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Australia Shrunk Shocker!

Posted by Alex Turnbull, Friday, 3rd March 2006

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It seems that some evil genius has invented a shrink-ray, and the first thing he shrunk was the whole of Australia! Well, it was too big anyway.

Thanks to a very tiny Adam Lewis.

7 Responses to 'Australia Shrunk Shocker!'

  1. This is just too weird. What’s the story behind this?

  2. adam lewis says:

    Heres a link to the original post on GEC–very funny.

    http://tinyurl.com/zz9r8

  3. zmaster says:

    What happened to the Cape York peninsula?

  4. And what about the Australians????

    are they inside as little “australiants”

  5. tjyytdtjd says:

    i once got a beef that was formed like australia… it rocked!
    and btw:
    http://www.snopes.com/photos/natural/ozmud.asp
    also pretty weird… ^_^

  6. Simon Burgess says:

    Only thing missing is a “Map of Tassie”

    For those of you who are not Aussie:

    http://www.amazingaustralia.com.au/language.htm

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