A phone call from Australia! by Penguin

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A phone call from Australia!

POSTED BY: PENGUIN
UPDATED: Friday, February 23, 2007 17:35
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Tuesday, February 20, 2007 6:23 PM

I just got off the phone with Magdalena from Australia!

I sent her a Christmas gift/Firefly care package the first week of December and she FINALLY got it! They sure are strict in customs.

She has a wonderful Aussie accent...I could listen to her all day!

She's hoping to get on the computer more soon...she misses all her FFF.net friends.

King of the Mythical Land that is Iowa

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Tuesday, February 20, 2007 6:52 PM

GHOULFISH

Nice Australia, I like Austrailia - they have puggles there. And alot of really cool people live there. In my books anyone from Austrailia is cool untill proven otherwise.

Too bad about the customs delay tho - but a firefly care package would be worth the wait.

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Tuesday, February 20, 2007 7:04 PM

VERSEEXPLORER

Aaah, Penguin, how sweet - a phone call from Magda. I hope you told her how much we are missing her.

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Tuesday, February 20, 2007 7:27 PM

KAREL

Flying on duct tape and a damaged registry.

Magda-sign! Yay yay!

--Karel.

"Wondrous is our great blue ship that sails around the mighty sun and joy to everyone that rides along." -- Jeff Lynne, Electric Light Orchestra.

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Tuesday, February 20, 2007 7:47 PM

FLORALBUNNY

Was just in a caption thread and was thinking
about how we don't see Magda or Emma in those
things anymore. Sob.

bun
~Bastards singed my turtle~
~We aim to exponentiate~
~Who is Bill Pardy?~

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Tuesday, February 20, 2007 9:14 PM

REDLAVA

Australian accents are the best! I agree I could listen to an Australian girl speak all day.

That package took over 2 months!!!

If you go by freighter it usually only takes about 3 weeks. Must have been some hang up someplace. Unless you included grenades in that care package.

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Tuesday, February 20, 2007 9:18 PM

ROY

Quote:
Originally posted by Penguin:
I just got off the phone with Magdalena from Australia!

She has a wonderful Aussie accent...I could listen to her all day!

Hi Penguin
What is it with the Australian accent ? I spent 20 years in the Royal Australian Air Force and met 100s of US servicemen & women - every single one of them was a credit to themselves and their country. Whenever we'd have a few drinks (as you do), it invariably included numerous requests to say "G'day" or "fair dinkum". Though for some reason any talk about buying a carton of XXXX was often met with a lot of laughter. Never figured out what was so funny about a carton of beer.

Personally I love the Scottish accent, especially from young kids - its brilliant to listen to.

"Wars long done, we're all just folk now."

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Tuesday, February 20, 2007 9:20 PM

PHOENIXROSE

You think you know--what's to come, what you are. You haven't even begun.

Quote:
Originally posted by Redlava:
Australian accents are the best!

Oh, yes, and Magda's is very nice too!

Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.

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Wednesday, February 21, 2007 12:56 AM

SUPERFLUOUS

Quote:
Originally posted by Ghoulfish:
Nice Australia, I like Australia - they have puggles there. And allot of really cool people live there. In my books anyone from Australia is cool until proven otherwise.

Too bad about the customs delay though - but a firefly care package would be worth the wait.

Quote:
Originally posted by Redlava:
Australian accents are the best!

I agree. Australian accents are the best. Especially when you are one.
‘Horary for me!’

The customs thing in Australia is a little stricter over here because were not connected to any major continent. Because were surrounded by sea, our ecological system is a risk from bugs, etc. Just think of the late Steve Irwin. ‘Conservation’.
BTW as far as I can tell… no-one ‘ever’ speaks like Steve Irwin! Ever!

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Wednesday, February 21, 2007 1:46 AM

ARTISOXYGEN

Quote:
Originally posted by Ghoulfish:
Nice Australia, I like Austrailia - they have puggles there. And alot of really cool people live there. In my books anyone from Austrailia is cool untill proven otherwise.

Oo..what a nice thing to nice to say Ghoulfish...this aussie says Thanks!

God grant me the Serenity...Pt 2 and 3 and...

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Wednesday, February 21, 2007 2:59 AM

PENGUIN

Quote:
Originally posted by Superfluous:
The customs thing in Australia is a little stricter over here because were not connected to any major continent. Because were surrounded by sea, our ecological system is a risk from bugs, etc.

Customs had some problems with the marshmallow creme I sent her. I'll have to remember not to wrap every single item in the package next time!

I was more concerned about the Baileys...they didn't seem to mind that...

