Here is a well kept secret
: Former Prime Minister , Malcolm Fraser , was knighted .
According to the Brisbane World Expo
88 pictorial souvenir program , a copy recently
found in an Op Shop
bin , he is identified
as “ Sir Malcolm Fraser
”... having an amiable chat with
Gough Whitlam at Australia’s
biggest ever international
exposition , attended by the Queen and Phyllis Diller .
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BRISBANE : A great day in Australian naval history .
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Statistics for the
amount
of tucker
consumed halfway
during the Expo
reveal that
the crowd had swallowed enough
beer to fill
325 average family swimming
pools . Visitor Maggie Thatcher , the Iron
Maiden , went skinny
dipping in a
pool brimming with
XXXX beer –an
absurd fib brewed up by Little Darwin .
Pie consumption
(325,500) was paltry
compared to hamburgers (850,000), Dagwood dogs (675,000) and hotdogs (1,765,000 ). Australia Day seems to
have been celebrated
by some kind of
obscene pie eating competition staged for the media .
The Northern
Territory pavilion highlighted
Uluru , Aboriginal art and
featured what looked like
mock Devil’s Marbles
from down
Tennant Creek way. In the Lost and
Found Department , an orthodontic plate, lost and found on
an amusement park ride,
was found and returned to
its gummy owner.
A
staggering 2941 children and others were lost and
found up to halfway through the
show . A woman
who appears to have been
the Melbourne entertainer
and TV identity , Jeanne
Little, all in white , wearing
an ambassador’s sash
and a huge hat,
is pictured hamming it up with part of a sausage
roll . The last we heard
of bubbly Little was in 2012 when it
was reported she had
been admitted to a home
suffering from AlZheimer’s . Star
performers included Normie Rowe , John
Denver and an echidna. Circus OZ performed
for the
first time . Down the Brisbane River sailed a pink submarine , with 35 tap dancers all dressed in pink, some sailors visible , like a scene from a certain well known Mardi Gras .EVEN THE AUSTRALIAN FLAG WAS PINK !!!
