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Merry Christmas, Bruce the Thread

Some of the Aussies here might remember this painting.

It's a picture that Arnott's biscuits used to use as a full-page Christmas message and it appeared in magazines like the Women's Weekly (published monthly) and Woman's Day (published weekly, go figure) from the mid-1950s through the sixties.


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Bush Christmas - Jack Waugh​
 
Akhenaten said:
Some of the Aussies here might remember this painting.

It's a picture that Arnott's biscuits used to use as a full-page Christmas message and it appeared in magazines like the Women's Weekly (published monthly) and Woman's Day (published weekly, go figure) from the mid-1950s through the sixties.
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Bush Christmas - Jack Waugh
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I have just seen that picture somewhere else. I wonder if somebody else is using it in advertisements, or what? I wish I had a memory!
 
I posted it a couple of weeks ago in Community somewhere.

I haven't seen it in print in Australia for over 40 years, but ownership of Arnott's moved overseas some years ago, so they may well have decided to recycle it.

Having said that though, the picture is over fifty years old and out of copyright, so I suppose anybody could be using it.

I believe I've only ever seen one reference to it on the tubes, so I might do a bit more research on it and web something myself, for the sake of posterity.
 
Akhenaten said:
I posted it a couple of weeks ago in Community somewhere.

I haven't seen it in print in Australia for over 40 years, but ownership of Arnott's moved overseas some years ago, so they may well have decided to recycle it.

Having said that though, the picture is over fifty years old and out of copyright, so I suppose anybody could be using it.

I believe I've only ever seen one reference to it on the tubes, so I might do a bit more research on it and web something myself, for the sake of posterity.
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It's a cool painting. Has a kind of Rockwell vibe to it.
 
By complete coincidence, my sister-in-law gave me some old photos on Boxing Day and the one below was among them.

It shows the picture hanging on the kitchen wall at my (then future) mother-in-law's place at Christmas, 1978.

The gorgeous redhead is Vonnie, not my MIL.

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As it turns out, that is the exact same picture that I scanned to make the copy in my earlier post. It's hanging on my kitchen wall now.

Isn't that amazing?
 
For those of us further west of the International Date Line it’s one of the first celebrations we see on the early news bulletins so it’s like an opener for the whole New Years Eve thing.

Hope you all have a good one!
 
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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This is pathetic...but when I think of Australia I think of all the venomous creatures that inhabit the land. There is even a poisonous bush (that sounds so wrong, doesn't it?). I think the people of Australia must have evolved as to not have any reactions to box jellyfish stings, bites from the Inland Taipan, etc.
 
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lady_mockington said:
This is pathetic...but when I think of Australia I think of all the venomous creatures that inhabit the land. There is even a poisonous bush (that sounds so wrong, doesn't it?). I think the people of Australia must have evolved as to not have any reactions to box jellyfish stings, bites from the Inland Taipan, etc.
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A very common reaction. And we don't even talk about Drop Bears........
 
lady_mockington said:
This is pathetic...but when I think of Australia I think of all the venomous creatures that inhabit the land. There is even a poisonous bush (that sounds so wrong, doesn't it?). I think the people of Australia must have evolved as to not have any reactions to box jellyfish stings, bites from the Inland Taipan, etc.
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Ummm.... North America has poisonous flora (poison ivy, oak, or sumac, for starters), venomous critters (rattlesnakes), and box jellyfish inhabit the waters around Hawai'i.

Killer flora and fauna aren't confined to Australia.

And I'm somehow certain that there are flowers and animals that don't kill people.

I've learned from reading this thread quite a bit I didn't know about the land downunder. And what I've read has cemented my desire to visit, and moved it from a "maybe someday" to a "planning someday" status.
 
I used to watch the Kransky sisters on In Siberia Tonight, on SBS.
 
lady_mockington said:
This is pathetic...but when I think of Australia I think of all the venomous creatures that inhabit the land. There is even a poisonous bush (that sounds so wrong, doesn't it?). I think the people of Australia must have evolved as to not have any reactions to box jellyfish stings, bites from the Inland Taipan, etc.
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It's a well-known fact that Vegemite boosts the immune system by 4500%, plus we are all supermen, except for the girls, who are goddesses, and anyway, most of the box jellyfish get eaten by the blue-ringed octupusses, which are food for the sharks, which are cleaned up by the crocodiles, so it's really quite safe, if you don't go near the water.

Inland taipans are less of a problem these days as they are all too busy hiding from the dinosaurs and Yowies to bite very many people..



HawaiiBigSis said:
Ummm.... North America has poisonous flora (poison ivy, oak, or sumac, for starters), venomous critters (rattlesnakes), and box jellyfish inhabit the waters around Hawai'i.

Killer flora and fauna aren't confined to Australia.

And I'm somehow certain that there are flowers and animals that don't kill people.

I've learned from reading this thread quite a bit I didn't know about the land downunder. And what I've read has cemented my desire to visit, and moved it from a "maybe someday" to a "planning someday" status.
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* huge smile * My seekrit plan is working. All of your gorgeous girl are belong to us.


Alan said:
I used to watch the Kransky sisters on In Siberia Tonight, on SBS.
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Yay! The Sandman is tops.
 
Akhenaten said:
* huge smile * My seekrit plan is working. All of your gorgeous girl are belong to us.
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Well, "gorgeous" isn't a word that's been used to describe me in many decades, but I do have beautiful great-grandchildren! :D

And you should consider working for the Australian Tourism Authority. You do it very well...
 
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