Favorite Australian Exports

[southpaw]

Which of these pop-culture contributions from down under do you particularly enjoy/relate to?

[Kamika]

1. Mel Gibson!!

I don't care what you say Mad Max owns

[Whitacre D_WI]

2. Nads!

[Whitacre D_WI]

4. Honorable mention to Mr. Nick Cave.

[tigereye]

19. Whitacre

are you from Pittsburgh? or live here at one time?

You seem to know a lot about it and also dislike Slick Rick: of course you don't have to be from PA for this to occur. Just curious.

[Whitacre D_WI]

20. Nah, I'm from Springfield, OH.

I was in Youngstown for a bachelor party last summer, does that count?

I think all I really know about Pittsburgh is 1) Mario Lemieux was, at one point, God; 2) Pennsylvania has some damn fine beer; and 3) Karl Hendricks rules.

And no, it don't take much to dislike Senator Frothy Mixture.

[tigereye]

30. those are some good things to know

Pgh is a nice place to live with lots of good things to do... and yes we do have great beers and several good micro brews are made here as well, plus excellent beer stores.

Yeah, Karl is very well regarded by many here and outside of here, he was pretty popular in NYC, too, at some of the CMJ festivals, etc. I think he recently put out another CD or record, not sure. I know one of my cronies wrote a review of it.

[Whitacre D_WI]

31. Thanks, tigereye.

I'll keep on the lookout for it.

[Spider Jerusalem]

25. Another vote for Nick Cave. (n/t)

[LiberalVoice]

8. again with the Nads!

n/t

[TheMightyFavog]

10. heh heheheheheheh..

You like, said 'nads!

[Kamika]

11. hehehehe

nads..

[kixot]

3. Elle MacPherson

Or was that Nicole Kidman?

[VOX]

17. Lining up for Elle...

:toast:

[gyopsy]

5. The Croc Hunter

he's pretty cool. Of course, the other options don't look too bad either. Yahoo Serious has really phased out though.

[LiviaOlivia]

6. Kookaburra Liquorice

red and black

[bigwillq]

7. Nicole Kidman

Naomi Watts (Who I think is from Scottland or England originally), Heath Ledger

[fujiyama]

13. naomi watts

:P

[Faygo Kid]

14. Yes, Nicole (smooch)

She fires up the ol' barbie, eh mate?

[LuLu550]

9. Veggamite!

yummy!

[BrewerJohn]

12. Midnight Oil and Sheaf Stout n/t

[Kat45]

15. AC/DC, and also The Angels (known as Angel City in the US)

a great band that never quite made it here. Most people have never heard of them, but anyone who has absolutely loves them! (Should be past tense; they're not around any more.)

[GOPisEvil]

22. I have their tape (The Angels from Angel City, that is)

It's somewhere in the hinterlands of my old, dusty cassettes. They had one song that was good, but I can't remember what it was. :dunce:

[Kat45]

29. I have that one too! That was a later album.

I have a number of their albums, and they were hard to find. I'd scour used record stores and record conventions to no avail. Then one day I went into a used record store near a university, and I found the Australian versions of several of their albums; I figured a student from Australia probably sold them.

[Kathy in Cambridge]

16. Heath Ledger

:loveya:

The Lime Spiders, The Hoodoo Gurus.

[tigereye]

18. Midnight Oil and Crowded House!

[AmericanErrorist]

21. John Pliger

Working the in UK for the Guardian, the New Statesman, and ITV. He is one of the last honest jornalists of our time.

http://www.pilger.com

My least favorite Aussie import: Rupert Murdoch.

[havocmom]

23. 30 Odd Foot of Grunt and Paul Kelly

my daughter got me into Crowe's group. Paul Kelly is a great troubadour, check him out if you ever get a chance, he's playing in LA next month.

[MrSlayer]

24. AC/DC

One of the greatest Hard Rock bands in history. Of course, they have been putting out the same album for the past 18 years or so but everything up to Fly On The Wall is brilliant.

[NashVegas]

26. Nick Cave, Hunters & Collectors, Paul Kelly

'nuff said.

[Burma Jones]

27. Men at Work (n/t)

[Red_Storm]

28. Fosters

[JohnLocke]

32. Vegemite!

[Bertha Venation]

33. sea monkey has my money

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