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.

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.

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.

Happy ANZAC Day, antipodeans.

It only counts if you filk Waltzing Matilda, Cindy.

(No, seriously, go scroll the black and tan!)

I've just been watching the news and I'm glad that anti-war protestors didn't seem to have a vocal presence at the Anzac services. (Uh, unless they did and that both stations I watched edited it out which I think is unlikely). There was some worry about there being a disturbance in previous weeks, I think, but really since the day is designed for remembrance of those killed in war, turning up as a 'protestor' would have been a bit nonsensical.

Damn. Makes me weepy.

What always gives me allergies is the playing of the Last Post (which, for un-antipodeans who mightn't know is this proudly melancholic trumpet solo they play at all the services). I get the good kind of shivers listening to that piece.

(No, seriously, go scroll the black and tan!)

I saw it. I saw it hours ago. Was that the boy?

I saw it. I saw it hours ago. Was that the boy?

Lookit all those glorious capital letters :)

grrrr line breaks argh!

I saw it. I saw it hours ago. Was that the boy?

Lookit all those glorious capital letters

I went to look again, and couldn't find it this time.

But I still ask - despite your capital letters comment, because

a) that's not an answer

b) sometimes, when one filks, one copies the original piece from a website, and it might be too tedious for one to go un-capitalize all the words that aren't being changed in the filk, hence one just sticks with the capitalization present in the original piece

c) That ender is vintage boy-sounding, whether or not it be he.

eta...

Now I've found the original again, and I see "An Australian's" response to it, so I know it's the boy.

Dear Cindy o' the alphabetised Questions,

Hee. I was going to repost it here, but the line breaks nearly broke me.

(Okay, the Roy Orbison/Cling Wrap slash nearly broke me, the ice-cream with cowboy sauce brought me to the precipice, but it was the line breaks in a cut and paste that pushed me over.)

I think if you do t pre

at the head of a copy and paste thing and

t /pre

at the end, it will preserve whatever formatting was in the original. Let's test that theory.

Okay - it does leave the line breaks as is, but it made the board fat, and apparently the manually input line breaks were going to cause an international incident with the aussies, so it's gone now.