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From: dunleavy@acsu.buffalo.edu (Houston Dunleavy)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.australian
Subject: Re: "Waltzing Matilda" lyrics??
Date: 25 Aug 92 20:25:33 GMT
Organization: UB

In article <37190@sdcc12.ucsd.edu> tmarvan@sdcc3.ucsd.edu (Thomas Marvan) writes:
>Well, from memory, here is my attempt.  Corrections welcome.

	OK, here goes :-)
>
>Once a jolly swagman camped by a billabong
>Under the shade of a Collabah tree
>And he sat as he watched and waited till his billy boiled
 	^^^
	sang
>You'll come a waltzing Matilda with me
>
>Waltzing Matilda, waltzing Matilda
>You'll come a waltzing Matilda with me
>And he sang as he watched and waited till his billy boiled
>You'll come a waltzing Matilda with me
>
>Down came a jumbuck to drink from the billabong
>Up sprang the swagman and grabbed him with glee
>And he sang as he stowed that jumbuck in his tucker bag
		   ^^^^^^
I think it's      "shoved"
>You'll come a waltzing Matilda with me 
>
>Waltzing Matilda, waltzing Matilda
>You'll come a waltzing Matilda with me 
>And he sang as he stowed that jumbuck in his tuckerbag
>You'll come a waltzing Matilda with me
>
>Up came the squatter mounted on hs thoroughbred
>Down came the troopers, one, two, three!
>"Where's that jolly jumbuck you've got in your tuckerbag!"
>You'll come a waltzing Matilda with me
>
>Waltzing Matilda, waltzing Matilda
>You'll come a waltzing Matilda with me
>"Where's that jolly jumbuck you've got in your tuckerbag!"
>You'll come a waltzing Matilda with me
>
>Up jumped the swagman right into that billabong (not sure about
>this line)

Understandable:-)
I beleive it's "Up jumped the swagman and sprang into that billabong"
 
>"You'll never catch me alive!" said he
>And his ghost can be heard as you pass by that billabong
>You'll come a waltzing Matilda with me
>
>Waltzing Matilda, waltzing Matilda
>You'll come a waltzing Matilda with me
>And his ghost can be heard as you pass by that billabong
>You'll come a waltzing Matilda with me
	
	It is definitely our National Song though, and was under consideration
for the National Anthem, though the eventual winner was more suitable.  
(Oh come on you o/s types, you heard it seven times at the Olympics, your bound
to know it off by heart now:-)

cheers all,
 


-- 
Houston Dunleavy, single Aussie composer-in-exile. Peace, light and love to you
"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere." Dr. Martin Luther King.
	"It is better to write for yourself and not have a public, 
than to write for the public and not have a self" Cyril Connelly.
From: ian@robots.ox.ac.uk (Ian Reid)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.australian
Subject: Sydney Law Firms
Date: 4 Sep 92 08:01:15 GMT
Organization: Robotics Research Group, Engineering Science Dept, Oxford, UK.
Originator: ian@percy.robots


Sorry to fill this group with yet another request for info ...

Could anyone please send me a list of the major Law firms in Sydney,
(+ addresses if poss.) in particular those with European contacts.
Are there any major firms operating in Perth?

Cheers, Ian
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Newsgroups: soc.culture.australian
From: jondarr@macadam.mqcs.mq.oz.au (jondarr c g h 2 gibb)
Subject: Advance
Organization: Macquarie University, School of Mathematics, Physics, Computing and Electronics
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 23:21:39 GMT


        Advance

Australians never had a choice,
Had they the eyes to see,
That any Royal could only spoil
Republic luxury;
With leaps and bounds opinion shifts,
Where most just couldn't care :
The silent rage, an equal wage,
And pinch-free underwear;
We'll raise a glass to anything,
You poms stay over there.



