THE BAWDY WOMEN OF OZ

The Sunday Times (of London)

-- Lars (larsguy@yahoo.com), December 31, 2000

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GoodDay to Squire Lars et al,

'Tis a fine warm new year's night before the revelry ahead, and I assure you f'n Yankees that this sordid tale linked by that LarsDude, can be fully blamed on your own obstreperous baker's dozen colonials whose urges for self determination forced the early settlement at Sydney Cove by the dregs of Pommie society.

Tomorrow, us mob in OZ celebrate 100 years of our Federation by a Pommie Act of Parliament at the House of Common in distant London Town when they did indeed vote on it at some dismally late hour with hardly anyone left in the House to be bothered at all. Tomorrow's drumming of the celebrities will include direct decedents of these fateful ships, including Helen 'I am Woman' Reddy(sp?) etc.

I would please ask you Yankees to refrain from rattling the macaroni skeletons in the proverbial cupboard due to there being certain connexions to OZ that are best left to fret in the dank-n- damp without needlessly airing them on this here august f'n board...

Happy New Year you bleeding blighters!!!

-- Pieter (zaadz@icisp.net.au), December 31, 2000.

PS,

I add that nothing has changed much. Today bawdy sheilas congregate at the Spinster & Bachelor shindigs at bushbashs', and at Young Liberal Party meetings for hoity-toit marriage guidance. It's a heady brew of genetic engineering begun in the convict ships mentioned...; take a look at our Parliament and I rest my case.

Regards etc.

-- Pieter (zaadz@icisp.net.au), December 31, 2000.

Pieter--

Helen Reddy?! There's a name from the past. She was a one-song semi-sensation. Are they too cheap do better? I'll talk to Mel Gibson. Even Paul Hogan would be an improvement. How about the Bee Gees? I'd say Olivia N-J, but I'm not sure she is still alive. I hope so, I was a groupie.

-- Lars (larsguy@yahoo.com), December 31, 2000.

G'Day for New Year's day 'groupie' Lars,

Olivia N J is mostly an American now, doing her shop called Koala Blue at LA. It went bad apparently but Olivia gets invited frequently to OZ for her mass appeal to OZ dwellers. She's a migrant from the some English bog that's done all right Down Under and then ran away to embrace everything American. Shit happens I suppose.

As for rattling the colonial skeletons and claiming linial blood etc. - it was hidden even in the 1960's when I arrived here. By the 1970's a certain attractiveness attached itself to the claim of having convict ancestors. Today it is almost as if it's a prerequisite for success in OZ...our lives are so dull that a bit of a rogue two adds spice to the mix...

Your own fascination with 'patriots' can be seen in a same light, a reinventing of yourself by claiming character and style from the emotion of other days. Odd phenomenon that says volumes about the type of people we are...

Regards from the Deep South of OZ

-- Pieter (zaadz@icisp.net.au), December 31, 2000.