Some reasons (real!) why Australia is so weird.
1. Captain Bligh - Mutiny on the Bounty guy - was one of our Governers during our penal-colony era.
2. We lost a Prime Minister (Harold Holt). We still haven't found him.
3. We voted for Queen Elizabeth. We're the only people who've ever voted for her. (I won't go so far as to say we're the only people who've ever voted for a Monarch, but ... )
(ref: Australia's Republic referendum, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austral...ferendum,_1999)
4. We imported rabbits. When it turned out to be an ecological disaster, we built a rabbit-proof fence. With rabbits on both sides!
5. Edlided for fratch-worthiness.
1. Captain Bligh - Mutiny on the Bounty guy - was one of our Governers during our penal-colony era.
2. We lost a Prime Minister (Harold Holt). We still haven't found him.
3. We voted for Queen Elizabeth. We're the only people who've ever voted for her. (I won't go so far as to say we're the only people who've ever voted for a Monarch, but ... )
(ref: Australia's Republic referendum, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austral...ferendum,_1999)
4. We imported rabbits. When it turned out to be an ecological disaster, we built a rabbit-proof fence. With rabbits on both sides!
5. Edlided for fratch-worthiness.
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