From: "Cameron, Gemma (UK)" Date: 2006-10-27T01:11:58+09:00 Subject: Re: Chunky Bacon Yes I know the song! And now the lyrics! I wasn't sure if it were a vegemite advert or something that had been shown in the US and Aus... Gem -----Original Message----- From: David Jones [mailto:tafftoo@gmail.com] Sent: 26 October 2006 17:06 To: ruby-talk ML Subject: Re: Chunky Bacon Ok this was mainly to satisfy my own curiosity but... Traveling in a fried-out combie On a hippie trail, head full of zombie I met a strange lady, she made me nervous She took me in and gave me breakfast And she said, "Do you come from a land down under? Where women glow and men plunder? Can't you hear, can't you hear the thunder? You better run, you better take cover." Buying bread from a man in Brussels He was six foot four and full of muscles I said, "Do you speak-a my language?" He just smiled and gave me a vegemite sandwich And he said, "I come from a land down under Where beer does flow and men chunder Can't you hear, can't you hear the thunder? You better run, you better take cover." Lying in a den in Bombay With a slack jaw, and not much to say I said to the man, "Are you trying to tempt me Because I come from the land of plenty?" And he said, "Oh! Do you come from a land down under? (oh yeah yeah) Where women glow and men plunder? Can't you hear, can't you hear the thunder? You better run, you better take cover." On 10/26/06, David Jones wrote: > > I don't get it either. It's quite a mental image though! ;) > > On 10/26/06, Cameron, Gemma (UK) wrote: > > > > > > Am I too british or too young to understand? > > > > =� > > > > > > Gem > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: J2M [mailto:james2mccarthy@gmail.com] > > Sent: 26 October 2006 16:36 > > To: ruby-talk ML > > Subject: Re: Chunky Bacon > > > > *** WARNING *** > > > > This mail has originated outside your organization, either from an > > external partner or the Global Internet. > > Keep this in mind if you answer this message. > > > > > > Rick DeNatale wrote: > > > > > My strongest association to Vegemite is the Men at Work song. > > > > I sing it every morning before I hit the keyboard, 200 technicians > > in perfect 10 * 20 formation doing choreographed exercises singing > > _I come > from > > a land down under_ prepares the communal mind for a good days graft. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ******************************************************************** > > This email and any attachments are confidential to the intended > > recipient and may also be privileged. If you are not the intended > > recipient please delete it from your system and notify the sender. > > You should not copy it or use it for any purpose nor disclose or > > distribute its contents to any other person. > > ******************************************************************** > > > > > >