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Would I be right in saying that this seems to exaggerate a stereotype?!

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The dentist pulls out a numbing needle to give the man a shot.

'No way! No needles. I hate needles' the patient said. 

The dentist starts to hook up the nitrous oxide and the man objects.

'I can't do the gas thing The thought of having the gas mask on is Suffocating me!'

The dentist then asks the patient if he has any objection to taking a Pill.

'No objection,' the patient says. 'I'm fine with pills.' 

The dentist then returns and says, 'Here's a Viagra tablet.' 

The patient says, 'Wow! I didn't know Viagra worked as a pain killer!'

It doesn't' said the dentist, 'but it's going to give you something to hold on to when I pull your tooth.

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Peter Allen once wrote a song titled  " I Still Call Australia Home". It has become the signature song for Qantas. It has appeared in various advertising campaigns over the last 12 or so years. Here are some of them (The year dates are approximate)

2009

The latest ad in the campaign opens with Tyus Arndt, from the Gondwana National Indigenous Children’s Choir singing the first verse in a Torres Straits language, Kala Lagaw. The second verse, in English, includes choristers from the National Boys Choir , Australian Girls Choir and the Gondwana National Indigenous Children's Choir.

2004 Directors Cut

2000?

1998

This advertisement was first seen during the 1998 Commonwealth Games and also at the 1999 Superbowl. It features the Australian Girls Choir and National Boys Choir. It was the most expensive Australian ad ever made (USD 3 million).

1997

This 3 minute ad features some of Australia’s best including Kate Cerebrano, Jack Jones, James Blundell and trumpeter James Morrison.

Humour

The Chaser doing what they do best performed their own version commenting on Qantas’s overseas outsourcing of jobs.

And just for something different here is ‘I am Australian’ by The Seekers

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<p>Hard to Swallow from Michelle lang on Vimeo.</p>

Hat Tip: Your Pharmacist May Hate You

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19 of 20 countries in the Organization for Economics Cooperation and Development have national health plans that guarantee coverage for everyone. Most use some form of a national health service. Most have better health outcomes than the U.S. All have cheaper health care. Most have had such systems since the late 1940s. When it comes to health care insurance, the U.S. is the most backward, advanced industrial country on earth

http://www.gooznews.com/node/3047

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9 Republicans are backing legislation requiring birth certificates for all Presidential candidates. They want this as the believe Obama is not a US citizen. Basically he’s a fake.

Unfortunately there are others in the same party who think the same way – but are too gutless to show how crazy they are.

Next they’ll be wanting the criteria altered to ensure the candidate be white, blue eyed. And to ensure they are from the loony right, also have an IQ less than 70!

DAD: Why do I use soap?

SARAH: Yes.

DAD: Because the soap grabs the dirt and lets the water wash it off.

SARAH: Why?

DAD: Why does the soap grab the dirt?

SARAH: Yes.

DAD: Because soap is a surfactant.

SARAH: Why?

DAD: Why is soap a surfactant?

SARAH: Yes.

DAD: That is an EXCELLENT question. Soap is a surfactant because it forms water-soluble micelles that trap the otherwise insoluble dirt and oil particles.

And it gets better. Go read the complete post from the Science Creative Quarterly

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Ben Schott has a few great little books of miscellany. He also recently penned a piece for the New York Times about Twitter. He compared it to telegraphy where there was a cost per word so code words were used to reduce complex sentences into single words for privacy, cost and brevity.

He suggested people could reprise these codes and start tweeting in code.

Some examples are below. Go to the New York Times for his article

Yeah I know. I am probably the only person in the world who had not seen this until tonight.