# Down Under Dopers Unite! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 28, 2003, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/down-under-dopers-unite/198305 "2003-08-28T23:16:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![happylittlevegemite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a88e4f/32.png) [@happylittlevegemite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/happylittlevegemite)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2003, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/down-under-dopers-unite/198305/41 "2003-08-31T03:10:41Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by TheLoadedDog \* > \*\*Canberra has _bits_? Isn’t it all… welll… kinda… _Canberra_? > > d&r > Actually, it’s not a bad town, but as an Aussie it’s my duty to heap crap on it. 😃 \*\* I’ll have you know I have to drive for _at least_ 10 minutes before I stop seeing houses and start seeing sheep and cattle and farms and stuff. 😛 And we don’t need no interstaters heaping crap on us, we have plenty of politicians of our own to spout forth all the crap we could ever need… ---
**Author:** ![mrsam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b5ac83/32.png) [@mrsam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mrsam)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2003, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/down-under-dopers-unite/198305/42 "2003-08-31T03:28:11Z")
Hey! I’d say it takes a whole extra 5-10 minutes on top of that at peak traffic times! 😉 And as a Victorian born and bred, there’s a whole lot of things I’d love to say about Sydney, but I won’t as this is MPSIMS and not the Pit. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![TheLoadedDog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/35a633/32.png) [@TheLoadedDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheLoadedDog)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2003, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/down-under-dopers-unite/198305/43 "2003-08-31T03:37:53Z")
'tis true. Melbourne’s a great place too… …just a pity it’s so far out of town. 😃 No, I love you guys. Really. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![kambuckta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/53a042/32.png) [@kambuckta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kambuckta)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2003, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/down-under-dopers-unite/198305/44 "2003-08-31T04:02:38Z")
Canberra: it’s where we send our pollies because nobody wants to have to own up to them living in OUR city. ;j ---
**Author:** ![Shalmanese](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shalmanese](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shalmanese)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2003, 6:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/down-under-dopers-unite/198305/45 "2003-08-31T06:35:10Z")
Sydneyite currently living in Hong Kong. ---
**Author:** ![Kayeby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9de0a6/32.png) [@Kayeby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kayeby)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2003, 9:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/down-under-dopers-unite/198305/46 "2003-08-31T09:35:27Z")
Oops I’m here too! ---
**Author:** ![otherwiseknownas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/59ef9b/32.png) [@otherwiseknownas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/otherwiseknownas)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2003, 10:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/down-under-dopers-unite/198305/47 "2003-08-31T10:13:46Z")
yep im here miss, dont give me detention again, i promise i wasnt sleeping, i was …just…resting? ---
**Author:** ![Silentgoldfish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e36b37/32.png) [@Silentgoldfish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silentgoldfish)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2003, 10:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/down-under-dopers-unite/198305/48 "2003-08-31T10:19:42Z")
_Raises hand_ 'lo all. ---
**Author:** ![Burnt\_Sugar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee59a6/32.png) [@Burnt\_Sugar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Burnt_Sugar)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2003, 10:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/down-under-dopers-unite/198305/49 "2003-08-31T10:21:53Z")
Jus’ signing in. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![j\_sum1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/8baadc/32.png) [@j\_sum1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/j_sum1)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2003, 11:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/down-under-dopers-unite/198305/50 "2003-08-31T11:10:04Z")
Yep, I’m queueing up for my marmite sandwiches and L&P. My guess is that there are a whole swag of aussies over at GD (or wherever it was I saw it) discussing Pauline hansen’s jail term. ---
**Author:** ![auliya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/90db22/32.png) [@auliya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/auliya)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2003, 11:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/down-under-dopers-unite/198305/51 "2003-08-31T11:10:17Z")
How did I miss this thread for days. Anyway better later than never - signing in from an island off Brisbane ---
**Author:** ![Pixelle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ad7895/32.png) [@Pixelle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pixelle)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2003, 11:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/down-under-dopers-unite/198305/52 "2003-08-31T11:13:50Z")
Whats all this bullshit about beer and pav and vegemite and tim-tams? There’s more to us aussies than that! …can’t think of anything right now but I’ll get back to ya 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Gerome](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/85e7bf/32.png) [@Gerome](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gerome)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2003, 11:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/down-under-dopers-unite/198305/53 "2003-08-31T11:15:57Z")
Thought I’d make my presence noted, being from Melbourne and all. ---
**Author:** ![auliya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/90db22/32.png) [@auliya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/auliya)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2003, 11:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/down-under-dopers-unite/198305/54 "2003-08-31T11:16:03Z")
How did I miss this thread for days. Anyway better later than never - signing in from an island off Brisbane ---
**Author:** ![Spink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7c8e57/32.png) [@Spink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spink)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2003, 11:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/down-under-dopers-unite/198305/55 "2003-08-31T11:43:34Z")
Palmerston North NZ represent!🙂 ---
**Author:** ![ninevah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/46a35a/32.png) [@ninevah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ninevah)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2003, 11:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/down-under-dopers-unite/198305/56 "2003-08-31T11:44:23Z")
Another Melbournite signing in… well, Mornington Peninsula girl to be exact… ---
**Author:** ![Erroneous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/71c47a/32.png) [@Erroneous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Erroneous)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2003, 12:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/down-under-dopers-unite/198305/57 "2003-08-31T12:25:02Z")
Ich bin ein Melbourner. And so is **nefertari** , but she never looks at MPSIMS. What a snob. I’ll poke her unremittingly next time I see her, until she agrees to post here. ---
**Author:** ![mrsam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b5ac83/32.png) [@mrsam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mrsam)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2003, 12:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/down-under-dopers-unite/198305/58 "2003-08-31T12:39:13Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Pixelle \* > \*\*Whats all this bullshit about beer and pav and vegemite and tim-tams? There’s more to us aussies than that! > …can’t think of anything right now but I’ll get back to ya 😃 \*\* Yeah, we have Kangaroo Jack, Crocodile Dundee and Steve Irwin. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![IcicleFuzz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/ba8739/32.png) [@IcicleFuzz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IcicleFuzz)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2003, 12:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/down-under-dopers-unite/198305/59 "2003-08-31T12:55:58Z")
> [@](#): > > Yeah, we have Kangaroo Jack, Crocodile Dundee and Steve Irwin And Fosters and meat pie floaters… :o ---
**Author:** ![calm\_kiwi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9fc348/32.png) [@calm\_kiwi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/calm_kiwi)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2003, 5:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/down-under-dopers-unite/198305/60 "2003-09-01T05:58:15Z")
Now we are all here we should do something…the Haka or a rousing chorus of Waltzing Matilda at least. We can’t stage a takeover by just checking in. Ok I was just bumping the thread, sorry. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/down-under-dopers-unite/198305.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/down-under-dopers-unite/198305.md?page=4)