                    
              Anyway the wind blows ...
                                                //\         /\\
                             /                 || * \ . . / * ||
               .  _   _   _/  _   _  _          \\____\X/____//
              / /_/ / / /_/ /-/ /  /             / *  /O\  * \
          ._/                                    \__/  "  \__/

jondarr@macadam.mpce.mq.edu.au  (137.111.216.12)
jondarr@mpce.mq.edu.au
jondarr@macgraw.mpce.mq.edu.au

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From: lawriew@runx.oz.au (Lawrie Waller)
Subject: Re: Turks oppressed in Australia?
Organization: RUNX Un*x Timeshare.  Sydney, Australia.
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 92 01:50:34 GMT

In article <Bt2z2p.Hq2@well.sf.ca.us> dasher@well.sf.ca.us (D Anton Sherwood) writes:
>
>Forgive me for coming into this late, but I just looked at
>soc.culture.australian for the first time and all I find is 4 messages about
>Turks and their neighbors.  Was I wrong in expecting s.c.aus to be about
>Australia?  Aren't s.c.turkish, s.c.greek, t.p.mideast enough?  Or has
>the Greek/Turk/Kurd/Armenian conflict spread to the antipodes?
>
>Cluelessly yours,
>-- 
>D Anton Sherwood *\\* dasher@well.sf.ca.us *\\* +1 415 664 2229
>Libertarian candidate for California Assembly, 12th district

Watch it mate or you will be inundated with hate mail from all the
politically correct(ie those who cant think for themselves) calling
you nazi, racist, etc etc.
-- 
===========================================================================
lawriew@runx.oz.au              |Friend is sometimes a word devoid of
Lawrie Waller-SYDNEY AUS        |meaning;enemy,never.(Victor Hugo)
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Newsgroups: soc.culture.australian
From: LOGIN@cbnewsd.cb.att.com
Subject: Re: Sydney Harbour Tunnel
Organization: AT&T
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 17:34:28 GMT


In article <1992Sep2.163546.17418@lmpsbbs.comm.mot.com> johnson@sleipnir.mnesouth.corp.mot.com writes:

(Chicago freight tunnel flooding synopsis deleted.)

>This shouldn't be a problem for other tunnels, though...no other
>government in the world could be so riddled with incompetents!  :-)


OH PUH-LEEZ!!!

*Most* governments are that riddled with incompetents!    0.5 :-)

Newsgroups: soc.culture.australian
From: johnston@fys.ruu.nl (Helen Johnston)
Subject: Re: Re: "Waltzing Matilda" lyrics?? (What was the swaggy's name?)
Organization: Physics Department, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 09:59:54 GMT

In article <25570002@hpcc01.corp.hp.com> dbooth@hpcc01.corp.hp.com (david booth) writes:
>OK, we've all debated the authentic version of this fabulous little
>tune, but who of you has heard and can provide the lyrics for the
>alternative. I have only heard it sung once or twice, and can only
>remember the first few lines. It goes:
>
>Once a jolly vagabond
>camped by a lily pond,
>under the shade of an old oak tree.
>
>the tune also goes on about have a little fling with matilda but be
>careful of sexually transmitted deseases.
>
Well, I don't know about the sexually transmitted deseases bit, but I
collected the following off the net some time ago. It purports to be
"Waltzing Matilda" translated into "English":

    Once a jolly vagabond camped by a lilypond
    under the shade of an old oak tree
    and he sang as he watched and waited till his kettle boiled
    who'll come a walking a bulldog with me.

    Along came a hedgehog to drink at the lilypond
    Up jumped the vagabond and grabbed him with glee
    He shoved the little hedgehog into his great big picnic-hamper
    you'll come a walking etc.

    Along came a constable on a big red bicycle
    up came the gamekeepers one,two,three,
    Where's that little hedgehog that you've got in your picnic hamper
    You'll come a walking etc.

