From: efor6920@bigpond.net.au   
      
   "Xam"  wrote in message news:ft945c$aj8$1@aioe.org...   
   > fozzi wrote:   
   >> "Xam"  wrote in message news:ft25g1$c5r$1@aioe.org...   
   >>> fozzi wrote:   
   >>> I'm right there with you on all that.  Credit where credit's due, no   
   >>> country has ever produced the quality and quantity of top comedians and   
   >>> TV/movie comedies that Brittan has. No question.   
   >>>   
   >>> >>   
   >   
   > Yes, well, if I ever hear another chorus of "six white boomers" again, I   
   > think I'm gunna' chunder! (We don't want him!  Go away!  You took him, you   
   > can keep the smegger!) (-: And we only have Andrew Denton to blame for   
   > bring him out of retirement to do a wobble board version of "Stairway to   
   > heaven"! I'll give him enough bloody rope! (-:   
      
   Yeah the tune can be annoying, but I admit I absolutely love the sheer joy   
   in kids faces as they sing along to it.   
      
   >   
   > But anyway, just think of all the Kiwi artistes we consider to be Aussie.   
   > Not to mention a certain Scottish "working class man" considered by most   
   > to be quintessentially Australian.  Or even the misses, who's family to   
   > this day has a farm in Workington (UK) (and has done for over 400 years!)   
   > didn't move out to Australia till she was twelve, wouldn't hear of being   
   > described as anything as but an Aussie. I guess my point is, "Home is   
   > where the heart is."   
   >   
      
   Not to mention another Scot, who started working life as a shipbuilder on   
   the Clyde, who many of us are quite happy to include as an 'honorary Ausie'   
   despite the fact his only real link to the country is being married to   
   Pamela Stevenson.   
      
      
   > Btw Fozzi, have you (or anyone reading this) thought of adding a the   
   > missing British comedians to the wiki? I'm sure you would be doing   
   > everyone a favour.   
   >   
      
   I might add a few, but im afraid even I cant be completely comprehensive   
   either, my info is only good for about the mid sixties onwards.   
      
      
   Cheers   
   Fozzi   
      
   > From the south side of the big pond.   
   > -Xam   
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