Only 238 years ago today, Captain James Cook arrived at a pleasant spot on the coast of sunny Australia and named it Botany Bay, for the profusion of plant life there. In honor of this lovely name, England began shipping all of its hardened criminals and convicts to Botany Bay in hopes of giving them a chance at a better life as far as possible from their native shores. The involuntary colonists managed to turn Botany Bay into a bustling industrial town (now adjacent to Sydney), while Captain Cook had a diplomatic problem with some Hawaiians who hit him on the head and ate him. I guess we know who had the last laugh there.SFMB appears to have had its account suspended; more later.
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I've seen movies that start with scenes like that.
"Oh, Fashionista, Where Art Thou?"
"Sandi . . . we thought you was a toad.
"Botany Bay? BOTANY BAY?! Keptin, ve've got to get out of here!"
Hardened criminals - Irish rebels.
Do you know how many Irish rebel songs mention Botany Bay? (Actually, I don't know either, but it's a lot!)
Quinn: "This is just like that movie with that guy and those other guys!"
Four words: Caged Heat. Linda Blair.
Raven Nightshade said...
Four words: Caged Heat. Linda Blair.
Oh yeah.
Four words: Caged Heat. Linda Blair.
I didn't know she was with that group. I love "On the Road Again" and now you've got me singing it to myself ("Well, my dear mother left me when I was quite young, when I was quite young....") Wasn't Linda Blair also in that movie with that guy and the eww! and the gross! and like everything? Not that other movie with the guys and the girl and the video camera going all over the place.
"Valley Girl"? That wasn't her.
Or do you mean "The Exorcist"?
She was also in a parody of that called "Repossessed" with Leslie Nielsen.
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