    Up jumped the vagabond and leapt into the lilypond
    etc (same as the original)
-- 
Helen Johnston       | Astronomye is an harde thynge and yvel forto knowe.
johnston@fys.ruu.nl  |      -- William Langland, Piers the Plowman
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From: dyfl@mullian.ee.mu.OZ.AU (Daniel Y Lam)
Subject: Re: Greiner (Was : What's happening in Victorian and Federal politics)
Organization: Computer Science, University of Melbourne, Australia
Date: Sun, 30 Aug 1992 07:15:15 GMT

torda@igc.ethz.ch (Andrew Torda) writes:

>For the benefit of those of us out of town, could you tell us,
>What has Greiner managed to sell off ?

I wish I could give you a long list.  But the only thing I know about
(and I don't know everything) is some water boards.  Maybe someone
from NSW can correct me and elaborate a bit more here.

--
	Daniel Lam
	Melbourne, Australia

In my opinion, the opinions expressed here are my personal opinions.
From: stephen@cc.uow.edu.au (Stephen Nicholson)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.australian
Subject: Re: "Waltzing Matilda" lyrics?? (What was the swaggy's name?)
Date: 27 Aug 92 23:37:43 GMT
Organization: The Nightmare

andrew@megadata.mega.oz.au (Andrew McRae) writes:

>From article <1992Aug26.234356.25412@cc.uow.edu.au>, by stephen@cc.uow.edu.au (Stephen Nicholson):
>> 
>> The old question is, of course, WHAT WAS THE SWAGGY'S NAME?
>> 
>> The answer _is_ to be found in the song.

>	Juan's a jolly swagman...

Well, hmm, in today's multicultural Australia this may be more appropriate,
but I was thinking of something a little more anglo.

By the way, another nice set of lyrics from Waltzing Matilda starts something
like:

"Once one of me best friends sat down and we pulled some bongs,
near some naughty plants with serrated leaves..."

- the hippy version :-)

>Andrew McRae (andrew@megadata.mega.oz.au)

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Newsgroups: soc.culture.australian
From: smcneil@metro (Shannon McNeil)
Subject: Re: "Waltzing Matilda" lyrics??
Organization: Sydney University Computing Service, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 01:32:03 GMT

>>>Up jumped the swagman right into that billabong (not sure about
>>>this line)
>>      Me neither, but seems ok.
> 	
> 	
> 	******************** 
> 	
> 	-> from my recollection it was
> 	
> 	"Up jumped the swagman and dived into the billabong"

How about

	"Up jumped the swagman and sprang into the billabong"


> 			       
> 				       But I'm willing to be corrected.

					   So am I.


Shannon
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From: ivan@erich.triumf.ca (Ivan D. Reid)
Subject: Re: could these be the ORIGINAL Waltzing Matilda lyrics?
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Organization: TRIUMF: Tri-University Meson Facility
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 07:30:00 GMT

In article <Bu0sAr.A4@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca>,
	 cbs@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca (Chris Syed) writes...
>Well, could these be the original Waltzing Matilda lyrics?
> [...]
>So... where did the waterhole go, who introduced the GHOST, and
>who got rid of My Darling so Queensland could re-discover it????
>And what's this water-bag bit? 
> 
	Doesn't look too different from the lyrics I posted a while ago, that
date back to at least 1917.

Ivan Reid, Paul Scherrer Institute, CH.     			ivan@cvax.psi.ch
"noematical -- a. Obs. rare;  Originating, or existing, in thought, or in the
 mind alone."	-- Compact Oxford Dictionary
From: tmarvan@sdcc3.ucsd.edu (Thomas Marvan)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.australian
Subject: Re: enquiry for job opportunities in australia.
Date: 29 Aug 92 08:17:27 GMT
Organization: University of California, San Diego

In article <1992Aug28.023001.23969@mailhost.ocs.mq.edu.au> s8923098@macnab.mqcs.mq.oz.au (Josef WIDJAJA) writes:
>
>You are right. I really thought US green card is some kind of ID card.
>Sorry about that. Thanks for your correction.




For all intents and purposes, the US does have a type of ID card
(apart from the driver's license) in the form of the social security
number.  Australia's equivalent is the tax file number, although I
believe it is used more sparingly than in the US for opening bank
accounts, etc.







