"Happy" ANZAC Day sounds wrong, but I thought it should be acknowledged.
So did google! [link]
(I always tell my brother "Safe ANZAC Day", so, yeah, that too :)
And the thing is, I like my evil like I like my men: evil. You know, straight up, black hat, tied to the train tracks, soon my electro-ray will destroy metropolis BAD.
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Julie - Apr 24, 2003 6:10:58 pm PDT #4124 of 9843
deborah grabien - Apr 24, 2003 6:15:34 pm PDT #4125 of 9843
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
Julie, I'd forgot, I'm ashamed to admit. Gallipoli, the Oz/NZ troops memorial day, yes?
Julie - Apr 24, 2003 6:28:39 pm PDT #4126 of 9843
Yes, initially a commemoration day for the Australian (and New Zealand Army Corps) who landed at Anzac Cove, Turkey on April 25th, 1915, it's now our version of Memorial Day.
This year's is extra poignant as it's the first Anzac Day without any living survivor of the Gallipoli campaign. Our last true digger died last year.
deborah grabien - Apr 24, 2003 6:34:14 pm PDT #4127 of 9843
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
Our last true digger died last year
Damn. Makes me weepy. Last time I I was in Paris, it was on the anniversary of the Liberation, and I ended up watching the parade and then walking clear crosstown to Notre Dame Cathedral and lighting a bunch of candles. I'm a pagan, but so what - it's about a light in the darkness and giving memory a place, isn't it, really?
Julie - Apr 24, 2003 6:48:59 pm PDT #4128 of 9843
it's about a light in the darkness and giving memory a place, isn't it, really?
Very much so. I always thought that's why it was a dawn service.
Anzac Day, as a National day of pride, probably hit an all time low in the 60s and 70s. The WWI servicemen (and woman!) were getting older and the country was questioning its position on the global playing fields. But we got through the Vietnam debacle and it's now an incredibly supported institution, with representation from all the conflicts in which Australia have been involved, and a growing drive to involve Australians with diverse cultures, and differing (wartime) histories.
Typo Boy - Apr 24, 2003 8:26:35 pm PDT #4129 of 9843
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
Shiny new tagline - inspired by the discussion of the meaning of "Naff".
t on edit
And I posted before catching up. Not really appropriate to the discussion of Anzac day immediately before it.
billytea - Apr 24, 2003 9:33:30 pm PDT #4130 of 9843
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
billytea!!!!! I'm eating Smith's Potato Crisps' Great Australian Tastes Heinz Big Red Tomato Sauce & Meat Pie Flavour chips right now. And it's (not so) fucking great. And honestly? They do taste like cold pie and sauce. (And yes, I have no culinary standards. But at least I didn't pay money for them.)
I'm actually quite pleased to hear that they're roughly authentic, even if that does demand that they taste like cold pie and sauce. Incidentally, I discovered last year that Bec (DW, for those unfamiliar with the familial arrangements of Chez Tea) makes a bitchin' meat pie. I've since been trying to persuade her to make it again. Lamb roasts are another big nostalgia kick, but I can cook those pretty successfully myself anyway.
Cindy - Apr 25, 2003 2:19:08 am PDT #4131 of 9843
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Holidays that have a serious or solemn component, always leave me uncomfortable with the salutation making. So when I say, Happy ANZAC Day, please pardon the happy bit of it, or take it and turn it into whatever would be an appropriate greeting.
Happy ANZAC Day, antipodeans.
Jim - Apr 25, 2003 3:30:03 am PDT #4132 of 9843
Ficht nicht mit Der Raketemensch!
I must admit to listenig to "The Band Played Waltzing Matilda" on the way to work this morning.
I remember Princess Anne or someone shocking the press by telling some paparazzi to naff off.
Orf. It's very important that you pronounce it "Neff Orf" if yuo want the proper Windsor cred.
Julie - Apr 25, 2003 3:47:03 am PDT #4133 of 9843
Happy ANZAC Day, antipodeans.
It only counts if you filk Waltzing Matilda, Cindy.
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