OT: Australians (was Re: "Pendennis Castle")

["John Nuttall" <john@jwnuttall.freeserve.co.uk>]

Are there nicknames for people from all the states and territories? The only
one I had heard before was Banana Benders.

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Regards

John

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> In article <38fda009$0$25593@echo-01.iinet.net.au>,
>   "Forster Family Inc" <noelmel@wantree.com.au> wrote:
> >
> > "David Bromage" <dbromage@fang.omni.com.au> wrote in message
> > NeQK4.77$fj3.539223@news0.optus.net.au">news:NeQK4.77$fj3.539223@news0.optus.net.au...
> > > [uk.railway added]
> > >
> > > philippa rogers (pmrogers@iinet.net.au) won a Nobel Prize for
> literature
> > by writing:
> > Wow! Joint winners for the Y2K! Mr Bromage awarded me a Nobel Prize
> for
> > literature earlier in the year. We Western Australians ( actually I'm
> a
> > Victorian who hasn't had the lobotomy to become a West Australian)
> like to
> > get the message across to all readers giving the big picture hence our
> > propensity for waxing lyrical and putting ourselves up for said prize
> >  Australian version)
> >
> > NMF
>
> A Cabbage Farmer who thinks that becoming a Sand Groper is an
> improvement!!!!!  You need the lobotomy for that thought, not the act
> of moving!!!!!  :-)
>
> Brett
>
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