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Originally Posted by Lynx-lynx
Oh and on another matter .....
To our Austrian members I wholeheartedly agree with the t-shirts some of your country folk wear when visiting overseas:
Austria
No Kangaroos
Yep folks, it's us here in Australia that have the kangaroos!!!
(The first time I saw that t-shirt was on an Austrian fellow traveller on a Nile River boat in Egypt. He (and some of the group he was with) said that their Austrian identity was being subverted by people not properly understanding them say Austria in response to 'where are you from'. For what ever reason people heard them say Australia)
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Lots of Americans think "Edelweiss" is the Austrian national anthem... when they think of Austria at all.