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^ BEST cold sore treatment known to man... or so all my boomer relos tell me... pretty good on pimples too. EDIT: see previous page, 4711.

This song killed it at the Blue Light Discos back in the day... you know your Gen-Xer from Straya when you went to under-age discos held by the cops at the town hall and a song with this title was played more than once a night....

Growing up we has an Arnold's biscuit factory 1 block from school...and in the other direction the Lagoon Lolly Factory...so we could either smell fresh baked bickies (cookies) or the lovely smell of lollies being boiled (candy/taffy). But even better....we also were the home of the world's only Vegemite factory...when the wind blew just right it was the lovely smell of Vegemite and sometimes cheddar cheese. Now where I live is surrounded by market gardens (mmm wet cabbage & broccoli smell) and the biggest sewage treatment plant in Australia...I've come so far down.

Um...just read this to the kid, and I quote.. "How could that happen?, Did they move?".... followed by.... "30 degrees?!?...but they don't even stop softball until it's 38deg, and they play cricket and tennis when it's in the 40s. Is that why we call them whinging poms?" Dunno how any of the convicts and first settlers survived their first summer here.

Little Debbie is absent from my landscape.

Drumsticks are similar to choc tops but you really only get choc tops at the movies.

Feeling a bit shook you mob are deprived of this movies staple... pop corns nice an all, and a box of jaffas is on the money.... but going to the flicks and not having choc tops...I'm kinda shattered for you.

Are choc tops just an Aussie thing?

Here's one from @Cbdave's neck of the woods...

3. Blue eye shadow...you know that shade like pool chalk.

Confession: I liked the glass they served my water in at the work function last night so I bought it home in my pocket.

8. Nutbush 8 trends that you were shattered to miss at the time, but in hindsight think phew.....

Confession: I just ate a creme brulee pie from Macca's even though I know it's going to make me vomit for about 2 hours.

Keeping with the theme...while I'm at the iffice Christmas in July Party.... here's and Aussie Christmas song...

Back to our NAIDOC Week broadcasting and I present the always wonderful Pigram Brothers...

1. Use as s coster.

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And now for something from this century... Happy 4th of July all you Yankee doodles and what nots.

How can you not live a Vanda-Young...probably my favourite.

I'll be interupting my NAIDOC Week daily contribution from Aussie first nation artists to give some Aussie flavour to the 4th of July festivites.....

G'day mate and welcome aboard. In the first few weeks I had an app on my phone to help chart my quit. So the two best things I got from the app were the random sms messages I'd get that would say...1 hour smoke free and then a little medical fact about what that had done for my body. The other thing I loved as a little memory game to help get through craves...it was just a turn over the cards and find the match, it was timed forc3 minutes...just enough time to beat the craves. I used nrt chewies (gum) and that worked for me. So onto the pointy bit of this post... I am another who had a long quit and lost it...sure there were circumstances that contributed to me smoking again but in retrospect I chose to put something in my mouth, light it and smoke it. What I learnt is that for me I am only 1 puff away from a pack a day. I don't constantly crave a smoke anymore but the knowledge that for me, even though I will never smoke again, I'm like an alcoholic and I will always be a smoker, I just choose not to smoke. Kinda like a dormant volcano, I'm a dormant smoker. I don't want one anymore, plenty of stresses have pushed my buttons and I've not even been tempted but I'm always ready incase they do. I have a plan for if that urge comes and of got a train load of mates to talk ne off a ledge. Best advice anyone gave me during my quit.... you only need to quit fir one day ...... those days just add up to forever. You wake up and say to yourself, I will not smoke today and then repeat it. Once you've done it once, you know you can...I mean come on, it's inly 1 day.

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