Did you Know
Saturday, July 18, 2009 by mrs_starkers | Discussion: WinCustomize Talk
I thought this would be a fun thing to do. Lets hear yours
Did you Know!!
Sydney - Australia's first and largest city, also known as Sin City, wanted to be Capital of Australia but its convict stigma counted against it.
Melbourne - Wanted to be the Capital of Australia on the basis that it was the home to the Australian establishment and was not founded by Convicts. (Founded by John Batman; son of a Convict)
Canberra - Because Sydney and Melbourne kept bickering over which city should be the capital of Australia, it was decided that neither of them would be capital and instead, a new capital would be built in the middle of them both.
Adelaide - Claim to fame is that it is a City that has lots of Churches. Adelaide is the Capital of the only Australian state never to have received Convicts.
Police force - Australia's first police force was a band of 12 of the most well behaved Convicts.
People: 92% Caucasian descent, 7% Asian descent, 1% Aboriginal descent.
Homicide - Australia was founded by Convicts. Its homicide rate is 1.8 per 100,000 population. The United States was founded by religious zealots. It's homicide rate is 6.3 per 100,000. Almost 400% greater than Australia.
The ocker - 10 percent of Australians satisfy the definition of an 'ocker' . This 10 percent of the population consume 80 percent of the beer drunk in Australia.
Newspaper readership - Per capita, Australians read more newspapers than any other nation.
Urban dwellers - Australia is one of the world’s most urbanised countries, with about 70 per cent of the population living in the 10 largest cities.
Don Bradman The cricketer- Don Bradman averaged 99.94 during his career. The next highest average in the entire history of the game is around 60.
Kangaroo - The name for the Australian marsupial Kangaroo came about when some of the first white settlers saw this strange animal hopping along and they asked the Aborigines what it was called. They replied with 'Kanguru', which in the native language meant 'I don't know' (what you are asking).
The Australian Lyre Bird is the world's best imitator; able to mimic the calls of 15 different species of birds in their locality and string the calls into a melody. Also been known to mimic the sound mobile phones.
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Reply #2 Saturday, July 18, 2009 4:13 PM
Very much like our Native American tribe: The Fugawees. Whenever they ran into another tribe of Native Americans they'd ask, "Where the F*ck are we?" and thus their name was coined.
Reply #4 Saturday, July 18, 2009 4:18 PM
Thanks sAAGe i had a thought on doing this post a day or two ago but just couldnt find much on the did you know stuff but with not giving up I found what I wanted lol
well it seems as though Aussies and the Usa have some things in common hey Doc 
Reply #6 Saturday, July 18, 2009 4:40 PM
Don Bradman - Don Bradman averaged 99.94 during his career. The next highest average in the entire history of the game is around 60.
You may want to mention which sport this is....
Most of us 'up-overs' haven't got a clue - nor about who he is 
Reply #7 Saturday, July 18, 2009 4:48 PM
Did you know
Simon Baker was born on July 30, 1969, in Launceston, Tasmania, Australia. His parents divorced while he was still young and his mother later married butcher Tom Denny. Baker also has a sister, currently a doctor in Australia, and three younger half siblings. By 1972, they had moved from Launceston, Tasmania to Ballina, Australia, hoping to secure better paying jobs. In 1986, he graduated from Ballina High School. He is now an actor on the show called The Mentalist
Reply #8 Saturday, July 18, 2009 4:50 PM
Absolutely. I'm an M.O.T. (member of the tribe). The one mentioned. LOL.
You, Mark and Syd are my fave Ozzies 
ummmm....does Ozzy and Harriet count?
Reply #10 Saturday, July 18, 2009 4:52 PM
Did you know -
You can stand in parts of Australia and there not be a toilet for 1,000 miles in any direction...
Reply #11 Saturday, July 18, 2009 4:59 PM
Dang wouldnt want to be busting to go to the toilet 
Reply #12 Saturday, July 18, 2009 5:22 PM
Reply #13 Saturday, July 18, 2009 5:33 PM
you should have mentioned hugh jackman....
our sexy wolverine....!!
You can stand in parts of Australia and there not be a toilet for 1,000 miles in any direction...
yeah, in the desert parts only.....geesh!!
Reply #14 Saturday, July 18, 2009 10:53 PM
quoting post
Don Bradman - Don Bradman averaged 99.94 during his career. The next highest average in the entire history of the game is around 60.
You may want to mention which sport this is....
Most of us 'up-overs' haven't got a clue - nor about who he is
Don Bradman was Australia's premier batsman/cricketer in the 1920's - 1930's and gave the Poms (English) a devil of a time trying to get him out. He was dismissed for a duck (zilch in his last innings, otherwise his test average would have been a perfect 100 runs per 100 balls faced.
Dang wouldnt want to be busting to go to the toilet
Certainly not with your hubby!
I have no worries there, Ed... fortunately my curried cabbage diet turns everything to gas. 
Did you know....
The Hollywood heart throb Errol Flynn was born in Tasmania, Australia... that the phrase "In like Flynn" was coined after him. While many think it has to do with his sexual prowess and reputation with women, it has more to do with his hard drinking and hard partying ways..... if there was a pub or party to go to... he was um... in like Flynn, so to speak.
Did you know, that even though I was born in England, I still qualify as an ocker? Yup, because I say 'fairdinkum' and 'strewth' more often than many who were born here... and before I gave up drinking I used to consume 10% of that beer myself.
Also, when the need arises (which in my case is often), I have no inhibitions about peeling one off wherever I am: at the beach: in supermarket aisles: seated in church and the public gallery in parliament, doesn't matter...
.... and that's as ocker as you can get. 
Reply #15 Saturday, July 18, 2009 11:19 PM
You can stand in parts of Australia and there not be a toilet for 1,000 miles in any direction...
Actually, I would have thought that in the middle of the desert the toilet would be anywhere You saw fit to go!!!
However toilet tissue is another issue, I would definitely caution against anything in the Cacti family!!!! 
Reply #16 Sunday, July 19, 2009 1:37 AM
awwww...................yep...it's a wonderful city.....
very sweet doc.... 
It's BYOGL....Bring Your Own Gum Leaves
Reply #17 Sunday, July 19, 2009 5:38 AM
Haha lol.. runs per 100 balls is called strike rate and not batting average. Its true Bradman was a great don in cricket. His average is nearly unbelievable but it is his.
Reply #19 Sunday, July 19, 2009 6:59 AM
Did You Know,
Ayers Rock is a large sandstone rock formation in the southern part of the Northern Territory of central Australia, it lies 335km or 208mi south west of the nearest large town Alice Springs
Reply #20 Sunday, July 19, 2009 7:06 AM
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Reply #1 Saturday, July 18, 2009 4:12 PM
Fantastic post .....
SALUTE to these australians ..... specially to Jafo