Gaelyne Gasson wrote in a message to David Read:

Hi Gaelyne,

 GG>  Er, it's Gaelyne.

Oops sorry  cardinal sin......

 GG>  Uh-huh.  I like to mail them postcards showing the world as
 GG> we see it  - with Australia at the top.  :-)

:)

 DR> We copy a lot of stuff from them, unfortunately that did not extend
 DR> to their fierce sense of national pride :( Try putting their mother
 DR> country down within earshot and see what happens.

 GG> Oh, so THAT's why I had so few people at the airport to see
 GG> me off. (I immigrated here from Septic land in December). 

To marry Rod?.. ... phew...nearly pulled another clanger :)

 GG> place and I'll not be insulted. For some reason I wasn't
 GG> born with that fierce sense of national pride in the
 GG> "motherland", mainly because my family originally came from
 GG> Denmark.

A couple of my friends in the RAAF found out the hard way during a USA v's
Aust military exercise off the Queensland coast :)....got a little pissed
and started mouthing off in the airmen's boozer .... got put down and
thrown out literally by this GIANT of a negro airman...big as a house he
was 
:)

Added later
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Found your home page searching for "aust avtech".....says it all....
Welcome back to South Oz.....


  David 
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