: ''A man, a plan, a canoe, pasta, heros, rajahs, a coloratura, maps, snipe, percale, macaroni, a gag, a banana bag, a tan, a tag, a banana bag again (or a camel), a crepe, pins, Spam, a rut, a Rolo, cash, a jar, sore hats, a peon, a canal - Panama!''
It takes longer to say W W W than it does to say world wide web. Easier to chop a tree down then chop it up I say.
Health Benefits of Smoking - Not so trivial I guess but definitely unexpected. http://www.quitsmokingstartnow.com/ArticleSmokingisaKillerUnexpectedHealthBenefits.asp
^ Health benefits of a nuclear bomb dropped on my head: http://www.midlands.coop/assets/funeral/products/coffin-merrion-zoom.jpg
DID YOU KNOW? The first telephone call in Australia was made in Tasmania, between Launceston and Campbell Town in 1874. The first parking meters in Australia were installed in Collins Street, Hobart, in 1955. Tasmania has more visitors per year than its entire population. Tasmania was the first state to introduce ground-breaking relationship legislation (Relationships Act 2003), providing legal rights for de factos and same-sex couples in 'significant relationships'. Wrestpoint CasinoAustralia's first legal casino was opened in Hobart in 1973. Australia's oldest live theatre venue, the Theatre Royal, is in Hobart. And the Gaiety Theatre in Zeehan was Australia's first theatre-hotel. Tasmania has the cleanest air in the world, measured at Cape Grim on the north-west coast. Tasmania was the first Australian state to introduce a compulsory state education system in 1868. The Tasmanian town of Coles Bay, on the Freycinet Peninsula, was the first town in Australia to ban plastic bags in April 2003. Cascade breweryAustralia's oldest brewery, Cascade Brewery is in Hobart. Australia's oldest golf course is at Bothwell, in the Tasmanian midlands. Tasmanian George Adams established the first Tattersalls Lottery in Hobart, 1896. This lottery has now evolved into Australia's Tattslotto system. Australia's first and oldest existing synagogue, built in 1845, is in Hobart. Services are held every Friday. Tasmania has the lowest crime rate of any Australian state. Richmond BridgeAustralia's oldest bridge still in use is the 1823, convict-built Richmond Bridge. The longest single-span chairlift in the world is across Launceston's Cataract Gorge. Hobart is the second driest capital city in Australia, after Adelaide. The world's smallest marsupial, the pygmy possum, is native to Tasmania.
Wow! Thanks for clarifying that. I was actually genuinely interested - 'was' being the operative CLA term. Cheers, VRS PS - Re: http://forums.silverstackers.com/message-607625.html#p607625: "If a strong Man should take five stones, and throw one North, one South, one East, and one West, and the last straight up into the air, and the space between your ears was filled with brains, that would equal the value of a fair-to-middling chicken shahi moghul masala in my Maharabarat"
The greatest socialist of all times was Christopher Columbus. He set off with no idea where he was going, when he arrived there he had no idea where he was and he did it all with someone else's money.
Australia has approx the same % of millionnaires (in USD) as China! That's 4% of the toatl millionnaires in the world. More than Canada, you Canuck suckdogs!!!! Ha!!! And it's warmer here. Italy, the UK and Der vaterland has 5% of the world's millionnaires each, France has 7% (but they might all leave) - you gotta wonder where they got all their wealth being so socialist and all? Nippon 8% and the Good Ole trumps the party with 42% of the world's millionnaires.
