Chaser's war on everything - 2.30 report

Was watching last weeks chaser and enjoying it so far,,, it reminded me of this sketch which is one of my favorites. No wonder Christians aren't taken seriously

Funny e-mail

I got this the other day.

Last month, a survey was conducted by the UN. The only question asked was:"Would you please give your honest opinion about solutions to the food shortage in the rest of the world?"The survey was a HUGE failure because:

In Africa they didn't know what "food" meant.

In Eastern Europe they didn't know what "honest" meant.

In Western Europe they didn't know what "shortage" meant.

In China they didn't know what "opinion" meant.

In the Middle East they didn't know what "solution" meant.

In South America they didn't know what "please" meant.

And in the USA they didn't know what "the rest of the world" meant.

Very funny but yet so true. If Australia was important enough to be noticed what do you think they'd say about us?

French Slip

I'm watching the French Australian rugby union game (easy choice over Brisbane Lions V Melb) and was reminded of an incident when Townsville hosted the french team. After the game there was an article written by a team official or a french journalist and he praised the Townsville crowd for their support and friendliness towards the french team even going to the extent of learning the french national anthem. However what he didn't realise was the tune from the French national was used for the theme song for the brisbane lions. And as they had just won a few premierships (The only time lions get support is when they are winning) most knew the song. It did sound like people were singing the Anthem but then "All for one, one for all.... Brisbane lions, brisbane lions rang out" Ooops. And who says the french think the world revolves around them.

Come Play! Australia's FIFA World Cup Bid 2018-2022

I like this- this is the video supporting the Bid for the 2018 and 2022 World Cups Finals. This event would be huge for Australia and would come very close to making Football our number 1 sport. Already more people watch socceroos games than watched the rugby league world cup final on tv- it is arguably bigger than the olympics (based off average viewership and a greater number of countries are involved in the pool games than compete at the olympics) If we won the bid surely townsville would get some games since we will have won the A-league by then. :)

Things out of context

I always laugh when you hear words from another language used in English. No I know English is a jumble of other languages but it is just funny how people try and pronounce things. However English isn't alone in this. In Bwanabwana the language where I grew up in PNG the word for a really big fish is a "Biggie Bugger" (pronounced Biggi Bugga) But the bwanabwana people would swear it it has always been in their language.
Soon however we might see the words Billabong and Jumbuck become part of Spanish Vocabulary. See if you reconise the song from A Spanish Orange Mobile Add

Forgiveness

Onlinesoph who commented on Nathan's blog has a great post about forgiveness that you should read.
Read it here where she talks about a post by Author Tim Challies.