A question prompted by today's radio listening

Aug 27, 2009 17:31

So, gentle readers, what do you think is Australia's greatest gift to the world ( Read more... )

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toasty_hampster August 27 2009, 12:30:11 UTC
it's Tasmanian?

the Map of Tassie?
everyone uses one of those.

*runs*

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quatrefoil August 27 2009, 12:53:05 UTC
While I will concede that the map of Tassie has widespread if not universal appeal (it never really took off in Brazil, I understand), I suspect that owners elsewhere might refute that theirs originated in the Apple Isle.

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bar_barra August 27 2009, 12:47:16 UTC
Sorry but of the three I'll have to go with Shane Warne. (I did bowl leg-spin for 20 years myself so that's my excuse...)

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quatrefoil August 27 2009, 12:51:49 UTC
Read carefully! Those are three that it isn't. You get to vote again for something completely different.

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feralcheryl August 27 2009, 21:42:48 UTC
my final answers are
1. budgie smugglers (but I concede, they were probably not invented in Tas)
2. the black box flight recorder
but my real answer is
3. cask wine. Who esle but the Tasweegians would think to put nasty wine in a foil bladder , bang it in a box and give it a convenient plastic tap? Brill.

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celsa August 27 2009, 23:01:37 UTC
The humidicrib?

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quatrefoil August 27 2009, 23:04:01 UTC
I didn't know about that one - good vote. (Well, the notepad was a good vote too, and I suspect its distribution is probably wider than anything else.)

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