Didge Doo

Name three thoughts that spring to mind about Australia? Or Spain? Or Iceland? (Kangaroos, bull fights and icebergs will score only one point each.)

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Jaimie  JT Profile
Jaimie JT answered

All Australians are tan...nope

All Australians cook on the " Barbie",... Nope :)

All Australians can surf ... Big hells to the no on that one ;)

All Australians are " white ":... Nope:)

All Australians think " thongs" mean flip flops .... This one is actually true:/ they call the flip flops jangles or something too ... So weird :) I'm dating a guy who was born in Australia and lives here now:)  we get on very well :) when we do :) so I know allot of stuff about Australian stuff :)

-Australian accents are sexy as 'yeah they are  ;) I may keep this one for a while or 20ish years ;) 

I can't do Iceland or Spain .... Cos I've never dated anyone from Iceland or Spain .... I'm fine with that .

PJ Stein Profile
PJ Stein answered

Australia;

1. Great Barrier Reef

2. Ayers Rock, also known as Uluru

3. Steve Irwin

Spain;

1. Antoni Gaudi

2. Flamenco dancing

3.Sangria

Iceland;

1. Volcanoes

2. Hot springs

3. Seljalandsfoss waterfall

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Didge Doo
Didge Doo commented
What great choices.
Ray  Dart
Ray Dart commented
Be careful about Gaudi and Spain. He considered himself Catalan, and could be quite dismissive about "the Spanish". But most of us would consider him Spanish, I agree.
Virginia Lou
Virginia Lou commented
Never even heard of Gaudi until a year ago, what a remarkable artist!
Jann Nikka Profile
Jann Nikka answered

OZ

1. Sydney

2. Brisbane

3. Penal Colony

Spain

1.  Barcelona

2. Next to Portugal

3. Spanish Armada

Iceland

1. Cold

2. Blue Lagoon

3. Reykavik

Virginia Lou Profile
Virginia Lou answered

Spain: Ernest Hemingway, FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS; Catherine of Aragon (1485-1536), first wife of King Henry VIII; St. John of the Cross and St. Teresa of Avila, wonderful saints as well as great literary figures of the 16th century.

Australia: Walkabout in the outback; an amazing dream around 1992, in which I had the same sensitivity to the environment as the aborigines; the convict settlers, the same tradition of outcasts that made the USA great.

Iceland: The ICELANDER SAGAS of the 13th century; Reykjavik; the profound banking collapse of 2008.

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Didge Doo
Didge Doo commented
I managed to find an original Hemingway knock-knock joke for Otis's question. MInd you, Mr H was much more explicit than the tame "Go to hell" I finished with but I didn't think words of four letters would be welcome. :)
Virginia Lou
Virginia Lou commented
I think I recall that Mr. H was quite renowned for his explicicity?
Virginia Lou
Virginia Lou commented
Anyway, I am heading toward Otis' Q soon!
KB Baldwin Profile
KB Baldwin answered

Australia:

1.  Killer kolas that drop from trees.

2. Problems with sweet little bunny rabbits.

3. Physically moving east

Spain:

1. Serious regional conflicts

2. Torquemada

3.  Financed Christopher Columbus

Iceland:

1.  Put their crooked bankers in jail

2.  Almost put a political party named "The Pirate Party" into office

3.  Have excellent genealogical records going back for centuries

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Didge Doo
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KB this is exceptional. I'd forgotten about the Pirate Party. (Considering the current level of unrest, maybe a pirate party could win a few votes in the US next Tuesday.)

Glad you remembered Torquemada. Nasty fellow. :(
Ray  Dart Profile
Ray Dart answered

Australia:

Cricket

Cricket

Cricket

Spain:

Cava

Football

Franco

Iceland:

Morgunbladid (once a customer of mine)

Crooked Banks (I think that is matched elsewhere)

Patronymic Surnames

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Didge Doo
Didge Doo commented
Well, you certainly bowled a good over,Ray. The Icelandic patronymic surnames are interesting. If Desmond Bagley is correct their phone book must be a mess for it shows the given name first and the family name last: So Elin Ragnarsdottir would be listed under E. Gotta be hard to navigate.
Virginia Lou
Virginia Lou commented
Didge this is turning out an interesting Q; from Ray's answer I have just learned that most cava comes from Catalonia; and the only difference from champagne is the grapes.

Also, POWELL is a patronym, as is Fernandez.
Didge Doo
Didge Doo commented
I ALWAYS learn from Ray's answers, Virginia.
otis campbell Profile
otis campbell answered

Roos,wombats,koalas

Tazmanian devils,box jellyfish,deadly snakes,

Good beer

Matey

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Didge Doo
Didge Doo commented
Thanks,Otis. I attended a workshop at JCU in the tropical north in 1988 and was invited to a BBQ. The guy lived right on the beach and shooshed me off till they were ready. When I got back I told him I'd waded the whole length of Townsville Beach. "Did you forget the jellyfish?" he asked. And I had.

I was bloody lucky. Toward the beginning of the season they're everywhere and will sting youu badly, but they're not deadly. Toward the end of the season, the time I was up there, most of them have been taken by predators but those that remain are lethal.

Whew!
Rooster Cogburn Profile
Rooster Cogburn , Rooster Cogburn, answered

Australia

Spain

Iceland



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Jann Nikka
Jann Nikka commented
LOL
Didge Doo
Didge Doo commented
What an absolutely inspired answer!

One of the men I used to work with once spent a four week vacation travelling, first in South Africa, then the UK, then Europe. When he came back he showed me his photographs. Every one of them was a picture of himself drinking in a different bar. :)
Virginia Lou
Virginia Lou commented
The Rooster has got his priorities in order, here!
Janis Haskell Profile
Janis Haskell answered

Australia:

Koalas

Walkabout

Boomerangs

Spain:

Running of The Bulls

Mantilla Veil

Che Geuvara

Iceland:

Greener than Greenland

Whales

Geysers


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Didge Doo
Didge Doo commented
I'm getting some surprising answers to this question. I'd forgotten about running the bulls and the mantilla slipped my mind. That's so very Spanish.

I read somewhere once that Greenland was an early realtor's confidence trick. Well, not really a realtor, but somebody who wanted groups of Vikings to head west and settle the place dubbed it Greenland. It seems to have worked. They still have a population.

They had some controversy there just a little while ago about uranium mining. On BBC radio, I heard one of their leading politicians, a woman, state that if the mine went ahead she would not only resign her position, she would leave Greenland.
Janis Haskell
Janis Haskell commented
Yes, Didge ... just goes to show the appeal power in a name. (Maybe I'll try to dream up one for myself!) LOL

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