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ANONYMOUS JONES'
AUSTRALIAN EMIGRATION NEWSLETTER #35
AUSTRALIA DAY
In addition to their problems with Christmas, the Aussies
face a second Holiday Crisis every year, again caused by
the fact that for them the planet is upside-down and all
the good holidays are on the other side. I refer, of
course, to good ol' American Independence Day, which
occurs in Australia during the dead of winter! They
could of course move it two seasons into January, but the
real reason for any Aussie having another holiday anyway
is to have an excuse to drink more beer, and on JANUARY 4th
everybody is still hung over from the previous New Year's
Eve parties! And after all, how can you have fried-chicken
pot-luck picnics immediately after consuming all that
hoppin-john and them collards? It's a point of argument
whether Australia should celebrate an American holiday
anyway, but the resourceful Australians have solved the
problem in their own creative way, choosing to honor the
day a few shiploads of convicts arrived to found the city
of Sydney back on January 26, 1788. This observance of
"Australia Day" not only has the advantage of being in the
summer, which is better for picnics, but also coincides
with Super Bowl Weekend, which gives them something better
to watch after the lamb stew than your average ABC News
telecast of fireworks over Miami. So don't delay, pack
your bags and catch the late freighter to Sydney; and
don't forget to send us a Christmas card next July 4th...
(C) 1986 by Anonymous Jones. All comments are welcome. Leave
them in the <C>omments Message Base addressed to ANONYMOUS JONES.