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Quoting: Grzegorz_
But did you really need to wake up months old topc ?

Anything to stir the pot Greg. You know how it is with him.
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Hmm Cate Blanchette? She's pretty big on the acting scene these days

Hugo Weaving (not really all that famous but a good actor nonetheless, the dude who played Agent Smith in The Matrix by the way.)
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Well, no, I could not as I have only recently come back from Australia so I am only in a position now of telling you the answer-and that is, there is nothing very Polish which I saw in Sydney.
chezy1   Jul 14, 07, 13:42 /  #
peter allen (tenterfield) eric banner (melbourne) cate blanchet (melbourne) leyton hewitt (adelaide) tina arena, steve irvin, hugh jackman, heath ledger, rupert murdoch, jefery rush, francis conner, portia de rossi, ian thorpe.... just a few more famous ozzies
chezy1   Jul 14, 07, 13:45 /  #
and good old kylie was born in melbourne
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Jason Donovan (Can't believe he's not been mentioned yet!)
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Quoting: szarlotka
I suppose I should include Harry Kewell even though he only plays half a game a season for Liverpool



rofl :-))
chezy1   Jul 14, 07, 13:58 /  #
yeah what about good old rolfy
chezy1   Jul 14, 07, 13:59 /  #
but guido hatzis has got to win the award for the most famous of famous :-)\
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Dame Edna Everidge
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Sir Les Paterson
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Sir Les Paterson is Australia's most famous son.

Sir Lesley Colin Patterson is Obese, lecherous and offensive, this farting, belching, nose-picking figure of Rabelaisian excess is an antipodean Falstaff.
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Sir Les
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Poet Banjo Patterson, who amongst other things, wrote 'Waltzing Matilda'.

I saw Jason Donovan star as Rocky in the Rocky Horror Show.

Germaine Greer. She's Australian.

And of course:
The highest mountain in Oz was named after Tadeusz Kościuszko.
Most Australians pronounce it 'Mount Kozzy-okso'.
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Nick Cave
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Quoting: osiol
The highest mountain in Oz was named after Tadeusz Kościuszko.


o wow, didnt know about it. I do agree he was a great man, did a lot fore poles and americans, but why would they love him so much in down under?
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Quoting: Ronek
but why would they love him so much in down under?

A Polish geologist, Paweł Edmund Strzelecki named it. He did a lot of work in Australia.
He also knew Florence Nightingale (not Australian).
His name down under is pronounced Strezlekky!
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Quoting: Ronek
why would they love him so much in down under?

they don't, it was simply a Polish geographer (Edmund Strzelecki who emigrated during partitions) who discovered the mountain and named it after Kościuszko
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kosciuszko is pronounced kozyasko here in the heartland of USA
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I imagine in Oz, they probably shorten it to just 'Kozzy'.
(Nothing to do with goats)
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Kozzy sounds good, so cosy
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lol.. nice, kris
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Kozzy in Aussie.
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Ozzy is NOT cosy. :D
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Quoting: shewolf
The Bee Gees,


The Bee Gees are from Manchester Shewolf!.......99.99% certain!
Widgie   Oct 28, 07, 20:49 /  #
Cate Blanchet
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crocodile Dundee
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skippy da kangaroo
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AC/DC
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Kath and Kim

kathandkim.com

has this made it to the States yet? (or will it even?)
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