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ANONYMOUS JONES'
AUSTRALIAN EMIGRATION NEWSLETTER #38
THE TOUGH GET GOING...
If you've got the idea from these essays that Australia is a
really macho sort of place, you may be right. In point of
fact, Australia is arguably THE macho place. Even the women
in Australia are pretty much macho, and Australian television
game shows bear the same relationship to American television
game shows that the average cock fight bears to an afternoon
meeting of the ladies' auxilliary. In the most popular such
show, aptly called "Knockout", almost no one actually gets
killed onscreen, although broken arms and legs are common.
As you know from these pages, Australian Rules football is
more like a street brawl than a game, and even when they set
out to gamble, the Australians like it tough and simple. In
Kalgoorlie, Western Australia, the game is "Two-Up". Two
coins are tossed in the air from a wooden paddle. You call
heads or tails and you win if both coins show your choice.
The average bet is $20 a throw, and afterwards you can
spend your winnings down on Hay Street with Madam Mona and
her girls. It's all illegal, but what the heck... the games
are closed on payday, so where's the harm anyhow, eh, mate?
And watch for "Knockout" coming to your American television
screens soon. If we here at the Anonymous Jones Headquarters
can't get you to go to Australia, we'll just arrange to get
Australia to come here to you!
(C) 1986 by Anonymous Jones. All comments are welcome. Leave
them in the <C>omments Message Base addressed to ANONYMOUS JONES.