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GAZOU

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« on: August 06, 2014, 08:18:08 am »

The French people have just remembered themselves that Australia was discovered in May, 1801 by a Frenchman: Nicolas BAUDIN.

A company is being reconstituted to get back our property.
The troops train to eat of the kangaroo.

Bad news: Derek is going to have to learn French  %)
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Re: AUSTRALIE
« Reply #1 on: August 06, 2014, 10:18:42 am »

As I was born in Australia to a English dad, Welsh/ Yorkshire mum, am I now French aswell {-)
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Re: AUSTRALIE
« Reply #2 on: August 06, 2014, 04:30:22 pm »

???

The Dutch landed there in 1606. How can it be French?!  %)

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« Reply #3 on: August 06, 2014, 06:13:39 pm »

 :-)) Its Dutch alright VanDemans land I think it was called or something like it,pretty well left alone till Cook rediscovered it,Ray. :-)) 
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« Reply #4 on: August 06, 2014, 06:22:50 pm »

Van Diemens Land OK
The Dutch couldn't find any Fries and Mayo vendors
so they went home toNieuw Amsterdam.

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« Reply #5 on: August 06, 2014, 07:07:56 pm »

 ;) Sorry about the miss spelling,I knew it was something of the sort,It is wonder Cook didn't come home after all there was not too many fish and chip shops in Australia back then,Ray. ;)     
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« Reply #6 on: August 07, 2014, 12:10:59 am »

Thank goodness we have that sorted  %)

The Frenchies would have me eating snails & frog legs

The Dutchies would have us eating eel  >>:-(

So at least we can have the food of the true owners of this great land ......

Kanga Bangers & Camel Burgers & Kanga pies ..... {-)......Derek

PS.....GAZOU...as you started this thread.....I have added a sweet cake that we eat in OZ....they are called FROG cakes..... %%
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Re: AUSTRALIE
« Reply #7 on: August 07, 2014, 12:38:22 am »

Baudin did not discover Australia, but was actually the first to map the west coast of Australia, as Gazou said in 1801. He had 2 ships, the Geographe and the Naturaliste, both of which gave their names to places in Western Australia, Cape Naturaliste and Geographe Bay. As Andy pointed out, the Dutch were here in the 1600s, and Captain Cook claimed Australia for England in 1770. The First Fleet arrived in 1788, and the rest, as they say, is history.


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« Reply #8 on: August 07, 2014, 12:53:14 am »

Thought it was Kylie  :}

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« Reply #9 on: August 07, 2014, 08:25:34 am »

If Columbus had set his sextant properly then he might have discovered Australia instead, and perhaps we would still not have reaped the rich cultural harvest of America.
Vive la France!
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« Reply #10 on: August 07, 2014, 08:34:29 am »

Baudin was maybe the first one to know how to read and write ..................... {-)

Ouch! Not on the head
Baudin came with scientists, no rifles in his equipment.

Dereck I am sad for you.
To be obliged to swallow such a food?   :(( <:( <:( <:(

Have you a journey in France planned?
I would make you appreciate(estimate) our specialities, you cannot laugh any more


Colomb was Spanish of Italian origin 

Derek would eat spaghettis by playing castanets ...........
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« Reply #11 on: August 07, 2014, 11:06:45 am »

Thank goodness we have that sorted  %)

The Frenchies would have me eating snails & frog legs

The Dutchies would have us eating eel  >>:-(

So at least we can have the food of the true owners of this great land ......

Kanga Bangers & Camel Burgers & Kanga pies ..... {-)......Derek

PS.....GAZOU...as you started this thread.....I have added a sweet cake that we eat in OZ....they are called FROG cakes..... %%

You forgot Tim Tams - yum.
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« Reply #12 on: August 07, 2014, 05:34:43 pm »

I pity the Ozzies if they have to take up the French delicacies as stocked in Carrefour shops - when I was in Antibe, they had skylark and such birds pegged out in display in little packets ready for cooking - poor little birds!!! But, now we have an answer - we know what is wrong with that singing Ozzie  held here at Her Majesty's Pleasure - he must be a descendant from the French side?  {-) {-) {-) {-) {-) {-) {-) {-) {-) {-) {-)
 
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