Actually, it just shows that you have impeccable good taste. Hold on tho', please tell me you weren't wearing Bermuda shorts in Windsor where the Queen [gawd bless her] might have seen you.

 

Think on this. If you had lost the war of independence, America is much closer than Australia as a dumping ground for undesirables. You too might have been a penal colony.

 

Might have been ..... wasn't Georgia used for that purpose?

 

My hundredth posting. It seems only yesterday that I joined. I suppose this makes me, as we say, a gob-sh...
Better say something intelligent. 100 or century. Captain in the Roman Army was a centurion ; 100th anniversary is a centennial, etc. So 100 is a significant event - must go buy some more brandy since someone drank my last bottle. I suspect that Nafango did in fact creep thro' the internet as he [she ?] threatened to do. Nafango , you owe me a bottle of brandy.

 

Do you mean historically or lately ?

 

Wasn't it founded as an American State made up of "criminals"?

 

Yeah...why do you think the Australian accent is simply a rough sounding British accent?

 

And that's going to make you very popular in the Antipodes, cobber !

 

Actually Windsor and many other areas were closed due tothe foot & mouth epidemic so Her Majesty was not in residence.

 

you are dodging the question. You must have something to hide .