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STRAYA, YOU'RE STANDING IN 'EM

Or not, as the case may be.

Nothing quite says "Have a great Australia Day" like a pair of moccasins left to loiter in our school carpark.

But really ... when did Australia Day become a greeting day? It's how Tones Delroy talked to callers on last night's Challenge: "Have a great Straya Day, Pat from Mt Lawley." Today Karen Tighe welcomed listeners to Grandstand with a "Happy Straya Day." Once upon a time this business was restricted to Christmas and other birthdays, then it was Mother's Day, then Father's Day, now Australia Day. It can't be long before this celebration day creep encourages people to "Have a great Tuesday."

Today used to be a nice, peaceful day of watching cricket from Adelaide - Go the Aussies! - with maybe a Roulettes flypast. Now, because we just have to overegg the golden goose, Straya Day has become a Have A Great Day Day with simulcasted fireworks. It gets right on my tits.

The public holiday is fuckin' grouse, but.

Posted by Tony on Friday, January 26, 2007 at 14:50 | Comments (21)
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Comments

Just when does one slip out of ya moccies?

Can ya pass the etiquite, etaquit, ettequet bloody manners book tones.

Anyway have a great oz day mate.

Posted by Francis Xavier Holden on January 26, 2007 at 17:37

Someone was bound to beat me to it.
All right, well... congrats on the cricket then!

Posted by anne on January 26, 2007 at 18:52

One can NEVER have too many paid public holidays, old chap.

Happy 'Strayaday.

Posted by Pedro the Ignorant on January 26, 2007 at 20:22

It's a happy Straya Day, too, at the Groan's OBO:

England are corpsing live on my screen, displaying the aptitude of a bunch of sunday amateurs, the determination of a dying dog, this is filth. Absolute filth. The most hapless, feckless and pathetic performance since the last game they played.

Posted by Tony.T on January 26, 2007 at 22:26

OBO made especially sweet reading on Australia Day.

That and Sam Kekovic. His monologues crack me up.

Posted by Scott Wickstein on January 27, 2007 at 02:49

You are officially an old grouch. Time to start looking for a trash can to live in. I mean rubbish bin.

Posted by Yobbo on January 27, 2007 at 03:39

You lot are lucky.
In England on St Georges Day the authorities or publicans hardly acknowledge it at all.
As for St Patricks day,St Andrews Day, St Davids Day, ramadan the pricks cant get enough of it.
As soon as we show a bit of national pride we normally get nicked, and tarred with being a member of NF or Combat 18.
Keep enjoying the day ladies and gents, and keep being proud of your nationality. As soon as the pc brigade get in or it starts slipping, well its a cancer that cannot be stopped

Posted by Vaughny on January 27, 2007 at 05:29

I confess I employed the phrase "Happy Strayaday" often and often yesterday. When one is drunk amongst a large group of people he cares but little for -- your typical Oz Day Hottest Hundred party -- he is grateful for everything that remotely resembles conversation. Hell, any variation from the usual "Gdayowsitgoinmateorrite?" is welcome indeed.

Posted by Harry on January 27, 2007 at 12:08

Call me Ozcar The Grouch. Just don't call me late for tea.

Posted by Tony.T on January 27, 2007 at 16:25

Well said, Vaughny. How's the knee? No chance of your lot being late for tea - they were in before sunset!

Posted by nick on January 27, 2007 at 16:34

Chloe Saltau in today's Age wasn't the only reporter to slam England, but she was the only reporter to tell them to &^%* off. In the print edition, anyway, not online.

The game finished in the sunshine before 7pm and spectators who had paid as much as $60 for tickets had to find something else to do. Australia can only hope for more of a stretch when it plays New Zealand in Perth tomorrow. In the meantime, the kindest thing may be to summon the Virgin Atlantic Airbus and get England the &^%* out of here.

Posted by Tony.T on January 27, 2007 at 17:02

Straya day was the day when my most disliked relative popped out her whining potato-faced offspring (who was duly given a ragingly patriotic moniker) so every Straya day I am doomed to front up, with rictus in place to "celebrate" potato-face's birth. It's therefore a dead loss to me.

Posted by Helen on January 28, 2007 at 11:09

Yeah, get them the wingdings out of here.

Nah, seriously, keep 'em here as long as possible. Ever since 1981, I've taken an unholy glee in seeing English cricketers get done. The Ashes last year just sharpened that edge, really.

Posted by carneagles on January 28, 2007 at 11:57

Oh, and as for Strayaday, I'm sick of the whole flag fetish thing.

Posted by carneagles on January 28, 2007 at 11:58

This shits me about Straya Day. We spend 16 months shitcanning the decision to give the Poms gongs for winning the Ashes, and then the Hun says Our Boys not winning them a "snub". The reason Jones, Collingwood, Giles & co won a gong is PRECISELY the reason I don't want Our Boys to win them.

Ashes heroes' official snub

AUSTRALIA'S Ashes-winning cricket heroes - unlike their English counterparts 18 months ago - have been overlooked for national honours.

Not even skipper Ricky Ponting is among those lauded in today's Australia Day awards.

The snub is in stark contrast to the swag of gongs for the England squad after its 2005 Ashes triumph.

Posted by Tony.T on January 28, 2007 at 13:30

We had a most interesting round table "discussion" regarding burning the flag. We had pro burners and anti burners and don't care burners. Fair enough. Then I asked wether it was OK to burn the aboriginal flag. Well well splutter splutter!

Posted by chrisl on January 28, 2007 at 13:36

I want my moccies back.

Posted by Darlene on January 28, 2007 at 14:38

Forget the flag, I'd rather burn Darlene's moccies.

Posted by Tony.T on January 29, 2007 at 10:50

The Australian Sports Medal was instituted for the very purpose. If they didn't even get those awarded by a self-confessed cricket tragic, then it makes a mockery of the awards system. Hang on...

Posted by CB on January 29, 2007 at 20:21

easy for the mother of a most beautiful child to call another's "potato face', but WHAT? is the "suitably patriotic name" of potato face?
I rilly want to know ...
Banjo
Matilda
Bonzer
Shirley
Ned
Dirk Hartog
Sherrin
Bradman .... tell us please.

Posted by brownie on January 30, 2007 at 16:16

Bruce!!

Posted by Helen on January 30, 2007 at 16:40

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