Friday, March 12, 2004

Are you a true blue aussie?

shamelessly lifted from nicole...

You get one point for each one you've done.....

1. You've caught a blowfly buzzing around your head with your bare hands.
2. You've mimicked Alf Stewart from 'Home and Away' - "Push off, ya flamin' mongrel".
3. You have argued whether Fords are better than Holden's.
4. You've done the Hot Sand run from the beach to your towel.
5. You know who Ray Martin is.
6. You call your home "My Joint".
7. You start using words like 'Bloody, grouse and champ'.
8. You stop greeting people with 'Hello' and go straight into 'how're you doin'?
9. You've seriously considered running down to the shops in a pair of ugh boots.
10. You own ugh boots. [used to...]
11. You've been to a one day cricket match and screamed incomprehensibly until your throat went raw. [half a point?]
12. You've had to decide between putting up with mosquitoes and moving the BBQ inside.
13. You've changed your ring tone on your mobile phone to something much more annoying than the one it came with.
14. You kind of know the first verse of the national anthem, but buggered if you know what 'girt' means.
15. You have a story that some how revolves around excess consumption of alcohol and a mate named 'Dave'. [several...]
16. You own a Bonds t-shirt and wear it with pride. (extra points if you own Bonds undies as well)
17. You've attended a music festival on the hottest day of the year.
18. you know the words to the neighbours theme song but still don't know how
19. you've thrown a shrimp on a barbie.
20. You own pair of thongs for every day use, and another pair of dress thongs for special occasions.
21. You don't know what's in a meat pie and you don't care.
22. You pronounce Australia: 'Strayl-ya'.
23. You call soccer 'soccer', not football.
24. You've squeezed Vegemite between Vita Wheat to make Vegemite worms. [oh yes!!!]
25. You suck coffee though a Tim Tam. (Harrah for the Tim Tam slammer!!)
26. You've become deeply cynical of politicians.
27. You realise that lifeguards are the only ones who can wear Speedo's and look good.
28. You pledge allegiance to Vegemite over Promite. [and disgusting marmite]
29. In your CD collection you have at least one: Kylie Minogue, Cold Chisel or Paul Kelly.
30. You understand the value of Public Holidays. [birthright!!]
31. You think that the Crocodile Hunter is just an idiot.
32. You believe that the flavour of any meal is improved by adding tomato sauce.
33. Your weekends are spent barracking for your favourite sports team.
34. You have a toilet dolly.
35. You've played beach cricket with a tennis ball and a bat fashioned out of a fence post.
36. You firmly believe that in the end, everything will be ok, and have told a mate in tough times that 'She'll be right, mate'.
37. You use the phrase 'no worries' at least once a day.
38. You constantly shorten words. For example, breakfast becomes 'brekkie' and afternoon becomes 'arvo', barbeque becomes 'barbie'.
39. You order a $5 steak the size of your head at your local RSL.
40. You've adopted a local bar as one of your own.
41. Wondered why Bert Newton is still pretty cool for an old guy.
42. You can't understand why John Farnham never became an international success.

If you've been reading this with a tinny in your hand yelling out "Too right mate", you're a True Blue Aussie.