Tom Marvan.
From: tomazi@smop.fr.mugnet.org (Georges A. Tomazi)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.australian
Subject: Job wanted
Summary: Job wanted in Australia
Keywords: job Australia
Date: 26 Aug 92 00:53:56 GMT
Organization: SMOP Public Access Un*x


	Hello,

I'd like to emigrate to Australia at the end of the year (November 1992).

In order to fill the requirements for the emigrant visa, I'm looking for 
a job or internship somewhere in the computer business.

I'm 27 years old, speak a decent English and have been working with Unix
for 6 years.

I'm currently working as a system administrator at a major Motorola
distributor in Paris.

If you know about a job, or if you are interested in further information, 
I would appreciate if you'd contact me by Email a.s.a.p. 

Thank you in advance,


                           Georges Tomazi
	

-- 
+------------------+-------------------------------------+--------------------+
|  Georges Tomazi  | Internet: tomazi@smop.in.sub.org    |       Voice:       |
|  Paris / France  |           tomazi@smop.fr.frmug.org  | (33-1) 45-06-70-52 |
+------------------+-------------------------------------+--------------------+
						and God created Unix ...
From: bennett@dstos3.dsto.gov.au
Newsgroups: soc.culture.australian
Subject: Re: "Waltzing Matilda" lyrics??
Date: 3 Sep 92 22:42:02 GMT
Organization: Defence Science and Technology Organisation

In article <1786@grivel.une.edu.au>, dwright@metz.une.edu.au (Denis Wright) writes:
> 
> I always wondered about the line
> 
> "Where's that jolly jumbuck you've got in your tuckerbag?"
> 

Apparently you missed my earlier post on this.  The line should read..

"Whose that jolly etc..."

Should be "whose is" but that wouldn't fit the number of beats (metre ?)

Regards,

John Bennett                                E-mail: bennett@dstos3.dsto.gov.au
Newsgroups: soc.culture.australian
From: sgcclmj@citec.oz.au (Liz Jones)
Subject: Re: "Waltzing Matilda" lyrics?? (What was the swaggy's name?)
Organization: CITEC
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 23:53:36 GMT

andrew@megadata.mega.oz.au (Andrew McRae) writes:
: From article <1992Aug26.234356.25412@cc.uow.edu.au>, by stephen@cc.uow.edu.au (Stephen Nicholson):
: > 
: > The old question is, of course, WHAT WAS THE SWAGGY'S NAME?
: > 
: > The answer _is_ to be found in the song.
: 
: 	Juan's a jolly swagman...
    Andy!
    's already been posted :)
    Andy sang as he watched, Andy waited till his billy boiled...

: > Sorry, no prizes, they're a bit hard to uuencode.
: 
: What a shame.
   bummer ...

liz
From: salter_duke@darwin.ntu.edu.au
Newsgroups: soc.culture.australian
Subject: Re: "Advance Australia Fair" 
Date: 27 Aug 92 09:37:22 +0900

In article <1992Aug26.190411.20505@cbnewsd.cb.att.com>, barth@cbnewsd.cb.att.com (barth.richards) writes:
> 

[interesting summary of earlier discussion deleted]

> 
> kimba@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Michael Newton) added that his little brother used
> to sing:
> 
>      Australian sunset ostrich oil...
> 
> 

My favourite mishearing is my son's:

Australians all are ostriches


-- 
Linden Salter-Duke		email: SALTER_DUKE@DARWIN.NTU.EDU.AU
Northern Territory University
Darwin, Australia		Snail: Box 40146, Casuarina, NT 0811
From: moorerr@msu.edu (richard r. moore)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.australian
Subject: Re: Oznews, 29th of August, 1992.
Date: 31 Aug 92 23:36:38 GMT
Organization: Computer laboratory, michigan state university

In article <8369@sirius.ucs.adelaide.edu.au> brad@winnie.cs.adelaide.edu.au (Brad Alexander ) writes:
>From: brad@winnie.cs.adelaide.edu.au (Brad Alexander )
>Subject: Oznews, 29th of August, 1992.
>Date: 30 Aug 92 04:26:27 GMT


>"Daintree road upgrade"- Brisbane: Premier Wayne Goss has promised to
>upgrade the controversial costal road through the Daintree rainforest in
>far North Queensland.
>  Mr Goss yesterday announced a $6.8 million project to convert the
>unsealed track to a major tourist route.
>---------

>Brad Alexander.

