4th Of July

[den]

Happy Birthday USA. If you Yanks hadn't told Nigel Hawthorne King George part the 3rd to bugger off, the Admiralty wouldn't have needed somewhere to send the convicts. They chose Australia, and because of this Australia is entirely peopled criminals. If they hadn't come here Terror Australis would be a very different country.

Thanks youse guys.

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[tropism.livejournal.com]

They chose Australia, and because of this Australia is entirely peopled criminals.

Big Barney fitch
Who got suddenly rich
Got a big fancy house out in Melbourne
With buckets of loot,
And big black leather boots
Acting so haughty and well-born
But we of Australia are children of convicts,
And some of it wear it quite proudly!
So as he rides by in his carriage so fine,
I wave and I call to him loudly:

Waaaaas your grandma a whore, was your grandpa a thief?
Were they forgers and grafters who fell to their grief?
If you're born of Australia, I know who ye be:
You're the son of a son of a scoundrel like me....

[dewhitton.livejournal.com]

My great great great grandfather was sent here because he poached game from the Manor near Bristol. After he served his 7 years he moved "out west" to a place just a few miles east of where I am. He set up a hotel and illegal whiskey still to supply the miners with sly-grog, and his daughters ran a "Bath House."

Transportation really showed HIM crime didn't pay.

[acelightning.livejournal.com]

[damienps.livejournal.com]

My ancestors aren't as much fun as that.