cont'd

Evan Elpus put it rather well when he wrote:

"I've just seen "Pride and Prejudice,"
but feel no great compunction,
To swan around a vicarage, with tea
and cakes for luncheon.
Though buying oil from Saudis,
We decline to put their robes on,
And as for German influence,
Do you wear lederhosen?

And Kiwis are our cousins,
(Or something of that kidney),
But which of us would say,
"Tum Funn hud fush un Sundey,"

...If Graumann's Chinese Theatre
has a cast of NIxon's nose,
And parts of Dolly Parton are inflatable by hose,

Then who are we, and who am I,
To get all snide and stroppy?
I only plead, Australia Fair!
Advance - don't look and copy!"

Adamski’s adventures in Multiculcha-land

Adamski: [having just finished his weekly radio show]
Arh Autumn “SEASON of mists and mellow fruitfulness … "my favorite season.I think, I might just dropped into Luigi’s café for a quick cuppa before heading out... Aaah… the joys of a multicultural metropolis.

[enters a small café nearby]

Oh, the ambiance is just wonderful; … the Murano lights .. the sausages hanging from the rafters … the essence of freshly percolating coffee, hmmm! and, and that lingering aroma of just cooked Italian dishes.

[Meanwhile in the kitchen]
Tommy: Hey boys it’s that Journo again. His reviews can make or break us. What’s that smell, Banjo get your frigin meat pie out of the frigin microwave!
Banjo: It’s my break boss!
Tommy: Well eat it outside for F### sake, we’re spost to be a posh Italian joint, not Harry’s de Wheels.And Mombasa turn that F### rap off, and put on that Italian K-tel CD I bought.

Tommy: pleease fellas play it up a bit … make it authentic
[He goes to Adamski, in the background 'O sole mio’ plays ]
Tommy( pretending to be Italian)Arh Signor Adamski buona sera!
Adamski: Luigi you know I like it here soooo much it makes me feel like I’m back in Venice that little pizzeria just by the famous leaning tower –hmmmm! it brings back memories.

Tommy: Signor when my pappa came here he look around, he find no Italian food.
Adamksi: That was in the bad old days before multiculturism!
Tommy: Si signor he say to mumma , mumma what this country need it a little multicultcha, he open restaurant.Since then the whooole family been still makin genuin Italian cookin.
Mumma she make the meal and pappa he maintain the traditional wood fire, Carlo, my brother, he prepare ingredients.
Adamski: And you know what so good about it Luigi, you’ve succeeded in transplanted a little part of Italy here, and we are so, so enriched for it .

Adamski: But I must ask …what is that lingering aroma I smell coming from the kitchen

It’s meat something …but, I just can’t place it?
Tommy: Oh signor that’s pie…ah, ah … piepansoti! piepansoti!
Adamski: Piepansoti I have never tried that – I must try that some other time.
Tonight, I can't stay long I have a cocktail party to attend later.
But… I just could go past without partaking once again in your fine Caffè Ristretto
Tommy: Si signor, at you service, I will have my mumma make it for you.

[He returns to the kitchen]
Mombassa: What’s he want man ?
Tommy: F###### if I know, he said something in Italian.What did he have last time?
Mombassa: Coffee man ! The coffee special, he probably wants it again.
Tommy : How did you make it last time?
Nguyen : Heck I can’t remember.
Tommy: Where’s our Woman’s Weekly recipe book .
Nguyen : Mohammed took it home.
Tommy: Mohammed where that F###…
Mohammed: My wife, she is still reading it, she has a big cooking to do for Ramadan tomorrow.
Tommy: What the F### this is not a lending library.
Mombassa: Its not an Italian restaurant either man!
Tommy: Okay we need to improvise what’d you give him last time?
Nguyen Something like…two parts Bushels… three parts noname… Vietnamese mint… can’t remember the rest.
Tommy: Run it !

[Tommy returns to Adamski’s table]
Tommy: Signor Luigi is so sorry but we out of Caffè Ristretto, been busy, and brother Carlo no order.But I have mumma make you the house special. It local recipe from my home town, Lasagna
Adamski: Hmmm…I’ll give it a try.

[He goes to the kitchen and return with a cup of steaming coffee]
Tommy: Here signor, bon appétit!
Adamaski : Oh...I thought bon appétit was French?
Tommy: Oh Lasagna very close to French border, we multilingual there.
Adamski: Luigi …you are a marvel!

[Adamski: [ exiting] Hmmm that was satisfying …nothing like genuine Italian coffee … you know people like Luigi ,their struggle to preserve traditional culture , their triumph over WASP bigotry …an inspiration! … I must have him on my show one day! .

Don't give up your day job, Horus. Your puerile attempt at comedy scriptwriting has already been done far more successfully by Paul Fenech and the 'Fat Pizza' team. They were actually funny sometimes, and unlike you managed to avoid xenophobic hatred.

Perhaps you could submit your creative effforts where the readership is both stupid and racist, and is unlikely to have watched SBS? Perhaps Stormfront would be interested, or maybe someone like Tim Blair or Andrew Bolt?

Dear Horus,

Eva Sallis wrote in her article, "Australians All," :

"Prejudice creates what it fears, because through prejudice
young people's prospects are curtailed. A volatile part
of our community is living in deep alienation, unable to
belong, and another volatile part is living back in the
irretrievable past with a fantasy of an all-white Australia.

If contemporary Australians are to live at ease with ourselves,
we need more education, less fear mongering, and not least,
greater honesty about the culture of racism that is so
damaging us."

However, a closed mind is like a closed book,
just a piece of wood!

Cheers.

Foxy love,
You waste your time trying to reason with either PaulL or horus on THIS SUBJECT the subtlety and historical knowledge is beyond their bias. I remember Aust in the 50/early 60's (well some of it) and the conformism and compared to now viva la difference!
MC functionally doesn't do much that wasn't there originally… it just recognizes it.
I wonder how many happy unicultural countries they have actually been to I can't think of one...I've been to a few countries that are bitterly segregated. Take east LA if you don't speak Spanish or are black look out....now that's understanding/tolerance?
Miami Spanish areas are divided along origins i.e. 'mex', Latino is divided between Cuban and Puerto Rican and the divisions go on.(street signs are in Spanish in some areas)
France now there’s a case to avoid… (Gallic)arrogance personified. Racist superiority is virtually institutionalized, are they happier? And let’s not forget apartheid Sth Africa, Myanmar, Tibet, China, Russia, North Korea, and Israel.
MC may not be perfect but look at the alternatives.

The only real mono cultural nations are those with dictatorial governments and/or bitterly unhappy. To think those two ridicule Phillip Adams they should be as accomplished and do so much for Aus.
But let’s not get facts in the way of a rave.