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Text of a letter from a kid from Eromanga to Mum and Dad. (For those of you not in the know, Eromanga is a small town, west of Quilpie in the far south west of Queensland.)
Dear Mum & Dad,
I am well. Hope youse are too. Tell me big brothers Doug and Phil that the Army is better than workin' on the station - tell them to get in bloody quick smart before the jobs are all gone! I wuz a bit slow in settling down at first, because ya don't hafta get outta bed until 6am. But I like sleeping in now, cuz all ya gotta do before brekky is make ya bed and shine ya boots and clean ya uniform. No bloody horses to get in, no calves to feed, no troughs to clean - nothin'!! Ya haz gotta shower though, but its not so bad, coz there's lotsa hot water and even a light to see what ya doing!
At brekky ya get cereal, fruit and eggs but there's no kangaroo steaks or goanna stew like wot Mum makes You don't get fed again until noon and by that time all the city boys are buggered because we've been on a 'route march' - geez its only just like walking to the windmill in the bullock paddock!!
This one will kill me brothers Doug and Phil with laughter. I keep getting medals for shootin' - dunno why. The bullseye is as big as a bloody dingo's arse and it don't move and it's not firing back at ya like the Johnsons did when our big scrubber bull got into their prize cows before the Ekka last year! All ya gotta do is make yourself comfortable and hit the target - it's a piece of p...!! You don't even load your own cartridges, they comes in little boxes, and ya don't have to steady yourself against the rollbar of the roo shooting truck when you reload!
Sometimes ya gotta wrestle with the city boys and I gotta be real careful coz they break easy - it's not like fighting with Doug and Phil and Jack and Boori and Steve and Muzza all at once like we do at home after the muster.
Turns out I'm not a bad boxer either and it looks like I'm the best the platoon's got, and I've only been beaten by this one bloke from the Engineers - he's 6 foot 5 and 15 stone and three pick handles across the shoulders and as ya know I'm only 5 foot 7 and eight stone wringin' wet, but I fought him till the other blokes carried me off to the boozer.
I can't complain about the Army - tell the boys to get in quick before word gets around how bloody good it is.
Your loving daughter,
Susan
/ravi
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Good one, I've seen variations of this but never a female. 
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Really? 
Every version of this I'd seen was from a woman and written to imply that city boys were weak and unmanly. 
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Dan Neely wrote: Every version of this I'd seen was from a woman and written to imply that city boys were weak and unmanly.
After thinking about it your probably right, hadn't heard it in a long time and memories getting bad.
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Trying to understand the behavior of some people is like trying to smell the color 9.
I'm not crazy, my reality is just different than yours!
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The Ekka is the annual agricultural show of Queensland.
Held in Brisneyland.
Bryce
MCAD
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I think that was first sent around on the original formation of the ANZACs*.
* Bloody good blokes. Do Not forget 25th April, next year.
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Took me a second to realize that the site is the British equivalent of The Onion...
According to my calculations, I should be able to retire about 5 years after I die.
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Apparently a yes vote could signal the death knell for Scottish football as early as 28 years ago.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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I heard Rangers are moving to Accrington Stanley...
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Who are they?
"Je pense, donc je mange." - Rene Descartes 1689 - Just before his mother put his tea on the table.
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Exactly.
Obviously I am too old:
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"Je pense, donc je mange." - Rene Descartes 1689 - Just before his mother put his tea on the table.
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Or Rest Britain instead of Great Britain.
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Same
Old
Britain
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It will still be called Greta Britain since the name is derived from the native language of what is now England and Wales, Brythonic Celtic. Little Britain, or Brittany, is of course in France, and is the smaller population of Brythonic Celtic speakers.
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Munchies_Matt wrote: Greta Britain
I knew a Greta. Great gal, lots of fun back in the day.
Within you lies the power for good - Use it!
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So, delay day number two....Kerching!
Day one's money was spent on network gear.......I think today's money will go on a new corner shower door and perhaps some underfloor heating kit to retrofit to the living room.
No delay day hopefully tomorrow, 2 is enough.
Not much difference to earlier[^]
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I think I'm in the wrong industry. 
Regards,
Rob Philpott.
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Well it is not one where you can't be flexible, thats for sure! When the flights were marginal for flying earlier we had payload restrictions imposed and had to drop 2 passengers. How to destroy someones day in one phone call!
You wouldn't believe (or maybe you would) how some people go absolutely mental when they get bumped, it is bad enough when the oddballs start to panic when there is fog showing on the forecast for the day they are going home.
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Looks like soup, hope things work out and you can get home.
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