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I don't know for certain one way or the other. I've only heard rumours and they could be just propaganda. There's supposed to be a billabong somewhere alleged to be the very body of water where this swaggie chose to drown himself rather than face arrest and prosecution for stealing somebody's sheep....

Once a person said that this song should be the Aussie national anthem! But of course, a song that talks about stealing jumbucks and drowning in billabongs isn't appropiate, is it? Yeah. As much as I like Waltzing Matilda, I don't think it should be made our anthem. And I've heard that this song is...

So do I. He'd be over 80 today and he died when he was only 60. Too early we lost him.

Its "loosely based" on the original manga. I would say it's extremely loosely based on the manga. It bares only the scantest of similarities to the characters and story of the original. But I guess that's more or less what you meant to imply Andriods when you put loosely based in inverted commas. :...

For me my favourite version of Astro will always be the 1980's. Mostly because I grew up with it, so to me it will always feel like the "official" series. But next to it, I like the 2000's series. It is very good and it has a very pretty re-curring robot character. (I'm sure my buddy Androids knows ...

It is a very emotional movie indeed. Tima is such a beautiful tragic figure.

I thought so. Although I used to have a novelization of the movie that said in the credits on the back cover or somewhere that it was a fictionalized account of the life of Joseph Merrick, known as the Elephant Man.

However I was certain Merrick really did exist.

"Androids101" wrote:Let's not forget about Jospeh Merrick, ("the elephant man")!

I've seen that movie. Very good.

Isn't it based upon a true story or at least somewhat based upon factual characters and events?

I have that movie. It's quite a spectacular ending though it is certainly tragic.

That's all right my cobber. I hadn't heard of frog wine before and I was just curiously intrigued.

I wonder what such wine would actually taste like though.