausralia has a long and varied history, which ranges from the dreamtime tales of the Koori to the development of cutting-edge technology, cast on the rich tapestry of an ancient landscape.

It is a land of legend.



Please discuss.
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Nice Place.

Spent a month there in 2000. (2 in Gippsland, Corinella the town, and 2 weeks in Bendigo, where the gal I went to visit was going to uni/college)

From my brief experience people in Bendigo think you fit in until you open your Yank (Massachusetts/Vermont) mouth. I suspect it's because those in Melbourne and Gippsland are more used to Yanks.

Aussies live a more American western lifestyle as far as I saw than any of the European countries I've visited. But my data is very narrow I'll admit; one girl, her family and friends...That said they all thought our Yank cars were bigger lol(in 2000; they're driving Explorers and Navigators over there even then lol).

They'll like their new Super Hornets anyway :) (some bitch about picking Abrams tanks though...Leopard 2 might be slightly better... but you know how expensive it is just to fix a Volkswagen? :) )
 
lionking said:
I think the've chosen iinet because they are the biggest ISP (after bigpond, which the litigators won't touch). If successful, they will go the rest. The days of illegal downloads may be numbered, but I'm not so sure.
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Nah, it's because Iinet are apparently hosting the illegal stuff themselves.
 
My wife's family came from near Corinella, and it's a beautiful part of the world. And Bendigo is better than Ballarat, if that's any consolation.

If you visit again, drop in.
 
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