King of the Mythical Land that is Iowa

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Wednesday, February 21, 2007 3:29 AM

LITTLEALBATROSS29

I am currently hostess to a very jealous green eyed monster named well...jealousy !!!!
I want to talk to Magda on the phone too !

Lucky Penguin :sbiggrin: !!!!

Bryce
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"Oh no, not again." - A bowl of petunias on it's way to certain death.

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Wednesday, February 21, 2007 3:33 AM

PHOENIXROSE

You think you know--what's to come, what you are. You haven't even begun.

Quote:
Originally posted by Penguin:
Customs had some problems with the marshmallow creme I sent her.

See, that is very odd, because I also sent her marshmallow creme, along with graham crackers and hershy's hugs, and it got to her in good time.
Are you sure it was the marshmallow creme?

Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.

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Wednesday, February 21, 2007 4:12 AM

NAUGHTYMAN

I'd sure like to see Magda around more.I think her father is hogging the computer.Maybe she could find some way of distracting him. Or maybe someone could start a fund raiser to get her a laptop.

As for the Marshmallow Fluff,I imagine it has all sorts of nefarious uses we don't even know about!

"Come a day there won't be room for naughty men like us to slip about at all"

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Wednesday, February 21, 2007 4:26 AM

PHOENIXROSE

You think you know--what's to come, what you are. You haven't even begun.

Quote:
Originally posted by naughtyman:
I'd sure like to see Magda around more.I think her father is hogging the computer.Maybe she could find some way of distracting him.

She'll be back to housesitting away from the computer hog in a couple days

I really don't get how he can tell her she shouldn't be on the computer all the time, and yet she has to get off the moment he gets home. Stupid.

Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.

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Wednesday, February 21, 2007 6:34 AM

MSG

I know PR I am counting the days.

Penguin maybe it's the location you send the package from. I sent Magda a present a few weeks after Christmas and it still isn't there...argh!

"I'm not all that interested in the mental health of people who want to kill me. "- Leroy Jethro Gibbs

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Wednesday, February 21, 2007 2:27 PM

PENGUIN

Perhaps the Mythical Land that is Iowa is more mythical than I thought!

King of the Mythical Land that is Iowa

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Thursday, February 22, 2007 12:13 AM

NICODEMUS

Quote:
Originally posted by Roy:

Though for some reason any talk about buying a carton of XXXX was often met with a lot of laughter. Never figured out what was so funny about a carton of beer.

It's not that it's beer you're after, it's the fact that it's XXXX. Had it been Coopers you were after, they wouldn't have laughed.

Sorry, state-based prejudice coming to the fore.

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Shameless plugging for a month or so.

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Thursday, February 22, 2007 12:18 AM

ANOBJECTINSPACE

Quote:
Originally posted by Nicodemus:

It's not that it's beer you're after, it's the fact that it's XXXX. Had it been Coopers you were after, they wouldn't have laughed.

Sorry, state-based prejudice coming to the fore.

Hey awesome another Browncoat from Adelaide.
I havent seen very many on here in my many lurkings and occasional postings.

.....
"It's just an Object"

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Thursday, February 22, 2007 12:26 AM

NICODEMUS

Yeah, i'm around, although not as much as I'd like to be.

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Shameless plugging for a month or so.

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Thursday, February 22, 2007 1:09 AM

MAGDALENA

"No power in the 'verse can stop me!"

Hey... I get to pop in and look - someone called Penguin from Australia...

Oh!! That was me!!

By the way, my dearest Penguin

, Everything was so carefully opened and resealed - it was difficult to tell where they had opened all the little gifts!!

And I forgot that Rose's marshmallow cream got through - that was funny since it was declared on the box... they didn't even check it at customs...

Mind you - the Baileys arrived safe and sound and is in my fridge!! Thank you again my wonderful Penguin friend - it was such fun to talk with you and put a voice to the person!!

And my gorgeous LittleAlbatross

- I haven't forgotten you - I just keep missing the window of opportunity that you have to talk properly!! You never know when that phone will ring!!

I meant to take a photo of it all coz I had some requests to see things in my Christmas box!! You should have seen me opening it - I felt like a kid on Christmas morning all over again!!

Thank you again, sweet Penguin!!

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"I can put one foot in front of the other - I'm Magdalena, & I'm marching with the 76th" http://76thbattalion.homestead.com/index.html

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Friday, February 23, 2007 5:35 PM

FUTUREMRSFILLION

Penquin you are such a sweetie!

Browncoats are the best! Magdalena made my crappy Christmas with a lovely card! I probably forgot to thank you!

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Bestower of Titles, Designer of Tshirts, Maker of Mottos, Keeper of the Pyre

I am on The List. We are The Forsaken and we aim to burn!
"We don't fear the reaper"

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