Any information about where this road will go and when it will be completed?
From: dunleavy@acsu.buffalo.edu (Houston Dunleavy)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.australian
Subject: Re: "Waltzing Matilda" lyrics?? (What was the swaggy's name?)
Date: 28 Aug 92 18:53:58 GMT
Organization: UB

In article <1992Aug26.234356.25412@cc.uow.edu.au> stephen@cc.uow.edu.au (Stephen Nicholson) writes:
>
>Alright people, we're obviously all experts on the lyrics of Waltzing
>Matilda (whichever version you happen to fancy).
>
>The old question is, of course, WHAT WAS THE SWAGGY'S NAME?
>
>The answer _is_ to be found in the song.
>
	The answer is, of course, 'Andy'
as in, "Andy sang Andy watched Andy waited 'til his billy boiled"

In my old lagerphone playing days, we were known as "Andy's Mates" for this 
reason......an unfair advantage for me here :-)

Cheers all,

-- 
Houston Dunleavy, single Aussie composer-in-exile. Peace, light and love to you
"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere." Dr. Martin Luther King.
	"It is better to write for yourself and not have a public, 
than to write for the public and not have a self" Cyril Connelly. 
Newsgroups: soc.culture.australian
From: miw@cc.uq.oz.au (Mark I. Williams)
Subject: Re: Oznews, 29th of August, 1992.
Organization: Prentice Centre, University of Queensland
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 00:53:47 GMT

jeremy@lion.inmos.co.uk (Jeremy Thorp) writes:

[Good description if the Daintree road omitted]

>Upgrading the track to a full tourist road sounds like a bad move. And, of course, that
>statement comes from a recent tourist to the area, and one who would love to come back and
>see the rainforest again (if it has not been destroyed :-()

Further to my previous wafflings on the topic, I heard a councillor 
from the Douglas Shire Council talking about that road the
other night, and he had a few interesting things to say.

(1) The road has been transferred from the control of the
Main Roads Department to the Douglas Shire Council. This
allows the road to be significantly scaled back. A MRD road
is not allowed, for example, to have a tree within 9m of
the centre line, and there are standards of camber,
curvature, etc. which necessitate major earthworks on an
MRD road. The Douglas shire council will keep the road
windy and narrow, and encourage the rainforest to
completely enclose it by planting (!) trees right up to
the edge of the bitumen. 

(2) The Douglas Shire Council will be collecting a toll on
the road, ranging from $10 return for a single-occupant car
to $50 return for a bus.

cheers,


--
Mark Williams         The University of Queensland       miw@cc.uq.edu.au
+61 7 36 54012   (w)  Prentice Centre
+61 7 36 54477  (fax) Qld 4072  Australia
Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae fuit.  -- Seneca
From: tmarvan@sdcc3.ucsd.edu (Thomas Marvan)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.australian
Subject: Re: National Anthem lyrics
Date: 28 Aug 92 21:29:33 GMT
Organization: University of California, San Diego

In article <Btp33K.3K3@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca> cbs@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca (Chris Syed) writes:
>In article <1992Aug27.073215.15590@syacus.acus.oz.au> steven@syacus.acus.oz.au (Steven Malikoff) writes:
>>: 
>>: Australians all let us rejoice, for we are young and free;
>>              ^^^
>>When we first had to sing this in school in the early 70's, it started
>>'Australia's Sons...'.
>>Not quite sure when it was surreptitiously replaced, but I guess it goes
>>along ok.
>>
>
>  Here, the words to "O Canada" were changed from "true patriot love in all
>  thy _sons_ command"... to "in all of us"... 


