History Quotes / LandDownunder

->"Tegan is one of my favorite companions. When I was a kid, I have to admit, I had a serious crush on her. Between her and Creator/ClaudiaBlack, I can tell you French isn't the language of love - it's Aussie."

-->--'''''[[http://dlisted.com/2014/09/25/deborra-lee-furness-would-like-you-to-stop-telling-her-shes-lucky-to-be-married-to-hugh-jackman/ DListed]]'''''

-->-- Diary of Sir Robert Menzies, Prime Minister of Australia, May 23, 1941

->''We've got Redbacks; Funnelwebs; Blue-ringed octopus; Taipan; Tigersnake; Adder; Box jellyfish; Stonefish and that poison thing that lives in a shell that spikes you when you pick it up... Come to Australia '''you might accidentally get killed'''!
-->-- '''''Scared Weird Little Guys''' - [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNEeq5qGh8I ''Come to Australia'']]''

->''Like America, Australia has two or three important cities on the opposite coasts and a whole lot of nothing in between. What we call "Flyover Country", they call "The Outback".''

-->-- [[ThoseWackyNazis Erwin Rommel]]

-->-- '''Jellon Lamb''', ''Film/{{The Proposition}}''

-->-- David Morgan-Mar, ''Webcomic/IrregularWebcomic'' #[[http://www.irregularwebcomic.net/855.html 855]], TheRant.

-->-- Music/MenAtWork, "Down Under"

->''No film set in Australia is allowed to use the word Australia in its title where "Down Under" is an acceptable alternative. For example, we don't get ''[[WesternAnimation/TheRescuersDownUnder The Rescuers in Australia]]'' or ''[[Film/QuigleyDownUnder Quigley in Australia]]''.

->''We've got Redbacks; Funnelwebs; Blue-ringed octopus; Taipan; Tigersnake; adder; box jelly fish; Stonefish and that poison thing that lives in a shell that spikes you when you pick it up... Come to Australia '''you might accidentally get killed'''.

-->--''Podcast/PlumbingTheDeathStar'', "How Effective is the Film/SuicideSquad?"

-->-- Men at Work, "Down Under"

-->--''WebOriginal/DragonBallZAbridged''

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-->-- '''QuentinTarantino''', ''Not Quite Hollywood''

->''"Have you ever wondered, for example, why every Australian you meet is 20 times happier than you've ever been? I have never met a single Aussie who wasn't the life of the party. And I think I've figured out why. They don't have jobs! They just [[BreadEggsMilkSquick travel and drink and try to steal your girlfriend]]."''

->''"Have you ever wondered, for example, why every Australian you meet is 20 times happier than you've ever been? I have never met a single Aussie who wasn't the life of the party. And I think I've figured out why. They don't have jobs! They just travel and drink and try to steal your girlfriend."''

->"Tegan is one of my favorite companions. When I was a kid, I have to admit, I had a serious crush on her. Between her and ClaudiaBlack, I can tell you French isn't the language of love - it's Aussie."
-->--'''{{SFDebris}}''', "[[{{Recap/DoctorWhoS19E4TheVisitation}} The Visitation]]"

->"Tegan is one of my favorite companions. When I was a kid, I have to admit, I had a serious crush on her. between her and ClaudiaBlack, I can tell you French isn't the language of love - it's Aussie."

->''A sick feeling of repugnance and apprehension grows in me as I near Australia.''

-->--''[[TheDailyShow America: The Book]]''

-->-- '''Jellon Lamb''', ''{{The Proposition}}''

-->-- David Morgan-Mar, ''IrregularWebcomic'' #[[http://www.irregularwebcomic.net/855.html 855]], TheRant.

-> I was, in days gone by, a believer. But, alas, I came to this beleaguered land and the God in me just... evaporated. Let us change our toast, then, to the God that has forgotten us.
--> -- '''Jellon Lamb''', ''{{The Proposition}}''

->Being an Australian, one reaction I often get from non-Australians is amazement that anyone can live in a country so full of deadly wildlife. But really, as long as you knock your shoes out every morning, and don't go poking in holes in the ground, and wear long pants with thick socks and heavy boots, and don't swim north of the Tropic of Capricorn in the wet season, and don't swim ''at all'' in the Northern Territory, and keep a forked stick handy, and an antivenine kit, and stay within a 10 minute helicopter flight of a hospital, you're perfectly safe. Most of the time.
--> -- David Morgan-Mar, ''IrregularWebcomic'' #[[http://www.irregularwebcomic.net/855.html 855]], TheRant.

->"Do you come from a land down under\\

You better run, you better take cover."
--> -- Men at Work, "Down Under"