hi there sandgroper welcome but i am only new here also not been to australia yet but my friends say it is a great place a bit like the USA with a different accent
Really ? What is negative about that I wonder ? Someone who does not have a sense of humour perhaps ?
seeing as how you ozzies have a sense of humor a friend of mine who recently came back from australia said - " australia is a great country but do not trust those white ones "
ha ha ha ha ha - good one cactus jack, oh yeah, be very afraid of the white ones, ha ha ha ha ha well now, to be polite, that deserves a reply in kind, as I understand you are American, and you have displayed that you certainly do have a good sense of humour, it goes something like this:- Is it - " Yankee Doodle Dandy ", OR, "Yankees yank their dandy doodles " ??