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NAIDOC Week starts today....so what better song for a Sunday than this .. This Archie Roach and Emma Donovan duet is a Sunday staple at our crazy house.

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7. Add to a dark load to stop the white fluff stuff getting on things.

^ my great grandad and others in my mob were there...such a waste, but we have 5he life we do for their sacrifice.

Here's one for the kids...

So in keeping with my goal of only posting Aussie Songs or Artists this year....this one goes out to all our Very North Americans .... Happy Canada Day.... (NOT work or kiddie friendly)

6. Use to help break in a new softball glove

10. Put a know of it in the middle of your bowl of porridge. Hmm..... WD40

Yep...I copped some cuts (the strap) in my day....Mrs Hussain in grade 3 was strap happy, she would use a ruler but wack you using the edge of it. She'd just keep going until you cracked....she left halfway through the year and never came back, coincidently after she gave Luke C the cuts until his hand bled and he put his teeth through he lip trying not to cracked a sound or tear.

Yep we had the strap....was phased out while I was in primary school (elementry/middle school ... we just have 3 types of school here... primary (prep to grade 6), secondary (yr 7 to 12... usually called highschool or college) or in some areas we have P-12 which is all the grades in 1 school.

Dot-matrix printers.... as annoying as it was at the time I kinda miss having to tear those holey strip's from the edges of the printer paper....I mean it was someone how a little bit satisfying.

Mix tapes.....listening to the radio waiting for 'that' song to come on and trying to start recording just in time....and getting that fricking overlap that was vitually impossible to ignore....I mean to this day my brain things the words "Moomoo town, moomootown, all bound for moo moo town" should immediately follow the last line of Bohemian Rhapsody....lol.

Typing class....the only subject I ever failed....Along comes the internet...touch typing wonder suddenly surfaces. Well I spose technically I failed woodwork, but 2 classes and 11 stitches later can you really blame Mr Hills....he passed me on the condition i never entered his workshop again..he would say I showed up...I'd leave project designs in his pigeon hole and the completed work would appear on my homeroom desk....he even had my music lessons rescheduled to be when woodwork class was...lol.

Let me get this ball rolling.... Do you remember Spirit Printers/Copiers or more so the papers that came out of them? I dunno maybe it's something my minds made up but I remember in primary school (80's, australia) getting worksheets that were printed in a blur or purple ink that smelled yummy like alcohol or maybe like metho, but they defo smelled AND if you had print room duty when you would puck them up they would be warm. You'd hug them to your chest and sniff them all the way back to class. They disappeared around grade 2 or 3 for me and we got black and white photocopied paper....but oh the spirit printed sheets were awesome. Do you remember those? Was it just an Aussie thing? Or did my brain just make this shit up?

Here's a fun little thread to fact check obscure memories, reminisce about forgotten products or practices or confirm just how old we are getting.....

Miss 16 has been tech support for her parents and grandparents since she was 5.... I think her record was an hour explaining over the phone how to turn of hands free...that was a fun convo to overhear, I dunno how she keeps her patience.

2. Rub onto your hands to Grease them up so when you are rolling rum balls so they don't stick to your hands.

Incase any of you mob are wondering the drummer is wearing a Bombers (Essendon, the Dons) footy jumper...that's Aussie Rules Footy.... I'm not a fan, the bombers beat my boys, the Saints, last night.

6. Wrap around ya head after you put hair dye in it so the colour chemicals can do their thing better.