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Today is Australia Day.
There is a reason it’s Australia Day but as is typical for most of us Aussies, I can’t exactly remember what that reason is. I think it has something to do with the First Fleet arriving on our shores many moons ago to dump off all the convicts from Great Britain (not what you’d call an illustrious start for a country but a start nonetheless)!
A comment left on my recent cuddling a koala post by Jason at Escape Adulthood sparked this week’s question. Jason mentioned how Steve Irwin from Australia Zoo is “one of the only famous people I’ve ever encountered who didn’t appear to have a shred of Adultitis in him”.
For the record, according to Jason (& Kim, Jason’s wife), “Adultitis is a common condition occurring in people between the ages of 21–121, marked by chronic dullness, mild depression, moderate to extremely high stress levels, a general fear of change, and, in some extreme cases, the inability to smile.”
OK, I have to tell you up front, there’s nothing cuter than a koala (maybe a baby koala, but that’s it).
They’re my kind of animal too, mostly because they spend most of their time slothing around looking good, getting high on eucalypt leaves and watching the world go by from the fork of a tree. Read the rest of this entry »
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