Also, the words of the Collingwood club song were changed from "Oh,
the premiership's a cakewalk" to something else (which I don't
recall). 

A good move, apparently, for those confounded Magpies actually won
the flag a couple of years later.


Can't say the word change has done much for Australia (or Canada),
though....






Tom Marvan.




Newsgroups: soc.culture.australian
From: johng@syacus.acus.oz.au (John GriffithsMel)
Subject: Re: Oznews, 29th of August, 1992.
Organization: ACUS Australian Centre for Unisys Software, Sydney
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 04:22:44 GMT

miw@cc.uq.oz.au (Mark I. Williams) writes:

>moorerr@msu.edu (richard r. moore) writes:

>>>"Daintree road upgrade"- Brisbane: Premier Wayne Goss has promised to
>>>upgrade the controversial costal road through the Daintree rainforest in
>>>far North Queensland.
>>>  Mr Goss yesterday announced a $6.8 million project to convert the
>>>unsealed track to a major tourist route.
>>>---------

>>>Brad Alexander.

>>Any information about where this road will go and when it will be completed?

>This road runs, I believe, from Cairns to Port Douglas. It was completed
>about 7 years ago.

>The idea is to seal it so the dust from traffic on it doesn't coat the
>leaves in the rainforest, and the runoff from it doesn't muddy the
>streams and the reef.

>cheers,


>Mark Williams         The University of Queensland       miw@cc.uq.edu.au
>+61 7 36 54012   (w)  Prentice Centre
>+61 7 36 54477  (fax) Qld 4072  Australia
>Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae fuit.  -- Seneca

Sorry, but your wrong, when I was up in Cairns and Port Douglas in September '91the road between them was sealed. In fact the road is sealed all the way to the Daintree village. The road stops being sealed past the Daintree river crossing 
on the road to Cooktown. I think its still the Bruce Highway, but I could
be mistaken.
BTW the rainforest isn't that close to the highway between Cairns and Port 
Douglas, its all Cane fields and as for the reef, its about 50miles off shore

cheers
John Griffiths

Newsgroups: soc.culture.australian
From: miw@cc.uq.oz.au (Mark I. Williams)
Subject: Re: Oznews, 29th of August, 1992.
Organization: Prentice Centre, University of Queensland
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 01:07:24 GMT

moorerr@msu.edu (richard r. moore) writes:

>>"Daintree road upgrade"- Brisbane: Premier Wayne Goss has promised to
>>upgrade the controversial costal road through the Daintree rainforest in
>>far North Queensland.
>>  Mr Goss yesterday announced a $6.8 million project to convert the
>>unsealed track to a major tourist route.
>>---------

>>Brad Alexander.

>Any information about where this road will go and when it will be completed?

This road runs, I believe, from Cairns to Port Douglas. It was completed
about 7 years ago.

The idea is to seal it so the dust from traffic on it doesn't coat the
leaves in the rainforest, and the runoff from it doesn't muddy the
streams and the reef.

cheers,


--
Mark Williams         The University of Queensland       miw@cc.uq.edu.au
+61 7 36 54012   (w)  Prentice Centre
+61 7 36 54477  (fax) Qld 4072  Australia
Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae fuit.  -- Seneca
Newsgroups: soc.culture.australian
From: noi@cs.mu.OZ.AU (Nittida Nuansri)
Subject: Re: "Waltzing Matilda" lyrics??
Organization: Computer Science, University of Melbourne, Australia
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 00:47:51 GMT

dunleavy@acsu.buffalo.edu (Houston Dunleavy) writes:
>	
>	It is definitely our National Song though, and was under consideration
>for the National Anthem, though the eventual winner was more suitable.  
>(Oh come on you o/s types, you heard it seven times at the Olympics, 


Could someone post its (Advance Australia fair) lyrics too?

noi